Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Kendal Kentucky

Toasty, nutty and fairly strong. KK is a no frills smoke! This one takes me back to my days of working on the tobacco markets! Full flavor burley tobacco of a flue cured nature. No in wanted casings or toppings. This one lets the tobacco talk. Consistent flavor and burn from top to bottom. Burns cool for a shag with no bite. Does well with a sprinkle of Scotch Snuff on the top! Will buy more to age! Smokes well in a cob as well as a briar. One side note: this tobacco does well in roll your own cigarette to boot. All around blend if you hanker for a fairly strong dose of Vitamin N!

I like this one just fine and I think diehard Kentucky fans will find this a to be a four star blend. Kendal Kentucky starts with a little sweetness that continues to fade in and out throughout the bowl. It is tangy, very nutty, and a little spicy. The retrohale is tasty and smooth. I pick up a few chocolate notes here and there. The strength is the highest level of medium-full possible and slightly overwhelming in the morning. The shag cut burns well and not too fast. It's great for building cake as it burns to nothing but ash. I will continue to enjoy this as a mid day smoke break or after dinner bowl.

Pure bliss for lovers of Kentucky Burley , strong and full bodied smoke that burns clean and dry! Very satisfying.

I bought this because I wanted to smoke a shag cut. The tobacco strength is medium but the nicotine strength grows from medium to strong when the bowl hits about midway through. I detect no added or artificial flavor. The room note is pleasant to me I do not have any other person's input on this category. The taste is good as long as I do not smoke the tobacco fast. My definition of fast means to heat the bowl beyond a comfortable touch. When I have fast smoked it becomes bitter. I highly recommend this tobacco to smokers that want a cool full flavored high nicotine smoke. It lights and stays lit very well.

This Tobacco is like Espresso in a full size coffee mug! It's strong, flavorful and will wake you up! I have smoked this in various size bowls and the smaller ones fair better. KK is not for the light at heart. Sipping is required and pushing it will result in a bitter pipe.

This is also a good Tobacco to clean out a smelly pipe the has to much aromatic flavor in it.

I took a star away due to the shag cut, as I think this would be a 4 star if the cut were ribbon.

Still a good choice if you want a good strong unadulterated Tobacco.

Not far from three nun taste, but really better. It's like cream on your tongue. The strength of this tobacco don't affect the taste, but you feel full of nicotine after one little bowl. fours stars !

Gets me in the jowls and pectoris occasionally, but it has the nose and flavor I expect. Surprisingly finicky to keep lit for a shag but this may be due to the high humidity this late August.

Ground to a fine dust, this is stuff the English of yore snorted deeply and that made it into the novels of Sterne and Swift. So I find it's wonderfully evocative of a lost time and culture. Like Murads, Fatimas, Henry Clays and Don Alfredos.

Excellent for a quick smoke. Burns well and rarely requires a relight. If you are in the mood for a strong tobacco that will relax your senses, this is the one. You'll want to remain in the company of its fumes long after the bowl has been used up. Not recommended for new smokers or aromatics.

I recently stumbled across my 4oz sample of KK dated 11/2008 so it was, what, about 16 months old before I tried it. I had done nothing special to cellar it. It was still in it's zip-lock shipper. I almost just tossed it but the bag felt spongy so I opened it. Still moist (almost too much so) so I figured, what the heck, why not?

Great smoke. It will be part of my rotation. Requires a fairly steady sip and frequent tamping (very lightly) to keep it lit but this a minor inconvenience compared to the full tobacco taste and round smoke it provides. I experience no after taste even though it takes two or three pipefuls before I feel like I've had enough. I recommend a tall cup of strong black coffee to accompany this smoke and don't try to stand up immediately afer you finish your pipe. It has given me reason to consider other shags which I have historically avoided.

I will always forgive a tobacco other sins when it smokes down to a fine white ash. Makes me feel like I've done somwthing right.