Cornell & Diehl Bailey's Front Porch

I’ve been sampling through the C&D bulk burley catalog, and this one is right near the top for me. Two minutes in to my first bowl, this reminded me of Burley Flake #4, which is one of my favorite blends. Of course, #4 has Kentucky, this has perique, but the resemblance is uncanny. #4 is more full flavored and BFP comes in around a medium. This blend could be an all day smoke. The cut is mixed with ribbon and some small amounts of broken flake. The burley and Latakia form a soft cocoa flavor profile. The perique is detectable, and in perfect proportion. BFP smokes cool, dry and slow. This actually improves the farther down the bowl it burns, but can get an ashy flavor if over puffed. A very good bulk tobacco at an inexpensive price earns Bailey’s Front Porch 4 stars in my book.

I'm smoking this blend as I write this review. It's totally satisfying and actually sorta delicious. Full of flavor without any of the tobaccos being overpowering. This is a wonderful english style blend for the experienced piper.

This is another great burley blend from Cornell & Diehl. Nobody does these better in my opinion.

The tobacco comes quite dry like most C&D blends, is built with quality tobaccos, and burns cleanly to a fine ash. This has not displaced Morley's Best as my favorite C&D burley, but it is good. The taste is mainly burley, nicely smoothed out and complemented by condimental tobaccos. It's a friendly, old-fashioned taste that stays pretty constant to the bottom of the bowl, getting a little smokier and stronger toward the bottom of the bowl.

Highly recommended if you like burley.

I discovered this blend while looking for a replacement for Revelation as my supplier was out at the time. Burley base with latakia and perique I really love this combination. This has a wonderfull flavor that is hard to describe but I think you old timey burley blend smokers know what I mean. I will buy more and I also look forward to trying other blends in this series such as Old Joe Krantz and Morley's best. All and all I'm glad I found it this will probably be my all day this summer.

I am a new smoker and you finding me at the end of of a long trek, trying about 100 different tobaccos. My friend (talon) and I have found different tastes vary wide from person to person. This tobacco is so good. I cannot put my finger on it but i love it. It has a nostalic feeling and aroma. It is full and smooth smoke, it taste unique and lusty. Latakia is first and up front but not over powering. The rest is in distinguishable but all adds up to a great blend, I personally will smoke all day. I love the review mentioning George Bailey and it reminded it of the Story and the era of that time. for all you hopless romantics out there, this is one form yesteryear and today.

I would like to thank C&D for producing this excellent tobacco of yesteryear. I once liked Revelation but I always thought it was missing the mark in someway. C&D has captured the mixture and went one up. Front Porch is fantastic! It's full enough to please and satisfy,without any extra addatives. It has a colorful flavour,as if you were smoking all the colors in the spectrum. Amazing absolutely amazing.