Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Indian Summer

"And what, pray tell, is an indian cut?"

Coarse, rough, harsh. Those are the adjectives that spring to mind when smoking Indian Summer. The overall feeling is that of an old-fashioned (not in a good way), undeveloped and unfinished tobacco product with considerable tongue-bite. By the general bitterness and coarseness of the taste, I would even like to wager that there's a fair bit of Rustica in it - hey wait, could that actually be the cause for the "Indian" connection here?

Probably not buying this again, although it did leave me with a weird feeling that maybe I'm not quite finished with this brand yet.

EDIT: Update as the following day I found the remains of the pouch I'd been keeping in order to write this review. I'll be damned if 'tobacco cultivated by Amish people' isn't just codespeak for 'Rustica, or something so little removed from it as to be practically the same'. The acidic tongue-bite and throat-burn are just way too reminiscent. (Even the pouch artwork shows tobacco plants with suspiciously small-looking leaves, and in flower to boot, which everyone who's ever dabbled with tobacco growing knows is the equivalent of a fouled anchor in naval artwork.) I'm not saying the idea is bad per se but they should have either gone way easier with it, or really tried to find a better blend of tobaccos where it would have complemented the others in making at least an... interesting, if not all-day smoke. It seems that the varieties they used here were too light for the purpose, with the 'behind-the-corner' sticking out like a sore thumb.

Consistency uniform light brown, cut fairly coarse; pouch note of sweet raisins is promising, but disappoints.

EDIT2: And yes, will definitely not be buying this again.

Its a while ago since I last smoked this one but I recall having a Latakia ghost in my pipe at the first smoke. I was so positively surprised about the first third of the bowl until I realized that there was no Latakia in this blend. Quick research confirmed that and so I gave it another try in a cob.

Doesn't look very special; chocolate brown loose cut that smells like liquor and nuts. No tobacco notes in the cold smell.

Packs well, takes flames easily and burns a bit fast slow sipping is required here. The smoke is full of liquorish tastes and hints of vanilla behind that. Very hard to tell which tobacco dominates as I hardly detect any tobacco. The aromas are a bit overwhelming for my taste. In the second half everything is moving into a bad direction as the flavors getting less and less. There's some sweetness maby caused by Burley and some spicy components which I can't define if coming from the leaf or added flavor. Unlike many I can't detect fruit or citrus in the smoke.

Not my taste at all; too much of that whisky liquor flavoring too less of the VA/B/BC components sadly. The adding of some pure Latakia's probably a way to spice the whole thing up a bit...it's worth a try.

Took me a while to get a pouch of this tobacco. I was intrigued by the "amish peaople" factor. Upon opening th pouch I was greated by a sweet&sour aorma, and a fine combination of brown and dark leafs.

As I lit the tobacco a tnagy taste was felt. Soon a bitte rbit appeared. Alas, this tobacco was just to piquant to be smoked! The tasted did not evolved, and the overall taste was bland. I will not smoke it again.

Indian Summer tastes like fortified honey with a faint fruitiness that persists, but never really reveals exactly which fruit it’s supposed to be. This tasted very much like a Danish OTC.

Something about the attractive tin and cultivation by the Amish people drew me to this tobacco. I was hoping for something a little special, but was disappointed with a boring shreaded burley with an artificial hickory kind of flavour. The smoke was bitter and bland and didn't burn particularly well either.

Great looking tin for my collection, but that's about all.

I bought a pouch of this stuff 4 years ago and it took me quite a while to finish it up... Grayish tobacco whit strange aroma and not too much flavor. Burns hot... pass...