Alsbo Cherry (Ruby)

Tin note of cherry, sugar and peaty vegetation. Tobacco is a Ribbon cut of tan, brown and black. Moisture content is great. Burns moderate with few relights. The strength is mild and nic is mild. Flavoring is mild to medium, with notes of cherry. Flavoring is fairly prominent for the first 1/3, then drops to the background. Taste is mild to medium and moderately consistent, with notes of cherry, brown sugar, vanilla-ish, spices, woody, molasses, peaty vegetation, slight floral, acidic, a sweet chemistry like background note, and a peppery retro. Burley is leading with Cavendish and Virginias supporting. Room note is pleasant, and aftertaste is ok.

My secong Alsbo blend, first being Alsbo Gold. Well, the pros of this tobacco are smell and taste. It smells great, especially the first time you open the pouch. The taste is strong and awesome, anyone who doesnt want a complex cherry flavour which is strognly present the smoke - this tobacco is for you. Alsbo tobaccos are beginner friendly - they are easy to pack, light and smoke. Tobacco smokes although like other Alsbo blends it smokes hot and fast, surprisingly it doesn't affect the flavours and it doesn't bite. The disadvantage of this tobacco is that flavour can get a little chemical taste so pipesmoking conoisserurs probably won't enjoy it

The first tobacco I smoked was Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish and I decided to try this on a whim to compare. Very Cherry pouch aroma, seemed quite moist. Although it doesn't have as much of a tongue bite as the Borkum Riff, the cherry flavor seemed stronger and more artificial or chemical to me. I only smoke the Borkum Riff now very very very occasionally out of nostalgia more than anything else and I don't anticipate buying another packet of the Alsbo Cherry.

Since I was not very taken with this tobacco, rather than just letting it sit and dry out (like any Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish I buy seems to end up doing) I will probably end up giving this and a corncob pipe as a gift to my brother in law who only smokes very occaisionally.

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Bottom Line: Very Cherry, Very Sweet, slightly chemical hint to the taste, nice room note, less tongue bite than other cherries I have tried but still there, more economical in price. Meh.

If your after a mild but sweet tasting baccy then this may be it. The taste is quite immediate and the burn quite slow. Does not bite the tounge and leaves no nasty after taste. Howecer the poor quality of the leaf makes for a single dimensional smoke and I really grew out of this one after only a couple of smokes.

Nice tobacco to have around on a very hot summer night, when you're in the company of non smokers. Certainly not a bad one.

Yikes!!! I almost quit pipe smoking due to this. The room note is strong - and sweet to top it all off. It almost makes you dizzy. In almost all other respects this is a flat concoction that is not enjoyable. Not for me. The only redeeming qualities are that it does not burn hot (probably just a matter of reflexively not drawing too agressively) and that it does not have a marked tongue bite. Reminiscent of Captain Black but with a strong and sickeningly sweet room note.

Uff, I don't know why, but I keep my endless search for a good cherry tobacco, never found a really good one....this one is not bad, but the flavor is quite strong and artificial (not disgusting, but still artificial)and even if it's a bit better than stuff like Mc Baren's cherry ambrosia or captain Black cherry, that's not such a great endorsement either... then again, I will finish it, but won't buy anymore, still worth trying out for the hardcore aromatic smoker

Another super mild Danish aromatic, to my tastes rather more interesting than Alsbo Black, as you at least get a little flavour from the casings. In my opinion if a tobacco has to be cased, you might as well taste what it is cased with, rather than just getting complemented by strangers.

It packs and lights with ease, despite being a little on the moist side, and the first flavour is a sweet blast of the cherry flavours. The first few times I smoked this, the cherry flavour vanished almost immediately, leaving nothing but mild cavendish taste, and not much of that. Now Ive had about ten fills of it in my Peterson Emerald, the flavour has built up in the pipe, and the cherry taste drifts along calmly in the background.

It leaves a wad of moist dottle, but I only need one relight to keep it burning evenly up to this. It doesnt bite, but may get rather warm if puffed too enthusiastically, and never seems to drip, as some aromatics do. The room note will impress anybody who does not have a fear of cherries, and it smells super sweet in the pouch too.

I enjoy it if I'm in the mood, but gererally its far too mild for my tastes, and I sit there wondering why I didnt just have a blast of St Bruno...