Peter Stokkebye Cube Cut (PS41)

I like this blend a great deal. As someone had mentioned, this indeed looks like grapenuts...smallish tough cubes which make filling the pipe very easy. The initial lighting is important, spend some time getting it going and you will be rewarded. Dry this one out well and you'll have better luck with it burning more evenly. Now thats out of the way it burns pretty well...a nice slow burn. The aroma is slightly sweetish, like maple, in the bag. Though that maple can't really be discerned in the flavor, it comes up from time to time while smoking in the aroma (very nice) however never cloying. It has that typical nutty aroma but not as strongly as other burlies I've tried. I have been smoking more OTC burlies but wanted something more full bodied and this hits the spot...the VAs help with this. I got a little tongue bite when I first started this bowl but that subsided quickly. The price is pretty good for this, though many online sellers may be out since It took a little time to obtain. Give it a try...Highly recommended.

Update: 09/18/2009 Several bowls later this blend has disappointed me. The tongue bite I experienced slightly seemed to increase and as one reviewer already mentioned it feels like "mouth-bite". My entire mouth was feeling scorched...a shame really since this had so much going for it. I have to downgrade this to not recommended since I'm simply not able to smoke it due to the burn.

There is a reason why this tobacco is so inexpensive. It only really tastes anything when it's fresh. But the price to pay is a hot smoking tobacco, as it's very difficult to get going; and it bites, however careful with the cadence I have been! The result was, every time, a scorched mouth. When it's finally at an ideal moisture level (after spending several months in a jar), it is still very hard to get going; it may still smoke much better once properly lit and spare your mouth. But...by then (and contrary to quality tobaccos), it has lost all its flavors while tending to smoke on the hot side. After numerous attempts with it, here is some advice: if you are looking for a good Cube Cut Burley (which is why you bought this one, right?), invest more money and get something good such as J.L. Peretti's BPC (Burley Plug Cut). Granted: it's not quite a Cube Cut, but you'll get a valuable and pleasant smoke. GL Pease Barbary Coast, even though it has a Brandy flavouring, is a delicious Cube Cut made with outstanding Burley. Gee, even Sir Walter Raleigh, for about the equivalent price, is better than Stokkebye's Cube Cut! The reality is that sometimes, you just have to pay more. This is a good example. 1 star.

The description of this blend is dead on, you get virginia and burley the whole way, this is not a complex blend at all, the taste in the first puff is the same taste you get 3/4 of a bowl down last quarter of this seems to get ashy taste this is not uncommon to burley blends, this one is for the patient smoker it tends to bite if puff aggressively, the packing that best seems to fit this is to gravity fill one very light tamp, light and go, is very finnicky to what pipe it seems to like, on my case a Savinelli Oscar 310 KS seems to agree with it best. If your a burley or virginia smoker on a budget this might tie you over till better times arrives, but the monochromatic theme that this blend seems to have (semi-sweet virginia with strong burley) does not do anything for me.

Update 1/8/2011 This blend gets downgraded to 1 star the bite never stops with this one no matter what I tried, it has ruin many pipe days, but I will write this it may be more my tongue disagreeing with this more than this blend just being bitey.

I've tried this on a number of occasions and each time it bit the hell out of me. Ageing does not mitigate this. I think this blend is mostly red VA with a small amount of burley which is why it bites so much. It is also extremely difficult to light. The flavor is pleasant enough but extremely mild, too mild to make it worth the effort to smoke.