Mac Baren Cube

Heavily cased and packs one hell of a bite, which shouldn't be too surprising since it's a Mac Baren product. I wouldn't give this tobacco to my worst enemy. Well...maybe my worst enemy.

This is so extremely sweetest tobacco that I couldn't finish the first bowl.

UPDATE: How I didn't know what to do with this tobacco I had the stupid idea of mixturing it with other tobaccos that I couldn't smoke. Now the problem is bigger: the mixture of all of them is so strange and nasty that I am not able to smell it. I think that with this cube Mac Baren I have got a very interesting food for my chickens...

And the package is so elegant that it will be my jar for the pencils on my desktop...

Definitively, I am hoping for a Full Virginia Flake and other similar tobaccos order. I wish to forget this cube (and my 10 ? that I paided for it!!). Best Regards.

UPDATE 07/17/2008: I have tried, once more, to smoke this cube mixtured with other flakes from different blends and brands (pupurri). The result:impossible to smoke it. So, the food for my chickens is already to serve!!

For the most part I am not a big aromatic smoker. I sometimes like a lightly cased tobacco like the dark twist or the local B&m's house blend that I started on. But this stuff was overly cased with such a sickeningly sweet topping that I actually felt sick about a third of the way through the bowl. Mcbaren has some exceptional tobaccos like the H.H. virginia. I absolutly love that. The cube however shares the dubious honors with mixture 79 as the only tobaccos I have ever tossed in the trash can. If your someone who is into the mangos and cotton candies of the tobacco world maybe this will float your boat. If however you generaly smoke tobacco flavored to litely topped tobacco's think twice about spending any dough on the Qube.

Hmmm, if you've ever wondered what it would be like to have a sweet shop loaded into a pipe, then Cube will provide the answer.

This is a sweet, sickly blend that will infection your pipe with such a foul taste that only a full ream and a strong twist will shift it. A blend that will suit fans of American aromatics but is heresy to an English man.

Luckily I only brought an ounce of this vile concoction.

I am new to pipe smoking, about 8-10 months. I started with aromatics from Tinder box and have been happy with them. I really enjoy Mango Magic (TinderBox), Denver Ore (TinderBox), Middle Earth Blend (PipeRoom.com), DELF (Piperoom.com)even Ashtons Guilty Pleasure. I have also purchased several highly rated blend tobaccos like Dunhill 965(Excellent), and Nightcap (Nightcap is too strong for me right now but I respect it and have canned it until I am ready for it). I have several Frog Mortons, Penzance and various others ready to try once I have smoked down some of the other that are already open.

My Tinder box guy gave me a sample of Cube along with a sample of Plum Cake. I had yet to find a tobacco that I truly disliked until now. Out of all the ones I have tried, this is by far the worst. I have read reviews before on blends and have heard the words Ivory soap. Now I know what they are talking about. It been 3 hours, a plate of nachos, several brownies, and various beverages and I still have this god awful taste in my mouth.

I dont like to knock things or put anything down but I feel I have to write this. If your going to try this, use a tester pipe and dont buy a large quantity.

I have been smoking for a couple of years and have moved from strictly aromatics to a mostly VA menu. I enjoy VA/PERS and an occasional English blend. However, I still have the capacity to enjoy a good aromatic blend.

This is not one.

I have never written a bad review of a tobacco because so many different people have so many different tastes and opinions. This blend, however, is cased to the point that it no longer tastes like tobacco, but rather a Jolly Rancher that you crumbled in with a pouch of Captain Black.

Yuck.

This tobacco is unfortunately like many other MacB offerings - good leaf used, but with so many toppings/casings that you can only tell the quality of the leaf from the fact that it burns well.

It's sad that cube was marketed as something epic when it's just yet another ridiculously overcased/topped blend.

The flavourings used were a rather ``unique'' combination. If only much less flavouring had been used overall, this tobacco would be bearable.

I gave this blend one star simply because if one likes aromatics you *might* like this one, although I doubt it very much if you have sampled any of the premium aromatics from sources such as Habana Premium or Boswell's.

This is definitely a Mac Baren blend as is evident upon loading your pipe. The tobacco is much like a broken flake in texture and heavily cased with some type of sickeningly sweet flavoring which seems to have a fruity essence to it. It could also use much drying out.

It seems to smoke cool and slow. Compared to other Mac Baren blends, this one seems to have slightly less tendency to bite.

The room note may be pleasant, but I don't smoke for room note. If that were the case, I would just smoke potpourri.

For the true pipe smoker, whether you smoke aromatics or not, this I cannot recommend.

THe only good thing i can say about cube is that the package i have was a free sample sent to me buy a gentleman running away from aromatic tobacco. I should have followed his heed, and run away from cube.

It has a great pouch smell, but thats where the pleasure ends. The burning tobacco has no real flavor to it, and the only time i got a strong taste from it was the 3rd time it went out, and then i was able to taste coconut when puffing on it when it was still out. And I managed to severly burn my tongue and mouth with this blend. after 4 days i still cannot taste anything other then vinager or super sweet earl grey tea.