pipesandcigars.com Scotty's Butternut Burley

Found this to be a nice smooth, sweet smoke. Great morning smoke or simply a day long smoke. Sweetness pulls through from beginning to end. Nice room note others will enjoy. A little nuttiness remains in the background as sweet nuances are enjoyed in varying degrees with each draw. The burley nuttiness becomes more prominate toward the latter 3rd. No worries about any bite with this one. Nicely sweet without trying too hard. Soft and creamy. Reminds me somewhat of a nice sugar cookie. Find it best smoked low and slow to garner the sweetness. Definitely will keep some around for a change of pace when in the mood for a sweeter tone. This aro checks all the boxes - nicely done.

Mild, sweet, tasty tobacco. You can still taste the burley tobacco through the honey and butter. This was a delicious blend, room note was divine, and I got no bite. Smoke slow to get the most sweetness out of it.

My vacation into aromatics continues and there isn't much to add to the other 87 reviews of this popular blend, although a quote by Da Vinci comes to mind, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” In a nutshell (pun intended), that is Butternut Burley! Highly Recommended!

Butternut Burley to me is like an improved version of Burley Light Without Bite. Through the first 2/3 of the bowl it has a nutty pecan-like flavor, with a sweet overtone that is really flavorful to my taste buds. The final 1/3 reverts more to the standard burley flavor, with a slight sweet undertone. Although its' description implies that this blend "simply refuses to go out", I found that not to be the case. For me, it took an average amount of relights, although I'll admit never having been able to get those one match smokes that a lot of pipesters talk about. It burns down to a dry ash, leaving the bottom of your bowl dry. I smoked Butternut Burley in several pipes; a medium Peterson billiard, another medium bulldog Pete, a large bent Boswell, and an extra-large Lannes Johnson billiard, which seemed to have a particular affinity for this blend. It was a good smoke in all of them. The final quality of this tobacco that I should mention is its' price. A pound costs less than $20 from www.pipesandcigars.com. That's an outstanding value for a high quality pipe tobacco. Final scores? Flavor- 8 out of 10, lighting and burn rate-7 out of 10, price- 9 out of 10. That averages out to an 8 score and a "highly recommended" rating for Butternut Burley.

I'm a huge burley fan. I love most of the OTC burley blends and any other burley heavy blend. This is a terrific tobacco. Pouch note is sweet and understated. Packs well and lights like a dream. It's a no brainer to prepare. Lovely nuttiness and a hint of silky, creamy butter on the tongue. No bite or fatigue on the palate. Sweet but not cloying. Smoke it all day without any problem.

Butternut Burley is like an old sweater you've had for years. You set it aside and forget about it, then one day you see it there in the back of the closet, put it back on, and - shocked that it still fits - wonder why you ever stopped wearing it.

I just ordered another five pounds. This blend is smooth and enjoyable. Anything but 'just another bitey aromatic' because it is everything most aromatics are not. Burley bites me bad, but not this. I dry most aromatics in a sunny window for a day, or three. Not this. Most aromatics will ghost a pipe. Not this. Most aromatics burn finicky and leave 25% or more dottle. Not this.

Over and over again, I move to foo-foo blends, try tins of this and that, bump up my Latakia content to the stratosphere, move to straight Virginias, then VA/Pers, and simply forget about my Butternut Burley.

Then, like that old sweater, it pops up again and finds its way back into my life for days on end. Days stretch to weeks, then to months.

Then one day, I'm called away. Knowing that with time, this old friend will find me again.

Don?t be misled by the name of this blend. It does not contain a butter flavoring. A butternut is a tree in the walnut family and, as an aside, butternut was the color of (most) Confederate uniforms in the U.S. Civil War as they were dyed with butternut extract.

Butternut Burley does not contain a butter flavoring but it is as SMOOTH as warm butter. This is a great aromatic I enjoyed from the very first puff. I agree wholeheartedly with all of the previous, positive comments: no bite, pleasant aroma, great burning qualities and with a nice, nutty sweetness. And maybe it?s just me but I think I detected just a subtle hint of a liquer flavor, perhaps hazlenut, which added to the enjoyment of this blend. I have been favorably impressed with all of the P&C blends I have tried.

A cigarette is to be smoked. A cigar is to be enjoyed. A pipe is to be savored.

I rate this tobacco 9.5 out of 10.

This review of Scotty's BB is identical to my review of the 4Noggins Butternut Burley, because they are the same product. As a Burley lover, I gotta give Butternut Burley four stars. The honey and vanilla are unobtrusive in both the jar and the smoke, leaving a fabulous codger Burley taste to come through. Too many aromatics forget that a blend is supposed to taste like tobacco, but BB nails it. This is classified as an aro, but it would be just as if not more accurate to classify it simply as a wonderful Burley. If you like a nic hit, this one provides a bit, though it won't spin your head.

No bite, all delite. It packs, lights and burns good right down to white ash. Smoke it slow and cool or you will get a touch of bitterness toward the end. You can smoke this all day, and I do.

I don’t ever want to be without Butternut Burley again, it’s that good. Note that 4Noggins offers a Butternut Burley in its Hearth & Home bulk tobaccos section (NOT with the 4Noggins bulk tobaccos), which gets very high reviews. According to a private email to me from Rich Gottlieb, it and Scotty's Butternut Burley are the same product. So, why does the BB offered by 4N get such dramatically better reviews? Grade inflation for esteemed private blender? Hmmm...

Note: 4Noggins no longer has a Butternut Burley under the 4Noggins banner, only under Hearth & Home.

Pipes and Cigars - Scotty's Blend - Butternut Burley

Star Rating = 4

Rating Scores - 10 is the Best and 0 is the Worst

Pouch Note = 10

Room Note = 10

Flavor = 10

Bite = 9

Burn = 9

After Taste = 9

Raw Score = 57

Rated Percentage = 95%

Comment = Very Smooth, Very Mild, Mellow, not as sweet as Lane Limited 1-Q or Trout Stream, nice Flavor