Cornell & Diehl Bow-Legged Bear

This was my first try at a crumble cake, and i like them, the smell upon opening is different, you can smell the latakia, but it smells like a real strong campfire or some sort of thing. Wonderful smell and texture.

The tobacco crumbled nicely, perfect moisture level and really packed into the pipe. I find that as with most C&D tobacco, you can pack this in pretty tight.

The flavor was outstanding, rich full and satisfying, it tasted alot like it smelled, very balanced neither too spicy nor too sweet, you know you are smoking when you light this up.

This is probably the biggest surprise in my tastings i loved it and it will definately be in my rotation.

Highly reccomended.

Bow Legged Bear comes in a very unusual form. It looks as if it was extruded from a tube into crumble cake form. The aroma is overwhelming. The truth is, with the unusual look and overwhelming smell, if I had been handed a piece of this and asked to identify it, I'd have said that it was something a cat left behind. I honestly would not have identified it as pipe tobacco.

In smoking, even I, a confirmed latakia lover, found the taste overwhelming too. I could not complete the bowl. I tried to humidify it some to see if that made a difference and tried it again several days later, but no help.

Ahhh, here comes the great wet blanket among these favourable reviews. Much as I love my fellow North Carolinians over at C&D I cannot get into this Twelve Gauge English blend. The cake is beautiful inside that cute little tin. The aroma is earthy, smokey. Not so bad so far. It breaks up nicely for loading in the pipe. The match hits the leaf and the dog breaks his chain. This stuff is harsh to me. It starts that familiar burning in my mouth that I so often find with blends containing a signifigant amount of Turkish. Much as I would like to like this blend I cannot. I shall reserve it for tastes more suited than mine.

Holy Moley!!! This blend is like a fresh cup of fine black coffee first thing in the morning! It's flavor is very complex (see the tobacco pedigree listed above), and I detect a nuttiness in the flavor that I really enjoy. It produces thick clouds of billowy white smoke which, in my opinion, a good pipe tobacco should. I experienced no excessive heat, moisture, or bite.

Very satisfying and highly recommended!

This is a nice latakia blend . The flavor is not overly unique , but it smokes very wel . Packs well and lights well and has an even burn rate . It is a pleasure to smoke , not only fo it's flavor , but also for it's easy maintenance and forgiving nature . It does not get overly hot too easily .Highly recommended for the latakia lover who tends to smoke to hot .

C & D's bow-legged Bear has a tin note that is sweet and smoky, not much else. The smoke is woody, smoky, earthy, with a little spice. Slightly sour in places but not much else in the first half of the bowl. In the second half, I pick up some tanginess from the VA's and just a hint of the perique below the other notes. It's not a complex blend by any means. The overall strength is solidly in the med. to strong range as is the nic. The room note is not the best. To be fair, the tin stamp indicated 12/27/23 and I opened it on 2/3/24 so it is a little on the new side, but not something I need to reorder.