John Middleton, Inc Kentucky Club Mixture Aromatic

When I was a kid, my next door neighbor's father smoked this blend in his pipe all day long, even while mowing his lawn in the dog days of summer. It smelled good to me then but now, maybe because one's sense of smell becomes jaded over the years, I don't get that same olfactory enjoyment from this blend as I remember . I can also recall watching him fill his pipe and it seems to me that the mixture then was cube cut rather than the flake it is today, although many tobacco blends and manufacturing techniques have changed since the 1950s and this one is probably no exception.

Kentucky Club Aromatic is not "cool burning" as the packaging suggests. As previous reviewers have already warned, you'll feel like a fire-breathing dragon about halfway through your first pipeful. I don't know how one could make this an all-day smoke. In the cannister, the blend has a sort of very faint chocolatey aroma but it doesn't translate into the room note or the taste.

Bottom line is: with so many delicious blends to choose from, ones that you can smoke all day with no tongue bite whatsoever, I can't recommend that you allow yourself to suffer with this blend at all.

Mostly a fairly mild and inoffensive blend, although it does bite like a toy dog on your trouser-leg -- annoying but not actually painful. It does burn amazingly fast, and if there really is anything other than mildly-flavored white burley in this, I can't detect it.

I like some blends that have a delicate flavor but they must taste like something other than hot air. Don't bother trying this blend.

This bit my tounge very badly and I tossed out the pouch after a few pipes and have not looked back. I would not recommend.

Call the ambulance before you light that pipe, because your tounge is going to need urgent care after you puff a few times. This is one of the most terrible tobaccos I've ever put in a pipe.

This stuff is horrible. (Since there is not a category in the ratings choices for "disgusting" I chose "medium" for strength, flavoring, and taste.)

After reading the more positive reviews here, I picked up a pouch for $4.95 at a local tobacco shop - way overpriced in my opinion. Yes, the packaging has that nostalgic look that creates an expectation of tasting something unchanged, traditional. The first disappoinment occurred upon opening the plaid printed foil pouch: an icky semisweet scent, and a muddy dark appearing tobacco. I hesitated to even put it in the pipe for fear it would foul the pipe - but I reasoned that often, the flavor when a tobacco is smoked is very different from the way it smells in the tin or pouch, so I decided to give it an honest try.

It loaded easily, and packed okay. Upon lighting, I knew there might be trouble. It did not just bite, it burned my entire mouth - reminiscent of a cup of hot chocolate, tea or coffee that is way too hot. The roof of my mouth definitely burned. (God forbid anyone inhaling this stuff - their lungs would be seared.) I am not a "heavy puffer." Even short, airfilled "sips" of this trash tobacco do not help. Within a few puffs of lighting, the bowl started gurgling, and after about a quarter of the bowl, it became impossible to puff without drawing a stream of fowl brown liquid through the mouthpiece. The bowl actually became too hot to comfortably touch. I put it down to cool, and emptied out the garbage.

The next morning, I still had a foul chemically taste in my mouth, and the roof of my mouth felt like the next day after swallowing a scalding cup of tea or coffee. Definitely not recommended.

I picked up a fresh pouch, as the tobacco was nice and moist. The aroma from the super-cool retro plaid pouch was very nice indeed- chocolate, and maybe a hint of cinnamon. I loaded a bowl in a well seasoned Dr. G in the Pot shape. First light, Wow, this stuff actually "stung" my mouth rather than "bit" as a Virginia would. I smoked very slowly, but the pain was too much. I smoke many Virginia blends and slices, but the "stinging" sensation is both curious and unbearable to me. At least I didn't plunge in and buy the big 14 oz tub to try it. Darn, I love the retro plaid pouch so much I was sure I would like this. I was home alone in the garage while smoking this so I have no idea what the room note is like. The package assured me that the ladies love it though! Try it if you choose, but proceed with caution. Darn

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This blend smoked very hot...delivering mucho tongue bite and very little enjoyment. Not recommended.