Mac Baren St. Bruno Ready Rubbed

I would not recommend this at all. The taste is not pleasant and the smoke leaves a very stale smell in the air. For the Price of this over-the-counter tobacco, you can easily find better quality tobaccos elsewhere and maybe even a little cheaper... I would pass what I have left on to someone else but none of my enemies smoke a pipe!

With this tobacco, I also found that it's tar content is very high! I've never had such a collection of gunk in my pipe when cleaning the stem as I have with other tobacco's. You may as well shred your tyres and smoke that instead.

I am new to pipe smoking, being a cigar smoker. I bought a Peterson churchwarden smooth Dublin pipe. I read some reviews and decided to start my pipe smoking with St Bruno ready rubbed, which cost just over ten pounds for 50g. I opended the plastic pouch and the smell was slighlty "chemical". The volume of smoke produced was not as much as expected - each puff produced a low quantity of smoke, but nothig like a cuban cigar. For me the taste was almost non existent; it could be that my pipe is new and not yet broken in (and I am new to this). No mouth burn / tongue burn, and not much of a "nicotine hit" or anything. I read reviews about condor being strong - too strong for a new pipe somker, but after St Bruno, I think I will give it a try. The main advantage / reason for trying a pipe was cost - with a good cuban about £15. I'm not giving up, and will try other (much stronger) tobaccos. (keep in mind that I am new to this, and that I am not a seasoned pipe smoker).

I have been a ST.Bruno tobacco smoker for over 50 years,choosing "Ready rubbed" as my particular favourite.Over the past ten years, I have noticed a distinct change in both the burning and the taste,which is inferior to what it used to be. Three weeks ago, I paid for 5x 50 gramme pouches at Manchester airport in the Duty free sales, and upon my return to the U.K. I was able to collect. However on opening, it states quite clearly on the packaging that this ST.Bruno was in fact made in Scandinavia, (Denmark) by the "Scandinavian Tobacco Group ( Orlik ). Despite the supposed new E.U. regulations that the strands were to be a minimum of 1.5 mm thickness, this seems slightly finer, ( as once was the case for ready rubbed), but upon lighting up, the smell, taste and burning rate are quite different. The taste has a saltpetre flavour and all in all is a most disgusting tobacco. I shall transfer my loyalties to some other blend , possibly one made by McCahey's. What has Imperial Tobacco done to our tobacco industry.It is an appalling state of affairs when even our smoking tobaccos are dictated by some unelected quango of Commissars in Europe.

It is a flowery soap flavored aromatic . It is less soap flavored than Condor , which isn't saying much if you don't like this type Aromatic