McClelland Easy Street

Oh boy ... reading some of the reviews on this blend is disheartening . This blend is excellent !! If your looking for tobacco flavors to disseminate ... this aint it . As has been mentioned in volumes , it's an all black Cavendish . It smokes Cool and Dry and the flavoring is so top notch that is creepy in a good way 🙂 The most outstanding aspect to this blend , that I don't think has been mentioned thus far , is the mouth feel ! McClelland Has mastered this aspect in their premium aro line .The flavoring almost coats the mouth , which feels smooth . To a non aro smoker or one who doesn't enjoy the flavoring of the blend [ probably a communist ] , it might be a little strange at first , however , it is a masterful sensation that the lesser bulk aromatics usually never deliver on . If youre familiar with McClellands Holiday Sprit , it has a similar mouth feel , though different flavoring , and is an exceptional blend as well . The blend description mentions a " Whisper " of Walnut .. ha ! It's a bit more than a whisper but that's perfectly fine . It's on top of a pretty typical black Cavendish flavor and is done expertly If you dig aromatics and don't want to " take a chance " with one that wont be good ..... try this damn blend ! Edit : 11/19/16 ... Everything I wrote above is teh same but I failed to mention that after multiple bowls of it through a pipe .. it has some ghosting possibilities . I love this blend so much that it doent bother me but it wold be a good blend to at some point dedicate a pipe to

The unsweetened black cavendish is the tobacco, and you get a little brown sugar from it; no vanilla. The English Walnut topping is exceptionally mild and sweet, but I don’t get that much of a nut taste from it. Very one dimensional in every way. Burns a little slow, cool, clean and velvety soft and smooth with a light creaminess. No nicotine. Leaves a little moisture in the bowl, but no goop or dottle. An all day smoke that you’d hardly notice puffing. Normally, I reserve one star ratings for blends with a bad, or little, or no flavor that goop and bite. This doesn’t do the two latter observations, and the taste isn’t bad, but it’s boring and weak, so I can’t recommend it.

-JimInks

Since I'm not sure I've ever eaten English walnuts I can't say whether this tobacco tasted like them. It was sweet, but not really in any kind of nutty way. We recently had an "Aromatic" night at our local pipe club and this one garnered "Best in Show." So, I reckon it is a crowd pleasure. I thought it was okay, but I am biased as I liked to be slapped around a little by some strength when I smoke a bowl of pipe tobacco.

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McClelland -Easy Street (Premium Aromatics).

After my 'English Day' yesterday, a few more bowls of McC' Old Dog this morning, raising its rating to four stars, I decided to move to an aromatic; it is, after all, Sunday, my aromatic day! So I popped open a tin of Easy Street.

It says in the description it's a coarse cut black Cavendish and, indeed, the blend's jet black and pretty coarse! My moisture's exactly as I want it to be: smokeable right away.

To be honest, I feel disappointed. On the plus side of things it burns well, doesn't bite and makes big clouds of smoke. But on the negative side the flavour isn't exactly 'striking'. Rather than, as I expected from the appearance, heavy vanilla black Cav' with a touch of nuts, I get something reminiscent to cardboard flavoured with wood! Jokes aside, the black Cavendish tastes light and empty, and the walnuts have more of a very strong woodiness rather than a characteristic walnut flavour. I find the smoke very 'dry', too, it makes my mouth feel strange.

Nicotine: mild. Room-note: pleasant.

Easy Street? Very disappointing. Not recommended:

One star.

Here we have a high quality black cavendish. And by "black" I mean jet black, the most profound type of dark tobacco. And by "cavedish" it is meant a tobacco infused with some sweet agent, caked and fermented to bring out the natural sweetness. So really, no surprises here: we know McClelland is a top blender. So if you want to try a very sweet pipe tobacco of very god quality, this is a good palce to come. Of course, the aroma of this smoke is superb.

Easy Street, as has been mentioned, is not exactly a blend, rather a simple recipe. It gives a constant smoke, with no noticable evolution while its smoked. As all sweet blends it tends to smoke hotter and somehow wet, but a proper pipe can help with this. Eventhough I found my tin more moist than I usually smoke, the tobacco kept lit with no problem. I also found on this tobacco a note similar to C&D Crosseyed Criket. It is a slightly tangy flavor, but on these tobacco it lands way better.

I am amazed by the low rating on this particular blend. It looks like people were looking for something completely different. What we have here is a really good sweet tobacco. That walnut note is present, but I don´t think is an artificial flavor; instead, it is the natural expression of the tobacco sweetness.

The tin aroma's combination of typical black cavendish scent along with the walnut topping create a very rich scent similar to Kahluha.

The black cavendish is of excellent quality. It has a soft, clean, and pointed flavor without astringency or a phenolic finish. The walnut flavor has a very authentic character and doesn't turn bitter down the bowl.

This is a first-rate american black cavendish with a smart choice of topping which is both subtle and complimentary. Though not particularly exciting or challenging, Easy Street is soft, smooth, and sophisticated simplicity. This only further proves McClelland's insistence to go the extra yard no matter what blend they are producing. This will ghost a briar and went well in a chamber of any gauge.

Bit surprised at the negative reviews of this blend. When I first tried it last year, I thought it was boring and somewhat "plastic-ey." After I smoked 2 or 3 bowls of it, I was completely surprised and found it to be my favorite blend, which is weird because I normally smoke English and not many Aromatics. It definitely has a velvety mouth feel. It burns cool in a pipe. In fact, I like to burn it cool so that I can coax out the nuanced flavors from the tobacco and infusions, so I tend to relight often. It's great if you want to burn it hot, believe me- the flavors come to life even then, but if you don't mind paying close attention to it and burning it a bit on the cool side, you will find complexities that are appreciable to pretty much everyone. My wife says the room note is somewhat sweet, soft and "unoffensive." (She seldom lets me smoke indoors, that should tell you everything). I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a mild Aromatic that has some sweet, but not perfume-ey fragrances and tastes.

After having Best of Show and Town Topic I decided to venture further into this line and pick up a tin of Easy Street. It's a nice very dark Black Cavendish with a wonderful topping of English walnut flavoring. In the tin I did note the dreaded vinegar scent McClelland is known for, but that didn't carry into the smoke thankfully. As most McClelland blends, it came a bit moist, but after a bit of drying time it packed very well and took a char light and real light wonderfully. It burned nice and evenly into a fine white ash. The blend didn't burn too hot and the flavor transfer was quite nice. It got two thumbs of from the War Council. If you're looking for a good once in a while aromatic, pick a tin of this blend up.

This is a very finely crafted aromatic. Sweet but not too gooey, crowd pleasing but not overpowering. It's a fairly typical black cavendish but one that is not as moist as most of them. And the english walnut topping is masterfully done and somewhat sparingly added so as not to overflavor the whole concoction.

Easy Street is my 3rd foray into McClellands aromatics, the other two being Tastemaster and Best of Show. I find ES to be superior to Best of Show and every bit as well done as T. I think the aroma in BOS is a little overdone. Again, I think McClellands puts their best foot forward in tinned versions of their tobaccos - and most certainly their aromatics.

If you enjoy aromatics, this is one that you should try. If you particularly enjoy black cavendish, Easy Street should be on your short list.

There are many reasons to miss McClelland, they are responsible for some of my finest smoking experiences. This was without question not one of them. The casing was there, as to what it was I couldn't tell you. They say nuts, try as I might I couldn't find a whiff of a nut smell. Maybe it's me but I couldn't identify what it smelled like. The tobacco packed easily and lighting was no problem but I never got anything out of the smoke. Looks like from the reviews some people were fond of it but count me out. I know it's not around anymore but if you come across someone trying to sell aged McClelland tins I would recommend staying away from this one.