E. Hoffman Company Spilman Mixture

I know this blend will not affect everyone the way it does me and I don't want to trash it for what is likely just my personal taste but.......Spilman mixture smells or taste or both like a wet dog to me. I don't know about you but that flavor is not one I crave in a smoking tobacco. I am aware that others like this blend and as I stated it's just me with doggie thing but I can't handle it. Spilman gags me!

I confess, I bought my first 7oz tin of this because of the tin design. It just looks old-timey. The tobacco within more than lives up to the motto on the tin. "Without a bite or a regret." A wonderful mixture that I immediately knew would be in my rotation. Just a trifle damp from the tin, five minutes cures that and then its smooth sailing the rest of the bowl.A smokey blending of burley, VA, latakia and some turkish results in a very enjoyable experience for the novice and the experienced pipe smoker. The tobaccos compliment each other throughout the bowl with no particular one overpowering the others. I can't wait to see what a year or so in the cellar will do for it. Five stars for all around enjoyment. Maybe its an English but if it is, then its a very American-English. UPDATE 01 FEB 08: I liked the first tin of this blend so much that I bought two tins this time expecting to smoke one and cellar the other. I received them yesterday put one in the cellar and opened up the other. Disaster. Foul, chemical, YUCK. I don't know if its a quality control problem or this tin(dammit) probably both of them got contaminated but I do know that this tobacco is off my buy list. I cannot recommend anyone spend the money for what may turn out to be seven ozs of totally unsmokable tobacco. I am so disappointed. If there were categories of Taste: Chemical. Flavoring: Clorox I would immediately append them to this.

Sour, acrid, and reminiscent of a burning tire. There must be something critical about personal chemistry with this blend, or the batch quality is highly variable, because it is remarkable how far apart the 4 star reviews and 1 star reviews are.

Whereas Distinguished Gentleman is altogether most friendly and fine, Spilman is simply vile - and consistently so: even several months after first trying it, it repeats its foul performance. Even the room note is detestable.

Don't quite know what anyone sees in this blend, tin note is decent but upon lighting all I get is some harsh chemical taste that unfortunately seems to enjoy lingering. It may be my body chemistry ( I can't smoke aros) but this is pretty ragged stuff. I'll let it sit for a few months but I'm afraid whatever they cased this with might take years to dissipate. I'd give it a pass.

Just the fact that Altadis blends this should raise a warning flag. Unfortunately, the best thing about this tobacco is the tin. Actually, this could quite possibly be the best thing that Altadis has produced. On the other hand it smokes well below it's price, which is why I wouldn't recommend it's purchase. It's just another classic American blend which may be better than what you'll find at a drug store, but is clearly outclassed by numerous available bulks at a fraction of the price of a tin of this stuff. All things considered, price included, this is just another disappointing Altadis product.

I liked this blend for the first few bowls, but it just got tiresome and boring. It is good high-quality leaf, but it is just missing something that would make it great.

Edit: blah. Very blah.

Smoking air gives you more nicotine.

Another waste of my money, along with GL Pease tobaccos.

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