Boswell Pipes & Tobacco Apple Strudel

when first lighted overwheeming flavor of vanilla and grilled applepeels with the virgin or some tobbacco taste with a apple omi taste. Very smooth dont try to smoke too fast or it will be too much for your palate ,def. a must have in your jar or circulation collection.

My favorite from Boswell's---- nice & mellow smoke without all the overpowering sweetness. Stays lit and has a very relaxed & light enjoyable apple tart tatse. This is a all day smoke that is just pure awesome. The Virginia tastes great with the perfect balance of sweetness that is dead on.

I find it fishy that all of Boswell's aromatics seem to smell more or less the same out of the bag. Apple Strudel is probably the best Boswell aromatic I've tried, but I don't consider that to be saying all that much--I had high hopes for the stuff but have been underwhelmed by the 'baccy. As far as I can tell, their aromatics are a bunch of toppings on average tobacco. Sad, sad state of the briar these days in North America. That said, Apple Strudel is kinda tasty. You can pick up some flavors of apple and vanilla about halfway through. Room note is good, but I guess you can make almost anything smell good if you pour enough syrups and toppings on it.

A VERY BORING BLEND! NO FLAVOR, NO AROMA, NOT MUCH TO SAY HERE! WAS EXPECTING MORE, BUT ALL TOGETHER NOTHING TO TALK ABOUT. A VERY FORGETABLE FLAVOR.

Also called "Apple Strudel". This particular blend was a scorcher for me. No matter how slowly I smoked it or let it dry out, it was pretty stubborn in allowing a nice, cool smoke. Tried it in both a briar and a cob. Same result. Another disappointing factor: where's the apple? I was looking forward to the name pretty much summing up the flavor (like their Berry Cobbler), but I got a small hint of apple every now and then. There was a nice vanilla overtone, but I was expecting more.

The flavor and room note is nice, but it wasn't worth burning my tongue to get it.

This was a let down. It had the right moisture to just pack and smoke. It burned a little hot and bit some. The apple and vanilla were barely detectable in flavor or room note. This really wasn't anyhting special.It required 2 or 3 relights. I'll let this sit around for 6 months or so and try it again. Maybe time will fix what's broken.

This mixed/ribbon cut combination of quality Bright and Dark Virginia leaf is punctuated with a minor contribution of blackened Cavendish. The balanced components project an affably shaded mesh of tanned/light gold finer strands and rich red-orange-brown twisted clusters.

Quietly surfacing from the pouch, a subdued fruity essence resembling apple shyly lifts to the surface. On the whole the relaxed forward aroma takes on more of a spiced creamy vanilla woodiness garnished by native zest, raisin, and a lower level of sour tart. Concerning a technical note, the existing moisture level is most favorable for immediate smoking.

I don’t think myself a false prophet by proclaiming that the listed top-coatings on this blend are somewhat understated, yet I believe that is by intentional design. Understand that Boswell touts this blend as a moderate tempered proposal. Upon that very objective they performed astonishingly well in making good on that delivery. Mainly, a quiet mocking of a tart-sweet, weaker apple much like a Grannie Smith varietal forms the forward push. A push folks that is earmarked with a very small “p”.

This featured apple whispering comes with the accompaniment of an insertion of a thinly veiled vanilla dressing. For the most part the vanilla is impressively faint actually bordering upon imperceivable, but at times suffices in overtaking the apple’s core, kind of a conflicting fluke. Overall, the intensity and the aromatic savor are categorically meager at best. One could foreseeably argue that Apple Strudel is more like an apple-vanilla cased non-aromatic mixture if it’s anything at all.

Plainly stated, for those looking for a more distinguishable taste of flushed fruitfulness my guess is this blend will not be the apple of your eye. Who’s to say, it may have been picked far too early? On the other hand, for you who prefer an exceptionally light dance of a simplified pleasing aromatic then there is perhaps more here for your liking.

On a further comment in relation to the additive seasonings, I did catch some evidence of cinnamon spice, dulled caramel, and darker sugar that provided a boost of tasteful amusement. In regard to any strudel affluence, I suppose if I stretched my imagination far enough, I could suggest to myself there is an inkling of a waning of something remotely crusty in the nuancing, truthfully subliminal at best.

Virginian stands as the master element within the taste profile’s prime rendering. With these strains the offering encountered conveys a well-rounded flavor comprising basic tangy, sugared Bright citrus, minor raisin bread, and some darker elevated wood tones from the Red component. The recipe, as published calls out a solitary ingredient, namely Virginia. However, I did record a bottom note of fundamental earthiness from the blackened Cavendish most likely Virginian-based in being consistent with the official billing. This stream does model some level of sugaring but is fairly mundane in the reckoning overall.

About half-way through the bowl the profoundly mild flavor really progresses to a common native wood with lesser citrus wealth and subsided sweetness. There is just a light hint of the sugary coatings that manages to peek through, but in general, the taste evolves to becoming more dimensionally flat. Not that I’m mean-spiritedly throwing a dig on Boswell, but the summation of what is written is an accurate reflection of the experienced registration. Nevertheless, Apple Strudel does impart a very nice residual impression of freshly eaten apple in the aftertaste which I found quite pleasing all the same.

Good performance on the essential mechanicals. Namely the blend burns with reasonably modest heat and ultimately provided a cool, dry experience altogether with no perceivable bite. I must admit that the room note produced by its rather thicker smoke is characteristically low key and pleasant in the main. The calm aroma is demonstrated by a softly sweet tart graced with an appealing note of darker wooded tang. Being principally of the Virginian sort you can count on a low to medium presence of nicotine. Finally, application-wise, Apple Strudel really shined best in this simple bulldog briar as well in one of my trusty MM Ozark cobs.

Much like Sutliff’s Apple equivalent, this Boswell offering is an easy aromatic/quasi non-aromatic mixture that could serve well as a thoughtlessly enjoyable companion whilst one goes about some daily busy work. To all intents and purposes, Apple Strudel does present a simple occasion of basic Virginia that fact should not be discounted. However, being the apple tobacco admirer that I am, honestly this blend falls a bit short on personal preferences of flavorsome intensity. Give it a try if you like “appley” things in general as Apple Strudel may lend itself well to your own palate.

Bag note is sweet baking spices and vanilla. Ribbon cut moisture content was Perfect Very light aromatic the toppings are much more forward than the tobacco but not in a bad way. This is a good aromatic for a super light smoke the vanilla seems to be the dominant flavor . with the apple and spices in the background. Gets much better as you progress through the bowl. Again the toppings are the main flavors not much tobacco flavor to speak of. For Aromatic smokers that are looking for a light smoke this is a good one could easily be an all day smoke nic hit is very mild. Not very complex but a good light smoke.