Hearth & Home Classic Burley Kake

Took a while for me to review this because I wanted to do it justice. This stuff is good. Reminds me of BLWB with more flavor. Has a very nice sweet mild taste,somewhat past PA and before CH. I think of PA as jean coveralls,CH as jeans, and this as burley with a sportcoat and open shirt or turtleneck. No goop,no bite, burns clean and dry. I shake it up in a gallon Ball jar and sift it on paper through my fingers so it is rubbed out. Packing it with a light hand with some pressure at the top works excellently for me. Has a nice creamy taste that goes well wih green tea,my only drink of choice. This is one of those chameleon blends that taste good in briar,cobs,and meers. Good for soothation (Funn Dictionary) of the mouth tongue after all day smoking. A definite slipper blend.Recommended for whatever you smoke. I smoke everything so this fits in extremely well. It is flavored but not to the extent of BCA or Black Cordial.

This is a beautiful looking and smelling tobacco. Total winner for an aromatic burley. The flavoring seems more natural cocoa than artificial chocolate. Seems to diminish with drying and as the bowl burns. Smooth and satisfying. Good burley flavor underneath it all. Does not overwhelm my senses with flavoring which I feel with their Trout Stream blend. Pairs perfectly with coffee as others have mentioned. Non-smokers have commented positively on the aroma. Great tobacco to smoke while socializing.

I have been told that all tobaccos are aromatic by definition. It is the common usage in the pipe smoking world that aromatic takes on an expectation of experience with black cav's. Having back-to-backed Grandpa's (Rich's) and Classic Burley Kake (H&H) my taste buds tell me these have more in common than not though the devil may be in the details. Steve Brooks (Rich's) Merlin-esque elixers (they are) balance is foremost. Both blends have managed to infuse their respective flavors without casing or topping in the usual 'wet' (ppg) sense but rather, for lack of a better taste descriptor 'dry melded'. Classic Kake burley (Russ O) is just a wee smidge edgier (burlier?) with flavor forward. It is no bite, no goop, very tasty and the experience in the bowl is nowhere near as intense as the nose in the pouch. If the price were the same I would smoke either with abandon. The Kake room odor is sooo good that my wife said I could smoke this in the car.....ocassionally. As it is Grandpa's is spendier at nearly twice the price than CBK shipped to NH. Classic Burley Kake is $34-ish, albeit much closer to me. They are both wonderful and personal taste and cost will determine your fave. Update: 10/24/10. Hey, where's the beef?! After carefully sitting in a screw-top glass jar in a dark place the wonderful nirvan-ic flavor has diminished significantly. It now tastes like a blend that only rubbed shoulders with what I originally received. Drats & disappointed

My bulk arrived as a mix of pressed sticks ~ 3"x1"x1/2" and broken off pieces that were still moister than my preference. The sticks were too large to pack as is and it was quite difficult to separate them for packing. Not worth the effort since I didn't enjoy the topping that covered up the true tobacco taste. The flavoring is advertised so perhaps this was my error to even try this one since I seldom smoke aromatics but the overpowering flavoring mixed with the Burleys didn't work for me. Burned evenly and without any bite but was too mild for me.

I somewhat recommend this blend for daily smoking update my second order of this tobacco totally lacking in taste and very little aroma.

Grassy, immature and tasteless with unbalanced casing, I was completely disappointed with this experimental house blend, the 8oz I have is gone inside the jar for years, there is so many good burleys out there to try before this one.

My favorite burley based smoke. Like a mildly sweet bowl of oatmeal; just a hint of honey and anise/baking spices -mostly wholesome and relaxing. Just a pleasure. I will say that, to me, this is a mild aromatic. If you are coming from your typical flavored burley you may need to sit with this a while and puff gentle to unlock the sublime and subtle nature of this beauty.

Jar note of cocoa and anise liquor. Tobacco is brown Krumble Kake. Moisture content is ok, some may want to dry it out a bit. Kake breaks apart and rubs out easily. Burns slow with a few extra relights. The strength is mild to medium and nic is mild to medium. Flavoring is mild, with notes of cocoa, rum and anise. All but the cocoa disappears rather quickly. Taste is medium and somewhat consistent, with notes of chocolate, very woody, toast, marshmallow, molasses, creamy, sweet vegetation, bitter, leather, rich dry earth, sugar, spicy, nuts, mild tangy, a zest lemony background note, and a peppery retro. Burley is leading with Virginia and Flavoring supporting. Room note is pleasant, and aftertaste is great.

Hearth & Home - Classic Burley Kake (Signature Series).

Although this is badged Aromatic, the stalwart tobacco flavours keep this from being too analogous with that group. They give it a 'kick'!

The beginning: leafy pieces of tobacco pressed into a kake. Apart from the occasional fleck the colour's medium brown. The moisture's good, but this was supplied in a pouch from Tobaccopipes.com; so a tin might differ.

The anise works wonderfully with the obdurate tobacco flavour; the sharp, herby, slightly hot character compliments them well. A chocolate sweetness comes through after about a third, up until then the anise rules. The rum misses me for the whole smoke; no molasses sweetness or alcoholic sharpness. Even though the Kentucky and Burley are headstrong, they don't banish the Virginia; this gives a definite fruitiness which placates the roughness from the other leaves! Mechanically it's good: slow, even, medium temperature, and bite free.

Nicotine: medium. Room-note: not great.

Classic Burley Kake? Listed as an aromatic but not one for newbies; too heady! But, it deserves three stars:

Recommended.