Hearth & Home Classic Burley Kake

This is one of my favorite burley blends ! This is old school to the tee ! The toppings complimentary blend perfectly. Rum, cocoa, anise, old time flavor. But it's not overdone, actually is on the money balanced. The room note and aroma are very nice, pleasant and sweet without being disgusting and cloying. I love this blend ! I wish Russ kept more I b stock as it is back ordered a lot !

Not much to add to all of the Positive Reviews out there. This was a gret smoke, given to me by another smoker. It will be ordered in my next order, and in good quantity-I can see this easily as my daily smoke.

This blend was made so the taste would match the tin aroma and they have succeeded. It is made from high quality tobacco and it is not what I would classify as a heavy aromatic. The cocoa note is evident but not overpowering. It has an inherent softness to it. It reminds me of eating freshly cracked walnuts. Lightly sweet and mild to medium in strength. The kake breaks up very nicely to an almost sawdust consistency and packs easily. Once lit it burns clean down to the heel with no residue. No bite whatsoever. It harkens back to the older burley blends and the room note is pleasant. Nicotine hit is medium, not a head spinner. No problem as an all day smoke

When I finished my pouch of PA I thought, hmmm that's pretty darn good stuff, I just may be a burley man after all. With CBK I found that I am indeed. CBKake is fairly dry and crumbly, it rubs out very easily into very fine pieces, or you can jam in the chunks of Kake and you'll do just fine. Tin note is nut/cocoa backed by alcohol and a hint of (stewed)? fruit, maybe cherries. handles like a dream and burns to the bottom no problem. It's a fairly homogeneous smoke all the way down and has decent amount of N. It won't be a tobacco that you turn to for solving life's mysteries but you will notice a calmer and more mellow self after a bowl. I'm going to give it 4 stars but I'm not quite ready to call it a favorite.

Another one of my go to blends. If you get this stuff fresh the anise is extremely overpowering. If you let this stuff breathe for a week or so it mellows way out and becomes a excellent smoke. This is not your typical goupy aromatic. The flavor is tobacco forward with hints of cocoa and anise to complement the quality leaf. Burns very cool with consistent flavor from top to bottom with no goupy residue at all. CBK also pairs excellent with a strong cup of coffee.

Great job on this one Russ!!!

This is my everyday all the time tobacco. The room note reminds me of somewhere warm and pleasant, very comforting.

The tin note is Plum, Prune, Raisin, and chocolate (very subtle) and lights up like a dream! The tobacco comes fairly moist, but smokes cool, and like a well dried and aged tobacco! The crumble cake is like a moist brownie ready to eat....(tried it, not very tasty)

Smoking this blend has put all other blends on hold for me, nothing in my collection quite stands up to this one! I have smoked it every day 3-4x a day now for about a week and have yet to desire something else. Balkan blends taste strange to me now, and VAPER doesnt cut it for me either.

Burley Kake is here to stay, and my god I LOVE IT!

I consider this one of the best aromatics in the market. I purchased 2oz of this over a year ago and I've smoked it off and on in various pipes. Initially, I was very pleased with this tobacco and smoked it in a large Winslow tomato and a meer. In retrospect, the Winslow presented a good but somewhat muted flavor and the meer was, of course, very bright but also "dried out" the flavor in a manner of speaking. I recently picked up an estate Ser Jacopo Hawksbill and just last night tried CBK in that. SHAZAM! What a huge difference the right pipe can make. Where the meer was bright and kinda dry the Ser Jacopo brought out the multiple deep rich flavors this tobacco offers, the low basso profundo notes, if you will. One of the earlier reviewers commented that briar caused the flavors to vanish. It just goes to show how briar pipes present such varied results--a crap shoot really. If a new tobacco doesn't impress me in a particular pipe I've learned to rotate it through several of my better pipes to give it a fair shake. I've made some wonderful discoveries in doing this and I've rediscoved Russ's CBK with a new pipe. I'd also like to point out the longevity of this aromatic tobacco as mine is over a year old and has held its flavor thus far. I can't say this about all the flavored tobaccos I've come accross and it points to quality natural ingrediants in the blend. Last night my wife said it smelled like brownies or cookies were baking in the oven. Not a bad comment.

A great aromatic with a rich burley base flavor. I recently purchased an 8 oz. tin and have worked my way through most of it. Will definitely order more for the winter as it makes a great cooler weather smoke. Refuses to bite even when pushed very hard outside. A winner and a must try for burley fans.

I really enjoy this blend. I ordered a couple of ounces of it along with a new pipe from pipesandcigars.com. I used it to break in the new pipe, & I grew very fond of it quickly.

Later on, I found a bag of this I'd stashed away, & tried it in my 1948 peterson dublin. WOW, huge difference! I immediately tasted flavors MUCH more pronounced than when I'd previously smoked it. Lots of sweet vanilla, almost a caramel, a subdued almost savory prune, very nice. It had a tendancy to bite if pushed too hard, but when barely sipped, it behaves wonderfully, & smokes like a champ.

I have had MANY compliments from co-workers & passerby when smoking this, many remarking that it smelled like a desert in the oven.

When smoked with a slow cadence, the flavor of the burley really shines through, like a good old school OTC blend.

I highly recommend this smoke. And for those with the negative reviews, I suggest trying a different pipe, it made a world of difference for me.