Dan Tobacco Hamborger Veermaster

Typical sweet aroma of virgina after opening sample hit your nose. Very sweet and mellow smoke with hint of spicy taste (no idea where it comes from) Sometimes I have feeling the sweetness comes from topping. Burns well, no many relights needed. I did not notice any of moisture.

Overall very gentle smoke with mild to medium nic hint. One of the better VA out there.

As almost every virginia flake blend, you should give it some time to dry, but if you can't wait, be my guest. A very tasty, yeasty, sweet and everyday blend. It burns slowly until the end, and personally cannot wait to try an aged tin. Highly recommended.

I agree with some other reviewers that there maybe a touch of Perique added to the Virginias. I get mostly a touch of pepper on top of bread and hay. On some puffs I taste a little citrus and on others a slight chocolate flavor. Puff slowly on this and the flavor opens up.

The burn was fantastic. I was in the mood for something that didn’t need babysitting and this fit the bill. I usually smoke stronger blends, but I really liked this one and will smoke again.

Here's another plain virginia flake from Dan Pipe's seemingly endless supply of plain virginia flakes.

It's not awful, oh no, on the contrary. It's a good sound blend with an interesting tin aroma, with all the good qualities you'd expect from Dan Pipes auspicious cellars in Lauenberg.

But it's just so boring. There's nothing here that sets it apart from the others in this field, like Bjarne's flake, for example. It just fades from the memory like a Spurs academy player that didn't quite make it.

It's just one of those blends that sit in the back of your tobacco cabinet getting dryer and dryer as the seasons pass with nothing to commend it or to detract from it. It seems to be quite highly rated in here, and I don't really see why. There's no taste, no aroma, no redeeming qualities of any kind other than the fact that it isn't horrid.

The tobacco waited in the jar for about six months. I did not think you could be that good. I do not like very sweet and light virginia tobacco. This tobacco decision is moderately severe and consumes at all hours of the day.

A few weeks ago, I received a free sample of Hamburger Veermaster after ordering a package from Dan Pipe, and decided to try it out with my spare corncob pipe.

The aroma had a pleasant, honey-like scent, with hay and grass undertones. It required quite a few relights, since I was too lazy to dry it out from the plastic free sample bag. It had tolerable room note and burns rather slowly.

My first impression of Veermaster’s was a distinct spice coming from the Red Virginia’s, but I can swear there is some Perique added in somewhere. The spiciness is then followed by a balancing sweetness from the Dark Virginias with a slight honey and fruit taste. It can definitely be an all-day smoke, the spiciness of the Red Virginia’s waking you up in the morning, with the Dark Virginia’s putting you to bed for the night.

Overall, a nice blend and I appreciate the free sample they gave me. I am not sure if it will make it into my regular rotation, but I am looking forward to a few other Dan Tobacco blends in the near future.

Now this was a nice surprise. Dan Tobacco blends has been a bit of a hit and miss thing for me in the past, but I'm glad I eventually got around to trying this one.

Tin note is really nice - I'm pretty sure there's something added here, and not necessarily something completely natural; it's a little hard to describe, but it makes me think of the vanilla sugar you can find on some store bought pastries, with hints of raisin, something citrusy and something a little bit like tinned apricot, if that makes sense.

The flakes themselves are uniformly cut with a little more width than what I've previously seen from DT flakes. Quite dry and actually just about right for packing and get going straight away.

The tin note is also carried over a bit into the smoke itself, which is mild, but still sweet and tasty. It's also very gentle on the tongue with absolutely no bite.

The sugary vanilla component is also a little more evident in the smoke, but I find myself liking it quite a bit, the way it intermingles with the grassy VA notes is really quite nice. It finishes with a tiny bit of spice at the heel of the pipe, but otherwise it's very consistent as far as the taste goes. No real surprises or much complexity to be found here, but you know what, sometimes that's not a bad thing.

Indeed, like someone before me suggested, this is a good blend for doing mindless work, or just mucking about - which is exactly what I found myself doing for the last hour or so before I figured I would sit down and write this review.

The room note seems quite nice to me and I imagine it wouldn't offend anyone all that much.

If there's anything negative to be said, it's that it is a little bit too mild for me. It's got the flavour, but I wouldn't have minded a bit more nicotine. But I suppose that's just fine for some people.

Overall this is just great. Consistent and easy going, sweet and pleasant, behaves well in the pipe and with a rather cool burn. Rubbed out or just stuffed really doesn't matter, it's good no matter how you prefer to do it. So my advice would be to go ahead and try a tin, I don't think you'll be disappointed. I think it will appeal to those who simply want something uncomplicated and tasty, perhaps also as an introduction to flakes if you're not quite sure where to start.

As for similar blends... not sure, really. Slightly similar to Mac Baren's Navy Flake, perhaps, but a little stronger and without the blisters and rabid pitbulls chewing on your tongue.

It is fair mixture which burns very well although it is quite dry when tin is opened. Anyway, for pure Virginia blend it is surprisingly good for smoking.

Hamborger Veermaster is nice, quiet Virginia Flake for those times when only a nice, quiet smoke will do. The real treat with this tobac comes in the second half of the bowl, where a grassy sweetness comes to the fore.

This is not a "me, too" VA flake, and not suited to heavy puffing. It won't replace Samuel Gawith's Best Brown Flake in my rotation, but it's place there is assured.

Highly Recommended for the Virginia lover.