Details
| Brand | Ferndown |
| Blended By | Kohlhase & Kopp |
| Manufactured By | |
| Blend Type | Aromatic |
| Contents | Virginia |
| Flavoring | Honey |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | 50 grams tin |
| Country | Germany |
| Production | No longer in production |
Profile
Strength
Mild
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Reviews
Please login to post a review.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| Sep 18, 2008 | Mild | Very Mild | Medium | Pleasant |
sweet and mild is the best way to describe this wonderful blend. tin aroma and look are very similar to robert mcconnell's scottish cake (same blending house ) with mild brown being a bit darker from the stoved virginia's. the aroma is also very scottish cake. like any VA, if you take your time with it you'll be rewarded with a semi sweet blend that, i don't know just cause the word honeydew is on the tin but, i can taste a faint honeydew taste, not the meat of the melon but more of the rind with hint's of chocolate and first class VA. mild brown smokes well right from the tin, mimimum drying time is needed, i let it sit for less then 10 minutes. cool and dry smoke when your taking your time and this is one of the few blends you can smoke all the way down without the last 1/3 of the bowl going bad on you.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2007 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Medium to Full | Very Pleasant |
Well then, Another hit from Ferndown. My, but I am glad that I discovered this brand. I hear that their pipes are just as wonderful.
The glorious, the transcendent, the life-altering qualities of good Virginia leaf are well attested. Some might think that taking something like good Virginia leaf and screwing around with it by stoving it of adding honey or molasses would be just heresy. Well, those people are wrong. Some of the greatest blends ever known consist of high quality Virginia leaf that simply hasn't been left alone and Mild Brown is among these. It only took a moderate amount of stoving to burn off those harsh edges that even the best Virginias have. The tobacco merely takes on as deeper brown colour and produces an aroma like maple wood in the tin and like bread baking in the pipe. It is a consistently smooth, cool, just gosh-darn pleasant smoke.
What makes it classifiable as a 'honeydew' is the addition of molasses. The molasses (god, I love saying 'molasses') in question makes the already deep, dark flavour just a bit moreso, redolent of caramel or old-fashioned ginger snaps, but only suggestively so, never outright.
It burns well, burns cool, and one is simultaneously elated and heartbroken to empty the bowl of fine, white ash.
The glorious, the transcendent, the life-altering qualities of good Virginia leaf are well attested. Some might think that taking something like good Virginia leaf and screwing around with it by stoving it of adding honey or molasses would be just heresy. Well, those people are wrong. Some of the greatest blends ever known consist of high quality Virginia leaf that simply hasn't been left alone and Mild Brown is among these. It only took a moderate amount of stoving to burn off those harsh edges that even the best Virginias have. The tobacco merely takes on as deeper brown colour and produces an aroma like maple wood in the tin and like bread baking in the pipe. It is a consistently smooth, cool, just gosh-darn pleasant smoke.
What makes it classifiable as a 'honeydew' is the addition of molasses. The molasses (god, I love saying 'molasses') in question makes the already deep, dark flavour just a bit moreso, redolent of caramel or old-fashioned ginger snaps, but only suggestively so, never outright.
It burns well, burns cool, and one is simultaneously elated and heartbroken to empty the bowl of fine, white ash.
target="_blank"
