Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation 1882 Founder's Blend

(3.55)
Latakia, sun-cured Orientals, mature Virginias, and full-bodied Kentucky leaf are blended together to produce this old-fashioned English smoke by Erik Stokkebye.
Notes: The 1882 Founder's Blend is Erik Stokkebye's tribute to the year in which the legendary Stokkebye tobacco business was started.

Details

Brand Erik Stokkebye
Blended By Erik Stokkebye
Manufactured By Scandinavian Tobacco Group
Blend Type English
Contents Kentucky, Latakia, Oriental/Turkish, Virginia
Flavoring
Cut Coarse Cut
Packaging 100 grams tin
Country Denmark
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

3.55 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 17, 2016 Medium None Detected Medium Tolerable
The Cyprian Latakia is smoky, woody, earthy, sweet and is the most obvious tobacco, though it’s just past being moderate in force. The ever present Orientals are smoky, woody with a little dryness, mild sour, floral, herbal notes, and some spice in a secondary role. The Kentucky is a little nutty sweet, spicy, woody, herbal, floral and earthy as it adds some force to the blend. It's just above being a secondary player. The mature Virginias have a fermented tangy dark fruit and tart citrus sweetness with some earth, wood and a light grassiness. They form the base of the product. The spice continually tingles your tongue, but there’s no chance of bite even if you puff fast. No dull or harsh spots to be found. The strength and taste levels are medium. The nic-hit is a couple of steps past the center of mild to medium. Well balanced, you notice every component in every puff. Burns at moderate pace with cool, clean, spicy sweet, mostly smooth, campfire flavor that translates the slightly lingering, pleasant after taste. Requires an average number of relights. Leaves little dampness in the bowl. Has a tolerable campfire room note. It’s medium strength, but is close to being an all day smoke if you choose.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 13, 2014 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium Tolerable
This is a very enjoyable blend, one that I could easily smoke any time. My sample was a touch on the dry side but it was not too far off the mark from what I prefer. When first lit, the flavor is somewhat sweet, a bit smoky, and relatively herbal tasting. As the pipe gets going the herbal flavors build and the smoke delivers a cool minty sensation on the palate. Overall this tobacco is very mellow and even by the mid-bowl point it remains incredibly smooth, flavorful, and similar to what one might expect from a mixture with a lot more age on it. Furthermore, I found it to be almost entirely devoid of the typical spiciness found in similar blends. The Latakia flavor is still fairly forward but it’s nicely balanced by the sweetness of the other tobaccos. Mild mannered? Check. Medium flavor and body? Check. Founder’s Blend is also well behaved, tasty and it burns nicely. Overall this is a well crafted blend.
Pipe Used: Meerschaum
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 13, 2015 Medium None Detected Medium Tolerable
Don't overlook this excellent, well-mannered English, because I'd put it in the top 2 percent of all English mixtures available, which is saying something.

Although it may seem like just another English made in Denmark, it rises above the pack in terms of quality of leaf and unique blending.

The Kentucky combines with well aged VAs to form a silky, slightly sweet, chewy backdrop for the moderate amount of Latakia and orientals, which skillfully play off the base , keeping things interesting, but always very civilized. One always tastes all the ingredients, carefully melded together.

The Virginias are of the slightly sweet variety, the Kentucky is noticed from the beginning and even more at the bottom of the bowl, but it never becomes "strong". A buttery smooth smoke which has an "aged quality" from the beginning.

Can't recommend this one enough. It obviously has flown below the radar for many.

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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 04, 2015 Medium None Detected Medium to Full Pleasant to Tolerable
I recently purchased and smoked the full line-up of Eric's new blends and have been impressed by all of them. They were well thought out as was this one. It is an English blend but with a twist. The Kentucky adds some power to the full tasting Latakia to provide what I call a sledgehammer English!

Pipestud
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 04, 2016 Medium to Strong None Detected Medium to Full Pleasant
1882 is one of the best medium Englishes that I have smoked recently. The whole field of medium strength English blends is a very crowded one and it takes a blend like 1882 to get noticed. I agree with reviewers Drums & Beer 2014-02-13 and Ducksbreath 2015-10-13 that this blend looked and smoked as if it had about fifteen years of tin aging on it. It also had an aged English aroma about it. It smokes soft and never comes close to biting. The mixture of aged Virginias ES uses give an interesting background note to the latakia while the Kentucky gives it a little punch. Really enjoyable - 4 stars.
Pipe Used: LX Ashton Old Church Canadian
PurchasedFrom: ebay seller
Age When Smoked: about 2 yrs old
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 20, 2016 Medium Extremely Mild Medium to Full Tolerable
This sublime blend really stands out in a very crowded field. There isn't much I can add to DrumsAndBeer's (customarily) spot-on review (and Ducksbreath's as well), other than that I think this stellar, uniquely sweet English deserves a solid 4 stars. Outstanding. I can see this quickly becoming my go-to English. This is my first Erik Stokkebye; I will be trying others.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Aug 14, 2017 Mild to Medium None Detected Mild to Medium Tolerable
Well balanced English mixture, strong in latakia, balanced, interresting and complex , virginia is not dominating. Try this one if you like Latakia! One of my favorits. A little bit stronger but definitly more complex and deeper than Comoy's English Mixture but clearly less strong than Dunhills Night Cap. An not too strong all day tabacco for Latakia Lovers.

PS: Try the "3000" blend of Besson in Lausanne, Switzerland, it's less "burning" on the tongue, less acid. See also my review about Dunhill's Nightcap for more informations.
Pipe Used: Meerschaum and Bruyere
PurchasedFrom: Switzerland
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 19, 2019 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
I stumbled upon Erik Stokkebye’s 4th Generation 1882 blend about six months into my pipe smoking, and could not be more pleased as it was first my introduction to an English blend tobacco.

Opening the tin revealed a uniformly blended coarse ribbon cut that smelled sweet and smoky. Everything about this tobacco proved to be pleasant. It packed nicely, was easy to light, and rarely required relights. The smoke was thick and creamy, smelled faintly of campfire and had an incense quality about it. It burned evenly all the way to the bottom of the bowl every smoke. Of the two pipes in which I smoked this blend, I found it was most enjoyable in a Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman, which has a generous and fairly wide sized bowl. I suspect it is best enjoyed in pipes with similarly wide sized bowls. The only criticism I have to offer is that I found the occasional rough stem of lightly colored tobacco in the mix - these were easily removed and discarded.

Immediately after finishing my tin of Erik Stokkebye - 4th Generation 1882, I opened a tin of Peterson’s Old Dublin. I found them to be similar, but my preference goes to the 1882 as it is slight more mellow and without the occasional sharpness I find with the Old Dublin.

Pipe Used: MM Country Gentleman, Briarworks Bullmoose
PurchasedFrom: Local brick and mortar store
Age When Smoked: Fresh from tin to one year in jar
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 11, 2018 Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant
This blend is incredible. The unlit tobacco has a nice aroma of stewed fruit and a touch of peat smoke. With the meerschaum, a slight hint of the fruit remains but the dominant flavor is pepper with some cinnamon and cedar. However, with the Danish briar, the fruitiness is dominant with noticeable creaminess and the pepper note is much lighter. Straight from the tin, the tobacco was a bit on the wet side requiring several relights. This is a world class blend that I’m interested to see how it does with some age on it.
Pipe Used: Meerschaum and Ben Wade freehand briar
Age When Smoked: 1 month
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 15, 2017 Mild to Medium None Detected Full Pleasant to Tolerable
This is my fifth review. I have been smoking pipes for a few months, and cigars for a few years. This is also my first taste of a blend with a serious latakia component. Thus, this review would be of interest mainly to novice pipe smokers wanting to try a "serious English" blend.

Cut is pretty coarse. Tin note: My spouse calls it "like gasoline," but doesn't mean this in a bad way. Compare to tea tree oil, plus campfire, plus a bit of something scary like motor oil. It's not too scary, though.

The tobacco was a bit damp or even oily in the tin on first opening. I had to relight more often than usual. Part of that could be my lack of expertise, but it feels like a bit of drying could help out.

UPDATE: on second smoke, it's still a bit harder to relight than other blends. Don't pack it too tight. I'm having better luck in a pipe with a better draw.

I found 1882 to be a pleasant smoke, smooth and cool and well blended. It got a little bit sweet about a third of the way through the bowl, and stayed that way. The flavor is full, but not overwhelming, and the nicotine level is mild to medium (at least at the rate that it entered me, given the number of relights). The finish stuck around; I was still tasting it (not unpleasantly) through another bowl of a mild Virginia flake (Erik Stokkebye's 1931) a couple hours later. That was a mistake; the flake should have come first. 1882 will overpower it.

My first taste was in a room full of cigar smokers, so it's hard to say much about the room note. Those around me could detect the latakia, but didn't find it unpleasant. I will need more experimentation 🙂 .

UPDATE: After smoking it in an empty room, I understand now what my cigar-smoking friend meant when he said it "smells like a church." Both the room note and the "blow it out your mouth up your nose" note remind me (pleasantly) of church incense, more copal than frankincense. I am updating the "Room Note" rating from "Tolerable" to "Pleasant to Tolerable."

I would agree with other reviews that this is a great English blend. It's serious, but not punishing.
Pipe Used: Bent billiard briar, straight poker briar
PurchasedFrom: Monte's Tobacco Shop, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Age When Smoked: Nearly new
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