HU Tobacco Haymaker

In the little round tin is another blob-like mass from Germany pretending to be flake. You peel this off like a rasher of bacon stuck to it's fellows rather than individual slices. There is precious little aroma here.

As you can imagine it makes for a sticky, gooey time at loading but these strips do do eventually break down into some semblance of tobacco shreds. Folding is not a viable option. You may find you want to use that rarity, the tobacco knife, if you can find it, under all the plugs and twists you bought on a whim and just never got round to cutting up.

It's an absolute swine to keep lit. Half a tin of butane later and your still none the wiser. It has no taste, even less character and produces a feeble dribble of smoke. It's obvious then that it needs to dry out after preparation. After several hours it's still the same. Overnight it becomes a brittle piece of brushwood.

So, not wanting to admit defeat, I scoop it all out, separate the half-seared bits and stick it in a mixing dish and using, the knife I located earlier, slice up some godawful Kendal dark twist to go with it. Same result, a tastless, pointless mess.

So, all these reviewers can't be wrong. Maybe I'm doing something wrong with this 'flake'. I'm going to cellar it for a while (maybe even jar it) and see if it improves with age.

It didn't and I ended up finishing it. Not memorable.