Larus & Brother Company, Inc Four Seasons

A Morley is right on, and then some. I renewed my interest in this OTC pipe tobacco when I was getting ready for deer hunting and was looking for an inexpensive tobacco to take into the woods in my cob. I found two packs of this in a local news-magazine-cigar store, covered with dust on the back shelf for $1.47 per. Seemed right. On opening it, the tobacco was a little dry with flakes of brown and black -- I've never been good at identifying the tobacco. Obviously some burley but some cavendish too. I smoked this in the woods at lunchtime and on the way home and found myself reaching for it more often. It produces exactly what it advertises -- a mild smoke with a cherry birch flavor. This is not a heavily cased cavendish at all. The cherry birch flavor is allegedly from adding some part of the cherry birch bush, and I looked it up, and it does exist. In smoking it, you have to remind yourself that it's cherry birch or you might think you've been slipped something soapy and flowery. I never tried in a briar, but it is a simple and uncomplicated, on the sweet side smoke in a nostalgic package (although I could swear there used to be a hunter on the front in the collection of outdoor sporting images). It burned to the bottom leaving a grey ash; no wet dottle; a pleasant room aroma. This is a nice change of pace and an aromatic without the heavy, clumping cased cavendish. It will be one of my alternates on a regular basis, when I can find it.