Mac Baren Rum & Maple
(2.54)
A familiar old classic, this blend expertly mixes bright Virginias and rich burleys with the contrasting flavors of rum and maple. An interesting and pleasant smoke.
Notes: Once sold as Tinderbox Mashpee Maple. Lane discontinued the blend, and it was re-released by Planta (Germany). Currently sold as "R&M" due to changed regulations, the full name of the 50 gram pouch version is "Original R and M Blend No. 53".
Details
Profile
Strength
Mild
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Mild
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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2.54 / 4
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Reviews
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| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 04, 2009 | Mild | Mild to Medium | Mild | Pleasant |
My review notes that I've wrote down, dates early 2003. After that date I didn't give this tobacco another chance. I couldn't finish a tin of 100gr. A sweet taste, hot burning, nothing about rum, nor maple. Just a flavored sweet, and cheap aromatic tobacco.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Feb 24, 2009 | Very Mild | Medium | Very Mild | Tolerable |
Okay so I say not recommended, but I recommend it to. I recommend this to a new pipe smoker. I loved this tobacco when I started smoking a pipe. It seemed flavorful and the room note was decent. I would have kept this as an every day smoke. However I have been spoiled with very good tobaccos from MacBaren, Esoterica, McClelland, Dunhill, Butera, and Orlik. Since then this tobacco went down the toilet.
Today I find it burns to hot, the flavors once there seem very subtle now. The tobacco causes more pipe juice than most that I have smoked. Today I would go for something else that is for sure. However I still recommended it to a new pipe smoker as an introduction to aromatics. My Personal note Rating is a 3.1 I try to keep some around because it was my early favorit but I doubt I'll smoke a bowl more than once a month.
I have also done a video review of this tobacco. view it at
http://www.myspace.com/elemental_pipes
http://www.youtube.com
just search Lane Limited's Rum And Maple
Today I find it burns to hot, the flavors once there seem very subtle now. The tobacco causes more pipe juice than most that I have smoked. Today I would go for something else that is for sure. However I still recommended it to a new pipe smoker as an introduction to aromatics. My Personal note Rating is a 3.1 I try to keep some around because it was my early favorit but I doubt I'll smoke a bowl more than once a month.
I have also done a video review of this tobacco. view it at
http://www.myspace.com/elemental_pipes
http://www.youtube.com
just search Lane Limited's Rum And Maple
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Sep 28, 2008 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Mild | Pleasant |
I must confess - I purchased this blend simply because I have smoked it once some 25 years ago, when it was at that time quite rare in my part of the World. Then it was something different... But today it is good looking, nice smelling tobacco without any thrill in smoking. Pleasant memories turn into big disappointment.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 24, 2004 | Very Mild | Extremely Mild | Extremely Mild (Flat) | Pleasant to Tolerable |
I tried a pouch of Rum & Maple a while back.
Moisture was OK, packed easily. Lit well. Pouch aroma was mild, again, no hint of rum or maple.
While smoking, I didn't detect anything to suggest the rum, but every now and then I did catch a bit of what could have been maple. Not enough to say for sure.
It smoked well, didn't bite, and didn't leave the bowl all goopy.
My wife said it was very mild to her, sitting in the car with me, but she didn't detect much of an aromatic scent either.
This tobacco didn't do anything to offend me, but it didn't do anything to make me want to go out and buy more either.
Moisture was OK, packed easily. Lit well. Pouch aroma was mild, again, no hint of rum or maple.
While smoking, I didn't detect anything to suggest the rum, but every now and then I did catch a bit of what could have been maple. Not enough to say for sure.
It smoked well, didn't bite, and didn't leave the bowl all goopy.
My wife said it was very mild to her, sitting in the car with me, but she didn't detect much of an aromatic scent either.
This tobacco didn't do anything to offend me, but it didn't do anything to make me want to go out and buy more either.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jul 18, 2003 | Mild to Medium | Mild | Mild | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Not even nostalgia, which is as good a reason as any to like a tobacco, can help me with Rum and Maple. The stuff simply sears my throat. I don't suppose this experience is common--Rum and Maple has, after all, gotten some decent reviews here--but this tobacco might as well be laced with phosphorous so far as my throat is concerned. No stars.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Sep 23, 2002 | Medium | Medium to Strong | Medium | Tolerable |
This was offered to me as a repacement to my beloved Edgeworth slices. Which is no longer availble in the UK due EEC rules on casings. Not really anything like but in the same style I suppose, rum flavored tobacco and thats it.
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