Mac Baren Club Blend
(2.97)
A roll-cake tobacco, spun from rich, matured Virginia and choice cavendish tobaccos giving Club Blend its medium strength and delightful aroma.
Edit: According to Mac Baren's website, Club Blend contains Virginia and Dark Fired Kentucky. Besides maple sugar and water, no additional flavouring is added to the tobacco.
Notes: Introduced in 1955.
Details
Profile
Strength
Mild to Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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2.97 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 11 - 20 of 31 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Apr 28, 2009 | Medium | Extremely Mild | Mild to Medium | Tolerable |
A nice roll cake, with soft coins that crumble easily (not as compact as, let's say, Escudo).
It's a very typical MacBaren recipe: dark fermented Cavendish is used instead of Perique for spicing up the bright/red Virginias. The result is less spicy and sour than Perique, but interesting nonetheless.
It's a complex, dark, autumnal tobacco with little Virginia sweetness. What dominates the blend is a leathery and woody taste. The dark Cavendish gives a great contribution, resulting in a taste which reminds of a very fermented black tea (without sugar or milk). Something like a classic English Breakfast blend of tea from Kenya or Sri Lanka. Even slightly smoky, at times!
As usual with Danish tobaccos, anyway, the taste is very subtle and requires slow sipping for full appreciation. It's not an intense tobacco, and while body and moutfheel have a good consistency, the flavours are quite subdued. By the way, it feels very natural: MacBaren says that they simply added a little water and sugar, and I believe them. It's not biscuity like some other blends from this brand, not at all.
The coins can be very easily loaded into the pipe, with very little crumbling: little care is required for an excellent burn... simply stack up some coins, press a bit, and fire it away. It burns regularly, neither fast nor slow, with no tongue bite and very few relights. Very consistent in flavour from start to finish (it just gests slightly more intense towards the middle of the bowl).
I would love some more flavour intensity from this tobacco (and this is why it only reaches a "recommended" for me), but it's a good and balanced blend. If you dry it a little bit, anyway, the taste gets more intense.
It's a very typical MacBaren recipe: dark fermented Cavendish is used instead of Perique for spicing up the bright/red Virginias. The result is less spicy and sour than Perique, but interesting nonetheless.
It's a complex, dark, autumnal tobacco with little Virginia sweetness. What dominates the blend is a leathery and woody taste. The dark Cavendish gives a great contribution, resulting in a taste which reminds of a very fermented black tea (without sugar or milk). Something like a classic English Breakfast blend of tea from Kenya or Sri Lanka. Even slightly smoky, at times!
As usual with Danish tobaccos, anyway, the taste is very subtle and requires slow sipping for full appreciation. It's not an intense tobacco, and while body and moutfheel have a good consistency, the flavours are quite subdued. By the way, it feels very natural: MacBaren says that they simply added a little water and sugar, and I believe them. It's not biscuity like some other blends from this brand, not at all.
The coins can be very easily loaded into the pipe, with very little crumbling: little care is required for an excellent burn... simply stack up some coins, press a bit, and fire it away. It burns regularly, neither fast nor slow, with no tongue bite and very few relights. Very consistent in flavour from start to finish (it just gests slightly more intense towards the middle of the bowl).
I would love some more flavour intensity from this tobacco (and this is why it only reaches a "recommended" for me), but it's a good and balanced blend. If you dry it a little bit, anyway, the taste gets more intense.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 24, 2023 | Medium | Mild | Medium | Tolerable |
This blend is similar to MacBaren’s Dark Twist roll cake, but I find Dark Twist a half a star more. I really can’t express why this doesn’t get the 4 except I like the other better. With that being said, this is a tobacco for a veteran smoker and like Dark Twist, it’s a full flavored blend that burns cool, maybe even a little cooler than Dark Twist. With a low enough nic hit to be an all day smoke for a veteran. Never leaves moisture in the bowl and like other Virginia based tobacco from MacBaren , it’s a fine tasting smoke. The flavoring is mild enough to let the tobacco taste dominate and not cause palate fatigue which happens with overly flavored blends. If you like Virginia, Kentucky, Cavendish blends in a pressed cut, you won’t go wrong with this one.
Pipe Used:
Cobb
PurchasedFrom:
Discount Tobacco Forum in North Windham Ct
Age When Smoked:
1 year
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jun 02, 2018 | Mild | Medium | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Sweet gray smoke from the light to first half of the bowl, Spicey bread and nuts on the last half. Very happy with this blend. Very few relights, only 2 the whole bowl. Virginias creep out later on in the smoke and give some earthy overtones and sweetness. I don't get much of a fruit note, but A nice sweetness that I can see from the maple. Reminds me of Fall leaves changing colors, and a nice crisp north wind, when I smoke it. Makes me crave a nice Pumpkin Spice Tea when I smoke.
Pipe Used:
Dr. Graybow Billard
PurchasedFrom:
Smoking pipes
Age When Smoked:
1 yr
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Oct 04, 2015 | Medium | Very Mild | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
This blend is wrongly classified here as an aromatic containing Burley and Citrus/Fruits. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is natural sweet Virginia enhanced with some maple sugar and Dark Fired Kentucky. If it tastes a little fruity in some palates, that could be an effect of the natural sweetness that is produced by the Virginias. It is a cool and tasteful smoke.
Pipe Used:
Falcon look-alike Chacom
PurchasedFrom:
Tobacco Shop in Berlin, Germany
Age When Smoked:
New
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 13, 2012 | Mild | Mild | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
My first venture into mac baren spun cut. Sweet and spicy at the same time, not perique spicy, more like fruit bun / cinnamon spicy. Interesting taste, very unique, not exactly my cup of tea, but not unpleasant by a long shot. I like the 100gm tins, seems to last forever, those coins are packed in tight. I found this smokes better in a briar than a cob, makes my mm freehand heat up a little too much. No bite, at all.
Im going to work my way through all the mac barens, this isn't a stand out smoke, but it's still pretty damn good. Maybe buy more, maybe.
Im going to work my way through all the mac barens, this isn't a stand out smoke, but it's still pretty damn good. Maybe buy more, maybe.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Feb 21, 2012 | Mild to Medium | Mild | Mild to Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
I enjoy the not so in your face taste from CB, and it could be a very well behaved all day kinda thing. I really like the truer tobacco flavor that makes this so agreeable. Although this is one of two spun disk type tobaccos I have tried, I enjoy knowing the histories of the different types and cuts of the tobaccos. So, to sum up: light fruity/spicy taste,lots of tobacco overtones, good room, and shareable with others. Embrace the coin...
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 04, 2011 | Mild to Medium | Very Mild | Mild to Medium | Pleasant |
"I say, Chumley, old boy, what's that you're smoking in your pipe today? Lovely aroma. Three hearts to you."
"Oh this? Why, it's something called 'Club Blend', made by MacBaren's I do believe. Rather nice baccy, actually --mild, fruity. I'd certainly recommend it to you, old chap. Nice bit of a change from the English blends, if you know what I mean. Four clubs, old boy."
( To the waiter...) "Henderson, be a good chap and run us up a couple more of these gin and tonics, will you? There's a good lad. 'Club Blend' you called it there, Chumley? Smells awfully good indeed; must give it a try"
"Yes, do."
"Oh this? Why, it's something called 'Club Blend', made by MacBaren's I do believe. Rather nice baccy, actually --mild, fruity. I'd certainly recommend it to you, old chap. Nice bit of a change from the English blends, if you know what I mean. Four clubs, old boy."
( To the waiter...) "Henderson, be a good chap and run us up a couple more of these gin and tonics, will you? There's a good lad. 'Club Blend' you called it there, Chumley? Smells awfully good indeed; must give it a try"
"Yes, do."
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jan 17, 2011 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Medium | Pleasant |
Smoking this right now. Its good not the best. The casing is alittle to much very fruit/citrus flavor but nice. Aromatic fans will like it i dont tatse much cavendish cause if pretty bland but its nice good virginia tho. Try it not bad smoke
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jan 07, 2011 | Medium | Extremely Mild | Mild to Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
Tangy, slightly sweet and citric, this mixture is a great combination of lemon Virginias with rich Black Cavendish for a cool smoke with little tongue bite if smoked slowly. This is a great not-Burley everyday smoke.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 21, 2010 | Mild | Mild | Mild | Pleasant |
A very nice presentation of medium sized coins (in between flake medallions and thee nuns) with a bright yellow rim and a dark brown core. The tin smells of fresh hay and sweet honey. The coins smoke slowly and very cool, the smoke is on the thin side and teh taste is citrussy with some spice and sweetness from the cavendish. I fin this a typical summer smoke. It lacks some body to be in my top 5 but it's defenitely a high quality blend in a very beautiful presentation.
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