Mac Baren Gold of Denmark

I bought a pouch of this blend after reading on here that it had been discontinued. My online tobacconist had it listed, so I decided to get it, thinking it might be one of my last opportunities to try it.

Opening the pouch, it has the typical "fruit cake" kind of smell a lot of aromatics have. The tobacco felt pretty dry and rough to the touch. But not in a "stale" kind of way.

I'm on my 3rd bowl now, and so far it's always taken me two matches to get it lit. The starting flavor is light and pleasant.

The room note is OK, nothing remarkably good or bad.

I puff a lot and my tongue has suffered a little with this blend. It burns down to a grey-white ash without needing relights.

My first two bowls gave me a bit of a vitamin N buzz. (3rd one now too) It develops a chemical taste the further through the bowl I get. Gets a bit gurgly halfway through.

I like it, but it's not one I'd add to my regular rotation.

Tongue bite, tongue bite, tongue bite! Too much flavoring in this tobacco, right from the start, it bit my tongue.

Too bad, this tobacco was darker than Plum Cake or Scottish Mixture, with a great aroma, but boy! did my tongue ever get it!

A fresh tin of this was nothing special to my tastes. The tobacco looks great and has the perfect (typical) Mac B cut that loads into every pipe with no problem. It's about 80% black cavendish and is very wet. I like many of the Mac B blends and consider them to be my favorite blender- for the quality of tobacco and a restrained hand in adding casings. This blows the rest of their blends out of the water! I think they had a contest with Lanes to see who could use more casings and PG. The tin aroma is definately fruity and leaning toward cherry and the room aroma is about the same. It needed a bunch of re-lights from a fresh tin and burned down to a wet dottle.

I let the tin sit for awhile to dry out. I've been smoking this same tin for about a year now and it does get better, even with the heavy casing. It's much drier now to the touch and there's no re-lighting problem. The aroma in the tin has lessened and no longer smells like cherries. There's just a faint hint of something sweet. In short, it's not worth the trouble. A tin of Mixture is better and ready to go when it's cracked. I'll finish the tin in another year or so, but won't buy it again.

Upon opening the tin, the aroma, for me, is sweet and offers strong hints of figs. The tobacco is mostly black & dark brown in color which is not what I expected. There is very little light or golden brown tobacco in the mix. The tobacco is too moist for my taste, so I took out a few bowls worth and let it dry out for a few hours. This tobacco seems a little difficult to pack properly and I can't figure out why. I also had a hard time keeping this lit, probably packing it a bit too tight. The flavor is on the sweet side but not as much as I would like, with respect to the virginias. There seems to be too much Cavendish and Burley in the mix. Probably neither one in itself but combined they tend to over power the virginias. I've only smoked five bowls so far but this doesn't seem to be anything special. I've smoked drug store blends that were as good and for 1/3 the price.

I let this air out for 8 hours. Lit on one match and needed no further lights. Burned dry, but with a fair amount of black residue. Lots of clouds of smoke. I found the Scottish mixture to be more aromatic while smoking than this one, though it was more aromatic in the tin than McB Scottish mixture. Go figure. Heated up my smooth thick Cavicchi Dublin quite a bit. Perhaps a sandblasted pipe would be a better choice for this kind of heat. After smoking McB Scottish and Gold on the same day, I preferred the Scottish which had more graham aroma while smoking. The Scottish had quite a bit more nicotine than Gold as well.

Hello all, I received this as a gift from a friend, I'm impressed by his selection since he doesn't smoke. Upon opening the tin the aroma was sweet and figgy, but not too sugary like others I've smoked in the past. Nice round smell, matured with hints of bran or oats. I could definitely detect the Cavendish and the casing, but could also picked out the high notes from the VA. It packed quite well without becoming knotted after a little rubbing and fluffing. The tin I got was not too moist at all, no need to dry it out at all for me. Nice burn, I charred twice because the first match went out too soon, and then lit up for the rest of the bowl without any need for relight. I was little too eager to try it out I guess and it got a little hot, but I jut ashed it, tamped it and left it for a bit. The first third was fair, I enjoyed the nice room note, which was actually unique from many other aromatics I've had, nice little surprise. In the next third it really started to come into it's own, the casing stayed way back and the sweet VA and steady burley came forward. It had virtually the same high notes from the VA as in the tin, and I also noticed that the same nutty, bran taste that I liked in the tin came forward with the burley. Only minus at this point I noticed was not a whole lot of smoke volume, something I'm partial to. The last third burnt right down to the bottom, but was a little ashy and flat. Nicely balanced overall with a mild effect. As soon as I get yet another pipe I'll smoke this more often as my go-to aromatic. happy smoking!

IMHO Golden of Denmark is a "bridge" between the classic Scottish Mixture and a more aromatic one of the likes of Black Ambrosia. Just a light aromatic.

It came from Amsterdam (not sold in Italy) in a 100grms black tin.

Smelling blind at the tin opening, mild notes of fruits and nuts, honey and some spirit topping I cannot identify. A very gentle and balanced, non-agressive tin aroma. The weed is medium ribbon, a fine-looking contrasted colour of the like of some full-english mix. Just opened GoD was bit wet, after two months unsealed it's just right.

A wide bowl Castello KKKK has been used. Tobacco chars and burns regularly, releasing a mellow smoke with a faintly acidic/fruity note to the tongue, while to the nose the nuts prevail. The strength never exceeds the mild side.

Pay attention and don't force the draws in any way, otherwise it will get hot and steamy. Fortunately my Castello has thick walls... and I'm getting more and more accustomed with McB.

High quality tobacco, no doubt. If an aromatic of McB is my choice, then Black Ambrosia fits better my sweet tooth.

This is a Mac baren burley based mixture with some Virginia/Cavendish and some light honey touch, the tin aroma is honey/chocolate/dried fruits, the smoke is semi sweet nutty burley with hint of chocolate and honey.

This is not a heavy aromatic tobacco, very similar to Golden Blend with some black Cavendish and dried fruits note, the smoke is not very sweet, it taste and smell good with the typical Mac Baren flavor and room note and without artificial flavoring.

This and Navy Flake are my favorites of Mac Baren burley blend, I smoke it frequently since few years and I am quite happy with it.