Mac Baren Roll Cake

Most Macbaren tobaccos display exceptional quality of leaf and craftsmanship.

The beauty of their rollcakes would make a monster cry,touched by sensitivity.

problem is, they lack a decent level of nicotine...

While Mac Baren blends like Roll Cake are a step up from drugstore blends, the only thing really "serious" about them is the price. For a novice who is going to burn his tongue no matter what he smokes, Roll Cake's topped cavendish and perique will provide an interesting spicy citrus flavour, and the spun-cut "coins" look pretty cool, but there's too much sprayed-on sweetener and cavendish for me. I don't have much use for tutti frutti Danish candyweed in general, although I like a nice Danish freehand pipe provided it's sized for a man and not a rock troll.

Variation on the Club Blend, Symphony and Dark Twist.

Beautiful roll cakes, with shades of gold, brown and black, but too mild and with the taste fainting within a week, becoming a - alas! very flat blend.

Perfect for the beginner who wants high quality bakkie, but tolerable in strength.

Happy 4th of July to my fellow American pipe brothers!

I received a tin of this, minus one bowl, from a novice smoker who bought it because he liked the name.

He wasn't doing me any favors.

I found Roll Cake to be an unremarkable blend with a slight peppery taste. Not horrible but nothing to write home about either. This one also tends to burn hot but not as bad as the typical Mac Biten(sic) flamethrower.

The coins were fun to play with....too bad one can't spend them on a better blend.

This is very similar to Mac Baren Club Blend, in that it is a sliced roll cake with a center of black cavendish. The Roll Cake uses a darker brown Virginia. I believe there is a touch of Perique. For this type of blend, I much prefer their Dark Twist, which has an even darker brown Virginia. But this is a good tobacco, just depends how you like your Virginias.

This could be an all day smoke but I doubt it could hold my interest for that long. This complex blend has the potential for some really stellar results but falls short, due in part to the liberal use of Cavendish and a middle grade Virginia. It is the Burley's job to raise the flavor bar of this composition but I feel this is too much ambition for so little quality of character. It's not a bad blend but better choice of leaf would certainly improve the result. I smoked it slowly in the spun roll much as I smoke flakes in the slice.

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Tin note is kind of bready and smoky, and slightly floral.

The presentation is always great with Mac Baren. These coins are referred to a roll cake by Mac Baren and I agree with it. It's not a coin like Escudo.

This is a spicy, salty, sour, smoky and slightly sweet blend. The blend is melded a married well and it's beautiful. I don't like the topping on this blend but I can look past it. This Mac Baren spun cut flavor is unique, in my opinion, but this must be treated gently with the smoking cadence, or it will bite and irritate you tongue more. I still get irritation even when smoked slowly, and sometimes I smoke a bowl with no problems at all. The irritation can be like having too much of something sour. For me, the dryness is like a sandpaper tongue feeling and the irritation seems to be a ph issue rather than a heat issue. It took me a while to be able to properly smoke these Mac Baren spun tobaccos, but since I got better, I'm able to properly appreciate them. They must be sipped and packed properly, with care. Gently light and enjoy the nuances of flavor that unfurl. I need to re-review Dark Twist one day.

I smoked this in folded form like Per Jensen advises, and rubbed out. I think it tastes and burns best in the folded form. The nicotine is not noticeable. The strength is mild to medium but the taste, to me, is medium.

I would recommend this to anyone that likes Kentucky or even those that like Latakia, or any blends that are smoky and sour. If you like the other Mac Baren spun tobaccos I hhink you will enjoy this one as well.

Let's get something straight first, this tobacco needs to be smoke slow really slow because one it will fry your tongue and second it's the only way to get all the flavors out of this mix, at first light i usually get thecitrusy taste of the virginias with the cavendish in the second part of the bowl the burley weaves in and out, with latakia way on the back almost unnoticeable,this is not tobacco for a beginner since it requires constant attention and very light puffing, if you are a nicotine fiend this will disappoint you. I'm only giving this tobacco 2 stars for the following reasons: 1.It's too pricey for what it is 2.It requires constant attention. 3. i doubt any aging will improve it.

Tasty, savoury, woodsy (mahogony), peppery. All these describe this blend. An all day smoke which is an honest down to earth tobacco, with an exotic edge. This baccy can lack some deep base so I like to mix it with Full Virgina Flake. Can be a bit difficult to keep alight if left in disc form, but rub out to suit. Well worth trying IMHO.