McClelland No. 710 Colombian Mocha

A nice aromatic. Not as sickly as I might have expected. I smoke both aromatic and non. Though it is cased and has plenty of PEG, not too goopy in the bowl and burns well if aired out and aged a bit. Nice change of pace if you're in company and are prudently keeping your latakia's in the cellar. There is too much tobacco to try out there to buy this again, but it may be your thing if you're a coffee lover or need a smoke for acceptance of bystanders.

I was a little hesitant trying an aromatic of this kind, but forced myself into it. I drink about 3-4 large cups of coffee on a daily basis. When one opens the bad of tobacco you can easily smell coffee. If you purchase this blend from an online retailer, as you open the box that it arrives in, the coffee aroma will hit you right in the face. It?s not strong, it?s just right.

I will admit that this blend is extremely moist. I used several different techniques to dry it out, but I just can?t seem to get it right. However, I grabbed a corn cob tester and loaded my pipe. The tobacco is pre-rubbed, and isn?t hard to load. Tamp the tobacco at 3 stages as we were taught some time ago. Then light, take a mild puff, and continue. Let the tobacco burn out, it won?t take long. Then, relight after tamping.

Several people have said that it?s near impossible to keep your bowl lit while smoking Columbian Mocha. I disagree. After the ?starter light?, I needed to relight only once. I used a very large bowl, and smoked softly. The tobacco being so moist really had no affect on the smoke that I found.

If you like coffee as much as I do, you will love smoking it. #710 Columbian Mocha is a wonderful aromatic blend. There is no ?ketchup? odor as one usually receives from McClelland blends. It?s just coffee all the way around. Try smoking it in a room full of people and watch them all smile. Everyone will enjoy the aroma, as you enjoy your bowl.

I tried this blend believing that I would regret it, but the tobacco won. This will have to be bought several more times, and smoked throughout my pipe days. I recommend that everyone try this blend whether you like aromatics or not.

Here is another keeper!!!

What can I say? This is my sweet tooth weekness. I generally do not like heavily sweet aromatics, but I've given in to this one. Good quality tobaccos are used, even though it's hard to taste beyond all the cocoa. I like it anyway.

Ok I'm the odd guy here who liked this. I really like this a lot! ( see update) I just got back from my favorite Tobacconist in Jackson,Tennessee at "Ye Ole Pipe Shoppe",and he had just got some in from McC. It's high quality leaf in ribbon cut,with dark cavendish,and bright Virginias laced with good coffee and good Chocolate flavour. I smoked this in a small bowl Canadian that I reserve for aromatics. The blend was silky smooth,lightly sweet but not too sweet,and the aroma and taste of the Coffee was great,and I don't even like aromatics.

Update------- (gee wiz I hate having to agree with pipestud) haha,-but this blend was on the goopy and wet side. The aromatics in the tobacco seem to seep out like a ghost and make anything thats close to it smell like it.Yes, even sealed in the bag, it comes out and will contaminate any tobacco near it.It does taste good,but so does a cup of coffee.Maybe thats what I really wanted when I smoked this...a cup of coffee.In my opinion,a good blend as far as aromatics go.

Wow! This is the goopiest tobacco I've ever tried. And this is a shame because 710 had the potential to be a good tobacco.

I remember the taste as being nice, but I couldn't really taste any coffee flavoring. I probably would've noticed the coffee taste if I had smoked more than one bowl of this stuff. As for the smoking characteristics, this tobacco seemed to have a nice, even burn. Also, there was no tongue bite.

Now for the cons of this tobacco...

After a pleasant first bowl, I was horrified when I looked at the bottom of my pipe. There was a PUDDLE of goop at the bottom of the bowl--and that's no exaggeration. As an aromatic smoker, I expect a little moisture in the bowl, but this was absolutely disgusting. This tobacco stayed dark & moist for as long as I had it. When I finally dumped it, I noticed that the little clear plastic baggy it came in was actually stained yellow with goop. This would be a nice tobacco if it wasn't sopping wet with humectants.

I recently tried this tobacco in a experiment to remind myself of why a world class blender like McClelland can't make a decent American style aromatic to save their ass!

It's quite a shame, as this tobacco actually taste pretty good, but is absolutely ruined by the overwhelming use of poly-glycols as a preservative. The burn is cool and flavorful, but fouls the pipe in a pool of wet dottle. Drying doesn't help! You can leave this stuff on your kitchen counter for a week and it still wouldn't dry out enough to consider keeping.

Needless to say, this tobacco is for newbies only and I wouldn't recommend it at all, because there are much better tobaccos out there that aren't so chemical laden. This review is harsh - but then again this is rubbish.

well definately very mocha a kind of captain black of the McClelland brand with lots of PG and the usual bitter harsh and soggy bottom and well...the drugstore tobacco problems. Not bad if you go for that stuff so if you like Captain black and want it in mocha then go for it or you might find some use for it but I will stick to sunset breaze in the aromatics of at least blue note. I had to clear my pipe out with several bowls of some Arcadia to burn out the PG. I should have tried it in a corn cob first.

I desparately wanted to like this. I love aromatics and love coffee. I have been looking for a coffe flavoured pipe tobacco for some time. When I took a whiff of this, I thought I had found it!

The aroma in the jar smells like you could pour some hot water over it and make a good cup of coffee. As others have mentioned, this is soaking wet with PG. Drying will not happen in our lifetime, so I decided to let it sit out for a day and see if it could be smoked (that coffee smell was beckoning me constantly.)

Once you get it lit, that first blast is definitely coffee! There is a background note that I can't quite put my finger on. No one has been able to tell me what happens to PG when it burns, maybe it does impart some unfortunate flavour when used in this quantity?!

As you work through the bowl (and it is work), keep your lighter handy! It is very stubborn about going out!

Did I enjoy this tobacco? Not a lot (sigh). I really did want to like it. I eventually mixed it 50-50 with some Peterson's Irish Oak. I did make for a more interesting smoke, but I probably won't buy any more of the Columbian Mocha.

Being a McC. blend I really wanted to like this tobacco, and I did for a while. When I first discovered it, the tobacco had been tinned and given another name. I liked it enough that I purchased a 3-pack. I liked the taste, the aroma in the tin as well as the room, the tobaccos used and hey, it was McClelland, right? But, like hornsmoker said, this stuff just wouldn't dry out at all. I'm glad I only used a couple of pipes to smoke it in, because the "task" of smoking to the bottom of the bowl became to much to bear. I used the open tin on the coffe table as a potpourri (gotta try something) and that poly-glycol just held on and held on. It really is sad, I feel this blend had potential. IMHO it's better than some drug store blends, it did burn fairly well, and I do know 1 or 2 guys who smoke(d) it all the time, but I doubt that I will. That BITTER taste nearing the bottom of the bowl is to nasty to deal with. McC blends are a big part of my tobak cache, but not this one. Anyone want the unopened tins let me know, they're good and aged.