If you like Cornell & Diehl's Old Joe Krantz, you're likely going to like Kendal Kentucky. This is the one for me. I have the (perhaps strange) habit of smelling the briar or meecschaum bowl as part of the enjoyment of a pipe. Nicotine level is very high. The nuances are a little clearer in a clay. Heat from burning hardwood slabs and sawdust inside. On the fact that it is a shag cut alone keeps it from me truly recommending the blend, but I will say that this one is a pleasure to smoke. Policy | Terms What looks like an ordinary greenhouse is actually an around-the-clock Ebola vaccine factory. I do get some very nice nutty notes and a fair amount of earth and smoke. This G H & Co blend has this perfume at a moderately strong level and it persisted from beginning to the end of the bowl. fairtradetobacco.com I would suggest starting with just burley for a twist. I like packing it into the pipe. Map of All Communities with Smoke-free Laws by Strength of Law. |Pipe Shows, |Pipe & Tobacco Reviews This entry in the Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Kendal line is one hundred percent dark fired Kentucky leaf. A nuty undertone joins in, as well as hint of sweetness, but really just a hint. This tobacco is a bit of a trip down memory lane for me as it smells just like the tobaccos my Grandad used to smoke. This is a "lazy mans" smoke. It burns perfectly even, clean and cool, with a very consistent flavor from start to finish. KENTUCKY KING LARGE TWIST 12/CT. Full bodied, I get leather, tobacco, wood, campfire, and a slightly salty almost seaweed presence. There's a lot in here. You take a pinch and you have this large clump that won't even fit into the bowl. I wish this had been the first pipe tobacco blend I ever tried. There you have it, gentlemen! I cant recommend this enough if you are looking for a straightforward, full flavour, full strength tobacco that you can just load into a pipe and light up. KK doesn't change much at all during the smoke. Kentucky TWIST Payments is a portal designed for the Cabinet for Health & Family Services TWIST partners. Kendal Kentucky: a good blend, but too heady for my taste. List Price: $89.99. The shag cut made it feel more moist than it really is. Following this initial phase, the robust characteristics of full-strength burley dominate the pallet the entire life of the bowl. This is a purely smokeless nicotine hit. |Retailer Directory Sold for decorative, display, craft and educational purposes The product comes in a translucent cellophane wrapper with the name prominently stamped on the front and the fact that it is chewing tobacco. Sale! All rights reserved. I have smoked this in various size bowls and the smaller ones fair better. With some supporting notes of vegetal, bitter and whisps of plum. Happy Christmas to all and to all a good smoke ! For Burley lovers who prefer strength over topping. Its Christmas 2009 and one of my presents was a 4oz bag of KK. fours stars ! Personally, i hate cigars so this blend is not my cup of tea. Excellent for a quick smoke. For me the taste and aroma are outstanding. Lastly, the end of a bowl of KK will make you feel awfully good about your pipe smoking prowess. Next morning same thing. . I love blends that yeild thick copious smoke. If smoked carefully, KK is tasty, full and rich. Harrison was a notable maker of snuff, the popular style of tobacco at the time. Something else to search the interwebs for and I appreciate the your sharing the information. My favorite pipes and favorite tobacco blends are ones that excel in this quality. A mix of different types but a rich fire cured smoke. Old Time Outlaw Swamper A single shot rifle and a little blue dog Feb 1, 2013 #8 willc2412 Senior Member Nicodemus said: It's difficult to knock this. My definition of fast means to heat the bowl beyond a comfortable touch. The shag cut make for a shorter smoke, so this is great for breaks and lunch at the office! The shag cut makes for a very easy pack and burn; so easy that one has to be careful not to let it get too hot. Makes it super easy to pack, light, and smoke. Not my favorite style, but I see how others could like it. Tired of boring, bland burleys? Dr. Scott's review nailed it. But the crop has also taken its toll. Its a good outdoor tobacco as well, retaining its flavour in a way many tobaccos somehow dont. Samuel Gawith - Brown No.4 Finest Kendal Twist - 50g Tin. The moist fine shag cut is all too easy to clump into a big plug when filling the pipe - filling a bit looser than normal is necessary. I can only say that I really like it and will keep something like this around at all times. Strength: Room Note: Taste: Your Price Sadly, I never inherited his touch or feel for growing things. The taste reminds me of Dark Flake and Dark Plug, with some woodier notes creeping in. Try to avoid big bowls thou, as this is much stronger than regular burley. Gets me in the jowls and pectoris occasionally, but it has the nose and flavor I expect. I've been on the Virginia super hiwayand what a hiway it is. Shop now and experience the difference! It has nothing to do with the actual smoking of the blends although with the additional surface area, I do find these blends to burn quicker. The latest available information from the Kentucky National Agricultural Statistics Service denotes, "burley tobacco growers in Kentucky intend to set 36,000 acres for harvest, up 1,000 acres from 2021, while producers intend to set 10,000 acres of dark-fired tobacco in Kentucky, up 1,300 acres from the previous year. These tobaccos are fire cured which gives them their distinctive aroma and flavor. The Kentucky tobacco is one of the first American tobaccos that was introduced in Italy. Nicotine wasn't as strong as some say but strong enough for a beginner. Packs easily. Kentucky Select (Red) 5lb Bag Pipe Tobacco. 4. Overall, I don't care for it. As Dark Birds Eye has VA/Burley this is pure Burley and not cut from the whole leaf. It awakens the senses, calms the mind, and coats the mouth. Not far from three nun taste, but really better. I bought this in bulk and smoked a little bit of it when I received it. Qty. Tastes like tobacco! Lovely smokey smell.big hitter on the nicotine. Straight up stoved burley tobacco. One of them turned out to be Gawith, Hoggarth Kendal Kentucky. This stuff is supposedly 100% dark fired Kentucky leaf. The nic hit is pretty heavy so use a small bowl. It's like cream on your tongue. Golden brown with a warm finish, like Southern Comfort. Packed some of it into my Corn Cob and went on a journey to Kentucky! Similar Blends: H&H Old Dark Fired, Irish Flake. I wanted very much to smoke that Burley forward tobacco, but, was thwarted at all times by the unnecessary and unpleasant perfume. Kentucky sucks ohio is better The state is home to the world's longest cave system in Mammoth Cave National Park, as well as the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States, and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River.Kentucky is also known for its culture, which includes horse racing, bourbon, moonshine, coal, My Old Kentucky Home . Best Greets & Take it easy, P, When I was a sprout of nine or ten, my pappy offhandedly offered me a chaw, and that satisfied me for chewing tobacco for life. I now turn my attention to Kentucky Twist. So, I guess the jury's still out on this one for me, two too divided experiences. Does well with a sprinkle of Scotch Snuff on the top! There's a good amount of nicotine here. review sounds, when lit, all things considered, this is really a remarkably well-behaved burley bordering on possible desert island smoke status. I suspect I'll like that too. Please bare with me as this is my first pipe review here.. and I've only been smoking pipe seriously for about 8 months now so my palette is still in training. And lingering in the background is that Gawith Hoggarth flavor that I can detect in almost every blend they make. This is not a patio smoke for me, not in this windy city. I was given a sample of this with several other shag cut GH blends. I experience no after taste even though it takes two or three pipefuls before I feel like I've had enough. So keep that in mind. Who needs flakes or ribbons? Its very very very cigary. On a side note here, Kentucky Twist in an unsweetened tobacco and would be classified as natural or raw tobacco. Its now 2010 and I have a new shipment of KK. This one will delight. Kentucky has the nation's highest rates for lung cancer cases and lung cancer deaths. I received this from a fellow forum-ite as a sizable and somewhat aged (over a year old) sample. Perhaps I'm overly sensitive to this topping (in a word, I despise it), but I would not recommend KK to a smoker who doesn't like Lakeland perfume flavors. With Kendal Kentucky, you may want to try a smaller bowl. The true premium chewing tobacco - hand-picked and hand-cleaned, with fewer stems than any other chew. So I find it's wonderfully evocative of a lost time and culture. Most surprising of all, my wife who was unable/unwilling to sit on the porch along with the opened container of tobacco was perfectly happy to come back and sit with me and eat her dinner after the container was closed and the pipe was lit. Kendal Kentucky has a lot of positive attributes, and very few negatives. Mild To Medium Strength: The Kentucky Select Gold Pipe Tobacco ranges from mild to medium in terms of strength. I grew up on a tobacco farm in dark-fired country, and I never realized how much EVERYTHING smells like the stuff (esp. Quite the nicotine bomb. Firmly recommended for those who like this sort of thing. Small samples of Kendall KY and the GH Dark shag were included, clearly for seduction purposes. It is life transforming rite-of-passage. It's a surprisingly complex blend for being just straight Kentucky. I just finished a two-month stint of smoking a quantity of Dark Birdseye, Kendal Dark, and Kendal Kentucky in rotation at various moisture levels, times-of-day, etc. Consider: Kentucky has the highest percentage of adult smokers in the nation. Update: Well, I had to vacupack a bunch of this that I could not feature smoking any more of at the present time. $1.6M Was received from CDC for tobacco prevention and control activities in FY 2020 23.6% Of adults smoked cigarettes in 2019 8,900 Has some roughness. Smoked it in an MM Washington. Pipe Used: Steve Wiener Bing Crosby Dublin. The floral taste gets a little old by the bottom of the bowl. It impresses me as medley of Kentucky flavors. Makes me feel like I've done somwthing right. I dont think the narrow ribbon cut makes any difference to how it smokes in a pipe compared to a true shag cut other than slowing the burn rate a bit. . |Radio Show 4 star tobacco for the taste . Took more out and let it dry about 15 minutes, much better. Full on dark tobacco taste. It's hard to understand how they could arrive at such an interesting blend without including VA, cavendish, perique or condiment tobaccos. I found opening the packet that the 'twist' was a little dry so I placed it overnight in a tobacco jar with a couple of humidifying disks. Nationally, the rate was 3.8%.2 In 2019, 7.9% of high school students in Kentucky smoked cigars, cigarillos or little cigars on at least one day in the past 30 days. TobaccoPipes.com I don't find it to get bitter unless smoked too quickly. I therefore prefer to use a filter pipe to reduce the unwanted acrid taste. It delivers the nicotine hit of Gaslight minus the catfish bait smell. Also makes a good mixer for a blend that needs help. The overall flavor may get a bit richer and fuller, but the profile doesn't change.