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alfredo_buscatti
Number of posts: 2122
Age: 58
Location: Piedmont, North Carolina
Tobacco: Dark Flake, Escudo, aged Cumberland and Haddos, Cool Hand Fluke, Oriental Dusk, Old Dark Fired
Pipe: cobs, wire-brush rusticated Jobey, Milville Dublin (my best smoker), tortoise-stained GBD billiard with white acrylic stem
Registration date: 2007-12-16
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:59 am | |
| This is as excited as this Board's ever been about Bracken Flake; great! |
| | | | Kyle Weiss
Number of posts: 11505
Location: Reno, NV
Tobacco: SG-KP/SL/BBF, R-HOTW, MacB-VA#1/NF/ODF, GLP-Emb/US/JKP/SXT/Nav, D-EMP/NC, C&D-BB, JP-SF/OD, S-660, WTF, BBQ -- hissing at Old Lady Lakeland; Cajun Hater.
Pipe: Slightly bent bulldogs, classy Rhodesians, venerable cobs, pithy pokers, curvy blowfish, sleek Canadians, and almost anything bizarre.
Registration date: 2011-09-18
| | | | | Blackhorse
BoB's Team
Number of posts: 3149
Location: Oregon City
Tobacco: Blend of the month is Patton's Oriental Dusk. Some good old Happy Bogie too.
Pipe: Pipes by ta harris & UberHuberMan of this Site plus the 2012 BoB POY.
Registration date: 2010-10-23
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:11 am | |
| Kyle...don't wait around!
http://pipesandcigars.com/brackenflake.html
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| | | | Kyle Weiss
Number of posts: 11505
Location: Reno, NV
Tobacco: SG-KP/SL/BBF, R-HOTW, MacB-VA#1/NF/ODF, GLP-Emb/US/JKP/SXT/Nav, D-EMP/NC, C&D-BB, JP-SF/OD, S-660, WTF, BBQ -- hissing at Old Lady Lakeland; Cajun Hater.
Pipe: Slightly bent bulldogs, classy Rhodesians, venerable cobs, pithy pokers, curvy blowfish, sleek Canadians, and almost anything bizarre.
Registration date: 2011-09-18
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 10:19 am | |
| You... you.... you... ...enabler.   Side question: How "cocoa" is this stuff? I don't like chocolate but don't mind a little cocoa flavor. If this is a "chocolate bomb" I may be SOL.  The other found flavors and additives I can probably deal with. Unless the old lady soapiness is also in there--gross. Geez, I'm picky. |
| | | | Blackhorse
BoB's Team
Number of posts: 3149
Location: Oregon City
Tobacco: Blend of the month is Patton's Oriental Dusk. Some good old Happy Bogie too.
Pipe: Pipes by ta harris & UberHuberMan of this Site plus the 2012 BoB POY.
Registration date: 2010-10-23
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 1:54 pm | |
| I detect no cocoa or chocolate whatsoever. |
| | | | alfredo_buscatti
Number of posts: 2122
Age: 58
Location: Piedmont, North Carolina
Tobacco: Dark Flake, Escudo, aged Cumberland and Haddos, Cool Hand Fluke, Oriental Dusk, Old Dark Fired
Pipe: cobs, wire-brush rusticated Jobey, Milville Dublin (my best smoker), tortoise-stained GBD billiard with white acrylic stem
Registration date: 2007-12-16
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 2:39 pm | |
| Its dominant taste is cigar-like, at least to me. Deep, smoky and austere, I think. |
| | | | Brewdude
Number of posts: 2343
Age: 60
Location: Near the Emerald city
Tobacco: Va/VaPers mostly. Appreciate burley blends also. Latakia, not so much these days.
Pipe: I'm a "bent" kinda guy!
Registration date: 2011-05-04
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 3:28 pm | |
| | alfredo_buscatti wrote: | | Its dominant taste is cigar-like, at least to me. Deep, smoky and austere, I think. |
Any Lakeland soapiness?
Cheers,
RR |
| | | | scottbtdmb
Number of posts: 500
Age: 32
Location: Bel Air, MD
Tobacco: Pipeworks & Wilke #10 & #524, Peretti's Royal Blend & Tashkent, GL Pease Abingdon & Robusto, McClelland #27 & VA Woods, Solani Aged Burley Flake, Dunhill 965, Penzance, Fader's Istanbul & #325
Pipe: 1920 Comoy (800 Series), Barling EXEXEL Fossil Pot, Ardor Urano Giant, Savinelli Estella, Peterson Sherlock Holmes & Mark Twain, old GBD pipes, 1950 E Wilke Pot
Registration date: 2010-02-19
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:24 pm | |
| | Brewdude wrote: | | alfredo_buscatti wrote: | | Its dominant taste is cigar-like, at least to me. Deep, smoky and austere, I think. |
Any Lakeland soapiness?
Cheers,
RR |
Definitely NO Lakeland soapiness. Just a mild topping that some say is anise/licorice, but I will contend that I taste mint chocolate.
-Scott |
| | | | alfredo_buscatti
Number of posts: 2122
Age: 58
Location: Piedmont, North Carolina
Tobacco: Dark Flake, Escudo, aged Cumberland and Haddos, Cool Hand Fluke, Oriental Dusk, Old Dark Fired
Pipe: cobs, wire-brush rusticated Jobey, Milville Dublin (my best smoker), tortoise-stained GBD billiard with white acrylic stem
Registration date: 2007-12-16
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:29 pm | |
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| | | | Blackhorse
BoB's Team
Number of posts: 3149
Location: Oregon City
Tobacco: Blend of the month is Patton's Oriental Dusk. Some good old Happy Bogie too.
Pipe: Pipes by ta harris & UberHuberMan of this Site plus the 2012 BoB POY.
Registration date: 2010-10-23
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:41 pm | |
| What scott calls chocolate mint, others call anise, and still others will absolutely call a Lakeland thing. Is it a flavor? Or is it a scent? Read Gawith (both sides of the family) reviews over on the review site and the descriptions are all over the place. We should never say...this tastes like X or Y or whatever...rather we should be saying what I sense is the following...so saying there is definetely no Lakeland soapiness will almost certainly be argued by someone else that actually detects it either in the pouch or the product.
The most classic description of the Lakeland thing I ever saw (and it was very recently) was that it was just like the parfum that little old ladies that lived in nursing homes used to disguise the sour smell of stale urine. Lovely.
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| | | | Brewdude
Number of posts: 2343
Age: 60
Location: Near the Emerald city
Tobacco: Va/VaPers mostly. Appreciate burley blends also. Latakia, not so much these days.
Pipe: I'm a "bent" kinda guy!
Registration date: 2011-05-04
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:43 pm | |
| | scottbtdmb wrote: | | Brewdude wrote: | | alfredo_buscatti wrote: | | Its dominant taste is cigar-like, at least to me. Deep, smoky and austere, I think. |
Any Lakeland soapiness?
Cheers,
RR |
Definitely NO Lakeland soapiness. Just a mild topping that some say is anise/licorice, but I will contend that I taste mint chocolate.
-Scott |
| alfredo_buscatti wrote: | | No soap. |
Thanks guys.
Cheers,
RR |
| | | | Brewdude
Number of posts: 2343
Age: 60
Location: Near the Emerald city
Tobacco: Va/VaPers mostly. Appreciate burley blends also. Latakia, not so much these days.
Pipe: I'm a "bent" kinda guy!
Registration date: 2011-05-04
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 4:45 pm | |
| | Blackhorse wrote: | What scott calls chocolate mint, others call anise, and still others will absolutely call a Lakeland thing. Is it a flavor? Or is it a scent? Read Gawith (both sides of the family) reviews over on the review site and the descriptions are all over the place. We should never say...this tastes like X or Y or whatever...rather we should be saying what I sense is the following...so saying there is definetely no Lakeland soapiness will almost certainly be argued by someone else that actually detects it either in the pouch or the product.
The most classic description of the Lakeland thing I ever saw (and it was very recently) was that it was just like the parfum that little old ladies that lived in nursing homes used to disguise the sour smell of stale urine. Lovely.
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And your input has not gone lost on me either Dave. After all, you know my preferences better than most.
Cheers,
RR |
| | | | Carlos
Number of posts: 4978
Age: 55
Location: Chestnut, IL
Tobacco: GLP Renaissance
Pipe: Brian Ruthenberg Sandblasts
Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 5:19 pm | |
| More like a chocolate liqueur, or maybe it's Ovaltine. Very light. But there have been several variations depending, we think, upon available blending leaf. Probably not Ovaltine. _________________  Current pen & ink. 1930's Replica Pelikan M101N Tortoise Shell - Med Nib Ink = J. Herbin - Éclat de Saphir |
| | | | scottbtdmb
Number of posts: 500
Age: 32
Location: Bel Air, MD
Tobacco: Pipeworks & Wilke #10 & #524, Peretti's Royal Blend & Tashkent, GL Pease Abingdon & Robusto, McClelland #27 & VA Woods, Solani Aged Burley Flake, Dunhill 965, Penzance, Fader's Istanbul & #325
Pipe: 1920 Comoy (800 Series), Barling EXEXEL Fossil Pot, Ardor Urano Giant, Savinelli Estella, Peterson Sherlock Holmes & Mark Twain, old GBD pipes, 1950 E Wilke Pot
Registration date: 2010-02-19
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 6:08 pm | |
| I also wanted to mention that as I am working my way through 4 oz of bulk BF, I notice a slight difference between the bulk and the tin. I would have to say that I prefer the tin over the bulk. I can't quite describe the difference yet as I have only had 3-4 bowls of the bulk, but there is something lacking that I enjoyed from the tin. Maybe it's just me!
-Scott |
| | | | Kyle Weiss
Number of posts: 11505
Location: Reno, NV
Tobacco: SG-KP/SL/BBF, R-HOTW, MacB-VA#1/NF/ODF, GLP-Emb/US/JKP/SXT/Nav, D-EMP/NC, C&D-BB, JP-SF/OD, S-660, WTF, BBQ -- hissing at Old Lady Lakeland; Cajun Hater.
Pipe: Slightly bent bulldogs, classy Rhodesians, venerable cobs, pithy pokers, curvy blowfish, sleek Canadians, and almost anything bizarre.
Registration date: 2011-09-18
| | Subject: Re: Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:12 pm | |
| Great posts on the nature of this stuff, guys, thanks. I'll get a tin of it eventually.  |
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