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robertw1249
Number of posts: 175
Age: 44
Location: norfolk ne
Registration date: 2008-06-13
| | Subject: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 10:01 am | |
| hi all has any one tryed this blend thanks for the help |
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Puff Daddy
Number of posts: 5533
Age: 49
Location: South of heaven
Tobacco: Mostly simple burleys these days
Pipe: Stanwells and Petersons
Registration date: 2007-12-09
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 11:06 am | |
| It's one of those blends that seems like should have potential but always kind of fizzles out. Looks and smells great, first few puffs are promising, but the flavor and body you expect never really shows. Bites a bit too if you're not careful. Not unlike so many other MacBaren blends 
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robertw1249
Number of posts: 175
Age: 44
Location: norfolk ne
Registration date: 2008-06-13
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 11:13 am | |
| thanks guys do all Mac baren blends have a real bad bite to them |
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kilted1
Great Scot!
Number of posts: 3514
Age: 51
Location: North Georgia, USA
Tobacco: GLP Haddo's Delight, SG 1792, Condor Original Long Cut
Pipe: Ardor, Viprati, L'anatra
Registration date: 2009-01-11
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 11:20 am | |
| | robertw1249 wrote: | | thanks guys do all Mac baren blends have a real bad bite to them |
That seems to vary with the smoker, their Dark Twist and Plumcake are the only products which I can enjoy, but I have to smoke them carefully to do so. A shame really, as MacBarens blends are obviously based on very high quality tobaccos. #1 VA bites like a rabid wolverine, and though Navy Flake doesn't bite me (much) the topping is just very tiring to me. As others have indicated, Scottish blend is just kind of boring to me. |
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robertw1249
Number of posts: 175
Age: 44
Location: norfolk ne
Registration date: 2008-06-13
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 11:24 am | |
| so it the VA's that give it the bad bite then or could it be the caseing they put on it to |
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| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 11:35 am | |
| Burley is what usually bites me. I can typically handle the Va's, but that's just me. |
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robertw1249
Number of posts: 175
Age: 44
Location: norfolk ne
Registration date: 2008-06-13
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 11:41 am | |
| i smoke a lot of VA's and burlys with out any bite but give me some thing with alot of casing on it it bite me really bad |
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Justpipes
The Duke
Number of posts: 7935
Age: 54
Location: Randolph County, NC If you don't know, you wouldn't understand.
Tobacco: John Middleton Walnut, Prince Albert, GLP Cumberland, C&D Exhausted Rooster , add Carter Hall to the mix, as well as Perfection Plug Burley
Pipe: Brissetts, Kaywoodies
Registration date: 2007-12-17
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 12:31 pm | |
| Robert,
I have a little of the Mac's Scottish Mixture but I haven't tried it yet. I will in the next day or two and let you know what I think. Our tastes are very similar. |
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BrAnt
Number of posts: 53
Age: 27
Location: NJ
Tobacco: C&D DaVinci, MacBaren Navy Flake
Pipe: Wessex
Registration date: 2009-04-28
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 12:48 pm | |
| I enjoy the Navy Flake. That seems to be the only one most people can tolerate from MacBaren. |
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Slow Puffs
Resident Sportscaster
Number of posts: 4889
Age: 64
Location: Alberta. Canada
Tobacco: GLP Telegraph Hill
Pipe: Dunhill Tanshell Liverpool
Registration date: 2007-12-10
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 2:00 pm | |
| A couple of years ago, I had a few sample packs of Scottish Blend and Virginia No 1 and was surprised how good they are... to my tastes. I have a pound of each jarred... @ $25 a lb or so, for me it was a great buy.  |
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Mikem
The Coordinator
Number of posts: 1494
Age: 57
Location: Glendale, Arizona
Tobacco: Pembroke
Pipe: Mike Brissett Bulldog
Registration date: 2007-12-14
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 2:58 pm | |
| I had the same impression with some Mac Baren blends, but I have been cracking open some tins that have a few years age on them and am really enjoying them. I started a tin of the Black Ambrosia the other day and am really enjoying it. Smoking it as I'm typing.  I've always enjoyed their HH Vintage Syrian. |
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robertw1249
Number of posts: 175
Age: 44
Location: norfolk ne
Registration date: 2008-06-13
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 3:21 pm | |
| thanks for all the help guys and mark you will have tell me what you think of we pretty much smoke all the same stuff thanks for the help |
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Sasquatch
Number of posts: 1086
Location: The Garage
Tobacco: Club
Pipe: Sasquatch make best pipe
Registration date: 2008-12-14
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm | |
| I think the biggest problem with Mac Baren "bite" is that people fail to appreciate a tobacco that is a little subtle. When you get into the honey on toast kind of Mac Baren taste, it's incredible. But if you puff away expecting it to taste like Westminster, well, good luck.  I love Mac Baren's Mixture, Navy Flake, Dark Twist, Club... I do find plumcake bites me a bit though. |
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robertw1249
Number of posts: 175
Age: 44
Location: norfolk ne
Registration date: 2008-06-13
| | Subject: Re: Mac Baren mixture Scottish Blend Tue May 05, 2009 3:39 pm | |
| yeah i have been looking to try the navy flake to you cant beat the price on the mixture blend and the navy flake if i can find a online store that DOCK has not cleaned out there stock on it ill get some  |
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