Experience with G&H Brown Flake Scented

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michael drue

michael drue

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Hi folks!

I got some G&H Brown Flake Scented this week.
Well i tried some other bacc's before from G&H.
In my bag was only a liitle bit of floral notes to the tobacco.
Taste : little soapy ...  thats it... and it bites...:oops:  for a scented version way to light in flavor.

It reminded me very strong to G&H Bright CR Flake...


So maybe i had a bad batch or the best of the rest from a 500gr. package?

i dont know, my experience with this tobacco is not as many other review´s on tobaccoreviews.com


May someone wana share his experience with this tobacco<img class="emojione" alt="?" title=":confused:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/assets/png/1f615.png?v=2.2.7"/> 


Michael
 
It's a Lakeland 'bac. They use old ladies soap and perfume in their 'bacs so what did you expect? Kinda like McC and ketchup :twisted:  :twisted: ( they actually use Tonquin bean as a flavoring in a LARGE bunch of their 'bacs :twisted: )
 
For me the GH Brown Flake (scented) doesn't have the strong flavor of Bosun Cut Plug, Grasmere, or Dark Flake. It's almost as mild as Glengarry. I've never had any GH tobacco to bite but that's not to say it can't happen. There are lots of variables that can make your tobacco give you tongue bite such as how fast you and how hard you puff, moisture content is another factor to take into consideration. FWIW :) 

AJ
 
Thanks AJ

you answered everything. so what i have is the BF i was thinking my 2 oz. doesnt have enough flavor. But ok lighter than Glengarry that makes sense i had a sample last year from it.

Thanks alot

Michael
 
The true gems in the GH & co line of dark strong tobaccos are Dark flake unscented, Conniston cut plug unscented and Dark Birdseye ;) 
 
Puff Daddy is crazy! The GOOD ones are Dark Flake Scented, Glengarry, No. 7 Broken Flake, Kendal Flake, Coniston Cut Plug, etc.

So my point is that everyone reacts really differently to these. Brewdude can't stand to be in the same state as me, cause I smoke 'em all the time, and he hates 'em with a purple passion. Puff Daddy is closer in taste to me but we differ a little here and there.

Now Brown Flake starts out medium strength, medium flavor then they add some scent to it (a medium level) and you get what to me is a kind of Ho hum experience. If you want something that will wake you up I'd go for something more potent.

As to the thing with other reviewers...it's like Brewdude, Puff Daddy and me. Everybody comes to the table from a different place, hoping for a different dinner. The review site is a venue populated by 25% complete morons, 25% newbies, 25% pretty normal guys with weird tastes and 25% really squared away and highly intelligent and savvy pipe gurus. So if you're wondering why your experience wasn't like a lot of the others...thank your lucky stars.

As to the question re your part of the pound being representative...it might be. But it might not. The way to tell is to order at bit from a different vendor. But even that's not totally certain.

1. Scented Flake of all levels loses its aroma gradually over time. In six months there will likely be a noticeable loss (or mellowing) and in a year even more. It could be you got some that had been 'in stock' for a while.
2. There have been occasional but notable instances where shipments of supposedly unscented flake have arrived 'scented' due to proximity. There have also been instances of mislabeled. The first of these doesn't sound like your situation, the second a little more.

Best thing to do is to shrug your shoulders, enjoy what you have as much as your can or trade it/sell it, etc.

Keep in mind the following truism:

Brown is too Boring,
Dark 's just Delightful,
but having a Brit name attached
makes it Rightful.

(refers to names like Glengarry, Bosun, Kendal, yadda yadda yadda)

Good luck.
 
Yes I are crazy :bounce:  . But not crazy enough to want soap to be the predominant flavor over tobacco. :tongue: Dark Birdseye is unsoaped ( to my tasticles) but Dark Flake Unscented and Conniston Unscented both are scented. Thankfully, they are at about 20% soap strength level compared to the scented versions. To my palate, the unscented varieties are scented just enough to make for an interesting and unusual smoke, versus the scented ones which are, as Kyle so aptly put it, like smoking Granny panties :pale: 

No wonder granny refuses to go to Oregon anymore :shock: 
 
See? My point exactly. We all differ on what constitutes good flavor. We also differ on what constitutes good taste. I, for one, would never besmirch the target of another man's passion...whereas there are others among us who build themselves up by casting aspersions on the perfectly acceptable preferences of their supposed 'brothers'. What a world, what a world.
 
Hey, we 've all seen you do some besmirching. We had to watch through the blinds when you weren't looking, but we saw it :suspect: 
 
Dark flake scented!!!!!! Glengarry is too light for me and if I want to smoke something other than dfs I'll grab Kendal flake or Grasmere flake generally and I sometimes change it up with a rope or some Conniston. I have never tried the brown flake but above is pretty much my recipe for enjoying gh&co lakelands.
 
Blackhorse":c0xc0bc6 said:
Juan -

From your list of blends the No. 7 Broken Flake would be dead center in your wheelhouse.
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I just looked it up. Very interesting. I guess I never noticed this one because it's name let it hide from me in with those numbered mixtures I'm not too curious about. I'll have to try this one for sure. Thanks.
 
I've smoked pounds of Dark Flake unscented, and I don't agree about the level of scenting. While I'm sure there's something on it, my palate says that it is the tobacco conditioners that make cured tobacco blendable. Now if the blender is being subtle, I might miss that. But even 20% of the highly scented blends is a lot. I could well be wrong but that's a lot of scent.
 
I agree with Alfredo, I think. I don't find any scent in Dark Flake or Plug (which are the same except one is sliced). To me the Scented version has a moderate plus level of scent, about the same as Kendal Flake, Glengarry, Coniston, etc. The potent ones to me are Cob, Boston, 1792, etc.
 
I thought you were saying that Dark Unscented had no scent added to it. I wasn't positive that's what you meant, hence the 'I think'. What I taste is dark fired against a powerful background of other dark and stormy tobaccos. I'm not good with flowery descriptives, just the flowery scents. And some of those darn fool blends have a dozen or more components to the overall scent...out of which I could maybe picky one or two, like anise and geranium as an example.
 
Blackhorse":cl170ioe said:
I thought you were saying that Dark Unscented had no scent added to it. I wasn't positive that's what you meant, hence the 'I think'. What I taste is dark fired against a powerful background of other dark and stormy tobaccos. I'm not good with flowery descriptives, just the flowery scents. And some of those darn fool blends have a dozen or more components to the overall scent...out of which I could maybe picky one or two, like anise and geranium as an example.
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I don't think it has added scent, or if it does it isn't in the powerful manner of other Lakelands like 1792. It's component tobaccos are Malawi Dark Fired and Indian Air Cured. Two other relatively all-natural tobaccos are GH Kendal KY and Irish Flake. As smokers, not blenders, we are more or less helpless in the face of all the manipulation of tobacco done by blenders, usually for a good reason, to steer taste one way or another. We come in after the fact and are presented with a fait accompli and can only backtrack to how the tobacco has been changed by a discerning palate. Mine tells me that, relatively speaking, Dark Flake Unscented has had little or no scent added to it.

That's what I mean:).
 
GH's description of Dark Flake Unscented is that it has "no additional flavors." The word choice is poor as "additional" implies a flavor augmenting others, yet with this tobacco there is no other; addition cannot occur.
 
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