Mac Baren Scottish Mixture

[sstodvictory]

I bought a bag of Mac Baren Scottish Mixture (from bulk) the other day. I like it.

Here is a photo of it:
http://www.smokingpipes.com/tobacco/by-maker/mac-baren/bulk/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=10778

In the hand and in the pipe it reminds me of a tinned tobacco I used to buy years ago, but I can't remember what that older stuff was. I know it wasn't a Mac Baren tobacco though. That was back when many more Dunhill tobaccos were available in the US than today. At that time I was smoking mainly Dunhill and Esoterica blends out of tins.

Does anyone have ideas? What could I have smoked in the mid-late '90s that is not Mac Baren Scottish Mixture, but is a lot like it?

Steve

 

[Richard Burley]

Ed Burak at his Connoisseur Pipe Shop in New York used to give a sample of tobacco with every pipe he sold me. I don't know if he called it his house blend, or Ed's Favorite, or something similar--but it tasted and smelled, to me, exactly like MacB's Scottish Mixture. And I was very familiar with that blend at the time, as it was one of my favorites. I would like some now, actually. Any chance you bought any from him? Wish I could remember what he called it. It smells the way pipe tobacco ought to smell, doesn't it? Tastes great. Think I'll get some. Wait a minute--you said tinned tobacco, right? I don't think he tinned it. Never mind.

 

[skaukatt]

Ed Burak at his Connoisseur Pipe Shop in New York used to give a sample of tobacco with every pipe he sold me. I don't know if he called it his house blend, or Ed's Favorite, or something similar--but it tasted and smelled, to me, exactly like MacB's Scottish Mixture. And I was very familiar with that blend at the time, as it was one of my favorites. I would like some now, actually. Any chance you bought any from him? Wish I could remember what he called it. It smells the way pipe tobacco ought to smell, doesn't it? Tastes great. Think I'll get some. Wait a minute--you said tinned tobacco, right? I don't think he tinned it. Never mind.

That would be (or was - no longer in business) his Scottish Ribbon which is purported to be one and the same. I have never tried the Mac Baren version so I cannot say with certainty.

Paul Bonacquisti (Park Lane Tobacconist) makes a match blend called Connoisseur's Flake which is quite nice.

 

[*camoham]

sounds good

how does that compare to the regular mixture?

im fond of mixture flake.

but another recently liking has been macbarens roll cake. similar tempermental and a wee touch on the stronger side.

camo