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- Components: Virginia
- Family: Virginia
- Cut: Flake
About This Pipe Tobacco
Seattle Pipe Club's Hogshead blend pays tribute to Virginia's history of cultivating high-quality tobaccos. During America's colonial period, Virginia farmers packed and shipped tobacco in barrels called "hogsheads," from which this blend derives its name. As a blend, Hogshead features Virginia leaf from Africa, Brazil, and the United States, with these tobaccos having been aged in a bourbon barrel for 30 days before being pressed and cut into slices.
Customer Reviews
A great Virginia blend for an old hat and a new smoker!!!
July 29, 2024
By:
W W.
Product: Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead Bourbon Barrel Aged 2oz
ll applies and after I will attempt to describe the changes that barrel aging imparted.
“A great Virginia blend for an old hat and a new smoker!!!
If you are an experienced Virginia smoker you will appreciate this blend for what it is, an excellent smoke. The mix of 10 year aged orange and red Virginia due to their obvious initial quality and curing and their age offer a smooth, mature Virginia smoking experience. As if you had bought it fresh 8 or more years ago. I am sure the pressing also plays into the melding and mellowing as it to can mimic age. Its a smooth and tasty blend with some initial muddle of flavor but once the cherry spreads and the bowl warms the flavor starts to expand and the true flavors come through. I get an earthy base, a touch leathery a taste I didn’t expect, some natural sweetness of quality grassy taste, a touch of citrus as well as vinegar. I get some deeper darker fruitiness like prunes, raisins and black cherries along with that sort fermentation taste that comes with age. I also get almost the taste of a nicely toasted marshmallow, a mix of caramel and the sweetness somehow generates it just now and then. It’s sweet and mellow and rich and delicious and any experienced Virginia smoker is likely to enjoy sipping it. For a new to Virginia smoker it’s also a great one as it is not prone to bite or get hot if pushed a bit hard, Virginia’s are best smoked cool and sipped or they can get hot and cause tongue bite as well as just not tasting their best. I learned that lesson the hard way. Also it generates a bit denser smoke and mouth feel than most straight Virginia so you are less likely to huff and puff to get a mouthful of smoke.”
All the above still applies with some pleasant changes. The time in the barrel has added a very gentle sweet smokiness from the bourbon, nothing strong or at all offensive as I have found some liquor blends to be. It seems that the slight vinegar taste has been pushed into the background. The bit of a toasted marshmallow caramel and sweetness has been replaced with gentle sweetness of the bourbon. Both blends are very tasty and interesting and are nice variations on a very good theme.
The strength and nicotine levels are midstream and the flavor level is a solid step up into medium strong. Prep is easy as instead of the plug of the original they pressed out a crumble cake and sliced it thick from the loose tobacco as it comes from the barrel and actually pulls apart fairly well with a little effort. Moisture is about right but, also it lights well and stays lit nicely with a few relights. Nice after taste and room note. For a Virginia smoker it can easily be an all day smoke....Read More
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Great! A definite Favorite. Fuller flavored than typical pure-Virginias. Softer, too.
October 22, 2024
By:
Forrest
Product: Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead Bourbon Barrel Aged 2oz
ing. Some natural sweetness almost like toasted marshmallow; a touch of dried fruitiness; and the slightly musky leather flavor that I love. I don’t taste bourbon --maybe in the finish on the retrohale? Could that be placebo effect?
Really nice that it doesn’t have the typical propensity for hotter, tongue-biting smoke that a typical pure Virginia has. Plus a fuller, rounder, flavor.
And it’s my preferred medium-nicotine-strength.
It’s so much MY kind of tobacco that I keep smoking it up; I haven’t had the patience to age any. (I’ll have to buy an excess! Hey Seattle Pipe Club, sell this in 8-ounce tins!)
The lady of the house doesn’t love the room note, but it is not strong in the room. And I love the taste. A definite favorite.
I’ve tried it in a handful of my old briars, and I like it so much that I’m using it to break in my new shire-stemmed cob.
This tobacco is great. It’s become one of my primary go-to’s.
I’m inclined to blend in just a little Burley, for mouth-feel. Would you recommend Perique? I’m still learning my Burley’s, preferring mellower nicotine-strength tobaccos. So, maybe a light Burley? I invite suggestions, please....Read More
Really nice that it doesn’t have the typical propensity for hotter, tongue-biting smoke that a typical pure Virginia has. Plus a fuller, rounder, flavor.
And it’s my preferred medium-nicotine-strength.
It’s so much MY kind of tobacco that I keep smoking it up; I haven’t had the patience to age any. (I’ll have to buy an excess! Hey Seattle Pipe Club, sell this in 8-ounce tins!)
The lady of the house doesn’t love the room note, but it is not strong in the room. And I love the taste. A definite favorite.
I’ve tried it in a handful of my old briars, and I like it so much that I’m using it to break in my new shire-stemmed cob.
This tobacco is great. It’s become one of my primary go-to’s.
I’m inclined to blend in just a little Burley, for mouth-feel. Would you recommend Perique? I’m still learning my Burley’s, preferring mellower nicotine-strength tobaccos. So, maybe a light Burley? I invite suggestions, please....Read More
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GOOD STUFF
September 19, 2024
By:
Andrew M.
Product: Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead Bourbon Barrel Aged 2oz
good taste
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Hogshead bourbon barrel aged
August 30, 2024
By:
Larry R.
Product: Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead Bourbon Barrel Aged 2oz
Excellent blend took me a couple of bowls to figure it out but a great smoke
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An Elevated Version of Hogshead!
July 24, 2024
By:
Pakcik Dee
Product: Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead Bourbon Barrel Aged 2oz
he tin note is dark,grassy,sweet,tangy,raisiny,dried prunes.
Comes with perfect moisture content,nice thick crumble flake that is easy to break,rubs easily,lights easily with very few relights.Burns cool and consistent throughout the bowl.
Smooth,mellow,medium flavor with no tedency to bite compares to the original Hogshead.Woody,toasty,smoky,balanced zesty sweetness,hint of caramelized creaminess,a little bit of spice and smoky bourbon barrel aroma from the fermentation process interplays nicely without overpowering,simply delicious!
A balanced medium taste,medium bodied,medium strength blend....Read More
Comes with perfect moisture content,nice thick crumble flake that is easy to break,rubs easily,lights easily with very few relights.Burns cool and consistent throughout the bowl.
Smooth,mellow,medium flavor with no tedency to bite compares to the original Hogshead.Woody,toasty,smoky,balanced zesty sweetness,hint of caramelized creaminess,a little bit of spice and smoky bourbon barrel aroma from the fermentation process interplays nicely without overpowering,simply delicious!
A balanced medium taste,medium bodied,medium strength blend....Read More
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