Ok, so I tried this stuff per recommendation. First off the smell in the bag is nice. It's light yet subtle sweetness comes through. Light up and man there was plumes of smoke! Nice note to it. Hints of dare I say vanilla? Over all not to fancy just a good basic smoke to my untrained pallet. Burned fairly cool. Can see this as a lawn mowing smoke.
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Sir Walter Raliegh
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Posted 4 months ago #
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I see it at my local grocery a lot, someday I'll muster the will to try it. Good to hear a positive review!
I like to smoke pipesPosted 4 months ago # -
SWR an oldie and still a goodie.
I will give up my pipe when they pry my cold dead fingers off of it!Posted 4 months ago # -
That's what makes them decent smokes for a beginner. They are fairly easy to fire up and they won't make you tear up if you waste a few bowls in the bargain.
I haven't had SWR but the same can be said for the other old standbys I've tried.
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I haven't tried it, but being easy to come by I'm sure I will. As of now, I have smoked only Captain Black cherry and Super Value Buttered Rum. I originally thought my Super Value would be my "take everywhere with me and smoke" and the Captain Black would be my "save it at home and relax after a day of work smoke." But to be honest the Super Value, I think is far more enjoyable. Maybe it's the cherry thing. I may have just been drawn to the packaging because I have this thing for black on red, and it caught my eye on the shelf at the pipe store. I really have no idea. Out of the two, the Buttered Rum is my favorite and I find myself smoking more of the Captain Black only so the Super Value Buttered Rum lasts longer.
Perhaps I'll try a bag of the Sir Walter Raliegh. Being a new pipe smoker myself, and it being something another new smoker finds enjoyable, I will follow him gladly.
Cut me... I bleed black.Posted 4 months ago # -
"As of now, I have smoked only Captain Black cherry and Super Value Buttered Rum. "
Wow. Anthony, you owe it to yourself to at least TRY a higher grade tobacco.
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Yes Anthony, if you can afford it you should try to get some sampler packs. They are a cheap way to try much better tobaccos.
I personally love the victory lap sampler from pipesandcigars.com.
It will give you a look into a whole new world."Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
- John SteinbeckPosted 4 months ago # -
Lol, bigvan... I'm guessing he'll get there. I started with your basic black cavendish. I'm sure he'll want to try some of the higher grade stuff soon enough. We're quite good at enabling TAD on this site, so I'm sure it won't be long.
-Jason
The preceding statement is not to be construed as fact, but merely conjecture.
Proud member of the BlackBlood SocietyPosted 4 months ago # -
My favorite OTC is 1-Q, but SWR is a good smoking and enjoyable Burley blend. It's great in a corn cob pipe or a clay.
Proud Member of the Blackblood Society
Posted 4 months ago # -
Also Anthony you can get a free pouch of SWR from this link.
Posted 4 months ago # -
My favorite OTC is 1-Q, but SWR is a good smoking and enjoyable Burley blend. It's great in a corn cob pipe or a clay.
baronsamedi where to you get 1Q over the counter?? I wish I could find it in my area, we have ZERO tobacco shops that carry anything other than drugstore blendsKent
Posted 4 months ago # -
I like most of the codger blends but,SWR I didn't much care for...
Posted 4 months ago # -
@ OP:
You're talking the SWR Original right? Or are you smoking the aromatic?
I never tried the aromatic (in fact, last time I smoked SWR, the aromatic version didn't exist).
But I do remember getting what tasted like licorice from SWR, which sort of turned me off. I did smoke the entire pouch (money was tight in those days) but never went back for more.
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@bigvan... I will, I will! Promise!
@hans Thanks for the link.
@lordnoble I'll definitely get there. I'll likely be ordering most of my tobacco online it seems. The closest tobacco shops really don't seem to carry anything super spectacular.
Posted 4 months ago # -
I'm really drawn to the old school packaging, its been on my list to try, plus its dirt cheap.
Posted 4 months ago # -
i like prince albert more...
Posted 4 months ago # -
I tried SWR within my first few weeks of smoking. I will admit, if funds are tight its what I will have to resort to.
Posted 3 months ago # -
I don't much like the regular Sir Walter Raleigh, but the Aromatic is surprisingly good. I got a free pouch in the mail and didn't smoke anything else for awhile. One of the best aromatics I have smoked.
Posted 3 months ago # -
I had been reading many good reviews about Sir Walter Raleigh so I picked up both the regular as well as the aromatic. Tried them both and have to say I really did want to like them but I didn't care for them. Being from a small town the only tobacco available locally are most of the 'Drug Store' blends. I've tried about all of them with the exception of 'Sugar Barrel' which I'd love to try. My favorite of all those old codger brands will always be Captain Black 'White' Regular.
'The worse case of tongue bite ever came from a package of Captain Black Cherry!' Never again.
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them" - Leonard CohenPosted 2 months ago # -
Good choice. Lest we forget the final hours of our patron Saint. From Wiki:
Raleigh was beheaded in the Old Palace Yard at the Palace of Westminster on 29 October 1618. "Let us dispatch", he said to his executioner. "At this hour my ague comes upon me. I would not have my enemies think I quaked from fear." After he was allowed to see the axe that would behead him, he mused: "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries." According to many biographers – for instance, Raleigh Trevelyan in Sir Walter Raleigh (2002) –Raleigh's final words (as he lay ready for the axe to fall) were: "Strike, man, strike!"
The pipe eases you into the present moment - savor your pipe & you'll savor this moment.Posted 2 months ago # -
well hang in there my friend. notthing wrong with the otc tobacs, but there are many better tobacs out there. i like swr and many other otc tobacs, try some other tobacs, for example pipes and cigars.com have an excellent varitey of tobacs. you will find something you like there. good luck.
mike.
Posted 2 months ago # -
I bought a Missouri Meerschaum at a Missouri convenience store and a pouch of Sir Walter, and
it was entirely stale, though the package wasn't dusty or faded. However, I do like an OTC for
a change of pace. Kind of like a hotdog stand hot dog a few times a year. I have enjoyed
Borkum Riff Bourbon, Granger, Prince Albert and some others. Then when I go back to some
less doctored, more refined plain or blend, I know what I'm paying for. When OTC is good,
it's a nice change.Posted 2 months ago # -
Give Captain Black White a try; also really cheap and I prefer it over the SWR.
Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world. - Irish ProverbPosted 2 months ago # -
teufelhund, thanks for the recommendation. I happened to have a pouch of Captain Black White on
hand, unopened, which I bought at a nice discount with a coupon I received when I was sent a free
sample of Five Brothers, which I highly recommend. FB is bedrock tobacco, a strong, short smoke.
Captain Black catches a lot of flack, but I'll try it. It's not Dunhill M 965, or any of the other terrific
blends or unblended tobaccos. Still, when OTC's are good, they provide a worthy change of pace.Posted 2 months ago # -
Smoked SWR (regular) in college and smoke it now as a change up. Good then, good now. Mix it with other tobacs. Good smoke.
But, having said that, it was a bit different tasting in the old days. Not sure what has changed, but the SWR I smoke today is not the same I smoked in another time and place.
Posted 2 months ago # -
it was a bit different tasting in the old days. Not sure what has changed, but the SWR I smoke today is not the same I smoked in another time and place.
I'm not surprised by this -- it's been a favorite of many since 1927. As I noted in an earlier post, above, the SWR pouch I smoked, tasted a bit like licorice to me and I didn't care for it. IIRC, it was made by Brown & Williamson back then (no idea if they still make it). I'm sure that over the course of its long history, SWR has been "tweated" at least a few times.
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