I popped the top on my first tin of Granger a few days ago. I have enjoyed the blueberry goodness every bowl I've had so far. One of the few blends in my experience where the tin note and the taste are very similar.
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So, did you get "blueberry" or just the tangy note mentioned above? My curiosity is piqued!
Never got to try granger. I love my burley. I get a deep wild cherry/raspberry flavour and dark chocolate from haunted bookshop when it’s just in the cusp of going out. It still surprises me as it’s at that point when you forgot you are smoking and then oh hello.
I get a blueberry tin note and taste, but not a real blueberry. It's like the little fake ones in dry muffin mix.
To me Granger has a pleasant taste but a uncomfortable bite I can’t get past.
I agree. Almost artificial blueberry. Waxy, especially when blown thru the nose. But unlike so many other tobaccos, it’s a genuine flavor that’s always present. It doesn’t have to be sought out, for me anyway, and I love that. Very flavorful. Taste receptors differ for all of us.
And to Highwaycobbery on Bite. Another strange thing that differs greatly from person to person is bite.
I find Granger fuller in taste yet milder in smoking characteristics than even Carter Hall or Prince Albert. Both of those can sometimes tingle on retro. Granger? Not ever. So smooth and mild (to me).
My father smoked Granger for about fifty years, so I grew up with it. Unless something has changed, the flavoring in Granger is molasses. This blueberry business will start an urban legend. To the best of my longstanding knowledge of Granger, there is no blueberry involved. It is sometimes categorized in online retail as a non-aromatic because of its Kentucky rough cut tobacco, but it is flavored, and therefore properly an aromatic.
I've ever tasted any hint of blueberry in Granger. In University Flake yes, but not OTC Granger.
Burley sometimes reminds me of blueberries, too. It doesn't _taste_ like blueberry, exactly, but for some reason it calls them to mind. Very weird, but I know exactly what you mean.
Burley doesn’t remind me of berry either. Granger does.
It has all that I ve always associated with burly, but unlike Prince Albert or Carter Hall, which are excellent one note hitters.
There’s an “extra” note in Granger and it’s prominent (for me) and makes Granger a two-note song and a winner.
I’m definitely in the minority, but not alone as others have tried to describe that same extra note. Be it sour or dark fruit.
It has all that I ve always associated with burly, but unlike Prince Albert or Carter Hall, which are excellent one note hitters.
There’s an “extra” note in Granger and it’s prominent (for me) and makes Granger a two-note song and a winner.
I’m definitely in the minority, but not alone as others have tried to describe that same extra note. Be it sour or dark fruit.
I just loaded a bowl of Granger. I definitely got the blueberry and a faint dark chocolate tin note. I got the blueberry taste when I lit it too.
At half way through I'm getting the same flavors as I get from the aroma in the tin.
This morning I poked a hole in the middle of my biscuit and filled the cavity with butter and molasses. I was hoping Granger would taste like that but the berry and chocolate is what I am getting.
It's amazing how different folks taste buds are. That's something I have never thought about, but interesting.
At half way through I'm getting the same flavors as I get from the aroma in the tin.
This morning I poked a hole in the middle of my biscuit and filled the cavity with butter and molasses. I was hoping Granger would taste like that but the berry and chocolate is what I am getting.
It's amazing how different folks taste buds are. That's something I have never thought about, but interesting.
Many flavor notes can be enjoyed in a blend that don't actually involve that flavoring or substance. Just read some of jiminks dazzling reviews for a keyboard of flavors and smells that may entice from any particular blend. The source of Royal Yachts taste has been attributed to many flavorings. Maybe it really is just plum. In that way, I can subscribe to the blueberry flavor created by Kentucky rough cut burley and molasses. I just don't think blueberries or an extract of blueberries is in the blend. The tobacco provides the tang and edge, and the molasses the earthy sweetness, maybe.
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Oh, I never for a moment thought that any such flavored extract was used in the making of this blend. I even doubt real molasses is in many blends, although it’s a popularly used descriptor of tobacco flavor.
“ Blueberry” is what this blend’s signature tastes like to me with no need on my part to pinpoint exactly why.
It’s the Wellman Process lol. It’s a.... s e c r e t.
The only vindication, for me, would be for someone at Ligget & Myers to come forward and say, “Wellman? He used Blueberries.”
Btw. I love hearing about your Dad! A Navy man and his favorite Baccy! Sounds like a man who had wonderful tastes in tobacco!
Ok. I read all 122 reviews of Granger on TobbacoReviews and not one agreed with me. Of course, not many agreed with each other.
However! The blog from the Pipeman’s Lodge said, “The tin note is cocoa, some nuttiness, and an unidentifiable fruit aroma.”
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However! The blog from the Pipeman’s Lodge said, “The tin note is cocoa, some nuttiness, and an unidentifiable fruit aroma.”
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some times I get weird little flavors in certain blends. For example in dark twist I swear I can taste some very faint lime flavor. It's weird too how the sub flavors tend not to be obvious but once you catch them it is hard to uncatch them. I've never tried Granger but it seems to be one of the otc some people love. And I am a fan of a few drug store blends. Sail yellow and Five Brothers.
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