Tell Me About Fribourg & Treyer. What's Worth Trying?

[logs]

I loved campaign right out of the tin, hahaha.

Yeah but you didn't have my tin. Your tin probably rocked. My tin, not so much.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Could be, we’ll see. It’s been 6 months or so, time to give it another shot. I definitely do like the special brown, as well as blackjack.

I'm smoking through a tin of the Special Brown at this time. I thought it was fairly blase when it was fresh. In just two years, it has gotten richer and spicier. Really good blend.

 

[SpookedPiper]

Their entire line is very good, I believe they are made by K&K. Vintage is my favorite of the bunch but Golden Mixture was the first blend I tried of theirs. It was what Bertrand Russell smokes, or so the story goes.

Bertrand Russell: Thinker, Mathematician, Philosopher, Prophet – Pipe Smoker

By Fred Brown Bertrand William Arthur Russell, grandson of a British Prime Minister, and one of Great Britain’s leading writers and philosophers, claimed to have remembered not only the day […]

pipesmagazine.com

Thanks for posting the link to this story!

 

[BROBS]

Special Brown
Blackjack

I was underwhelmed by CVP, but it deserves another shot now that its been out of the tin a while.

I think it tastes like a pile of fermenting hay.

Special Brown
Vintage
Blackjack

are the ones I have liked so far.

 

[BROBS]

I loved campaign right out of the tin, hahaha.

Me too

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Interesting. I find Campaign Brigade DF rather boring out of the tin but after a few years, the flavors start to shine.

 

[logs]

Part of the problem with the wessex is the stoved virginias, which I found a bit flat. But then almost nobody makes stoved virginias the way I like them. McClelland did a great job. McConnell is pretty good and Watch City too. Not many good ones come to mind after that.

 

[sallow]

Special Brown is a favorite flake. Golden mixture is a really nutty ribbon. Wingate is a nice light English.

I have a pinch of their kendal brown most mornings these days.

 

[Jwebb90]

I am a big fan of BlackJack

 

[logs]

I am a big fan of BlackJack

Does blackjack have any noticeable anise topping?

 

[Jwebb90]

Does blackjack have any noticeable anise topping?

Not that I can tell

 

[BROBS]

Does blackjack have any noticeable anise topping?

Nope !

THATS GUM BRO

it used to be called something else ... look it up and be surprised. ?

 

[logs]

Ha... yes I'm familiar with the gum (which was disgusting). But someone on tobacco review said the flakes were topped with anise. That's the only reason I asked.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Ha... yes I'm familiar with the gum (which was disgusting). But someone on tobacco review said the flakes were topped with anise. That's the only reason I asked.

I've never detected any flavoring in Blackjack. It comes across as a straight Red/Dark Va to me. And very good for that matter.