Billy Budd 2oz Pipe Tobacco

This is my all time favorite pipe tobacco. To me this blend is perfect. I love everything about it. I have only tried about 20 other blends but among everything I have smoked nothing has yet to come close to Billy Budd. This is a blend that is good when you first try it, great when you really sit with it, and only grows better with time. This is my happy place pipe tobacco that I smoke on my porch. I am a huge fan....Read More

I love this blend so much. The cigar leaf brings that weight and volume of smoke I like cigars for, but the sweet and deep muskiness I love from pipe tobacco. Good amount of nicotine thanks to the Burley, perfect latakia seasoning to balance it out. This one's a hit with the pipe buddies too. Great job, this one is in the permanent collection, I'd be bummed to be without it....Read More

I just popped a tin of this I’d let age for 5 years, and whoa! It’s got so much going on, and by mid bowl you’re just along for the ride. For such a strong and forward tobacco, there is a pleasant subtle sweetness that creeps in. It’s reminiscent of a smoldering campfire and roasted nuts. No tongue bite or gurgle whatsoever and smooth as silk until the last wisp of smoke. Maybe the time in the can mellowed out the sharp edges. Either way, I’m glad I let it age a while....Read More

I have mostly gone back to cigars and have not smoked my pipes in the warm months. But in winter, I love this blend because it is similar to smoking a cigar. This is the coolest smoking pipe blend I have found. And, this, it one of the only pipe blends I can smoke any more.

From the Latakia smell from opening the tin that sets the mouth watering, to the strong flavors, I can’t get enough of this stuff! To the Lat add a strong burley presence, giving you flavors of earth, leather, nuts, and BBQ. You could almost convince me this has a little Dark Fired in it, but no. Then if you love cigars, you’ll love the ever present and generous amount of cigar leaf, giving you dark spices and black pepper. No throwing in a sprinkle of cigar leaf just to say it includes it. You WILL taste it throughout the bowl. I’m not a huge ribbon fan, but as usual, it’s easily packed, and lights and burns easily and consistently all the way to the bottom of the bowl. But the strength, while delicious, means Billy is not an all-day smoke, nor is he recommended for new smokers or the nicotine-sensitive....Read More