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Cornell & Diehl: The Beast 2oz Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-016-0223

Among the only mixtures to use the world's rarest pipe tobacco as its primary component, Small Batch The Beast is a blend of 51% Perique, all grown, harvested, cured, and fermented at Cornell & Diehl's exclusive farm in St. James Parish, Louisiana. This majority percentage highlights the true complexity and nuance of the historic leaf, from its well-known stone-fruit-like tang to its deeper, more umami-based flavor.

Tempering this study in Perique, C&D's proprietary Red Virginia Cavendish and a whisper of Dark-Fired Kentucky contribute complexity and balance, and the entire mixture is steeped in rum for seven days to deepen and marry the flavors. The result is quite unlike any other pipe tobacco in existence: It's potent in strength and concentrated in flavor with pronounced umami notes alongside hints of loamy earth, sweet stone fruits, mesquite wood, and freshly cracked black pepper.

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Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
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Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz

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  • Components: Virginia, Perique, Dark Fired Kentucky, Black Cavendish
  • Family: Burley
  • Cut: Ribbon
Customer Reviews
Overall Rating:
4.4
63 reviews
@ Evan H.
April 03, 2025
By: sgtjsisk
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
Great review man! Next time you want to moan and groan, how about doing it on another website. Smoking pipes isn’t the place to showcase your weak side.
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March 14, 2021
By: Edward A.
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
Site needs to REMOVE posts that do not even talk to the quality of the tobacco and was intentionally given a LOW rating because the reviewer did not put the time in to get a tin! You snooze, you lose! Get over it! Manufacturer should not suffer due to a LIMITED release, the scarcity is in the NAME!...Read More
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Not a fan of where C&D is taking us
April 03, 2025
By: Evan H.
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
With recent shake ups in the pipe tobacco world, C&D will now be even more of a dominant player in the game. Which is something I’m not happy about. These small batch pump and dump schemes (yes, I own this blend, and no it’s not anything special) are absolutely terrible for our beloved hobbies. Pipe culture isn’t about FOMO — in fact, it’s the exact opposite. C&D is the takeout Chinese restaurant of the pipe world, with hundreds of items on the menu and very minor tweaks between items. Their ingredients, while often palatable, are not the finest. If you like it, great. But to me there is no subtly, extremely harsh and needs MUCH more age. Their emphasis on cool sounding names, tin art, and regular “small batch” release of the youngest and most immature tobaccos are really a blight on what it means to be a pipe smoker, at least for me. C&D is always my least smoked stuff and I don’t care at all about these limited releases. I simply hate how they’re making bad tobacco more desirable via cool tin art and limited releases. I always come back to my jarred stuff after some time, and it’s just not great tobacco or blending. By comparison, if you try Russ Oulette’s blends, you really see what a master blender can do. Beautifully complex flavors. Real art. C&D are like these startup small batch whiskey drops with less than 2 years of age from new distilleries trying to make as much money as possible. So terribly sad that Hearth and Home and others are disappearing and C&D will be dominating the market....Read More
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SENSATIONAL!!!
April 01, 2025
By: Pakcik Dee
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
C&D’s Small Batch - The Beast 2025 emerged with an ultimate sensationalism among all of the Small Batch’s releases. Wow!!Set aside the various perceptions,this is a very high quality blend made with lots of hardwork and labour of love!The site experience during the release was very much improved and efficient this time and I believe there are enough time and a fair portion of this small batch for everybody before it completely sold out,very well done SP Team!I managed to grab a few tins within the very first seconds of release!Very happy with that! The blend offers a deep peaty,spicy,sweet,slight minty herbal notes. The smoke..wow..it’s simply wondrous instead of the monstrous name!Smooth,dry,delicate,very well pronounced of dark,herbal,smoky,sweet fruity spiciness that you would never expect from a heavy perique dose blend that harmonized perfectly with Red VA Cavendish and DFK.The aged quality of the smokes was sublime even right out of a fresh tin! Wonderful in retrohale and the complexities will always put you in trance!An elegant beast and one of a kind experience!Very well done Mr Jeremy and C&D Team!!...Read More
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Mr. Crowley, You Madman
April 10, 2025
By: David P.
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
Wow, if Crowley was taking this with 49% more perique, that explains why people were spooked by him. This stuff is soft yet spicy in the mouth, but the retrohale is like shooting 151 Rum out your nose. Don't let people scare you with talk of "I had to let it breathe for a week, I had to age it for 16 years", this is perfectly smokable tobacco if you like it strong. Just beware its power, the enjoyably punchy smoke is hiding a beastly nic hit. One toke over the line and you'll find you've entered a portal to the underworld....Read More
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Very nice perique experience.
May 07, 2025
By: Nick C.
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
Very nice perique experience with this blend. Some pepper does come through, however the perique mainly comes through as a tangy, stewed fruit. This blend is ready to go straight out of the tin and requires little to no drying. Very polite, I had puffed bowls of this as though I would go to jail if I allowed it to stop burning and experienced no bite. Highly enjoyable blend despite people crying about the story behind it....Read More
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Like a Spicy Creamy Cigar in a Pipe!
April 07, 2025
By: Robert B.
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
I Loved it! I’ve only been smoking a pipe for about a year, but this is like nothing I’ve had before. I’m not sophisticated enough at describing tobacco to get all the nuances of the blend, but to me it was the tobacco that reminded me of a cigar. It also has a salty spicy creaminess layered on top that was wonderful. I’m writing my review smoking my first bowl in a Peterson with a P-Lip. I wish I had gotten more cans. I will next time....Read More
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Very Interesting & Enjoyable
April 08, 2025
By: American Piper
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
It took me all of 22 minutes to smoke through a full bowl in a Merchant Bing, so it smokes very well. No problem at all keeping it lit, right out of the tin.

Let me start by saying I don’t buy hype. I buy stuff that sounds good. I like perique, so I found this to be very enjoyable. And quite unusual. The flavor wasn’t nearly as strong as I thought it would be, and I picked up notes of brisket, charred oak, and a bit of brown sugary sweetness, which was totally unexpected. The aroma, much like the flavor, wasn’t nearly as staunch as expected, but was enjoyably smoky, robust and rather fleeting in duration. Until you put your nose directly over the burning bowl; it’s a spicy experience. 🌶️ 🤧

I have to be honest - I felt as though it was hiding some flavors. I kept looking for more depth, but I never found it. Perhaps in a larger bowl I’d have more time to pinpoint those notes, but I think some age will do this blend some good to help bring out those under pronounced nuances.

Overall: I enjoyed it. I think it’s a very unique blend, definitely not a daily smoke, but something that perique fans may (or may not) enjoy. I’ve always viewed perique as more of a “condiment” tobacco. It’s excellent in the proper proportions, and I’ve used SJP in a handful of private blends over the years; but not nearly 51%. I never would have thought I’d get a profile that smoked so “restrained”, while remaining interesting enough to make me want to smoke it again. And again. A smoky, mildly sweet treat. 👌💨...Read More
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Great flavor
April 07, 2025
By: Robert M.
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
I have not had this blend so I did not know how much I would like it.
I found the profile to be flavorful and smooth.
Power levels are a tic under medium.
Perique is the center and everything revolves around that.
Amazing stuff.. I did think the rum would be in the way but I see now how it adds to the profile without being noticed....Read More
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Blown away!
April 04, 2025
By: Jack D.
Product: Cornell & Diehl The Beast 2oz
I really enjoy these limited edition tobaccos. As these blends tend to focus on the best verson of certain leaves, I've learned what my palate appreciates. I was hesitant to purchase 2 tins as the reviews were poor and I assumed it would be an obnoxious amount of an overpowering leaf. I learned that I LOVE perique and that a sweet Cavendish is an incredible carrier of flavor. Bold Kentucky is a favorite of mine and the dark fired added so much. If I knew I would have ordered quite a bit more. I know a lot of blends have disappeared in the past decade but this gives me hope that truly remarkable tobacco is still being created...Read More
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