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Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend 250g
Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend 500g
Details
- Components: Virginia, Latakia, Perique, Dark Fired Kentucky, Orientals
- Family: English
- Cut: Ribbon
About This Pipe Tobacco
Manufactured in a century-old brick building in picturesque Lauenburg, Germany, Dan pipe tobacco has gained quite a worldwide reputation among smokers, with a wide variety of blends and cuts on offer. Andreas Mund became the successor in charge of production when master blender Jürgen Westphal retired, and is assisted by Heiko Behrens as well as Michael Apitz of Dan Pipe.
Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend is a full-bodied English mixture consisting of Virginias, Orientals, 10% Dark-Fired Kentucky leaf, and over 40% Latakia, rounded out with just a pinch of Perique.
Customer Reviews
Good full english for the experienced smoker
August 12, 2026
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Danny F.
Product: Dan Tobacco Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend 50g
itamin N, burn, its all there. Maybe its just not my taste these days. Old ironsides however, is on another level. I would buy that over this blend anyday....Read More
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Very Scottish
August 23, 2023
Product: Dan Tobacco Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend 500g
. The virginias aren't very good either. Mostly brights and lemons, which I usually love, but these clash with the soapy, ashy, over-cured latakia. I'm disappointed because this stuff is almost NEVER in stock and I've been waiting several years for it, so I bought the 500g bag. Mistake? Definitely, maybe. An old tin that I had a little while ago tasted a bit better though, so I'll jar this giant bag and give it some time in the cellar and see what develops in a few years. Fingers crossed. Hoping I don't wind up with 500 grams of useless mattress stuffing.
**All that said, I do award major points for the lack of oily, bitter, powdery antifungal. Unless Laudisi is opening up factory sealed packaging and adding the antifungal treatment in themselves, it shouldn't be there. And if it is there, it is so minimal that I haven't found any yet. I just jarred up half a kilo and none jumps out at me. The stuff Laudisi uses looks like greasy talcum powder, smells like bitter apple and vinegar in its raw form and burning tires and aspirin during combustion in your bowl, and there is always a chunk or two in every tin or bag. The few tobaccos without it (only the UK and European imports) always taste so much more natural....Read More
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Savory billows of smoke
November 17, 2023
By:
Jordan C.
Product: Dan Tobacco Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend 250g
t it's not too hard to handle. This reminds me of something I haven't had in a while and I can't quite put my finger on it, but it's good. It's one of the better Balkans I've tried and definitely better than Balkan Supreme in my opinion, although much pricier......Read More
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Good but cumbersome
March 22, 2023
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James O.
Product: Dan Tobacco Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend 50g
Flavor is good but you have to get used to how to pack and light this smoke. not bad at all though.
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Good Blend
February 20, 2023
By:
Woodsman_piper
Product: Dan Tobacco Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend 50g
A good blend but the dark fired doesn't really work good so not great probably pass on this one for the cellar.Yet worthy of trying a tin or 2. Update by the end of the tin this blend started to really work so I take back the dark fired not mixing well but still not a go to.
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