Customer Reviews (14 Total)
It hits the spot
June 01, 2023
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
I can resist everything but temptation, so I was probably one of the first few to purchase. I have too many English blends to count, but I would rate this in my top ten, maybe my top five. Smooth smoke, no complaints. I will be buying more .
Right on - beautiful blend
June 04, 2023
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
The Merry Monk is a fine english broken flake, packs well This in my top 5 english blends. The well balanced blend has a nice nutty and creamy taste, and the blend is very pleasant all day smoke.
Different style
July 14, 2023
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
This is not your grandpa's English. I wondered if the world needed another English blend to go with the other 400 out there already. The answer is yes. This is good stuff and different enough to find a spot in my rotation.
Another hit from D&S
June 04, 2023
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
I’ve yet to try a blend from Drucquer & Sons that I haven’t enjoyed and that’s the case once more for The Merry Monk! Each of D&S’s blends are very distinct from one another as is this one. (Also great tin art!) I found this one a very unique English... Read More
blend with rich complexity. Highly recommend this one- and I think this one might even appeal to those who enjoy aromatic blends as there is more to this-IMHO- than a standard English blend. At any rate I’m glad I took a chance on a tin of this. Another hit from D&S! Read Less
good to go.
June 05, 2023
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
Tin note of smoky, dark fruity wine and peaty vegetation. Tobacco is a flake of marbled black, brown and dark brown with a little tan. Moisture content is ok. Most pipe smokers will want to dry it out a bit. Flakes rub out with a little effort. Burns... Read More
slow with a few extra relights. The strength is medium and nic is mild to medium. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium and very consistent, with notes of smoky, peaty herbal hay, lemon grass, toasted bread, zesty citrus peel, wood, spices, leather, earthy, slightly spicy, buttery, tart dark fruit, slight dryness, a nutty and floral incense background note, and a very peppery retro. Latakia is leading with Virginia, Perique, Burley and Cavendish supporting. Room note is tolerable, and aftertaste is great. Read Less
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
As much as I love this, the room note will set the dogs a-howlin' and drive the women folk from the dwelling. BEWARE: as merry as this will make you, you may end up living like a monk thereafter.
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
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Sublime
September 04, 2023
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
Sublime from start to finish. One of the best English blends I’ve tried.
William of Baskerville loves this!
August 27, 2023
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
Merry Monk--This tobacco really reminds me of Strauss Tobacconists' PRIVATE STOCK (Strauss is a Cincinnati tradition.) I started smoking Private Stock when I attended UC.
The tobacco taste is reminiscent of Private Stock, but is much lighter, possib... Read More
ly due to the cut of the tobacco...I remember Private Stock being more of a flake cut; Merry Monk is ribbon cut.
The taste is a middle strength English, the Latakia is there, just not heavily. The Virginias and Orientals play well and overall, it is a tobacco I find myself smoking all day. (If William of Baskerville in The Name of the Rose smoked...he'd smoke Merry Monk!) Five Star. Read Less
Wonderful Stuff!!
August 16, 2023
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
A very rich, complex, and tasty flake where the individual components display their individuality--at least while young--you can taste everything. My tin had only about a month on it and I'm just not sure that aging will prove beneficial. Not all b... Read More
lends improve from aging and I believe this may be one of them. (Haddo's Delight is another example that I believe must be smoked young before the blend becomes too integrated and the tobaccos and toppings lose their personality.) I would reverse a couple of the circle ratings--I think it deserves 3 circles for strength, but 4+ for taste, but my views are subjective. I especially enjoy the flake format because I can prepare it the way I want. For me smoking is all about flavor and of all of the D&S blends I find that this one delivers a bit more. Get it when you can. Read Less
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
This one is going up near the top of my favorites list.
Great Blend
June 18, 2023
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
Great flavor and complex enough to be interesting for a long time plenty of flavor Top 10 all time for sure.
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
I am enjoying the GLP versions of drucquer and sons blends.
English blends are not my most favorite in the world of pipe tobacco.
Most tend to be dripping with toppings or mis matched in some way.
I have several favorites with all being on the “dry”... Read More
side of the flavor wheel.
So it is pleasant to find a high flavor flake without some of the issues I find in other blends.
Orange gooey butter cake.. shifts to a sweet mid-bowl and finishes with a semi sweet nutty burly and a very slight pre-marshmallow hint at the end of a bowl.
Whew! that is a lot going on in a pipe!
smooth, no bite, leaves a slight lingering soft pepper at the end.
Recommend to all Enthusiasts and newcomers looking to enjoy all an english style blend can offer when approached by a Master Blender.
Well done Mr.P et al.!!!! Read Less
Product: Drucquer & Sons The Merry Monk 100g
As much as I love this, the room note will set the dogs a-howlin' and drive the women folk from the dwelling. BEWARE: as merry as this will make you, you may end up living like a monk thereafter.
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