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- Components: Virginia, Latakia, Burley, Orientals
- Family: English
- Cut: Ribbon
About This Pipe Tobacco
A smooth and well-balanced blend of Virginias, Turkish Oriental, Cyprian Latakia, and burley, Mac Baren's HH Balkan is a spicy and smoky English blend with plenty of character, befitting the title of "all day English."
Customer Reviews
More BurVa than Balkan
September 24, 2023
Product: Mac Baren HH Balkan Blend 3.5oz
burleys and cavendish so that's no surprise – play to your strengths, right? But there's not enough oriental leaf here for it to fall under the balkan umbrella. The latakia is neat, sweet and smoky like barbecue instead of bitter like creosote, and it works with the burley and the bright virginias. It's a round, sweet, nutty, earthy blend with a little bit of smoke from the barbecuey latakia. But the orientals have faded. Now it's more of a colonial style blend than a balkan. It's still relatively good, just much more burley and virginia than anything else. A decent BurVa, but if you want a Balkan then aged HH Balkan probably isn't the one....Read More
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A Gentle English
August 25, 2021
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Douglas F.
Product: Mac Baren HH Balkan Blend 3.5oz
: Both are good, and you might prefer one over the other depending on circumstances. Between HH Balkan, Kramer's Father Dempsey, and Bengal Slices, my English needs are more than met. (Update: I like this so much that I ordered a pound to cellar.)...Read More
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Big n’ Burley Balkan
November 12, 2021
Product: Mac Baren HH Balkan Blend 3.5oz
how with a bang just below the eyes and then slowly fading into the background. The latakia is present as a harmonizing and supporting player instead of a lead, which is exactly what you want in a balkan. These virginias are rather bright and sweet, which is very tasty can play a bit of havoc on the tip of the tongue if you’re not careful. HH Balkan Blend is significantly different from most of what Sutliff does with its burley-balkans. The tin note is sweet and round and barbecue-like, calling to mind a nice dark fired Kentucky( I had to double check the tin just to make sure they hadn’t snuck any in there). I was just reviewing Stokkebye Proper English and wishing it had some burley in it, but now if I ever want a balkan with tons of nutty burley I can turn to HH. Sutliff Crumble Kake English #1 and Sobranie 759 Match are still my daily go-to balkans, but I will definitely continue to keep HH balkan blend around for those days when that big burley craving hits. HH is not what many would regard as a “top shelf” marque, but it is incredibly reliable and consistent. For what it is, this blend is close to perfect....Read More
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So so...
April 19, 2021
By:
Andronus
Product: Mac Baren HH Balkan Blend 3.5oz
blend would have far more flavor.
As with all HH blends (loose, not flake), the can was very rusty and the paper was brown with rust....Read More
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A real tongue tickler
August 01, 2018
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Jeffrey B.
Product: Mac Baren HH Balkan Blend 3.5oz
As Briscoe Darling would say, this tobacco really "twangs my buds." It's better than Vintage Syrian & has a subtle sweetness which I enjoy immensely.
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