Customer Reviews (17 Total)
An Old Friend
December 27, 2019
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
One of the first tobaccos I ever smoked when I started pipe smoking 44 years ago was Mac Baren's Burley London Blend. I was so disappointed after it was discontinued but very happy to have been able to purchase it again! Thank you Mac Baren.
Fine tobacco!
December 27, 2019
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
It’s finally back from a five year hiatus! If you’ve never tried this one you haven’t tried Burley. Not sure why it was called London Blend, but ok. Creamy chocolate Burley tobacco. One of the very best Burley pipe tobaccos ever.
Pure joy
February 24, 2020
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
First things first i dispise all aromatic tobaccos ,im smoking only natural .However one day i watched Shane Irelands presentation on youtube about this blend and he highly recomanded to all who love Burley.Goddess was he right!!!The initial dark cho... Read More
colate taste slowly fade or transforme in heavenly Burley taste and you wish you can stop the time and this pipe to never finish.Im almost at the bottom of my tin and im terrified cause i know that it was only one run .Can anyone tell me what is similar to this?Can i recomend it?NO!!!STAY AWAY OF IT !!I WANT ALL FOR MYSELF!!(sobbing noises) Read Less
Classic Smoke
January 08, 2020
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
Easy going first class smoke. light easy room note. Nice taste light chocolate flavor stays lite very well. Take one star away as it can have a little bite in it but that said it is still a very enjoyable smoke.
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
Wow, outstanding taste flavor and aroma. So glad I bought 5 tins.
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
While I have been a pipe smoker for a very long time, this is the first tobacco of this type that I have smoked and that has to be taken into account in terms of my comment.
While I have enjoyed smoking this and agree with the reviews, I was surpris... Read More
ed with how hot my bowl became with the smoking of this tobacco. My first experience was with a Castello billiard with substantial walls and the next with a Dunhill shilling with conical walls measuring a half inch. Actually the bowls were too hot to hold and so I held the pipe by the stem. I smoked this tobacco in the same fashion as my traditional English blends.
The mouth feel was not particularly hot, though I was somewhat surprised as well at the rapid burn of the tobacco.
The best thing about this experience was that it brought me back to my grandfather, who I blame for making pipes a big part of my life. Smelling his pipes and tobacco (kept moist with an apple slice) was an ever-present part of my childhood. Read Less
Hurray !
January 03, 2020
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
Lovely blend. I only got to smoke one tin, in 2012, before it was discontinued.
Many thanks to MB for this reissue !
Highly Recommended.
January 01, 2020
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
The day before you intend to smoke this tobacco, crack the tin and air out briefly. 2 mins at most. Replace lid and leave over night. Smoke slow and cool. You will experience one of the greatest delights a burley lover can have. The smoke is full bod... Read More
ied and creamy with hints of coa coa and moderate vanilla. This is not an aromatic. These notes are soft and mostly disappear by mid bowl. The taste is slightly chocolate nuttieness sweetened ever so slightly by the small amount of Virginia in this blend. Pure burley alchemy. I hope they bring it back permanently- it would very quickly become my everyday. Then again, something this beautiful should not be gotten used to! Read Less
Seriously?
February 05, 2021
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
I hope this is a LOT closer to the original blend that the recent limited re-release was. I smoked the original for many years and nothwithstanding the many favorable reviews that limited issue received, I have respectfully disagree. I placed two ord... Read More
ers for the re-issue and immediately returned 19 of them, which I very much appreciated Smoking pipes cooperation. I had to use my imagination to taste any chocolate notes in the original. My first two or three pipes of the re-issue made me this I was smoking a candy bar. I can well believe every ones taste is not the same, but? I very much want to order 10 of this reissue but the last one overwhelmed that desire. I am happy for those that were pleased with the previous reissue and l hope they have the same experience with this one. Read Less
Best of the Burley blend
May 15, 2020
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
I really surprised tin note smell of chocolatly and molassy sweet and mellow every puff but sadly this blend is limited run :(
Typical MacBaren Bite
January 11, 2020
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
It bites, as all standard Mac Baren product does. I dry it, smoke slow, often sip my tobacco to keep flavor over smoke, but this... I want to like it, but MB has once again loaded it with a multitude of additives. HH Product is great, but I’m done w... Read More
ith their OTHER products - tired of wasting money and fighting the bite. Chasing the allure of a product simply because it’s a small release, ‘bit’ me as well. Their HH Burely Flake is the standard, the pinnacle of Burley, so why bother with an inferior burley? I just don’t get all the positive reviews on this one... perhaps folks are attempting to hide their disappointment and justify their purchase? Read Less
One of the Best
January 10, 2020
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
This chocolatey broken flake burley is one of the best blends I’ve ever had. I fear five tins isn’t enough for my cellar. The cut harkens to my beloved Stokkebye Toasted Burley, but the aroma and flavor certainly is a sweeter echo of Solani Aged Burl... Read More
ey Flake. Read Less
Top Hat Burley
January 05, 2020
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
The first tobacco I enjoyed as a young pipe smoker was Sir Walter Raleigh. I enjoyed the burley taste with the chocolate overtones. When I saw this Mac Baren Burley blend I was intrigued. If you enjoy burley you will enjoy this tobacco. I would s... Read More
ay it is a burley in the fashion of Sir Walter Raleigh, but dressed in top hat, white tie and tails. Read Less
A Fine London Chocolate Stout—In Tobacco Form
February 14, 2021
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
Distinct chocolate tones reveal themself in the tin note, and that chocolate persists past the char light, enduring until the last ashy traces in the chamber. This isn’t one of those many blends where the strong tin note vanishes after that first or ... Read More
second draw of smoke. It will be your friend throughout your smoking session. And while Mac Baren’s London Blend may not be deemed an aromatic, that chocolate flavor nevertheless is quite dominant, admit it. Mac Baren’s London Blend is like a cousin to Solani’s Aged Burley Flake, though probably a notch lower in quality, and I believe milder and sweeter in its chocolate taste (Solani’s ABF has many coffee tones, too). MBLB is as close to sipping Kahlua as I’ve found in smoking a pipe tobacco blend, but I happen to appreciate chocolate and chocolate tones in pipe tobacco, and I am a dyed-in-the-wool burley aficionado, so for me this is one grand treat.
I missed the blend when it was discontinued, and always wished I stocked some in my cellar. When I happened to receive a surprise email from the Smokingpipes crew, I leaned in hard. Some might deem it a bit aggressive but I secured 11 tins over the next week. Enough to sip from every once in a while over the next decade.
If Mac Baren’s business acumen is as shrewd as I think it is, they will launch another limited release of this “discontinued” blend in a year or two via Smokingpipes! 4.5 stars Read Less
Burley Bliss
February 13, 2021
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
I’m not one to weigh in on many tobacco blends but I feel it would be a complete disservice to Mac Baren not to. This tobacco is the absolute perfect all day smoke. This is as close to holy grail smoke that I will probably ever find. Thank you Mac Ba... Read More
ren and smoking pipes for this collaboration! Please bring it back! Read Less
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
I was fortunate enough to get a tin of this before it sold out. The tin note is pure bliss with hints of chocolate and vanilla. Upon lighting up it has a nice nutty toast flavor. the room note reflects pretty much the tin note. It can bite a bit if y... Read More
ou don't let it dry for a few minutes and as another reviewer stated, the bowl of my pipe got really hot. Over all a good all day smoke, that is if it ever comes back into permanent production again. Read Less
as advertised
January 05, 2020
Product: Mac Baren Burley: London Blend 3.5oz
Im not really much of a burley guy, save for the occasional blends where it happens to be a component, and the occasional dip into some of the classic OTC drugstore favorites with a cup of morning coffee on a lazy Summer day when I simply don't feel ... Read More
like making a too-many-choices-this-early-in-the-morning "what should i have today" decision. Generally I stick to Virginias, VA/PERs and navy flakes. But after watching one of my favorite YouTube channel presenters wax on nostalgic about this stuff and, knowing it had been discontinued, after opening that sometimes brow-raising email from the boys at SP.com I thought I'd give it a try. I ordered 2 tins to start. After trying it...well, let's put it this way; a few days later I quickly ordered 3 more tins. Thank you Matches860 for the recommendation and Team MacBaren for bringing it back, however fleeting that "back" might be. Def is as advertised. Enjoy, my friends! Read Less
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