Walnut Flake (by Ogden's of Liverpool)

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:16 pm

It's not as good as St. Bruno.

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:18 pm

I really enjoyed your review.

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:32 pm

Del wrote:

It's not as good as St. Bruno.

Now who told you that?

I always wondered whether this one was more Burley than Va. Not exactly sweet, is it? It's been years since I had any but it's quite different than St. Bruno and it failed to charm me too.

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:39 pm

Now,, describe St. Bruno.

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:57 pm

St. Bruno is awesome stuff. I might have to go sifting through the varieties of SG, G&H, and Esoterica to find a blend like St. Bruno available in the US.

St. Bruno is a sweet virginia, with enough burley to give the smoke a good texture. I smoked the flake version, which rubs out easily into needles.

St. Bruno is scented just right with a charactistic assortment of British florals.

In contrast, Condor Ready Rubbed is a shag tobacco, with too much floral scent and too much nicotine. And the shag delivers it all, very fast. Smoking Condor makes me think of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Walnut Flake (no relation to the American Walnut) just doesn't taste like much of anything. It lacks both the floral nose and the virginia sweetness of St. Bruno. If it is burley, it is a very bland burley.

All of these British citizens are polite, with no tendency to bite.

Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:46 pm

Del wrote:

St. Bruno is awesome stuff. I might have to go sifting through the varieties of SG, G&H, and Esoterica to find a blend like St. Bruno available in the US.

It is! And it doesn't really have a doppelganger in the Lake District or anywhere else. And believe me, I've looked. But the looking is quite enjoyable unto itself so don't let this stop you. I think some of GH's sorta have the same cheery demeanor as St. B. I've told you about them already. And given the choice I think I'd take them over St. Bruno. There are a lot of good 'uns in the GH nursery and that matters

But there was more than St. Bruno actually. McQuaid plug you already know about. .... Gallaher's Rich Dark Honeydew is yet another one of the little lovely's. It's also gone. And some of the GH's are a little like that one too.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:08 am

Never had St Bruno, so until you send me some I can't compare. pity... I will have to assume you are incorrect until then.

-Andrew

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 11:22 am

adauria wrote:

Never had St Bruno, so until you send me some I can't compare. pity... I will have to assume you are incorrect until then.

-Andrew

Oh! I'm so sorry!

I just shared the last of my St. Bruno with fisherofpipes.... he gave me some of his G&H mischief (coconut rope) and some of that toxic Rustica he keeps going on about.

fisherofpipes is sending his mom to England... He needed to know what she should smuggle home.

Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:07 pm

Nice, well, we'll have to get her to smuggle enough for all of us.

-Andrew

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 12:33 am

Another one I would be happy to take off anybodys hands as I would Condor or Walnut Flake. St Bruno is a great blend, I just wish they would sell it over here. It does not use perfume or florals in the flavoring. It is VA with a flavoring of Bergomet oils. Just like Ear Grey tea.

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:00 am

Del wrote:

adauria wrote:

Never had St Bruno, so until you send me some I can't compare. pity... I will have to assume you are incorrect until then.

-Andrew

Oh! I'm so sorry!

I just shared the last of my St. Bruno with fisherofpipes.... he gave me some of his G&H mischief (coconut rope) and some of that toxic Rustica he keeps going on about.

fisherofpipes is sending his mom to England... He needed to know what she should smuggle home.

Does this, Del, mean you are all out of St. Bruno?!

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:19 am

I've been considering this blend for a while now. Of course that is all I've been able to do since I live here in the US! Laughing

But, some of my family will be heading to Scotland in a couple months and I was curious, how much tobacco can a person legally smuggle back to the US. Is there a limit?

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:05 am

AnOldSoul wrote:

Does this, Del, mean you are all out of St. Bruno?!

My St. Bruno is all gone. Sad

I'm having fun with a variety of Gawith & Hoggarth tobaccos, which are readily available.

micah wrote:

I've been considering this blend for a while now. Of course that is all I've been able to do since I live here in the US! Laughing

But, some of my family will be heading to Scotland in a couple months and I was curious, how much tobacco can a person legally smuggle back to the US. Is there a limit?

I have been scouring the internet for a clue to this one, too.

There is probably a suitable limit on how many grams of pipe tobacco a person can carry into America without having to pay an import duty tax.

Does anyone know?

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:42 am

Yes, I know as I do it when ever I travel. The limits are for personal consumption only. They will not charge duty on the following. One pound of pipe tobacco, 1 box of cigars, or two cartons of cigarettes. I have never had trouble with these amounts.