Swedish Match - Greve Gilbert Hamiltons Blandning pipe tobacco reviews

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Mattias1981	10/26/2012	Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
can give a little tongue bite from time to time...
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Essawi	03/03/2012	Very Mild	Very Mild	Very Mild	Tolerable
NOT Recommended not even worth the money , only smoke if you don't have anything ells , very poor taste
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Dubinthedam	02/16/2012	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I got a packet sent from a friend in Sweden. I regret this is not sold abroad. Solid tobacco that with hints of fruit and a savory touch that tastes like pepper or clove. I loved the stuff, never tried anything else like it, it could be classed as a semi aromatic or a non aromatic, quality all day packet blend, not too sweet, not too cased. Top stuff.
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mr Afo	07/24/2011	Medium to Strong	Medium	Full	Tolerable
Update for being fair. I added an extra star. But anyway I don´t recommend this. (It´s just that I don´t find it correct to go ahead and give bad judgement on something I wouldn´t ever like, and also only tried once). ------------------------ This is not for me! Since I´m quite new to this thing with smoking pipe I couldn´t recommend it to beginners. I do prefer mild to extremely mild tobaccos/aromatics and this is certainly not one of thoose.
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Hamiltonsmix	02/10/2011	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Tolerable
Have smoked and really enjoyed GGHB for 20+ years, but not any more. Since 01-01-2011 the EU requires pipe smoking tobacco to be more coarse cut (min 1.5 mm wide) and the manufacturer - Swedish Match (SM) - has complied. I wouldn't be concerned by this alone but it appears that SM has also changed the flavor. When opening the pouch there is an apparent 'fruity' scent and, in the hand, moist is more noticeable. My first impression wasn't GGHB at all, but cherry or vanilla flavored Borkum Riff (me not like). To add to the disappointment the tobacco now burns differently, probably because of the coarse EU-cut, so the slow, relaxed smoking style has become memory. A truly sad result from 'product development'.
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Subcomandante Claes	12/03/2010	Medium to Strong	None detected	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
Probably my favourite tobacco of all time. It has a simplicity that makes it almost impossible to get tired of. It's clean, strong and full bodied. Amazing. I started my life as a pipe smoker with this 15 years ago and wish I wouldn't have been lead astray and smoked roll ups for the following 14 years. It's a shame it's so hard to find outside Sweden. If I still lived back home I would smoke this everyday for sure now when I'm a pipe smoker again. The best substitute I have found so far is Peterson - Irish Oak, but if anyone have found something more similar please let me know.
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FALCON	12/04/2009	Medium to Strong	Medium	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
My grandfathers tobacco for me this smells granpa smoking pipe makes me go memory lane 28 years a go he died.but theres many better tobaccos out there.i not buying again sorry granpa.(this is in sweden nr 1 grocerystore tobacco nr 2 is caravelle nr 3 borkum riff thats what you find in a groserystore in sweden you have to pay 20 usd for this in a groserystore.in us a groserystore blend cost 2-3usd.so i only order my tobaccos from us where you got fine tin and bulk tobaccos for 5-10usd.)
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orka	10/13/2009	Mild	Mild	Mild	Tolerable
Seeing that a few reviews of GGHB popped up recently, I felt I had to add my "two crowns" to the matter. As a part of the "somewhat" newer generation, spoiled with the benefits of globalization and the internet, I have no real nostalgic attachment to "the Count" (other than a vague memory of dabbling with it, and Caravelle, some ten years ago). If I remember correctly, it didn't really strike any chords with me back then, and I can't say that it did now with the pouch I got a week ago or so. It's a decent smoke, as has been mentioned, with a pretty good nicotine hit, discreet sweet aroma and a decent body and taste. It is however quick to burn the tongue and gurgle if not smoked carefully. A little trivia: A. Jansson & E. Lindfelt in "I Pipans Vänkrets" (pages 110-112) states that GGHB is manufactured by MacBaren. It is also noteworthy to mention that it (the book), in an old ad print, is also stated that it is a mixture of VA and oriental (page 124-125). If that (or the manufacturing) is true about today's mixture, I don't know.
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hagen	10/01/2009	Medium to Strong	Mild	Medium	Pleasant
my first (pipe) tobacco. i'd always enjoyed the room note with its lovely smell of baked apples, and when my mentor gave me a pipe, matches and a pouch of "the count", i really looked forward to tasting the same notes. i didn't, of course, untill much later, as it's a quite powerfull tobacco, with a rather dominating share of kentucky right next to its virginia base. i'm not sure i recognize any cavendish here, but it may be responsible for the flavourings? it smokes quite fast if you're not carefull, and invariably ends up wet in larger pipes. relights are quite unpleasant. ergo: smoke only small pipefulls. quite strong as it is, you won't need more, anyway. i like it quite well, as it's a reasonably honest and straightforward blend, but i may be partly influenced by nostalgia, too. the brand is Swedish Match, but it's being produced by Orlik. i see no difference between today's count and the one i tried 27 years ago. still quite strong, flavoured with apple juice and other stuff - and really a quite decent smoke. recommended if you're in Sweden and low on the real stuff (like, say, walnut flake).
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ThomK	09/30/2009	Medium to Strong	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Strong
This is where it all started in 1964, I got my first pipe and a punch of Greve Gilbert Hamilton, a sun of a gun in its time. Invented from the biginning by a Curnel in the cavalry, but made and sold by the Swedish Tobacco from 1924 and even today 2009 09. It´s a fincut tobacco, almost cigaretcut. Burns to fast and becoms very hot and strong in a big bowl pipe and should only be smoked in a pipe with a wery small hole. It´s made by virginia, burley, lakartia and some seckret addings. This is a tobacco I never will forget, and I use it as a reference for all other tobacco Excuse my bad English, I´m not born in England !! /ThomK in Sweden.
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Bo-Erland	06/26/2009	Medium to Strong	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This is the tobacco for the connoisseur pipesmokers that doesn't enjoy flavoured, vanilla-, fig- and molasses-tasting and spiced tobacco at all. The main ingredients in Greve Hamiltons Blandning are Virginia tobacco mixed with some Burley tobacco but also a little bit of Oriental tobacco are included. Most of the tobaccos are air-cured but even dark-fired and flue-cured tobaccos are ingredients in this mixture. The taste is outstanding and smooth and very pleasant, from the tobaccos natural sweetnesses, but can burn your tonguge, like most Virginia tobaccos, if smoked too hasty. Preferably Greve Hamiltons Blandning should be smoked in a clean, small bowl pipe as it used to, when this tobacco was introduced on the market in 1924. It then burns quite slowly, when you sip your pipe gently, and your pipe will not become too hot. Greve Hamiltons Blandning will then certainly give the smoker a great feeling of satisfaction. Even the smoker's non smoking wife or hubby will enjoy the very pleasant smell that appears when it's smoked with care. When finished, the remains are just grey ashes and your pipe will be easily cleaned afterwards, because there are no sugar added at all. I love it! Highly recommended!
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