Bacon Old Fashioned review

PappyJoe

Upon opening the jar and sticking my nose over it, I smell cheap whiskey. Actually what I get is that smell of a whiskey on the rocks that didn't get finished and sat on the table overnight. It's recognizable as containing whiskey but that's about it. After loading it into a pipe and testing the draw, I do get a whiskey taste that is better than the aroma though, so that's something.

As for smoking it, I have tried it in a new clay pipe, a meerschaum, a briar and a cob. By far the tobacco was best in the clay and the cob. It was good in the meerschaum. With the briar, which is also relatively new and I've just broken in, the tobacco was lacking in flavor. To be honest though I've only smoked 6 bowls of Bacon Old Fashioned and feel I am still trying to determine what I'm smoking. I have decided that it will probably be one I only smoke in the cobs though.

Bacon? Where? 

I was given a jar of Briarworks Bacon Old Fashioned for a Father's Day gift and that was my thought when I opened the jar. I just didn't smell the bacon. I did smell the whiskey. Actually what I got was that smell of a whiskey on the rocks that didn't get finished and sat on the table overnight. It's recognizable as containing whiskey but that's about it. Those are the negatives I found to this tobacco.

As for smoking it. I have had it in a new clay pipe, a meerschaum, two different briars and a cob. By far the tobacco was best in the clay and the cob. It was also good in the meerschaum but I find myself liking it more in the clay and cob. I like the smokiness of it and after 7 or 8 bowls I woke up and said, "That sweet smokiness must be the bacon everyone is talking about!" Let me say neither the whiskey nor the smokiness overtook the flavor of the tobacco, instead they just accented it enough to make an enjoyable smoke. There was also a citrus note I detected while smoking it that added to the room note and kept it from being too woodsy.

I'm down to about an ounce left in the jar and I have forced myself to seal it and place out of sight in my cellar so I can revisit it in a month or two.

PipeProfessor

Great review. I have only smoked one 'bacon' blend although the name is escaping me right now (maybe meat pie?). It was not as good as advertised. I hope yours cellars well and that you have a much better experience in a few months!

piperdave

@pappyjoe you are not the only person who I have heard ask the question: Bacon? LOL

PappyJoe

Now their Peach Cobbler is good and I tasted the fruit.

PipeProfessor

In your opinion is it as good as the Sutliff Peach Cobbler @pappyjoe?

PappyJoe

@pipeprofessor - I couldn't say. Never tried the Sutliff. I will do a review on the Briarworks Peach Cobbler after I finish the first jar.

PipeProfessor

@pappyjoe, awesome, I can't wait!

thewanderingdude

Speaking of a Bacon Old Fashioned tobacco review, did anyone see Matches860 review of it yet? Hilarious

PappyJoe

where did he review it?

thewanderingdude

Matches860 Bacon Old Fashioned Review @PappyJoe

PappyJoe

@thewanderingdude I didn't find the Bacon Old Fashioned as bad as he did, but then I've smoked more than one bowl. I generally don't do a review until I've smoked it enough to get a full measure of what it has to offer. On the other hand, it was humorous

thewanderingdude

That big old hunk of something he pulled out of the jar didn't exactly look appealing.

jabraham326

@thewaneringdude, I seen Johns review of Bacon Old Fashioned.  It was very funny

PappyJoe

I did take the jar to the last NOLA pipe club meeting and shared it with those who were interested. No one smelled bacon. Everyone picked up on the whiskey aroma in the jar. Two other guys smoked it and said it was okay but nothing they were interested in buying. 

I think that big piece is a whiskey soaked tobacco leaf. But I could be wrong.

thewanderingdude

@PappyJoe I think it was a pork rind

PipeProfessor

Wow, what a hilarious review by Matches860...I'm not even gonna say what I thought that chunk looked like when he pulled it out!

PappyJoe

@thewanderingdude - I still have that piece in my jar. It's not a pork rind. I will light it later (but not in a pipe) and see what it does.

PappyJoe

For the record, it is not a pork rind. It is a piece of tobacco leaf and it smells like the whiskey they used to flavor the tobacco. I lit of piece and it had a cigar leaf smell to me. I originally opened the jar shortly after Fathers Day. It smokes better since its dried out some.

dstrib

When I first read the title of this post I was thinking a piece of bacon in the drink called an old fashion. Or an old fashion made with bacon bourbon.

drac2485

Wow Mathdes860 review was hilarious. I don't think I have heard a funnier tobacco review.