Fire Fight

Good strong toasty and spicy blend. I came here to update and improve my previous review and it seems it has been deleted. Anyhow, I let this sit in a mason jar and get a little air. Night and day contrast to how it tasted upon my initial smoke right after opening. Enjoyable!

The tin note is fruity, reminds me of dried apricots or dates. Came in the tin at the perfect humidity, ready to smoke. Tin date was April 2020. From the first light it is dry and a bit spicy, strong but not overpowering. The musty sweetness from the perique is definitely helping to mellow what would otherwise be a fairly stout blend. Smokes easily to a very fine grey ash. No tongue bite but a bit tongue-numbing. The subtle fruitiness is still evident in the aroma. Subsequent lights stayed relatively consistent until 2/3 of the way through the bowl which produced even more fruitiness in the nose and remained for the rest of the bowl.

This blend is nice. It starts off being sweet and the spiciness builds till the end. Smokes clean, a great blend when you want something different from the standard Vaper.

One of my favorite blends. Smooth and tasty.

It’s all about the Perique with this cool burning mixture with undertones of hay from the burley and mellowness from the orientals. If you’re fan of Perique this is a home run!

Just started really smoking non-aromatics and this tobacco is amazing. First bowl was, to me harsh, second bowl amazing. Probably my absolute favorite tobacco, Period!!!

Very good

Fantastic

Not a bad smoke, but as a new smoker, this might be "too much, too soon" as I don't have the experience to fully enjoy it. I'm saving it until I make it through the rest of my stash.

Oh my gosh this is amazing. New pipe smoker here and it was the first English. The time note was extremely fruity plumb and raisins. First light, taste exactly as it smelt. Storage after time 2-3 weeks, and it definitely calmed down. I believe I stored it improperly since I’m new. I’d have to say this is my number 1 favorite to date and I will definitely order more. I found my self relighting the ash even it was so good.

I'm pretty spoiled ( and fussy ) when it comes to VaPer. I've always had access to Esoterica Dorchester. Pricey, but .. I'm fussy. I couldn't get Dorchester, and I've always enjoyed RO blends. Every one has hit 5 stars for me, so when I saw this, I gave it a try. Honestly ? As long as I can get this, who needs Dorchester ? Fire Storm is at least 'As good' ( might be better, a few more tins will tell ), it even had that same 'terrible' smell on opening the tin that Dorchester has, even though it tastes and smokes excellently.

It was the exact elemental feel I was looking for.

It was ok. Just not my style. Not a fav but smokes well.

A very intriguing Vaper. Starts with a Casis and finishes with a spicy dark crouqet. The Perique and Dark Fired marry together under the Virginia to bring a subtle, naturally induced aromatic element. A moderate cadence brings joy throughout the bowl. Great for smoking in the Fall, awesome year round.

Will certainly purchase again!

Great blend

I didn’t know what to expect when I ordered this. I’ve been smoking a lot of Latakia and smokier blends lately (Think Plumb Pudding). This blend blew me out of the water. It’s dark, spicy, Smokey, Fire, stormy, amazing. Gotta try it for yourself. Warning: there’s a good amount of nicotine in this tobacco. One can feel it through the nostrils on exhale. Really good smoke.

H&H Acadian Perique tastes like a light tangy green apple or peach flavor. It's great. The Acadian somehow is a fresher and sweeter perique than the Granulated Blending Perique that pipesandcigars has which has a more bold, mushroom and chocolaty taste. Either tobacco has a dreamy effect but the Acadian is sweeter and something I would have more often than the granulated blend, although I have that all the time.

Rich flavor

Great Stuff!

Awesome Balkan blend. Lots of flavor.

This is probably my most favorite tobaccos at this time. Great job, Russ !!!

This is hands down the best VaPer I've tried. I was skeptical, but it really does start out with a cinnamon taste (specifically Ceylon Cinnamon) and then gets super spicy as you smoke the bowl. The moisture level in the tin was perfect and it burns great. Definitely gonna order more.

It's a fantastic blend. I really like it!

Wow, That’s what best describes this blend, it’s sweet and mild with hints of cinnamon at first and then a peppery raisin taste in the last half of the smoke. Amazing

Heavenly smoke, but I don't break it out too often. I'm kind of sensitive to perique, but I can get through a bowl of this just fine.

More complicated than the Firestorm; nice flavor.

Smooth flavor but not my style.

This blend has everything I love in a smoke but in just the right amounts. I understand why other reviewers thought it might have an added top-note or flavoring - that’s just the interplay between the different tobaccos. The perique is really rich and prominent, and along with hints of smoky Kentucky is so perfectly balanced with the sweet Virginia and the bit of creamy Turkish that I can’t imagine why anyone would ever want to smoke a candied aromatic ever again after trying this! The family even loves the room-note. Bottoms half of the bowl is stout and peppery just as advertised but without losing the flavor from the top, and it’s extremely consistent throughout the tin. You know you’ve got a winner when even the taste of the ashes makes you smile. Russ really knows how to do it, I’ll certainly need to try the other RO blends!

A great smoke, no bite, smooth and tasty. Another favorite

Firestorm is a blended tobacco of various spices and tobacco's, quite smooth but the spices are rich and flavorful, the Russ Ouellette has become one of my desired tobacco's

Great Blend! One of my favorites!

Everything as promised

If I had to pick only one pipe tobacco this would be it. Smooth and flavorful. If you smoke it slow enough you will get a cinnamon toast flavor which is fantastic. The spiciness builds to the end. Russ created a masterpiece with this one!!!

The RO Blends- Fire Storm is an excellent smoke!! I believe it will make my top five list!!

“Terrific tin”

Excellent pipe tobacco, it smokes as advertized

Definitely a delicious blend. I tasted notes of cinnamon toast and a slight fruity essence. Take it slow, I find it can bite you if you’re not careful. All-in-all, a delicious treat. Will purchase again!!!!

Great blend. This is my favorite; pack an extra large bowl, sit on the back porch, and hope no one asks me any questions blend. Definitely, will reorder again, and again. Thank you, HH!

Good flavor, but a little bit to strong for me

This is not a bad tobacco, just not my favorite. I bought it in part because I was hoping it would be similar to Rattray's Hal O' the Wynd, one of my all-time favorites. Both are a blend of the same three leafs: Virginia, Perique, and Dark Fired Kentucky. But Fire Storm clearly has a higher perique content, and probably a bit more Kentucky. Consequently, I do not detect the same sweetness of the Virginia in this blend that I get from HotW. The perique is present early and overtakes the Virginia altogether in my experience. YMMV.

Leathery with some pepper and sweetness make this a very enjoyable smoke. I mixed some of the Firestorm with Plum pudding and my head nearly exploded from the joy I experienced!

Like the fact that it has a little sweet a little Smokey and alitle spicy.

First time try. I really like it. New to pipes so I'm not an expert. Burns well, tastes great, and no bite. Will try other VaPers.

This stuff just goes to show that Perique can and will taste different depending on how, and with what, it's blended. This is not the "peppery" perique that I first became familiar with in VaPers. Instead, it's a more floral kind of spice. I love how it smells when I'm smoking it and I love how it smells ON me afterward. And I love that I can continue to smell it for a long time afterward.

This is one of the best tobacco that I have smoked and it is DELICIOUS!!!!

This tobacco is sweet, spicy and nutty. definitely one of my all-time favorites. It smells so good when you open the 10 it’s hard to believe it’s not an aromatic

I am relatively new to pipe smoking. I enjoy english blends and am branching out. This starts off as fruity and finishes very spicy. It is a pleasure to see how the taste changes throughout the smoke. I would recommend.

Has a very nice cinnamon tin note. The moisture is perfect and ready to smoke right of the tin. For me the Dark Fired Kentucky and Perique dominates the smoking flavor. That's not to say that they were too much, but rather that the other tobaccos were more of a background and support to the flavor. All said and done it is a very smooth, cool, and quite flavorful blend.

Tastes great, could be my all day smoke.

Russ hit it out of the park with this blend. It is one of my favorite in my rotation. Everyone needs to give it a try.

This VaPer is right on time! As long as you give it a little dry time(2-3 hours) on it, this wonderful blend is a classic in the making. I prefer it in my churchwarden but the subtle, sweet tones of Virginia and the Spicy tang of the Perique come through, even in a cob. I would give it 10 stars if I could!

A good even smoke and strong a lot of tast the perique comes through nicely. The tabacco smells great.

I'm a newbie at pipe tobaccos, so take this for what it's worth. The tartness and spiciness of this blend was a little much for me. I cut it with 50% blending virginia and love it. I don't think anyone would find it lacking in character.

Mellow, no bite, an easy sipper. Burns to a nice gray ash.

Delicious!

Excellent smoke; smooth, full and extremely enjoyable.

If you want to see the progression of a tobacco blend, try marble cake, then anniversary kake, then fire storm. It's really interesting. Marble kake is a good base, but not something I'd recommend smoking by itself, it's ok, but it's nothing special on it's own. Add some perique and you got Anniversary kake, it's good, maybe a 4 star, I know everyone freaks out over it, but it's not the be all end all, something is missing from it. Then you add some kentucky and BAM it all comes together somehow to make this perfect blend. Somehow the additional perique and kentucky just make this stuff perfect. The first 1/4 of the bowl is a little monodimensional, dare I say it, but a bit carboardy. But then all of a sudden the perique and kentucky kick in and it's just smooth sailing from there on out. And somehow it's not that spicy. I find Escudo spicier. Somehow all the elements just meld perfectly making a very dynamic, tasty, bready, slightly spicy smoke. It's different than other blends of the same ingredients somehow, somehow this stuff just works and works well. If you like va/pers you gotta try this, it's a special special blend.

Relatively new pipe smoker. I love Firestorm! It has become my new favorite blend. I really enjoy the sweetness from the Virginia and the spiceyness (almost cinnamony) from the Perique. I'm definitely stocking up on this blend...

While I cannot say that this my 'new favorite', I did not find anything to complain about in the blend. I like cigars made with fire cured Kentucky tobaccos, and got a hint of that. It did not bite, stayed lit, and seemed to get more interesting as it burned. I was not at all disappointed. I also plan on using this blend to add character to some of the less appealing tobaccos in my cellar.

Really enjoyable. Great flavor.

My first bowl of Fire Storm was somewhat bland, but it was in a new and unfamiliar pipe. It was interesting enough to cause me to want to give it a try in a pipe that I know.

Has a very rich flavor, probably my most favorite blend

This has a great tin note, fruity and spicy. The smoke itself is very complex and ever changing. I got notes of cinnamon, tangy fruit and a nice peppery spicy taste as well. If you're not a fan of medium/full strength tobacco then don't let that scare you off! Some blends like this pack quite the buzz but I never got that with this smoke. This is one of my favorite blends, has a nice thick smoke....a must have!

This is one of my favorite blends in my collection. A great all around smoke. Easy to pack, easy to light. Cinnamon, dried plum followed by earthy pepper at the finish. I will be buying several more tins to add to my cellar.

This IS my favorite blend. ive smoked plenty of VaPers but this one has everything i love. that fruity tangy tin note (less mushroom and more dark fruit from the perique), with a little whiff of vinegar. smooth mouthfeel and medium strength. sweet virginia. the dark fired adds a little bit of a savory note as well. while it is based off of Anniversay kake, (and i REALLY enjoy Anni Kake) it has a little bit more of what i want in a VaPer. a little wet, but no worries.

This is hands down my favorite blend at the moment. It has a great thick and creamy smoke with tons of unique flavor. While seemingly simple in the list of tobaccos this blend is deep and complex. It has a great host of dark fruit, plum, raisin, cinnamon, and pepper flavors. There is a dash of wood and some nice dark earth. Plus, the flavors all work together to provide a rich bouquet of aromas. Even though the flavor profile and presentation is different, this is the closes thing to the experience of smoking a $12 cigar that I have found in the pipe world. Russ scored a home run with this blend.

Not as much perique as the name implies, but this is a harmonious blend of pure tobacco, and a all day smoke as well. Wonderfully tasty

This tobacco has a very complex taste that would be impossible to describe, and I have not been able to find anything quite like it. The sweetness slowly creeps up on you, and it is for sure there! It is my favorite winter time/holiday blend. Very warm and comforting. Burns very slow and cool, with no residue. I smoke it in a large corncob.

This blend wasn't too bad, the name was slightly misleading I was expecting a kind of dunhill my mixture blend but instead it has a more fruity taste, but all and all not a bad blend.

This is the top of the genre -- using dark fired Kentucky to perfect the balance and depth of the soft, sweet-ish, Virginia and fruity Perique. Great body and whole mouth feel too.

I thought I would try something new from my usual English. As I have had English before with a touch of Perique, I would give this a try. This was kind of strong for me. But, I will leave it in my rotation.

this is a very un-scientific review, when I smoke this blend it reminds me of Cinnamon toast, it has that bready quality, sweet and cinnamony. Highly recommended

This has become one of my favorite first smokes of the day. Has just the right amount of sweetness and spice with a little creaminess underneath. If that makes any sense. When I want a little more than Orlik golden slice or Dunhill flake I reach for this one.

When I opened the tin I stuck it under my nose and took a long, deep whiff to see what it smelled like. It reminded me of those bags of dried prunes my mom used to eat when I was a kid. It was very moist, too. Fortunately the flavor in smoking this is not prune-heavy.It is very rich and mellow with the perique zest but no harshness on the tongue. I found that if I smoke a strong latakia before I smoke HH Adadian Perique, I can't taste this particular blend. I have to wait a while before I can light this one up. Perique first, latkia and balkan later.

I really enjoy Perique, in my opinion it's one of the most complex and flavorful tobaccos. This blend showcases Acadian Perique which is made from many different tobacco crops, not the pure St. James Louisiana variety. The Perique is outstanding, and works well with the burley and cavendish, all balanced nicely. The blend says it has Oriental, I didn't pick it out blindly, so it is subtly done, and no Latakia. This is not an exotic English or Balkan blend but rather a more fermented cigar like tobacco with pure and stron flavors. It is very rich and really grabs your attention!

Amazing stuff, has a complexity of flavor that IMO matches Lux BE Flake. Not deeply peppery, but it will start to hit you a bit around mid bowl for sure.

A quite mild, smooth creation. Very tasty. I like it.

The name and description sure suckered me in. I am disappointed with the lack of spicy taste.

This is a good product , enjoy it every night.

This blend is fantastic. I'm relatively new to pipe smoking, and have tried several blends already. I sort of enjoyed aromatics but firestorm is what really made me enjoy pipe smoking. It is such a full flavored tobacco. The first third of the bowl is sweet, and as you smoke it down the flavor changes to a more robust spicy perique taste. From start to finish this is a fantastic constantly changing flavor living up to its name! I am about to order more now and I hope it's here to stay!

One of the best VaPers on the market! If you like Sutliff 1849, this one will bowl you over with taste.

All of Mac Baren HH blends are very good. Acadian Perique is great very well balanced complex blend Makes a great all day smoke I have bought the tins but now get the 16oz bags

s friend recommended that I try RO-Fire Storm as I was still searching for a pipe tobacco that mirrored my Nicaraguan Puro cigars. Fire Storm comes very close. Good enough that I'll be stocking up.

It's a very good tobacco, and very similar to Anniversary Kake. I'm interested to see what aging will do to it.

Hadn't had Perique before but this was mellow and a welcome change from my normal Tobac!

My interest was prompted by the description of the blend. The name Fire Storm had me expecting a very bold and robust smoke. It came up a bit short for me. Good but not the full mouth feel I was expecting.

Excellent quality. It's everything advertised and more. Blending and taste are on par with all RO products

Russ nails it again. Wonderful blend, great for an all-day smoke.

Fire Storm is an excellent VaPer blend. Wonderful flavor and aroma. I like the addition of the dark fired leaf. I bought five tins immediately after trying a sample that I received at the NY Pipe Show!