HH Rustica
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Seriously?! It's a friggin' limited edition? Part of the joy of MB as a brand is the reliability and availability of their blends. This certainly puts a bit of a damper on my entgusiasm. Maybe they had announced this previously, but if so, I completely missed it.
They had an Old Dark Fired plug a while back and a one time re-release of Burley London Blend.
Ordered two tins. I think with the strength alone it will be a tobacco used seldomly, as I have a ton of other strong blends that would suffice. Anything MacBaren though is earns a spot in my ledger and 3.5oz tins make for a good cellar. Almost half a pound I think I'll be set. 7100tins? I'll leave some for the others. I can't even begin to imagine smoking the tobacco I have now in a lifetime, and it isn't even that much compared to some of you old farts!
Isn’t the notion of the “tobaccopalypse” basically that every blend might be a limited edition?
Careful. You turn 30 this year I think? At 16 years younger than myself, you'll be surprised how quickly the years pass and old fart sneaks up on you!
I know they've done LEs previously but I everything I'd seen led me to believe this was the new addition to the HH line, a regular release. Maybe they had announced it and I just missed it.
While I understand the concept of everything being limited due to pending regulations, I guess I'm just not a true believer. Don't have the money to invest accordingly anyway so it doesn't really matter.
Not sure if rustica is a widely cultivated commercial tobacco. This may be a trial run.
Ordered mine. Figure if it’s too strong I will use the flakes to add body to weaker blends I own.
As grandma used to say: “Smoke it slow, kid, that Rustica will put hair on your nips!”
As grandma used to say: “Smoke it slow, kid, that Rustica will put hair on your nips!”
I'm going to be smoking it in a pipe with a 2 inch deep chamber. Hairy nips here I come!
I guess, if it were a limited edition, they'd explicitly say that to generate even more desire.
Good point. I could understand if they didn't want to order bales upon bales or contract for a ton of one-blend leaf without knowing if it will be a big seller. Maybe they'll keep it going if it does well. One one hand, it seems like a no-brainer. On the other, I don't think Bold Kentucky is a huge seller, which is their closest comparison
7100 tins seems like a lot for something as esoteric as pipe tobacco.
Interesting! The German tin has nothing about limitation written on it, though it comes as a 50g tin only. Maybe only this 3.5 oz tin is limited?
Not sure neither, but as far as I know, it is widely used in hookah tobaccos, so commercial cultivation, respectively availability shouldn't be a big problem.
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Just got me a sampler from Germany, just had finished small bowl of this , what I can say the taste is very smooth, burns very well,tastewise has something in common with Tabac de Semois but at the same time this Rustica is real insidious stuff and will get your head spinning before you know,
The rustica snuff I’ve had wasn’t pleasant. On one hand it’s nice they are exploring something that has fallen out of fashion or whatever but on the other, I don’t think most people who are into the varying nuances of blends are interested in getting obliterated on nicotine.
And yet, I can’t get Gawith rope easily online.
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