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    Help With Navy And Other Spirit Infused Blends

    According to the listed ingredients on that consumer German website which had to have been supplied by the manufacturer Mac Baren it does not contain rum. Rum was listed as an ingredient for Virginia #1 and Harmony(Symphony) but not Navy flake. It doesn't even taste like it has rum in it.
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    Help With Navy And Other Spirit Infused Blends

    Mac Baren Navy Flake doesn't have rum in it. Navy tobacco/flake/blend like cavendish can have broad meanings. The premium rum blends from C&D and Gawith are more natural and the enhancement is subtle to next to nothing. They will not ghost the pipe. Mac Baren uses sweeter casing in addition to...
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    what is the best bulk straight virginia?

    It does have an extremely small amount of Perique, I can tell.
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    FDA nicotine suggested levels and pipe tobacco blends

    You actually can wash much if not most of the nicotine out of tobacco with simply soaking it in water. I have done this with whole leaf and it works well for burley but destroys the qualities of virginia leaf. So, any heavy casing and processing will likely achieve similar results. Black...
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    what is the best bulk straight virginia?

    Almost everything has casing to some degree. You can't process and work tobacco when it's bone dry. So, you want something with minimal casing and perceived as natural as possible. I tried ages ago before the brand was sold one of the Daughters & Ryan straight virginias and it was quite...
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    Mac B's ODF vs C&D Dark Fired Kentucky?

    You might consider Gawith and Hoggarth #7 Broken Flake and Coniston Cut Plug. These are blends of virginias and dark fired along with some burley with some flavorings. The closest blend to Old Dark Fired is actually St. Bruno. Despite St. Bruno having an aromatic Lakeland essence and less dark...
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    Mac Baren’s Investment in SNUS

    Per Jensen in his interview by Italian piper Apple Pipe exhibited some disdain for this snus venture. I took it that may have contributed to Mac Baren's losses.
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    Just in from STG/MacBaren/Sutliff

    What is the logic in ceasing distribution of blends in the U.S. if they are still going to be produced for other regions?
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    Just in from STG/MacBaren/Sutliff

    The Newminster line was a bizarre effort between STG and MacB. Most of those blends are based on preexisting STG blends(Peter Stockebye) but produced by MacB. I never could make sense of this. I think Kramer's is C&D.
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    Prince Albert

    I don't know about the new stuff but the old version didn't taste of anise at all. What I think people are referring to is licorice root which gives a certain pronounced sweetness depending on dosage. Licorice root along with cocoa are standard casings for these traditional American burley...
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    Ah, That McClellands Smell

    No, not the farmers. It's added in manufacture.
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    Ah, That McClellands Smell

    It's worse than that. That tang in their red virginia crumble cakes is sodium diacetate. It's a food additive that gives slaty-sour flavor and also a preservative. It was ubiquitous in the tobacco industry and Sutliiff used it liberally. Ever notice that metallic sour note in their aromatics...
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    Looking to age this box of velvet.

    A quick search in the Tobacco Archives produced this hit. It's just starting point and with a lot of work you might be able to nail down the exact promotion or confine it to a more limited time frame. The latter link was the initial search criteria: NEW! VELVET-GRANGER PIPE OFFER...
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    Looking to age this box of velvet.

    The cut looks exactly how I remember Velvet when I tried it around 30 years ago. Granger back then wasn't the ribbon it is today but a loosely compressed ready-rubbed cut.
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    Burley Blends Available in UK?

    Decades ago, when it was available in the states I tried JF Germain's Brown Flake. It was described as virginia leaf but it seemed like it was an air-cured variety and therefore smoked more akin to a very mild straight burley. Assuming it hasn't changed much this might suffice. I've heard of a...
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    Is Gawith the Only Blending House Making Dark Fired Virginia Blends?

    Based on STG's scorched earth intentions for Sutliff I doubt they'll sell off Mac Barens equipment to competitors. I have thought along those lines but realize the cost for design and build of such proprietary equipment if it can't be bought second hand could be astronomical, like in the six or...
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    My favorite is gone

    I bought a tin of that stuff over 20 years ago. From what I remember it was just the most straight forward unflavored white burley cube tobacco. Try Sutliff TS4 White Cube Burely. Very similar in flavor from what I can recall. It's a bigger and chunkier cut but can be rubbed out. On the premium...
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    Sutliff Mixture 79 Cherry Brandy

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    Sutliff Mixture 79 Cherry Brandy

    I have come across this too and considered buying a tub. But I thought to contact them before just to make sure it's not an old defunct listing that just hasn't been taken down; I haven't done so. I bought a pouch decades ago and still have it though what's left over is dry as a bone. From what...
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    Favorite Crossover Blend With Some Strength

    Mac Baren Solent Mixture. Predominately ribbon cut virginia, small amount of burley, about 20% latakia and 10% Mac Baren's classic dark-fired cavendish and a rum-molasses casing. Sort of a beefed up version of Plumbcake but the molasses element seems heavier.
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