Capstan Blue Question

[AJL67]

Big fan, long time smoker first time caller.
My question is how far back do you have to go to get to the older blend? A lot of times tobaccos will change blend and have a pronounced different, love the Blue I have from 2021 on, but if i wanted to taste "the good old days" what range should i look in, no don't mean from 1970 or anything, something obtainable im thinking the last big change. Thanks, if any of that made sense.

 

[Terry Lennox]

This has a lot of good info. You have to go back to pre-2013 for the STG version. And maybe 20 years for the UK version.

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[Uguccione]

I discovered it in the early to mid 80's and it brutally ended my frantic search for the "perfect" tobacco. Then it disappeared from circulation, then it reappeared but the box was blue, then it disappeared again, then... I moved on to cigars (lol).
About ten years ago the desire for the pipe returned and in the meantime many other tobaccos had appeared, even better than Capstan, yet for me this tobacco - in its "mediosity" - remains indispensable.
The Latins called it "aurea mediocritas".

However, I cannot remember the differences between yesterday's and today's. But I don't think much has changed.

 

[VDL_Piper]

20 years or more, I’d have to check my notes but I still continue to cellar Blue Ready Rubbed heavily.

 

[JimInks]

Capstan Blue Flake and Ready Rubbed have been among the most consistent blends on the market for many years.