Hilarious browsing "New Posts" page and seeing a post debating the minute differences between a 2005 vs 2006 Christmas Cheer right below a post where someone is shocked FVF is not the exact same taste as it was 5 years ago.
Yeah, never understood that really.
Consistency is a tricky thing when it comes to agricultural products like this. People like to shit on the big brewing companies here in the USA like Budweiser/Miller/Coors but the fact of the matter is they've been producing a consistent product that's tasted the same for decades. Meanwhile most craft beers I've had vary from batch to batch and it's supposed to be "better beer" but they can't even get it right from brew to brew. Its not like wine is consistent year after year either, some vintages are amazing and some are dog water.
I imagine thats how it is for most of these pipe tobacco manufacturers. They might have a crop of leaf thats fantastic for awhile and thats what people get used to. The thing with this whole pipe tobacco business that I don't understand is that any time a blend changes, at least since I started smoking, it always seems to be for the worse. I've seen at least one video from C&D's Jeremy Reeves saying that the quality of leaf being grown and used in pipe tobacco has never been better, so why do all these blends seem to be getting impacted negatively?
