Granger tobacco still available?
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Last time I checked Smoking Pipes had it, I'm sure others do also. I can not say if it's any good though. I'm sure it's nothing like the past.
Yes, and you can order a can right now and have it at your door this week.As jung loved the tobacco i am curious if granger pipe tobacco is still avaible
Granger is one of the few, maybe only tobacco I find to have improved after transition to STG.
For what it's worth, my father only smoked Granger unless someone gave him some other brand as a gift. He passed away in 1989 after about 55 years as a pipe smoker. In his later years he mentioned more than once that the quality of Granger was going down. That was 35 years ago or so.
Granger is still in production and widely available, and is often purported by older pipe smokers to be one of the few blends that significantly improved when STG acquired them. Others said to be improved are Velvet and Half and Half, all of which (including Granger) were formerly manufactured by Pinkerton. Apparently Pinkerton's quality control had gone rather seriously downhill in the years prior to STG acquiring their blends, so it was a rare case of an STG acquisition actually being a positive thing in the end.
As far as my personal thoughts on Granger go, I think it's pretty good! Much like Velvet it's now manufactured with Lane Limited burleys and has their distinctive mellow character, and there's a good bit of natural burley nuttiness and cocoa notes hiding under the fairly strong anisette casing. With both Granger and Velvet I like to dry them out thoroughly before smoking, which is something I don't generally do with codger blends, but in this case I think it really helps evaporate off some of that anisette casing and give the smoker a better taste of the tobacco.
As far as my personal thoughts on Granger go, I think it's pretty good! Much like Velvet it's now manufactured with Lane Limited burleys and has their distinctive mellow character, and there's a good bit of natural burley nuttiness and cocoa notes hiding under the fairly strong anisette casing. With both Granger and Velvet I like to dry them out thoroughly before smoking, which is something I don't generally do with codger blends, but in this case I think it really helps evaporate off some of that anisette casing and give the smoker a better taste of the tobacco.