Jim's Sutliff Pipe Force II Review.

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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
63,709
624,985
This goes on sale tomorrow at 6 p.m. EST.

The musty Cyprian Latakia offers an abundance of earth, wood, smoke, vegetation, herbs, and floralness, along with mild spice, sourness, sweetness and light leather. The Latakia takes a small lead. The very floral dark fired Kentucky kicks in with an abundance of earth, wood, smoke, vegetation, spice, herbs, some sour sharpness, peat, barbecue, and moderate nuttiness. It’s almost a co-lead here and there. The stoved Katerini Orientals provides plenty of earth, wood, herbs, floralness, vegetation, stewed creamy sweet and sour, tart and tangy citrus, spice, some smoke, mild darker fruit and incense. They are close behind the DFK most of the time. The fermented Katerini perique imparts a little more than a moderate amount of sugary stewed fruits (plums, raisins, figs, tangy dark fruit), spice, earth, wood, vegetation, and a fair amount of herbal floralness with small incense and smoke notes. The aspects of the bright, red and stoved Virginias are a fair amount of tart and tangy citrus, vegetative grass/hay, bread, floralness, sugar, sour lemon, spice, mild stewed dark fruits, earth, wood, and light vinegar. They are a couple of steps above the condiment line. The strength, nic-hit, and taste levels are very filling. No chance of bite or harshness. Has a few small rough edges. The easily broken apart crumble cake slices are mildly moist although I did not dry them for this review. Your mileage may vary on this point. It’s well balanced, zesty, savory, and endlessly rich. The overall flavor is a tad inconsistent, which is a typical characteristic of complex crumble cakes. Burns cool, clean and slow with a smoky, spicy, floral, sweet and mildly bitter sour, herbal, nutty, barbecue quality that extends to the pleasantly long lasting after taste. The room note is very pungent. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires some relights. Not an all day smoke. I recommend a wide bowl, e..g. pot, egg, or author for this blend. Three and half stars rounded up to four.
©Jim Amash 2024.
 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
63,709
624,985
I’ve got to get this simply for the collection purpose. @JimInks I always appreciate your reviews! One thing that I appreciate more than anything is you mention bowl size/style. When I started paying attention to that it changed pipe smoking for me. Thank you, sir!
You're welcome. Glad o be of help.

Mr. Jim, do you still post your reviews to tobaccoreviews.com?
No matter what I do, I can't sign in. I gave up after three months and about fifty-sixty tries.
 

Lucro

Starting to Get Obsessed
Apr 27, 2024
180
2,833
Pittsburgh, PA
Thanks for the excellent review Jim. I picked up a ton of this. It’ll probably get a little age before I open just I’m really excited to try this one.
 
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Peter - CCB

Starting to Get Obsessed
Dec 26, 2019
250
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Santa Barbara, CA
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Of all the Pipe Force blends, I really like the V a lot, but II is my favorite so far. I went and got 6 more tins and smoking a bowl of it on my patio in a Dunhill i’m breaking in. It’s a nice blend.