Anti mold, a preservative, like the ketchup aroma in McCllends.
Jim's Updated and Revised SWR Review.
- Thread starter JimInks
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Granger may have gotten better with the transition. Prince Albert did not but is still tolerable. SWRA seems a bit more chocolate forward with less hazelnut which I like. SWR got wrecked. Haven't tried Carter Hall since the change.
Me neither. The last time I tried Carter Hall it was still sold in pouches at my local grocer. I would pick up a pouch a couple times a month.
For the past several weeks I've been enjoying one of my 14 oz tins of SWRA, made in the US of A. Great stuff!
If you check the Pipe Tobacco Review section, and do a little scrolling, you'll see my updates for Carter Hall and Prnce Albert, both of which were changed.
Wish I’d have seen this just a few hours earlier. I stopped at a local B&M today that I hadn’t visited yet. They had the normal RYO stuff and a small cigar room. Being that almost all the smoke shops in a 15 mile radius have gone the way of selling only vape stuff I was pleasantly surprised by a slightly bigger than normal pipe tobacco section. They had just about every codger blend in pouch and can form. I’m still new and have been looking for anything I can find that I haven’t tried yet. Well other than Captain black and any of the other heavy aromatic stuff. I still haven’t tried Carter hall and mixture 79 yet because I can’t find it in a small pouch. I’ll eventually try it, I found some velvet the other day and think it’s actually pretty tasty. I’ll enjoy it often along with the Half and Half I got a while back. This place actually had pouches of SWR so I happily made the purchase and was excited to try it. But when I got home and opened the pouch I was immediately disappointed. It was bone dry. I have a few RAW brand hydration stones so I was able to bring it back to proper moisture levels but just like JimInks said it had a very heavy vinegar smell. In fact I could barely smell anything else. I was very confused. Once I got it into. Pipe and lit it didn’t taste too bad but definitely not as good as half and half or Velvet in my opinion. Oh well. I’m thinking of maybe making a plug out of it. Maybe mix the SWR with a few of the small amounts of different English blends I have in jars. Maybe a little bit of HH bold Kentucky too. If I do I’ll make sure to post pics and the final recipe along with a moderately worded new guy review of how it smells and tastes.
Those sorts of drastic changes are such a shame because it means the brands are living on in name only.