Jim's Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture Review.
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I will definitely try some of this....it sounds like something that will enter my regular rotation.
Glad to hear it will be offered regularly instead of a limited release!!
Glad to hear it will be offered regularly instead of a limited release!!
Ernie at Watch City wrote this elsewhere: Watch City will be making American Cut Plug Mixture part of it's ongoing menu next Wednesday @ Noon Eastern. It's possible that it will sell out at first, but it's not limited and will be back ASAP.
Sound great and will definitely give it a try.
Hope there is enough to go around!
Hope there is enough to go around!
Looking forward to trying it - I have a friend here in Brazil that brings Watch City tobacco every time he goes to the US, will give him the heads up, hopefully next time he goes he´s able to bring us some...
It would make stocking up more tempting if more bulk blends were offered in those Mylar (cellar-ready) bags. I would rather pay extra and get blends in either 4, 8, or even 16oz increments.
I mean, mylar bags aren't exactly expensive. Just buy some, buy the tobacco you want in bulk and store it away, that's what I do.
That's what I do. I use the iron more than my wife does. Don't tell her that I said that.
This might not be the right thread for it, but what does "cut plug" generally mean? Obviously, it's tobacco that started out as a pressed block and got cut into pieces, but it's kind of a hard one for Google to work with. GH&Co has a couple of "cut plugs" that I would call "broken flakes". The photo upstream makes it seem like small chunks at most. Is it just a catch-all for whatever you get when you cut a plug in several directions?
In my opinion, a plug that is cut is a flake. After that it can be broken or not.
Finally smoked my first bowl of this in my first pipe: an inexpensive Butz-Choquin 1320 bent billiard.
It’s really good.
For whatever reason, I find that a good pipe tobacco is more satisfying the farther into the bowl I get. As someone who started pipe smoking for the first time earlier this year, I wonder if this could be the result of over-charring the tobacco—I have developed a nice, slow smoking cadence, which is why I suspect it’s the initial light that causes first third of the bowl harshness. After that first third, the charring light surface is all ash and the slow smoking cadence may be what translates into a far more enjoyable mid- and end-bowl experience. (If any of you more experienced pipers have thoughts on this, I’d love to know!)
Back to the blend, the first third of the bowl seemed fairly average. A little more bitter and dry than I like.
I’m pretty sure my theory about overdoing my char light is correct because the second and third parts of the bowl were amazing!
From that point forward, the tobacco smoked cool and produced lovely clouds of smoke (even with a slow, shallow draw) with a homey, mildly sweet smell.
The tip-of-the tongue flavor is sweet and nutty, and the mouthfeel is surprisingly creamy and full. There’s something pleasingly malty around the sides of my tongue. The retrohale is silky-smooth—while I love a good sour (Oriental) or astringent (Perique) retro, those characteristics wouldn’t fit this comforting, comfortable blend.
Well done, @ernieq & @JimInks.
It’s really good.
For whatever reason, I find that a good pipe tobacco is more satisfying the farther into the bowl I get. As someone who started pipe smoking for the first time earlier this year, I wonder if this could be the result of over-charring the tobacco—I have developed a nice, slow smoking cadence, which is why I suspect it’s the initial light that causes first third of the bowl harshness. After that first third, the charring light surface is all ash and the slow smoking cadence may be what translates into a far more enjoyable mid- and end-bowl experience. (If any of you more experienced pipers have thoughts on this, I’d love to know!)
Back to the blend, the first third of the bowl seemed fairly average. A little more bitter and dry than I like.
I’m pretty sure my theory about overdoing my char light is correct because the second and third parts of the bowl were amazing!
From that point forward, the tobacco smoked cool and produced lovely clouds of smoke (even with a slow, shallow draw) with a homey, mildly sweet smell.
The tip-of-the tongue flavor is sweet and nutty, and the mouthfeel is surprisingly creamy and full. There’s something pleasingly malty around the sides of my tongue. The retrohale is silky-smooth—while I love a good sour (Oriental) or astringent (Perique) retro, those characteristics wouldn’t fit this comforting, comfortable blend.
Well done, @ernieq & @JimInks.
I came back to Watch City ACPM after about a year, and man, what a blend! I’m honestly not sure what I thought of it last year. But I think a year in the jar has done it wonders. Going to have to grab some more for my growing cellar very soon!
I really loved this blend American Cut Plug, it eventually became my everyday smoke, but now with the loss of Sutliff, Ernie Q has replaced it with FUSTG!, a similar blend which I enjoy, but it’s not the same. I don’t know exactly what is missing, the sourdough bready tang of the simply red virginias previously acquired from Sutliff? It doesn’t have that dark cocoa flavor I loved, I assume from the burleys and casings going so well together or the nutty notes. I wish I would have stocked up a more when I had the chance, seems like I have said this about many blends over the years but this one I really had a place in my heart/pipe.. 
Well it was great while it lasted and I have enough for special occasions if I can control myself. Cheers to @JimInks and @ernieq.
Well it was great while it lasted and I have enough for special occasions if I can control myself. Cheers to @JimInks and @ernieq.
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Just checked and they still have 4oz Mylar bagsful in stock if you want to get a little more.I really loved this blend American Cut Plug, it eventually became my everyday smoke, but now with the loss of Sutliff, Ernie Q has replaced it with FUSTG!, a similar blend which I enjoy, but it’s not the same. I don’t know exactly what is missing, the sourdough bready tang of the simply red virginias previously acquired from Sutliff? It doesn’t have that dark cocoa flavor I loved, I assume from the burleys and casings going so well together or the nutty notes. I wish I would have stocked up a more when I had the chance, seems like I have said this about many blends over the years but this one I really had a place in my heart/pipe..
Thanks, when I went on there earlier it wasn’t available and I assumed it was all gone since Ernie a couple of weeks ago stated we have reached the end of American cut plug 4oz limit daily. I will definitely buy some more. Either way, the end is near.
I don’t want to stare at my jars of ACP on the shelf the same way I do my Mcclelland cans thinking, there will never be more, ever again, are you sure you should open it? I loved having a blend that was available that I could smoke with reckless abandon. That being said, as the old timers on pipesmagazine have said over the years, smoke your best stuff first, tomorrow is never certain.