Just in from STG/MacBaren/Sutliff

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

It's kind of shocking that they aren't going to put scalper prices on the remaining stock.

If I owned a tobacco website yall would be even more pissed.

 

[Sigmund]

Hearth is dead

 

[woodsroad]

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My thoughts, exactly.

 

[PoshJosh1999]

Hearth is dead

Hearth, Bengal Slices, War Horse, and who knows how many others will be affected or greatly changed as a result of this?

 

[Snook]

It's kind of shocking that they aren't going to put scalper prices on the remaining stock.

If I owned a tobacco website yall would be even more pissed.

Funkenhouser's House of Funk - "Tobaccos you love at twice the price!"

 

[Snook]

My thoughts, exactly.

There was nothing more to be said.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

I'm surprised the HH line is being discontinued. For some reason I always assumed they sold well but maybe not. They did the same thing here in the UK. The entire line was discontinued a little while back.

 

[woodsroad]

But that’s just Sutliff and Mac Baren… what about SPC blends? Hearth and Home, Bengal Slices, etc? They’re all going to be changed

That's the kind of optimism I like!

 

[Hutch Piper]

Uh oh.. Does that mean every blend they're keeping is at risk of the vinegar treatment that was done to Sir Walter Raleigh?

Haha!

 

[Hutch Piper]

I'm surprised the HH line is being discontinued. For some reason I always assumed they sold well but maybe not. They did the same thing here in the UK. The entire line was discontinued a little while back.

I don’t think sales has anything to do with it.

 

[Beers 'N Briars]

So it still says nothing for the other companies Sutliff manufactures for. Personally, that's what I'm most concerned about.

That’s because this list is all they’re keeping. ALL OF IT. If it’s made by Sutliff or MacBaren and isn’t on this list then it’s gone.

 

[abecox]

Terrible. Guess I'm gonna have to find something similar to Old Dark Fired, but at least I'm sitting on about a pound. Hopefully C&D has something close. What a bunch of bastards...

 

[Hutch Piper]

Terrible. Guess I'm gonna have to find something similar to Old Dark Fired, but at least I'm sitting on about a pound. Hopefully C&D has something close. What a bunch of bastards...

I recently tried the C&D Dark Fired and didn’t think it was all that good. Amphora Kentucky is one of my go-to’s, but it is gone now. Oh well.

 

[AndyNJ]

Hey @leonardw starting the customer noise train here to bring back the HH line.

can't wait for @leonardw to show up here again...

 

[PoshJosh1999]

Does anyone know how many people will be made redundant from this?

 

[First Sealord]

Quite frankly, this is a massacre. What a bad start to 2025.

 

[Hutch Piper]

Sutliff goes from 400 aromatics to 4.

 

[PoshJosh1999]

That's the kind of optimism I like!

I know Hearth is gone as well as a couple of others thanks to STG, but SPC will go from being some of the finest tobaccos to meh

 

[First Sealord]

Wow. So what is this, 5% of the previous portfolios?

Not even.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

can't wait for @leonardw to show up here again...