Mac Baren Wharehouse

[theTomTom]

We know in the 70s the owner bought huge loads of Syrian latakia. We know they had lots of it at the sale to STG. Where is it?

Then in the early 2000s they got more.

My question is what happened to it? Saw a video by a dane in daneland that was supposedly part of Mac baren team. Said they had 40,000 pounds left or enough on hand to make all latakia blends with Syrian only for 40 years.

 

[Mrs. Pickles]

Would you be able to post a link to the video you mentioned?

 

[fireground_piper]

I thought the story ultimately went.....they went through it much quicker than they thought and ultimately was when "HH Vintage Syrian" was discontinued....when they ran out.

 

[Servant King]

My eyes saw the title as, "Mac Baren Whorehouse."

My first thought was, "Geez, no wonder the MB family sold the business! I'd never be able to juggle both of those....uhh...endeavors."

My second thought was, "Now that I'm 40, it's perfectly acceptable to get some reading glasses already."

 

[Brad H]

Is it Wharehouse or Warehouse!? That probably why you misread title.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

That seems like faulty information. If they had 40,000 pounds and was going to use Syrian Latakia for every Latakia blend for 40 years, that would be 1,000 pounds per year. 1,000 pounds might make 10,000 to 20,000 tins and that's not counting waste and other inefficiencies. I'm thinking they sell well more than that. I can't think of any logical reason for holding it back, time typically doesn't do Latakia any favors. I'd say they don't have any left.

I'm not an English blend lover but I smoked my fair share of Syrian Latakia. I didn't find it all that much different or better. I'd bet 75% of the pipe smokers wouldn't be able to accurately say, in a blind taste test, if the blend had Syrian Latakia or the Latakia used today.

 

[lukasstrifeson]

I remember reading somewhere there was also a massive warehouse fire where they lost a lot of leaf (namingly a lot of Syrian Latakia).

 

[khiddy]

The warehouse fire was at C&D in 2004, destroying the Syrian Latakia stock of C&D (and GL Pease, whose blends are produced at C&D). Mac Baren ran out of their Syrian Latakia in 2018, according to Per Jensen. Read more on the Dutch Pipe Smoker blog:

warehouse fire | Dutch Pipe Smoker

dutchpipesmoker.com

 

[lukasstrifeson]

The warehouse fire was at C&D in 2004, destroying the Syrian Latakia stock of C&D (and GL Pease, whose blends are produced at C&D). Mac Baren ran out of their Syrian Latakia in 2018, according to Per Jensen. Read more on the Dutch Pipe Smoker blog:

warehouse fire | Dutch Pipe Smoker

dutchpipesmoker.com

That's right, thanks for clarifying.

It really does seem that 2017/18 was the end of an era in the tobacco world.

 

[Sobrbiker]

That's right, thanks for clarifying.

It really does seem that 2017/18 was the end of an era in the tobacco world.

Why you gots to go bringing up McClelland?!

 

[anotherbob]

My eyes saw the title as, "Mac Baren Whorehouse."

My first thought was, "Geez, no wonder the MB family sold the business! I'd never be able to juggle both of those....uhh...endeavors."

My second thought was, "Now that I'm 40, it's perfectly acceptable to get some reading glasses already."

youngster.

 

[Waning Embers]

Why you gots to go bringing up McClelland?!

If you really think about it McClelland's death began in 2016 when they made the last run of Christmas Cheer.

 

[Brendan]

I believe a lack of quality leaf was also a factor that helped facilitate, the murder, of that said company.

 

[Sea Lord]

I though they had run out of Syrian Latakia?

 

[Sea Lord]

My eyes saw the title as, "Mac Baren Whorehouse."

Thank God, I was not the only one.

 

[woodsroad]

Is it Wharehouse or Warehouse!? That probably why you misread title.

War Horse!

 

[Brendan]

Who's on first?

 

[eyjaygaming]

The last tin of Syrian Latakia at Mac Baren was produced for Mac Baren Syrian Latakia in 2017/18. Per Jensen has the last tin, I own the second - to - last. After that the market moved on to Lat from Cyprus for a few years, now every manufacturer uses Latakia from Turkey (much closer to Syrian than Cyprus)

 

[Sea Lord]

Latakia from Turkey? That's interesting. I guess it's what is being used in the Pesse Canoe brand.

 

[eyjaygaming]

Latakia from Turkey? That's interesting. I guess it's what is being used in the Pesse Canoe brand.

Its being used in any Latakia blend you smoke. Name it, it has Turkish lat