I am out of my element here but I am surprised a blend manufactured by C&D would depend on Sutliff or MB.
May as Well Admit It: I Like Fr. Dempsey Best. What Should I Purchase That's Like It?
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I am out of my element here but I am surprised a blend manufactured by C&D would depend on Sutliff or MB.
I found this. It looks like, until a couple of days ago, TobaccoReviews.com mistakenly listed Fr. Dempsey as being manufactured by Sutliff. In 2017 manufacturing switched from Sutliff to C&D.
www.tobaccoreviews.com
Kramer’s Tobacco Manufacturer?
I just wanted to check in on why there is so much confusion about who makes Kramer’s tobacco. A friend of mine let me know he was worried about Father...
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I found this. It looks like, until a couple of days ago, TobaccoReviews.com mistakenly listed Fr. Dempsey as being manufactured by Sutliff. In 2017 manufacturing switched from Sutliff to C&D.
Kramer’s Tobacco Manufacturer?
I just wanted to check in on why there is so much confusion about who makes Kramer’s tobacco. A friend of mine let me know he was worried about Father...
Well that certainly explains why I had to throw out my jar of Father Dempsey last month due to mold growth!
If that's what you like best, why not stash up on it instead of trying something similar and end up disappointed?
Id buy more of it and start a search for something completely different. Its really nice to have a range of tobaccos you like as opposed to another one like it.
For me, Fr. Dempsey has a light barn note that I associate with some Latakia blends, and also a faint lavendar note. A couple people say that Fr. Dempsey is like Catholic incense for them. For me, that faint lavendar note reminds me of faint lavendar Catholic incense. However, I'm not sure how real that "incense" part of the smell is, or if I'm imagining it due to people's reviews and due to the name "Fr. Dempsey." The blend was originally made for a RC priest (not for use as church incense though).
I haven't exactly found anything with that combination of light Latakia and light lavendar.
The closest was Kendal Flake because it had a combination of a horse and old tobacco smell on one hand and a perfumey note on the other.
Someone earlier in the thread suggested Northwoods, but for me Northwoods had a thick soapy note instead of a light lavendar one.
I haven't exactly found anything with that combination of light Latakia and light lavendar.
The closest was Kendal Flake because it had a combination of a horse and old tobacco smell on one hand and a perfumey note on the other.
Someone earlier in the thread suggested Northwoods, but for me Northwoods had a thick soapy note instead of a light lavendar one.
I have long envied the pipe smokers who find one blend they like, and stick with it. If you can just keep smoking Father Dempsey, and enjoy it forever, you'd be a truly happy man. At $43 a Lb, you could probably aquire a lifetime supply in short order, and then spend your time enjoying a blend you love.
Sounds like you've achieved what myself (and likely many others) are searching for: you've discovered the blend. Once I discover the blend I'll focus on cellaring as much as I can but, until then, the search (and the acquisition of many glass jars) continues!
I know what you mean about acquiring so many glass jars. Would love to have piles of tins of the ideal blend, instead.
Unless you end up like me and discover that the blend for you is an aromatic that starts losing it's flavor after a year or so in a jar, so you only end up cellaring however much you can smoke in a year's time! I definitely understand the glass jar stockpile though, since I ended up acquiring more than 90 glass jars in search of the blend. I've got boxes and boxes full of them!