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Looks like adventures with a pasta press.
Peterson's Perfect Plug
GLP Jackknife Plug
Gawith Hoggarth Dark Plug
Dan Tobacco Salty Dogs (Has perique but it's too goo not to list)
Ken Byron Ventures Jupiter Slices (It's a plug, not slices)
GLP Temple Bar
Wessex Gold Brick
GLP Jackknife Plug
Gawith Hoggarth Dark Plug
Dan Tobacco Salty Dogs (Has perique but it's too goo not to list)
Ken Byron Ventures Jupiter Slices (It's a plug, not slices)
GLP Temple Bar
Wessex Gold Brick
We've lost a number of great plugs in the last few years.
Warrior, Erinmore, Velvan and Mick McQuaid have all gone to the great plug cutter in the sky?.
As for what's left I'd agree with most of the choices already mentioned, PPP is always in my rotation.
Many of the Gawith plugs that are difficult to find in America can be bought from Synjeco in Switzerland. I personally haven't used them (yet) but I hear/read nothing but good things about them.
Warrior, Erinmore, Velvan and Mick McQuaid have all gone to the great plug cutter in the sky?.
As for what's left I'd agree with most of the choices already mentioned, PPP is always in my rotation.
Many of the Gawith plugs that are difficult to find in America can be bought from Synjeco in Switzerland. I personally haven't used them (yet) but I hear/read nothing but good things about them.
Sometimes. I grew some last summer, and had some whole leaf from a friend who grows. Most of the time it's various bulk blending stuff.
I smoke Jackknife plug; not as asphalt tasting as some of the other plugs. Jackknife is a loose plug, almost a cake, easy to cut. Basically tastes like a typical virginia, burley, kentucky blend, and very clean tasting which is what I like about it--in other words, it tastes like tobacco and not like a BBQ pit or an asphalt road.
Jack Knife was too soft for my taste. American Plugs seem to follow American Ropes. By that statement I mean U.S Ropes are very loosely spun and seem to unravel really easily compared to the U.K/Irish stuff and Jack Knife seems the same. From a personal perspective I like my 'Plug' to be dense, heavy with a physical presence. As someone else commented the universe is getting thinner with passing of Warrior, Mick McQuaid to name a couple. A few that do spring to mind are Condor Plug, Yachtsman Plug and any of S.G offerings. I have tried 3P and that is also very good and has the advantage of being readily available over here in the U.S.
I agree. I like my plugs to have the look and density of anthracite.
I haven't tried Yahtsman but it's definitely on my to do list. Sadly it's only available from one place and is very expensive (even by English standards). Still I'd better hurry up and bite the bullet and purchase some because if it's anything like the other great plugs that have bit the dust it could dissappear at any moment with little to no warning.
@smudgersmissingleg - Yachtsman Plug is a very dense plug. When I say dense we are talking having to use a band saw of CnC machine to slice the damned stuff up. If you can get beyond that it is a very interesting smoke and sort of reminds me of Mick McQuaid on steroids. I certainly wouldn't knock the stuff but the prep work takes a little dedication. I think that lot in Ireland still sell it although it's certainly expensive as you mention.
My favorite is time tested classic, The Revor plug, I have been told it is made by STG today
You may want to hurry up with the Yachtsman, it's saying it's already been discontinued in the UK stores and the only place you can buy it at the moment is from Ireland.
Yes its been that way for a while, I don't think Yahtsman has been available in the UK for at least a couple of years. Mick McQuaid is also only available from Ireland now, although that's the ready rubbed and not the plug version?.
I'll second Peterson's 3-P and Triple Play. Both instant winners with me. I don't have any of either on hand, which illustrates the point.
It’s funny how that works, isn’t it? ? I just had to order a bit more Irish Flake not too long ago. I’ve been out for a while. Of course after I placed the order I remembered I was out of Erinmore Flake too. ?
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