For those that have regularly been smoking J.F. Germain & Sons blends over the years, have you seen changes in the quality or their sauce as I’d call it for their Esoterica, the fermented apricot smell/taste, as well as the quality of how nice the tobacco looks?
I mentioned this below in another post, but that was titled about Ghosts with these blends. This post is about Quality Control.
I wonder if Quality Control is failing a little over at J.F. Germain & Son, because, with no disrespect to them, I just opened a tin of Tilbury from the latest drop, and this is the sorriest/scruffiest looking blend I’ve ever seen.
Lots of stems in it, lots of the cut looking like ragged hay, just a pile of mess thrown together.
Looked like some old ragged Super Value Blend for $2.99 found hanging in a plastic bad in a drugstore, is the best analogy of sorry I can describe for this. Heck, I’ve bought cheap drugstore blends that looked better than this.
Seriously, no one would of ever looked at this blend and said this is a High Standard High Quality blend. This I’m sorry to say, looked as low class and as cheap as they come, really sad.
Also, this has a pretty pungent apricot smell to it, just as strong as Dorchester and Dunbar. I smoked some Tilbury last year given to me. That was a completely different looking/smelling blend. Very nice looking, and sweet VA/Burley, and this one is not nice looking sweet smelling VA/Burley.
I just hope it smokes better than it smells and looks... hmm
So, any thoughts on Germain’s blends from one drop to the next?
I mentioned this below in another post, but that was titled about Ghosts with these blends. This post is about Quality Control.
I wonder if Quality Control is failing a little over at J.F. Germain & Son, because, with no disrespect to them, I just opened a tin of Tilbury from the latest drop, and this is the sorriest/scruffiest looking blend I’ve ever seen.
Lots of stems in it, lots of the cut looking like ragged hay, just a pile of mess thrown together.
Looked like some old ragged Super Value Blend for $2.99 found hanging in a plastic bad in a drugstore, is the best analogy of sorry I can describe for this. Heck, I’ve bought cheap drugstore blends that looked better than this.
Seriously, no one would of ever looked at this blend and said this is a High Standard High Quality blend. This I’m sorry to say, looked as low class and as cheap as they come, really sad.
Also, this has a pretty pungent apricot smell to it, just as strong as Dorchester and Dunbar. I smoked some Tilbury last year given to me. That was a completely different looking/smelling blend. Very nice looking, and sweet VA/Burley, and this one is not nice looking sweet smelling VA/Burley.
I just hope it smokes better than it smells and looks... hmm
So, any thoughts on Germain’s blends from one drop to the next?
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