Questions for Leonardw

[telescopes]

@leonardw

Blends to keep:

507C
515RC
Blending Latakia
Blending Perique
Maryland
Blending Turkish
Blending Smyrna
White Burley
Green River Cavendish

There are a few other blending tobaccos I would recommend, but I strongly encourage STG to keep these product lines. I am sure there are a few more essential blends that B&Ms, home blenders, and micro blenders would also recommend, but the above list are ones that Sutliff provided that I and others found to be essential and key to working up with other blends.

I imagine Sutliff Frosty Mint will be on the chopping block. That is sad - most people really are unlearned about how it can be used to add a nice kick to other blends.

Thx.

Cochise, aka Telescopes

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

If the deciding factor for what stays and what goes from Sutliff's product lines is that they sell 1,000 pounds or more a year I'm hoping that a lot of their blending components will remain, since it seems like the majority of smaller blending houses in the US make use them so I'd imagine that they move the volumes required to stick around.

Outside of the Virginias like 507C and 515 RC-1, the one blend I'm really hoping sells enough to stay is Pumpkin Spice. I'm not usually much for wet and goopy aromatics, but man do I ever enjoy Sutliff Pumpkin Spice in the autumn; and I suspect that it's the main ingredient in Straus's Sleepy Hollow.

 

[anotherbob]

Just realized that unlikely Leonard made a bet that he could get someone person to buy 1000 pounds of their least popular blend. Unlikely but possible.

 

[jdlander]

Just realized that unlikely Leonard made a bet that he could get someone person to buy 1000 pounds of their least popular blend. Unlikely but possible.

I'm heading to buy 1000 pounds of Sutliff Frosty Mint right now. That will probably last me a couple months or so.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Do you know the fate of the rolling machine and cutter at the MacBaren facility that make all the roll cake/small coin cuts in their portfolio?

Are those big enough sellers to move the equipment to the STG Denmark facility or are they all likely to be culled as too finicky to earn space in the combined factory?

It’d be nice if the MacB equipment adds to STG production, but keep in mind they already make P Stokkebye and Newminster rolls.

 

[chilllucky]

It’d be nice if the MacB equipment adds to STG production, but keep in mind they already make P Stokkebye and Newminster rolls.

I did not know that, thank you for reassuring me that spun coins, my all-time-favorite tobacco preparation, will likely live on.

 

[Zamora]

@leonardw Do you know that the plans for the Sutliff Krumble Cakes are? I really like the VaPer one and was already stocking up before the merger but I haven't been able to get ahold of any since the news

 

[yardjocky]

@leonardw Do you know that the plans for the Sutliff Krumble Cakes are? I really like the VaPer one and was already stocking up before the merger but I haven't been able to get ahold of any since the news

We will probably learn all this next year

 

[telescopes]

I'm heading to buy 1000 pounds of Sutliff Frosty Mint right now. That will probably last me a couple months or so.

1000 lbs of Frosty Mint would contribute to 8000 lbs of tobacco as a blending agent and would be popular in many ethnic communities.

 

[Sobrbiker]

1000 lbs of Frosty Mint would contribute to 8000 lbs of tobacco as a blending agent and would be popular in many ethnic communities.

Kool!

 

[AroEnglish]

Probably going away but match 759 is the bomb. C'est la vie

 

[KennethR]

I’m a new pipe smoker and really enjoying this thread on Sutliff, MacBaren and STG. Thanks @leonardw for the insights.

 

[irishearl]

Probably going away but match 759 is the bomb. C'est la vie

I almost never have a hankering for latakia, but, when I do, it's 1 of my 2 favorite latakia blends.

 

[Mike N]

Leonard—I may have missed it in this lengthy thread, but are you able to clarify which domestic retail website(s) STG will use going forward? Are there currently 3 — Pipes & Cigars; Cup O Joes and TobaccoPipes.com— now under the STG umbrella? Thx.

 

[yardjocky]

Leonard—I may have missed it in this lengthy thread, but are you able to clarify which domestic retail website(s) STG will use going forward? Are there currently 3 — Pipes & Cigars; Cup O Joes and TobaccoPipes.com— now under the STG umbrella? Thx.

I think he said it but I could be wong. I didn't go back and looked but I belive it's just gonna be pipes and cigars.

 

[Terry Lennox]

The takeover of Mac Baren by STG probably means the end of square flake tins. Capstan will come in a round tin like Peterson Flake once they change factories I suspect.

 

[sablebrush52]

The takeover of Mac Baren by STG probably means the end of square flake tins. Capstan will come in a round tin like Peterson Flake once they change factories I suspect.

That's an improvement.

 

[OzPiper]

I'm heading to buy 1000 pounds of Sutliff Frosty Mint right now.

Brobs, where are you ?
We need you back on the Forums to keep Frosty Mint in production

 

[Sobrbiker]

@leonardw-if PipesAndCigars is going to be your online retailer, much improvement needs to be made. Over the past two years Tobaccopipes’ service has been excellent for me, whereas P&C has been so unsatisfactory that I quit using them (even when their prices were significantly better).

 

[Terry Lennox]

I'm old enough to remember when CupoJoes was a family run business (before the divorce) and they had one of the greatest selections of pipes. Page after page of Dunhills. I think they were awarded a retailer of the year by Dunhill in maybe 2009?