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Review of GH Coniston Cut Plug – A Tale of Betrayal
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Quality control is challenging now day's. I respect Mr and Ms. Commitment.
That was the original Gallaghers 1930s advert with the old guy putting his arm around a young man in overalls cutting up a War Horse Bar outside of a ship yard with the reworded caption 'Piss off you old pervert' and then followed by the famous advertising slogan. War Horse. Tastes like shit. Buy some!Sounds like the old guy/young man awkwardly homoerotic advert that was considered for STP’s War Horse
I never understood putting writings like these in reviews.
You know I just don't think I would have made it on Madison Avenue working in advertising! 
Thats an original pack of War Horse I handed out to people on here. Simong had the last one which I think he smoked last Xmas.
You do realise this is made from a plant that may have had more sunshine, less water, grown in a different paddock, missed a fertilizer application, was harvested late because of rain, sat in a shed for an extra month because of a supply chain issue. Just one of these things would change the flavour profile of a certain tobacco let alone 2 or 3 or all of them. I’m damn amazed that blenders can even replicate year on year something with a close approximation to last years!
Well OP, that was very well written and vividly disenchanting, and I’m a bit of a masochist that’s wondering if you could summon up something else similar for other favorite blends of mine.
Sounds like the old guy/young man awkwardly homoerotic advert that was considered for STP’s War Horse
I never understood putting writings like these in reviews.
Stoppit! I nearly wet myself laughing!
All that ^^^^ and then some.
I was talking to Mike McNeil the other day about the gazillion processing steps between plants in the ground and what ends up in the customer's pipe, and it is absolutely mind blowing.
The variables + the complexities + the requirements make you wonder how it ever gets done at all.
The only thing MORE mind-blowing is how people who haven't a clue whine and bitch incessantly about the companies who wrestle that bear, Monday-morning-quarterback-style.
George, that last paragraph says it all really. Until we spend a week in their shoes, let alone our whole working life, then we aren't privy to speculation.
And by we I mainly mean the OP and any other poor souls who feel they are entitled to anything.
That I just don't get.
And by we I mainly mean the OP and any other poor souls who feel they are entitled to anything.
That I just don't get.
I can never look at War Horse the same again and I get why it wasn’t called “plug”
Different sourcing, different components and the difference in "quality" may just be a difference and not a matter of less or more. All Virginias are not alike, nor do they respond to the same processing in exactly the same way. When you have contracts to deliver by specific dates, and a supplier craps out on you, you do the best you can given the situation. Unless you have only worked on simple stuff, the unexpected happens.
We're in a period where less tobacco is being grown, suppliers leave the market to grow something else, supplies are less predictable, and weather can play merry hell.
How do I know this stuff? I talk with blenders and have done so for years.
Actually, some of their equipment is more than a century old. They have also added more modern equipment, which results in the need to tune processing to get as close to the same result as possible. Germain's has gear approaching 200 years of age because it produces a result that they want. You can't just order tobacco processing equipment out of a Sears catalog, especially as they no longer publish one.
Never heard her say that, just that she gets a bit testy when asked the same thing over and over and over again by people who don't actually blend tobaccos in a factory but assume that they know more about it. The Pipes Magazine forum is becoming legendary and not for positive reasons.
That's good, because you would get absolutely nowhere with that.
Of course they do, but it would carry more weight if these people also respectful rather than accusatory, and/or were experienced at dealing with the complexities of the process, were knowledgeable about the realities of tobacco sources, brokers, supply lines, and other practical issues. Bitching is easy.
At least you have choices other than 1Q, for now.
Some years ago, I was asked by Simon to come up with an ad campaign for Warhorse Bar. I submitted this, but for some reason I don't understand, the reaction was somewhat less than enthusiastic.
So……anybody else in the mood for Brown Flake?
@gawithhoggarth will tell you: You’re imagining it all. The blends haven’t changed in 3.2 million years.
Since when do Lithuanians speak with a … southern dialect? From a woman who poses as a backwoods southerner to Eastern Europeans who write using southern accents, this forum has it all.
Life is full of these little conundrums. I was told today that the latest crypto crazy meme coin called Fart Coin is trading at $2 plus dollars, has no application and was dreamed up by 2 AI programs with a gazillion dollar market value and we are worried about Coniston Cut Plug!!!
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