STG closes Mac Baren and Sutliff

[woodsroad]

So if I get 5lbs now it won’t be a tidy mylar’d brick?

I don’t follow you.
I ordered this a few days ago from TobaccoPipes.

 

[Chasing Embers]

So if I get 5lbs now it won’t be a tidy mylar’d brick?

Only the flakes.




Ribbons are packed in 1 pound thin plastic bags.

 

[woodsroad]

I recall reading nearly 30 years ago, of all places Cigar Aficionado, that the large bags are made of a type of plastic that is not as permeable as regular plastic bags. Supposedly the contents will stay fresh for up to 5 years.

Not that I would leave it sit around in a bag for 5 years.

Mylar is more stiff than plastic.

Mylar IS a plastic.

 

[craig61a]

Mylar IS a plastic.

So are the PVC pipes in my house… What’s your point?

 

[sittingbear]

There’s dick posts, and then there’s dick posts.

 

[romaso]

Many never post on there like my recently received 10 pounds of Blend 307.

How do you store the 5 lb bricks?

 

[Chasing Embers]

How do you store the 5 lb bricks?

They're large flakes. I cut them into thirds and jar them.

 

[RMGadelha]

Hell of a time to have Old Dark Fired as my second favourite blend ever. And no, I cannot stock it. Not only is it hard to find specific non-aromatic/premium pipe blends in Brazil, it's also too expensive. I only buy one tin every six months or so.

 

[rondyr]

This hurts my effing heart. More than a couple of us were a bit concerned when STG bought Mac Baren and Sutliff and it now looks like our concerns were founded.

Wish to the Lord that I were rich and could buy these companies myself and keep them going, and keep their employees working! A bunch of us need to all win separate lottos and then pool our millions together and buy all tobacco and pipe manufacturers that we can and keep them alive!

Sh*t, I hate this crap. I hate seeing valuable companies get shut down because their parent companies don’t find them as ‘valuable’ as we do, and I hate that good men and women lose their livelihoods as a result.

 

[Chasing Embers]

as ‘valuable’ as we do,

As a whole, tobacco users are becoming a smaller and smaller proportion of the population. An inevitable decline of the tobacco market to an even larger niche market is already on the horizon. It will probably fall to many just growing their own in just a few decades.

 

[karam]

I'm not in danger yet

Yet you are, is my point :/

Personal experience: I’ve lost access to favourites four times already, the last one ongoing. If pipe smoking is a great pleasure for you, one that you don’t want to give up or compromise on then stock up

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yet you are, is my point

I'm not.

 

[karam]

I'm not.

Yeah I don’t even know how you guys with the STONKING big cellars keep track. When I dig into my drawers, about 20lbs of tobacco overall, I sometimes go “oh, didn’t even remember I had that!”.

 

[Sigmund]

Some guys have spread sheets or computer programs.
I have a drawer an self as well. Im soon going to move the stash to the basement on a nice shelf and orgainze it.
Its dry and a nice constant temperature.
Im not going for a wide cellar. Im going for as deep as I can afford and bring in. Obtaining is the more diffiuclt part.
If I can get a lot of about half a dozen blends Im good

 

[f4phantomdriver]

Sheesh. You want all the answers? Go talk to a priest! The rest of us only have partial knowledge.

Gfu

 

[Stah]

Yeah I don’t even know how you guys with the STONKING big cellars keep track. When I dig into my drawers, about 20lbs of tobacco overall, I sometimes go “oh, didn’t even remember I had that!”.

Quite easy. Short version ;-) Storage - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B7PjeJk6Zb4P67cmjqjdNnfr-gto7TYhLqxD0IyxTHQ/edit?pli=1&gid=0#gid=0
Just doing it every purchase and opening of the next tin.

About MB/Sutliff - I'm worring about bacco source for blenders much more than about the tins. I smoke C&D & Kopp production mostly, so I can spend the rest of my life without MB tins or pouches - pound of DTRC, CBRC and ODF (each) would be enough for me for yeaes. But I'm afraid that Peretti and Wilke I consumed "for desserts".

 

[pappymac]

Some guys have spread sheets or computer programs.
I have a drawer an self as well. Im soon going to move the stash to the basement on a nice shelf and orgainze it.
Its dry and a nice constant temperature.
Im not going for a wide cellar. Im going for as deep as I can afford and bring in. Obtaining is the more diffiuclt part.
If I can get a lot of about half a dozen blends Im good

I have a small footlocker and a drawer in a filing cabinet. The blends I am actively smoking are kept in a desk drawer where I can easily reach them.

 

[Pipke]

Yeah I don’t even know how you guys with the STONKING big cellars keep track. When I dig into my drawers, about 20lbs of tobacco overall, I sometimes go “oh, didn’t even remember I had that!”.

Spreadsheet. Google Sheets is convenient because I can use either a work station or my phone. I made an inventory yesterday, and like you it's about 20 lbs.

 

[jguss]

Yeah I don’t even know how you guys with the STONKING big cellars keep track

That’s the job of an Oxonian valet I found on Facebook Marketplace. He’s not very intelligent of course, and I have to cane him for the frequent mistakes he makes. Honestly I think that’s why he took the job. When my arm gets tired my wife takes over. When we’re both tired we pull in any random person off the street. Yesterday it was an Amazon delivery guy. Before that it was James Woods.

 

[Worknman]

STG has been on a tear. If Im not mistaken they also bought out some popular cigar brands over the last few years.