Super Value Buttered Rum

[Amarkey]

This is the first pipe tobacco I ever tried. I have to admit starting off I hated this tobacco and convinced myself that it was picked up off the floor and shoved into a bag.
Fast forward to where I am now in my pipe smoking journey and I have to say its not a bad tobacco. I will say that I have dried the tobacco a good amount and that helped tremendously.
I have very few relights while smoking it and it taste great all the way to the bottom. It doesn't leave my bowl a goopy mess. It's very smooth and mellow, right up there with LL 1-Q. Really glad I gave this tobacco a chance.

 

[mso489]

A buttered rum aromatic doesn't inspire longing in me, but another point you make seems to ring especially true. A lot of the old standard blends burn a hell of a lot better than fancy expensive premium blends much touted and admired. They light up with out a charring light. They burn low and slow without a lot of attention. They burn evenly and often without many or any relights. They give you time and opportunity to think expansively and deeply without directing your attention to the status of the ember. You don't have to cover the bowl with two fingers or grind your mental gears about the depth and rapidity of your breathing. You don't have to center entirely on the process of smoking and can enter the serenity and ritual of it instead. You might tamp once or twice, to even up the ember, but you needn't conduct a tamping workshop.

We all like to pop a new tin of primo blend with choicest leaf, pre-aged, and lovingly assembled. But how does it burn? How much time do you have to devote to the rest of the pipe smoking experience? I'm not adverse to putting some work into getting a good smoke. If things don't work out with a particular cut, I will rub it out some more, or use a hand grater to bring the pieces to a more even burn.

But an even and continuous burn is important. And many of the old standard blends offer this, and many of the fancier blends don't. And the old standards often cost half as much. Think about that next time you are putting together an order for tobacco. What do you want out of your hard earned yen?

 

[Amarkey]

@mso489 you are very right. I had convinced myself starting out that it was not good because it wasnt a top shelf tobacco. My lack of smoking experience at that time played part in that as well. Add that all up and toss in bad smoking experiences and its easy, for me, to look back at why I thought it was a garbage tobacco. Honestly it makes me wanna give a few of their other blends a try. For how cheap it is and local availability makes it nice.

 

[shanez]

I've not had this particular blend but I enjoy Sutliff Buttered Rum on occasion.

 

[Lumbridge]

Try the Smoker's Pride Rum Cured. Nice butter rum/butterscotch flavored burley. Takes me back to when I started with pipes a few years ago - it was the second blend I tried. Smokes cool and easy in a cob, no drying needed.

 

[canucklehead]

I've not had this particular blend but I enjoy Sutliff Buttered Rum on occasion.

It's the same blend, also sold as Backwoods Buttered Rum where I live.

Backwoods Buttered Rum - SUTLIFF

Backwoods Buttered Rum Pipe Tobacco is a blend of sweet Virginia and nutty Burley enhanced with New England and Jamaican Rum flavors.

sutliff-tobacco.com

 

[Coreios]

Super Value was my first too. I liked it, now though not so much. But I do still like cheap bulk tobacco just not those or at least not as much.

 

[kcghost]

If you like it, then it's okay with me.

 

[Grangerous]

MSO is right. As much as I enjoy C&D blends for a change of pace, nothing is more satisfying than my simple, easygoing favorite straight from the tub. If you know you like something, you’re far ahead of the game. Enjoy!

 

[shermnatman]

The Super-Value line does not spend much, if any, time in my pipe bowls any longer; however, there was a time when first exploring pipe tabaks that I tried everything S-V offered. As I recall some of the stand-outs were: Bourbon Whisky Cavendish and English Mixture.

I think the S-V line play a very important part of the journey for a beginning pipe smoker as they are first exposed to pipe tabaks; and if they stick with it, move onto to more pure tabak blends. - Sherm Natman