Troost Discontinued.
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Sutliff does make a Match of Troost Aromatic. It's pretty decent. Here's my review of it:
The gold cavendish has citrus and honey bread notes with a touch of grass. The topping is mild butterscotch and caramel sweet, and mildly fruity. As cavendish tends to burn hot if puffed fast, you may consider sipping it, though it really doesn’t need to be babied much. The original has a little deeper flavor, but it’s bitey if you puff very fast, and can lose just a little of its flavor when that happens. The latter two observations are not true of the Match, which is much smoother, will not bite, and is fairly close in taste to the original. The flavor doesn't weaken near the finish or if you puff beyond a moderate pace, which can happen to the original, especially if the tobacco is dry. The course cut of the tobacco is the same. This is an all day mild product that burns well and even with hardly any moisture at the bottom.
The gold cavendish has citrus and honey bread notes with a touch of grass. The topping is mild butterscotch and caramel sweet, and mildly fruity. As cavendish tends to burn hot if puffed fast, you may consider sipping it, though it really doesn’t need to be babied much. The original has a little deeper flavor, but it’s bitey if you puff very fast, and can lose just a little of its flavor when that happens. The latter two observations are not true of the Match, which is much smoother, will not bite, and is fairly close in taste to the original. The flavor doesn't weaken near the finish or if you puff beyond a moderate pace, which can happen to the original, especially if the tobacco is dry. The course cut of the tobacco is the same. This is an all day mild product that burns well and even with hardly any moisture at the bottom.
I'll not rue the loss except for the impact on fans of the blend. "Troost" was the only blend that I found totally unpalatable. Way too much sweet flavor for me.
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On occasion I've enjoyed Troost Special but it does need slow puffing as it can bite pretty harshly. I used to smoke a lot of it in the 80s but the current blend never lived up to the Troost of old; at least not for me. I never cared much for the aromatic - a bit artificial and bitter to my tastes. I did try the slices and found them to be identical in tin note and taste to the aromatic version in a pouch, and after 3 tins never reordered. I did manage to get a very old tin of the slices from pipestud a while back and it was an entirely different animal from the current formulation as it was more chocolaty in taste and very good. About 2 years ago I scored 6 unopened, wrapped in cellophane pouches of Troost Special Cavendish off of ebay. They were from the 1970s. I opened one and found it to be sublime. Very tasty and not as much bite as the current. It was more like what I remembered from the 80s. All in all, having smoked the original Von Rosem produced Troost, I'm not all that upset that the STG version will be no more.
Ive gotten away from Troost and pouches smoking more flakes lately however it is on my list of fav pouches early on.
I just ordered 5 pouches.
I just ordered 5 pouches.
Early on in my pipe smoking, a lot of the guys on a long since gone forum I used to hang out on loved Troost. Since then it seems I never even saw the name come up anymore. I never cared for it but it is disappointing to see a classic go.
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