Update on the STG Closure Of Sutliff and Mac Baren

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Donutslinger

Lurker
Jan 10, 2025
6
13
Beaver, WV
Man, I went nuts when McClelland closed shop. I feel a little embarrassed about it really haha. I’ll probably try to snatch a couple more tins of Sutliff stuff if it comes back available, but I’ll not be going ham like I did then. I’ll smoke what I got til it’s gone, and enjoy it all. That having been said I would like to visit the factory one time before they shut her down for good. Does anybody know if they will be doing any last tours of the factory? Or if it’s even a thing?
 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
45,554
121,119
Mine are the 2023 flake. Says only 5000 were made. Not demure how true it is. Wanting to know how it smokes. How strong it is. Can we complain it to something.
Mine are from 2020. Thousands of tins were produced regularly but labeled in groups for some reason. AFAIK, they're identical blends.
 

Zamora

Part of the Furniture Now
Mar 15, 2023
776
1,918
Olympia, Washington
I haven’t spent a whole lot of time here for the past few weeks, but Sutliff inventory has been pretty wiped out.

Never thought I’d see that.

I’ve got enough cellared.
When the news hit I had three tins of Crumble Kake VaPer in my cellar and I picked up a fourth this week when my local B&M finally restocked. I just bought the first three because I wanted to age them, I wasn't concerned at all that they'd suddenly become unavailable. Now I'm very glad I have them, I'll be aging them for much longer periods than I originally
How will this affect G L Pease and Cornell and Diehl tobacco blends ???
It won't, C&D produces their own tobacco and GLP uses C&D tobacco. It will probably be a boon to them both as people will buy more from them, there's a big push to support them and the other blending houses that aren't under STG. All of the brands Sutliff supplied leaf / blended for will most likely try and get C&D to do it for them but C&D almost certainly isn't capable of helping all of them so who will make it is anybody's guess.