That's very surprising, I wonder if they produced a lot more of it than anything else. It certainly comes up on consignment fare more often than any over McC blend other than maybe Christmas Cheer.
What Will Be The Most Sought-After Sutliff Blends 5 Years From Now?
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Not mine. Crinkle flake is the only blend that comes to mind for cult like status for me by sutliff. You should of bought the dip 6 months ago.This one blew my mind. TP and CoJ were giving the 2023 tins away for $5 a pop six months ago.
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Frog Morton was very popular, though I didn’t much care for it.
The rarest of the main McC blends is the 40th, since there was only the one run.
Give it a few more years and it will be stupidly expensive.
I thought so. Back when I was first getting into pipe smoking I did a lot of research on blends before I diversified from OTCs and Frog Morton kept getting mentioned, I was very disappointed to learn those were old lists and videos and it hadn't been available in years. At this point any surviving McClelland blend has at least 6 or 7 years of age, which no doubt perpetuates their reputation for being exceptional to anybody trying for the first time from a consignment tin.
In 5 years, I will be seeking most Sutliff blends, as I don't have the means currently to stock up. lol
I agree, it will be the match blends that will be missed. And many of the Russ Ouellette creations.
I agree, it will be the match blends that will be missed. And many of the Russ Ouellette creations.
There's something about that first experience, when it's really good, that is difficult to repeat. That goes with tasting things as well as accomplishing things.
I've only smoked one tin of Firestorm, but I rank it as one of the best tasting blends I've tried. It may have been just that I was in a very receptive status?
I enjoyed that first tin of Escudo more than any of the others I've smoked.
The codger blend, is a simple, mild, lightly topped burley/va that you smoke repeatedly and find various flavor components depending upon your set and setting. It is a blend that delivers consistently, a comfortable, flavorful, and mild smoke that is dependable and easily obtained. Like Dodo bird feathers.
I've only smoked one tin of Firestorm, but I rank it as one of the best tasting blends I've tried. It may have been just that I was in a very receptive status?
I enjoyed that first tin of Escudo more than any of the others I've smoked.
The codger blend, is a simple, mild, lightly topped burley/va that you smoke repeatedly and find various flavor components depending upon your set and setting. It is a blend that delivers consistently, a comfortable, flavorful, and mild smoke that is dependable and easily obtained. Like Dodo bird feathers.
As did I. And I actually OPENED AND SMOKED through a tin of it in December. What was I thinking?!
What was the tin that Sutliff produced in 2023.. I thought it was the 20204 Cringle flake and Krampuschnuat.
The Sutliff 5100 tinning was earlier than 2023, maybe the year before. In any event Sutliff found a quantity of some description and tinned it, selling it at the Richmond show for "regular" retail as opposed to "collectible" retail. I was gifted with a couple of tins of it, which is how I know it was earlier than 2023, unless Sutliff repeated the gesture that year.
Guessing what will be collectible is anything but certain. Since Cringle Flake has already shown some wings it might as well be one of them. The association with Christmas blends, and thoughts of McClelland Christmas Cheer, probably won't hurt its chances. The more limited Krampus might be more the collectible.
Or it could all just go to hell in a hand basket.
Correction - It was Oct2021 when Sutliff had the 5100 tins at the CORPS show.