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BRG Mixture
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Sutliffe Tobacco Company |
| Blender: |
Altadis |
| Tin Description: |
This pleasing blend of Burley and Virginia is as comforting as a good time spent with your best friend. Perfect for fans of Briggs. |
| Country of Origin: |
USA |
| Curing Group: |
Air Cured |
| Contents: |
Burley
Virginia
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| Cut: |
Coarse Cut |
| Packaging: |
1.5 or 8 oz tin |
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This blend is manufactured by Altadis and sold under their "Sutliff Private Stock" brand. |
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Mild
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| Flavoring: |
Very Mild
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| Taste: |
Mild
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| Room Note: |
Pleasant
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| Recommendation: |
Somewhat Recommended
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pipeofbriaropenfire
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03/29/2013 |
Very Mild
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Very Mild
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Very Mild
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Pleasant
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| Very mild, earthy taste. I found it worth exploring but may not purchase again.
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fowlerken
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07/09/2012 |
Mild
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Mild
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Mild to Medium
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Very Pleasant
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| By far the best I have tried love the mild smoke I get from it and the taste is excellent.Everyone should give it a try!
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DrT999
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02/24/2012 |
Mild to Medium
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Very Mild
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Mild
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Very Pleasant
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| Lovely tin and room aromas, mild in taste. Unlike others, I don't get any vanilla, it seems more in the plum catagory for me. The first third of the bowl seems actually rather unflavored, but the flavor picks up after that. I'd give it a better recommendation for those seeking a mild smoke with a pleasant room note, but it is a rather 'bitey' blend for me, esp. in wider bowls.
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PIE-EYED-PIPER
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06/20/2011 |
Very Mild
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Extremely Mild
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Extremely Mild (Flat)
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Pleasant to Tolerable
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| All I can say about this blend is... DECAYING HAY MEETS VANILLA. This is by far the worst tasting tobacco I've had. This even beats the drugstore cherry flavored tobacco I smoked the first time I picked up the pipe. I don't like wasting anything. However, I had to discard the entire can as it tasted like embalming fluid (not that I've had the pleasure). This is how much I abhor this lousy excuse for a tobacco.
Is there a rating lower than One (1) star? How about "0" star (*) or a negative star (-*)? I think "0" star (*) or negative star (-*) is the proper rating for this tobacco.
WORD TO THE WISE: If a loved one (wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend, "friend", or any family member) gives you a tin of this, RUN FOR THE HILLS! It means they want you to die a pain-twisting, agonizing and horrific death.
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07/12/2010 |
Mild
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Very Mild
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Mild
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Pleasant
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| I included a small tin of this blend in a recent order from Pipes and Cigars. It's a simple all day burley/virginia with a little vanilla added. Nothing special, but still very good. Needs a little drying out of the tin. Better than bulk without the humectants. Burns well. Will buy again. Forget Briggs. A new blend; new friend.
Update: I was too generous with my original rating. This is a 2 star blend.
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BigSwede
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07/01/2010 |
Mild
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Extremely Mild
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Mild
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Pleasant to Tolerable
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| I miss two of the former HOW blends. Revelation and Briggs. Once I started enjoying Briggs it was a daily smoke and there at the end I was buying the 2 ounce cans they were selling off. This stuff ain't it. If you are hoping for a replacement, keep hoping. The cut was different. The taste was different. I'm not clear how they even came up with the idea that it had anything to do with the former Briggs.
That said, taken on it's own merits it's not bad. Mine is more of a ribbon cut. Nice moisture level. On popping the lid theres something.....vanilla?.....certainly not overpowering. It lights easily and does stay lit. Hard to describe the flavor. OK, maybe a tiny bit like Briggs but not really hitting the mark. It's "OK". Not offensive. If you like a very lightly flavored, inoffensive burley smoke, try it.
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happy jack
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05/27/2010 |
Mild
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None detected
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Extremely Mild (Flat)
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Pleasant to Tolerable
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| All I can say is, I had worse VA and Burley blends, rather boring, s nice, moister is perfect from the tin. This could be just my tast, but it is what it is, nothing to write home about, no room note to take you away. Nic is light, no bit, i would not purchase this blend again, perhaps it may have ageing potential, but why bother, not bad, but with the tin I have I will probly finish with a blend. 2 stars Well,...skip that last line, I had to give this one to the to the wast can, had to dump it, O'well, as I have stated before there is no bias with us pipe smokers,Smoke what you like, and like what you smoke. No like here, not even an attempt to blend,...Im sure it will find a home to a "Gent of the pipe",.
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gazpacho
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01/07/2010 |
Mild to Medium
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Extremely Mild
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Mild
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Pleasant to Tolerable
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| I love Virginias and I love Burleys, but this VA/Burley blend didn't strike my fancy.
The tin aroma has a very faint bit of vanilla to it, but what I primarily smell was the burley. Tin moisture was spot on. It packed well and lit easily, but tended to burn hot. In fact, for the 3 bowls I have smoked thus far, I've had to let the bowl go out and cool down before I could continue. It takes a very slight draw indead to smoke this tobacco. The topping/flavoring if there is any, was not noticable in smoking.
This tobacco combination didn't impress me, but that may simply be my pallette. It is a good quality tobacco that will probably find a dedicated group of pipe smokers.
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wosbald
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10/30/2009 |
Medium
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Very Mild
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Mild to Medium
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Pleasant
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| In the tin, the aroma of this mixture of long-cut, fine ribbon along with a niggling portion of plug-cut is of mildly sweet and grassy tobaccos along with a very light wafting of pastry topping (think: BLWB) along with the typically fresh scent of quality white burley.
The flavor tilts primarily towards the light and brown burleys along with a moderate portion of VAs; mostly red, seemingly, with a possible touch of bright. The leaf seems lightly sweetened while the aromatic topping plays a relatively minor role.
BRG Mixture is not a clone of Briggs. It is not even in the ballpark, and to sell it as such is a veritable travesty against one of my favorite blends from the venerable House of Windsor. Taken on its own merits, it is pleasantly mild and smooth, and I must say that I enjoyed it, but its marketplace hype left it laboring under the very shoes that it failed to fill. Try it, but don't expect Briggs. This seemed best in a narrow to medium gauge chamber.
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