Sutliff Tobacco Company Apple #208

Smoking now.

Bag note has a mild sweetened aroma. Not detecting any apple sort of smell.

Came pretty wet and this has sat in a plastic bag for a few months. I dried it out a tad bit in a toaster over, which did make it smell like apples.

The taste is, burley. An earthy, slightly woody burley. Not getting much of a nutty flavor or any apple flavors. What I do get is puffs of very sweet like sugar taste I assume from the cavendish and or the topping. I would describe it as sprinkling sugar over some Carter Hall. When I do get that sugar taste it’s rather nice, however mainly I get a one dimensional burley tobacco. Having smelled this in the toaster oven after leaving some more in for “too long” it did have a nice apple smell so people around you would probably like it.

If you want a sweet burley based tobacco that smells great around people this is for you, if not I would pass.

This is in no way a match for Middleton's Apple! Middleton's tasted and smelled like apple! It was fresh and clean and happy. This 208 crap is dust off your shoes. If anything 208 is just a vanilla Cavendish and nothing else. Apples not included.

Moisture content was perfect when received. No tongue bite. I wouldn't call this an aromatic. I might have been able to detect the SLIGHTEST hint of apple when I exhaled thru my nose. I just tasted tobacco, reminding me of Carter Hall.

This doesn't taste like apple to me either. It tastes of cheap Burley, and I won't fool with this again. It is a fixture in a chain of tobacco shops where I live. If they don't start carrying better stuff, they will certainly go under...

Try as I might, I just couldn't connect with this one. The idea of apple sounded strangely interesting. Too bad I still don't know how that tastes - I never detected a trace of apple. What little taste there was, was just mild Burley.

About like Price Albert or Grainger, but only about 25% of the flavor.

I couldn't detect any apple flavor in the pouch aroma, the room aroma, or the taste. This tobacco is just sweet in the aforementioned categories.

The tobacco burns fairly well without gooping up the pipe. This is a tobacco with a nice room note, but it's just too plain and unimpressive for my tastes.

So this is what a cheap aromatic tastes like when they forget to add the casing? Seriously, this is more of a burley blend with a tiny drop of apple flavor. And It doesn't do that right either, unfortunately. It's fairly low quality burley, with the slightest bit of Cavendish in there for a richer smoke. The apple is barely there.

Bottom line: forgettable blend

Once again, I'm out in the garage and getting a double whammy: not enjoying the Houston heat, and not enjoying my smoke.

Sutliff's #208 Apple is, unfortunately, not a winner. I'd just tried their Cinnamon Delight and Black Spice and liked both. Apple, though, doesn't cut it.

The aroma in the baggie was nondescript and almost non-existent.

The taste was, well, very much nonexistent. Nothing in my Charatan Mayfair prince and nothing in my Peterson Killarney 406.

The Charatan is a nasty pipe. Nothing tastes very good in it. But I keep hoping. However, when there was nothing in the Killarney -- I knew this was a dud blend.

Now, the smoke was not harsh. It was quite mild. But my old taste buds just weren't able to pick up any flavor. At all. Which is a pity. I really like apples.

So into the reject box it goes. Might mix it with something. Have to think on that.

Stay tuned for the next pipe smoking garage adventure. Hopefully, it will be a better trip.

As a newer pipe smoker, I am mainly exploring the different blends (I favor aromatic blends, although I am dipping my toes into the non-aromatic blends now) to find what I like. Maybe I got a bad bag of this, but there was no "apple" in the tin/room note or in the flavor. No tongue bite. Was not hard to stay lit, mild tobacco taste, was really happy to get an apple blend but this one fell flat.