Peterson 3P's Peterson Perfect Plug

Peterson’s Perfect Plug (3P’s) is anything but perfect.

I enjoy a couple other Peterson’s tobacco blends, and after having read reviews stating (3P’s) is similar to University Flake, a tobacco which I thoroughly enjoy, I decided to give 3P’s a try.

The tobacco comes in a small, pressed “brownie”, wrapped in plastic, and packaged in an oversized round tin. The tin note was faintly fruity and a little sweet. I used a sharp razor knife to slice off a few thin flakes which I noted were dark and oily. I then further prepared the tobacco by throroughly rubbing out the flakes, which were extremely moist. From my experience with University Flake, I found it benefits greatly from drying time. In this instance I let the rubbed out 3P’s sit on a tray for approximately 45 minutes before packing my pipe.

Lighting the stuff proved more difficult than it should. Once lit, some of the fruity topping was discernible, but quickly turned into a rather bland and uninteresting sort of smoke, similar to Orlik Golden Sliced, which I also don’t care for. Occasionally I noticed burley notes appear, although they were mostly bitter and slightly acrid. About two thirds of the way through the bowl and quite a few relights, I noted some gurgling in a briar that is otherwise a fairly dry smoker. I decided I had enough and emptied out my pipe, to discover a wet, goopy mess left in the bowl. Without hesitation, the remainder of this tobacco found its way straight to the trash bin.

I have to say, I don´t understand this tobacco. It says that the experienced pipe smoker will enjoy it; that must be it, I´m not experienced and didn´t enjoy it. I have smoked it right of the tin and it takes an awful long time to lit, it falls dull in the taste and I have to re-lit numerous times; its just not pleasant. Now, I have read that this tobacco gains more on the dry side, so after a few bowls with no success I´m going to let it dry some and age it for a few months (6-8), I will then come back to it and see what is all about, because so far I´m not impressed.

This is the first plug in our till recent times short suplied tobacconists.The first and maybe the last,the leaf is of reasonable quality but the casing,my God it remembers me the Mac Baren floral soap.After the lovely job of cutting the plug and a little air and sun,inside several Peterson fine briars,the only I can say is that is a grizzly offense against defenseless pipes.Obviously IMHO.We need real tobacco plugs instead of soapy bricks.

Has a foul aftertaste like that of common house blends found in most pipe and cigar corner stores. This is my first plug tobacco and a fun experience up until the aftertaste.

Awful. Just bloody awful. I wish I could think of something nice to say about this tobacco but I would be forced to lie to do so. With thirty five years of pipe smoking behind me this is one of the very few tins of tobaccos that I simply could not finish. I'm struggling to find the words to describe the taste of this "Perfect Plug". The closest I can come is a charcoal briquette covered in road tar. I enjoy some of Peterson's offerings on regular basis but for my taste this one is just horrid.

A rep for Peterson gave me some of this tobacco to try when it was first introduced. I put it out shortly after. By far one of the worst blends Peterson has come up with. Not impressed at all. Had little flavor and when I did get flavor, it was like a cardboard box steamed with 3 week old dishwater.

Harsh? Ya, it is, but it's honest. I am glad I tried this before I bought it.

~Old Toby

I was suprised at how small the block was when I first opened the tin but once sliced and rubbed this tobacco expands nicely to fill your bowl.

A simple, bite free, no nonsense tobacco. The fruitiness here is more green than most; apples, kiwi, star fruit etc. Which is kind of interesting...kind of.

It just gets a little monochromatic and repetative after a while. There's better plugs about.

For your info. Mick McQuaid now out of production ( read the listings foot notes). The Scandinavian Tobacco Group strike again. They make 3 P's, they also make MM.....you best get STG's opinion in a review....it seems they know what we like....better than we do.

I tried it straight from the tin, dried, cubed, sliced, ground up a bit, chopped, etc etc etc and nothing would get rid of the horrid used charcoal, it tasted and smelled like i licked a recently used charcoal (including the bite) i had to work so hard to keep it lit at times, and others it just burned too hot and tasted terrible. The only citrus or fruitiness i tasted was lemons, lemons zested over charcoal.