Tobaccos Sutliff Tobacco Company - Maple Street (Sutliff Private Stock)

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	JimInks (3047)	2013-08-11		Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

The tin note is rum and maple, and I taste a little rum while smoking it, but maple is definitely the predominant flavor. I get a slight pistachio note or two as well as some earth from the white burley, too. There's a few grass and citrus notes from the grassy, citrusy Virginia. The toppings are the star here. The strength is a couple of steps past the mild mark, while the taste is just past the center of mild to medium. Has little nicotine. Won’t bite or get harsh. Burns at a moderate pace, cool, clean and even all the way to the bottom, never losing flavor. Needs an average number of relights. Leaves little moisture in the bowl. The very pleasant after taste and room notes linger a little, and everybody around me who has smelled it notices the maple and not the rum.

-JimInks

29 people found this review helpful.

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	fr_tom (393)	2014-02-13		Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

The topping is a little heavy for me, but it is tasty and has a pleasant room note. This has been a good smoke, and I recommend it just in general. If you are an aromatic lover, you owe it to yourself to try this.

I taste the burley base and maple is the main flavor in the profile. There may be a hint of rum or caramel in there, but the sweet was not a honey. The Virginia may be contributing to this sweet, but it plays a supporting role and I am not identifying much Virginia here.

I may try thinning this with some blending burley or Virginia just to suit my palate.

18 people found this review helpful.

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	oldcodger (74)	2014-02-15		Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant

Sutliff Maple Street was offered as a replacement for the deceased House of Windsor Mapleton. Maple Street is better. Mapleton was a full aromatic with a predominately maple aroma and taste, with a subsidiary rum note. The same is true of Maple Street. Mapleton also had an unadvertised perique component, and Maple Street does not, at least so far as a can tell, and that is an improvement. The Maple Street room note is pleasing. The maple aroma and taste does call to mind pancakes with maple syrup. The rum, although not front and center, is clearly present.

To enjoy this tobacco you must be one who likes aromatic tobaccos, at least on occasion. (I prefer great variety in my smoking, and I choose an aromatic about one fourth of the time.) The full flavor and aroma of an aromatic comes at the cost of more goop in the pipe. Maple Street is not particularly bad in this respect, but the smoke will be wetter than for a non aromatic. The tobacco used is Virginia and burley, and the burley predominates. But the burley haters by and large do not smoke aromatics either.

A plus for Maple Street is that it comes cheaper than most tinned aromatics. I wavered between a two star and three star rating for Maple Street. I settled on the two star; but it is for me a very high two star.

12 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2009-12-08		Medium to Strong	Medium	Medium to Full	Pleasant

This is truly a superior maple aromatic. I understand why this has more of an appeal than other maple mixtures.This blend uses maple to bring out the natural sweetness of the base tobaccos.This blend yields wonderful Burley/Virginia flavor with the maple as a top note. Th maple remains with you for the entire smoke but does not dominate the flavor of the blend. Truth be told it was very good but not sweet enough for me. If comparing this to Town topic the analogy would be the following: Town topic is a very sweet Log Cabin. Maple Street is more like a raw natural maple sap. Very good blend.

12 people found this review helpful.

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	Jallen49 (25)	2011-03-26		Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

Alright...now I love aromatics, I just do. So, keep that in mind as you read...

This stuff is surprisingly great (especially when I recieved it for free). It tastes great: nice caramel/maple flavoring with a very faint taste of rum (which is hard to detect). No bite, and I ALWAYS get compliments about the pleasing smell. I have tried many of the aromatics that are supposed to be great, but this underdog can hang with the best of them. Smokes clean with no gunk left behind. All in all, a highly recommended smoke for newcomers and veterans alike. Worth trying, and its cheap so you can't lose!

11 people found this review helpful.

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	PugetPiper (2)	2014-01-19		Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant

I fell in love with Sutliff's Maple Street the first time I tried it (about three years ago). At the time I had been dabbling in pipe smoking off and on for several years, with cigarettes (ugh!) being my regular tobacco product. I was really keen to replace my cigarette habit with the pipe, but frustrations with finding a tobacco that I really enjoyed (i.e., a daily smoke) always caused an eventual relapse to cigarettes. A good part of my frustration, I have since learned, wasn't the fault of the various tobaccos at all - it was my own lack of experience in how to properly smoke, and thus enjoy, the pipe. I wanted a quick, hassle-free and (most importantly) repeatable experience from one bowl to the next and I wasn't getting that. I blamed it on the tobacco and moved blindly from one variety to the next until, finally, I happened upon Maple Street. This tobacco changed the whole pipe smoking experience for me and I attribute that to one reason: I really enjoyed smoking it. So, I stayed with it and, eventually, learned how to get the enjoyable and repeatable experience I was looking for.

Maple Street is my favorite tobacco - period. It has everything I think a good, everyday pipe tobacco should have:

1) its base tobaccos are of a very high quality; 2) its near-perfect moisture content and short ribbon/broken flake consistency tends to load and pack easily, resisting any tendency toward an overly tight draw; 3) it lights easily and, more often than not, stays lit right to the end of the bowl; 4) the maple and rum casing is just strong enough to give it a wonderfully sweet aroma while not overpowering the natural smells and flavors of the underlying tobacco - and the casing is a taste/smell I just don't tire of (unlike those of fruit, candy, etc...) 5) it is remarkably consistent from tin to tin.

Maple Street produces a good volume of creamy, sweet, bready, nutty, toasty smoke and, of course, a wonderful room note that really does smell like natural maple and rum. I find I enjoy it most in a medium-sized bowl (briar or meerschaum, makes no difference) in a 3/4 to full-bent format which places that wonderful nutty, toasty smell of the warm smoke directly beneath my nose. I regularly get a good 35-40 minutes of non-stop smoking pleasure from a bowl of Maple Street on a single light (after 2-3 charring lights).

The only thing I think Maple Street lacks (for me, at least) is a bit more body and nicotine, so I often blend it with other Virginia/burley tobaccos (such as Carter Hall or Sail Yellow - which I also adore, by the way) in ratios of about 2 parts Maple Street to 1 part each of the others.

I can't say enough good about Sutliff's Maple Street - it's just a wonderful tobacco and I hope it stays in production in its current form for a long time to come.

Age When Smoked: New to 3+ Years

Purchased From: www.smokingpipes.com

9 people found this review helpful.

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	ruffinogold (112)	2013-09-09		Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant

It's like smoking the IHOP ! I think it's a damn good Aromatic and would give it 4 stars if it had a bit more body . The room note is great and the taste is very nice . It smokes pretty dry and is very low in nicotine . As with most Sutliff Private Stock blends , it lights and keeps lit well

9 people found this review helpful.

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	ArmedOctopus (20)	2013-12-19		Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant

This is a wonderful tobacco that is perfect for fall or winter. Unlike a lot of aromatic blends, Maple Street does not taste artificial, but instead carries a very nice natural maple flavor. This is good quality tobacco.

TIN: The tin note is exceptional. The smell of the Burley and Virginia mingles very well with the maple topping. I'd even go so far as to say it may even have a touch of vanilla. Fantastic smell. Moist but not overly so.

SMOKING: This cut of this blend lends itself to a nice and easy charring light with little or no effort to keep it burning. The sweet flavor is balanced well by the nuttiness of the burley, with the sweetness coming from both the virginias and the maple flavoring. I did notice a touch of tongue bite, but I was in a hurry and so it may have just been user error. However, it wasnt anything that lingered to the next day. The maple notes come through beautifully and mingle extremely well with the nutty burley. Imagine pancakes with maple syrup and walnuts. If that thought makes your mouth water, this is for you. Oh, and it got no complaints from the wife, so that is a big plus.

7 people found this review helpful.

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	musicman (131)	2013-10-09		Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

I will start by saying I will approach this review as a man who does not often smoke aromatics but understands aromatics as a genre. Those reviewers who continually review types of tobaccos they inherently don't like are doing an injustice to the tobaccos they review. If you don't like the taste of wine, all of your wine reviews would be negative, the same is true for aromatics. Comparing an aromatic to your favorite English blend is an apples to oranges situation.

Being a native Vermonter anything maple catches my interest, as we have the best maple syrup in the world produced in my back yard. I had high hopes for this blend and it didn't disappoint. The tin aroma is heavenly as you would expect, and the room note is very nice too. I really liked the cut of this tobacco, it is so easy to pack and light, and it stays lit remarkably well considering it has that sticky aromatic thing going for it.

There was just a hint of tongue bite, not at all unbearable, and considering other members of the aromatic family I would say the tongue bite is a non issue for this blend.

There is a hint of maple but less than I would have hoped. There was a nice nutty burley undertone that was enjoyable but if I want to focus on burlies I will grab a burley blend, with a blend titled maple street I expect some major maple.

This was a nice blend, and performed very well for an aromatic. I still prefer C&D Autumn Evening when it comes to a maple based smoke, but this one was pleasant.

7 people found this review helpful.

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	TWolf (4)	2013-09-25		Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild	Pleasant

I REALLY wanted to like this one. I really did. I've gone through about half a tin, in four different pipes (briar, cob, meer, Falcon), fresh out of the tin and giving it a chance to dry a bit. And it just didn't click for me. Opening the tin was a beautiful experience. The aroma was, well, delicious. I've smoked Sutliff's Molto Dulche (which I loved) so I was expecting Maple Street to be really wet. It was quite a bit drier in the tin than I expected. It packed well. Lit well. The fist bowl took a couple of relight over the course of the smoke but after that it burned quite well. I've heard so many people talk about how it tastes like pancakes and that the maple really comes through. Sorry but I just did not have that experience. This was one where if I took it extremely slowly and only took tiny sips then I was rewarded with a hint of maple. It didn't seem to take much to push this one too hard. Burley tobacco has a tendency to taste like cigarettes to me and it leaves me feeling (and smelling, and tasting) like I just smoked a cigarette. Sometimes I actually want that but not when I reach for an Aro. Maple Street seems a bit too burley forward for my tastes and I'm not seeing any of the Aro pleasantness I expect when smoking a blend like this.

7 people found this review helpful.

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	Ethan (34)	2013-11-15		Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant

I have had a tin of this sitting around for a little while and just now opened it. The tin note is good. Not too wet and packs nice. Burns kind of fast but not too hot, doesn't get goopy either. The taste is pretty good. Overall, I like this blend and would buy another tin for sure to add to my cellar stash.

6 people found this review helpful.

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	tankbuster183 (5)	2014-02-14		Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant

Like one of the other users mentioned, I want to like this more than I actually do. The tin note is wonderful; I immediately thought of rum cake. I am thinking my tin was on the shelf for a while as there was a lot stuck to the bottom, maybe from casing?

A common complaint with Sutliff seems to be too much casing, I thought threre was just enough on this. The cut is pretty fine and burns very well. I tend to get Burley bite, but that's my own fault because I smoke aromatics too fast, so I can't knock Sutliff for that. I give it a 2 out of 4; nothing to really hate but nothing to really write home about either.

Pipe Used: Nording Freehand

Age When Smoked: +1 year

Purchased From: Greentree Tobacco Sewell NJ

5 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2012-02-11		Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant

Great maple and rum scent from the tin. I was worried about this blend gurgling, it seemed a bit moist at first, no problems though. Tastes and smells like pancakes, a bit strong in the sweetness department for me. I might actually use this blend to add a bit of flavor to some of the Virginia blends that I find too heavy on the burley. Overall, worth a try if you are looking for a sweet way to start your day or just enjoy maple syrup!

5 people found this review helpful.

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	Sorringowl (8)	2010-07-28		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

Just finished my first tin of this and I will probably get more. This is a very pleasant smoke. The room note is very nice and the 1.5 oz tin I got was not damp at all (like so many compressed tins). Packed loosely in its tin, the tobacco has a very fluffy consistency. Easy to pack, easy to light, with big, thick puffs of white smoke. Does not smoke hot at all and the flavoring is not overwhelming (like a lot of aromatics). I have heard better things about the 1.5 oz tin as opposed to the 8 oz tin, so, I will probably stick with that. Perhaps it's because the size of 1.5 oz tin is bigger than most 2 oz. tins despite having less tobacco. This is a good all day smoke and I would highly recommend it.

5 people found this review helpful.

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	modelmanmodels (12)	2009-11-27		Very Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant

This was a situation that surprised me. For starters, when I opened the tin I did not like the smell. I thought I was in for an OMG this is going to be awful...I don't know, we're all different and that's why reviews are interesting to me. Having said that, I stokked a bowl and lit it. WOW! What a surprise! Nothing and I mean nothing like the smell of the tin. Delightful! And a room note that had compliments coming from strangers at the smoke shop that I frequent. This was a "you can't judge a book by its cover" lesson. Most often we are allured by the unlit scent of the tobacco only to find that it tastes like rope and the room note has us being asked to leave. Just the opposite here. I'm a 30 year smoker of pipes. This is a great started tobacco for the neophyte or a nice mild change of pace for the veteran. Enjoy!

5 people found this review helpful.

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	StevieB (2081)	2017-09-16		Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

Sutliff Tobacco Co. - Maple Street.

A medium brown ribbon, with a few light and dark flecks, and is only a touch too moist.

The smoke has a pleasant enough flavour, nothing amazing, but nice. The maple outweighs the rum, easily. The rum gives a touch of rich, molasses, sweetness, but the slightly aromatic maple wins the race. The Burley has a milder character than some of the strong, toasty, rustic varieties, and like the maple with the rum, outweighs the Virginia. The burn from M.S. is a winner, going consistently and cool, but it bites me a bit.

Nicotine: mild to medium. Room-note: nice.

Maple Street: a good aromatic, not spectacular, but I'll give it three stars:

Rcommended.

Pipe Used: Atinok Meerschaum

Age When Smoked: Two months

Purchased From: Smokingpipes.com

4 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2015-07-06		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable

On the dark side color-wise and wet in the tin with a nicely subdued tin aroma of maple with a touch of rum on the side. Appeared wetter than it was, and loading was no problem, with no tobacco sticking to the fingers. Burned really well with no relights.

This was apparently designed as a substitute for Rum & Maple or Mapleton. I've never smoked the former and I strongly preferred Sutliff's Mapleton Match over this one for the latter. Most of the Sutliff's I've tried were gifted to me but I bought this one to see how it compared to the Mapleton Match. This was more of a gooper version (goop perversion?) of the match. Even so, it smoked very dry. I had no issues with moisture. The maple taste was more pronounced in this one than in the match, but it still wasn't heavy. All was well for a short while, but then the chemical taste came on. I get a chemical taste from a lot of heavier aromatics but more often from Sutliff than from, say, Lane's. Even some of Sutliff's non-aromatics have traces of this chemically medicinal flavor. In this one, it negated any of the flavor positives this blend had. Too bad because if that could be tamed, this would be a really nice aromatic... it smoked dry and cool and gave me more than a hint of maple but not too much. But that chemical taste was too pervasive. One star for my personal taste, but this one does some things well so I'm upping it to two stars. For maple taste, I'd recommend C&D's Autumn Evening (on the heavier taste side) or House of Calabash's Canadian Maple (on the lighter taste side) well over this one. I did mix this one with some rougher burley which soaked up some of the chemical taste, but overall I didn't feel this one was worth pursuing any further.

4 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2011-11-08		Medium	Medium	Full	Very Pleasant

I got a tin of this in the mail. It was a free sample and I did not remember requesting a sample from the blender. So I am thinking it was a gift from a fellow pipe smoker. What a gift it was! I opened the tin and Wow! it smelled of maple not overpowering but really nice. I did not know how it would burn as when I opened the tin the tobacco was moist but not wet but wetter than most. Packed great, A faulse light and then a light and a couple tamps and the tobacco stays a light to the end of the bowl. the room note is of sweet maple and really nice to. My wife loved the room note and said I should buy more. sadly I enjoyed it so much the tin did not last long. No worries I plan on this being in my tobacco seller all the time. great smoke and in my veiw a most try for every one who smokes a pipe.

4 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2011-11-07		Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

After reading the other reviews on here I was expecting more from this blend. Althought the room note was quite nice and my wife commented that it was very pleasant and made her hungry , the overall flavor was dissapointing. I will do like this smoke and will continue to order it , I guess I just expected "more" maple.

4 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-05-21		Medium	Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant

Who would have ever thought that Altadis could ever offer a blend that can be compared with the quality of Boswell's, Rich's, Uhle's, or Pipeworks & Wilke. This stuff is fantastic! When I recieved it in the mail the package was labled Altadis and I was apprehensive when I opened it (but hey, it was free). When I saw the can I really liked the looks of it. When I saw the name of the tobacco (Maple Street), I thought it was ironic that I had just ordered some Maple Steamer from Rich's a few moments earlier. When I opened the can I was pleasantly surprised by the aroma of the tobacco but was reluctant to fire it up after all the other disasterous blends I had tried from Altadis. Stuffed a Jobey pipe with it and put the flame too it, set back and waited. WOW - I LOVE THIS STUFF!!! I blowed throught the whole can and was quickly ordering some more. THIS IS AS GOOD AS - AND BETTER THAN MOST AROMATICS ON THE MARKET!!! Just enough of everything and not too much of anything. None of the chemical undertones of all their other blends.

YOU BETTER GET YA SOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAPPY JACK HAS A GREAT DESCRIPTION OF THIS BLEND!

I have to say I have smoked several of the 1.5 oz. tins and a couple of the 8 oz. tins. For some odd reason the 1.5 oz. tins have a much more distict flavor and aroma. I will probably continue to go with the 1.5 tins because for what ever reason they are that much better. The downside is the price is so much cheaper per ounce in the 8 oz. tins.

4 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2009-11-15		Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

I also received a tin of this tobacco free in the mail.

The tin is huge for it's weight. Unlike every other tin I've every seen, the tobacco inside isn't packed tight. Upon openning, you will notice the almost over-powering aroma of the topping. To me, it smelt like a very strong drink of eggnog. The moisture level in the tin was almost ideal for smoking.

The tobacco packed well. The curly cut was consistent, without woody bits or chunks. It took and extra charring light, but once the tobacco was well lit, it stayed lit throughout. The bowl remained cool, until I started to puff away, purposefully trying to heat it up. It eventually did, but cooled back down when I let up on the puffing. Through the entire (large) bowl I only used one pipe cleaner.

The room note is very nice, almost bordering on potpouri. It reminded me of Peterson's Sunset Breeze, just a little lighter. The amount of white puffy smoke was astounding. This tobacco likes to put out the clouds! But the really nice thing about this tobacco was that the topping doesn't smother the flavor. To be honest, I tasted almost none of the flavoring. Instead, I tasted mostly the burley, being remarkable in it's resemblance to Prince Albert.

This is a smooth tobacco that burns cool and (mostly) dry. I would Highly (4 stars) recommend this for beginners as it is very forgiving, with no bad habits. For experienced smokers I'd say it's more like 2.75 stars.

Edit: The sides of the tin are aluminum cover cardboard, so I would recommend against buying tins that have sat on the shelf for a long time. Also I would recommend against cellaring in unopenned tins. Instead transfer the tobacco immediately to a mason jar or bailing jar.

Update 11/30/2009: The tin is gone, smoked up with a friend of mine. Move it up to 3.50 stars for experienced smokers. We each have and 8oz tin on order, and it will probably go into my main rotation. It's just Yummy with no pretensions. Also, it's fabulous in a cob when you are out Trout fishin'.

4 people found this review helpful.

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	Earl Grey (34)	2016-01-09		Mild	Very Strong	Overwhelming	Very Strong

This stuff was cut into a fine ribbon. Upon opening the tin, I was almost bowled over by the maple smell. It smelled like it was soaked in two bottles of Aunt Jemima. Not goopy or sticky for an aromatic. It had good burn qualities and only took one relight after the charring light. It was, however, way too sweet for me. If I want pancakes smothered in maple syrup I'll eat them, not try to cram them into a pipe and smoke them. After a couple bowls, I dumped this stuff into the trash.

Pipe Used: Dr. Grabow, Kaywoodie

Age When Smoked: Fresh out of tin.

Purchased From: B&M Tobacco Shop

3 people found this review helpful.

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	DrumsAndBeer (217)	2015-05-17		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

The flavor of this mixture is delicate and nowhere near as sweet as I expected. Maple Street is moist from the tin and without adequate dry time it can smoke a bit steamy. With a bit of dry time I noticed better balance between the primary flavorings and the taste of the base tobacco.

Overall, I taste more rum than I do maple, with the rum adding a spicy quality to the finish and the maple sweetening the sidestream. The room note is pleasant, definitely a crowd pleaser. Very reminiscent of Tobacco Galleria's Rum & Maple, however Maple Street has a lighter maple flavoring and more rum sweetness.

Typically I don't care for liquor topped blends, but this is nicely done. It's also one of the better performing aromatics that I have experienced and it burns slow and easy with very little dottle left behind.

Pipe Used: Cob

3 people found this review helpful.

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	Gentleman Zombie (729)	2015-04-02		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

I get a little conflict here that puts me off this one. I'm not fond of the way the golden Virginia fits into this blend. It's flavor seems to be at war with the maple in the topping. It's probably a personal thing. Obviously, many people love this blend and that many taste buds can't all be wrong. I'll just pass on this one.

Mild in body. Mild to medium in flavoring and flavor. Burns well straight from the tin.

Pipe Used: MM Diplomat 5th Ave, MM Mark Twain

Age When Smoked: fresh

Purchased From: pipesandcigars.com

3 people found this review helpful.

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	oldorder (22)	2015-02-10		Extremely Mild	None Detected	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Overwhelming

Maple Street, probably my biggest mistake so far in pipe tobacco purchases. My tin opening came across as dry and very neutral. More straw-like, and even less than straw in aroma. Upon searching, just a minute hint of maple. Hydrated, not much improvement. Burnt hot, rough. Room note from wife, burning grass on a hot summer day. Only tobacco so far that I could not recommend to anyone. Really no topping, casing, or flavor noticed...

Pipe Used: Various briars and cobs

Age When Smoked: Very old and dried out

Purchased From: P and C

Similar Blends: Not sure . To rough and bitter to equate to any thing else..

3 people found this review helpful.

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	jfox520 (6)	2013-08-06		Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant

Upon opening the tin the smell of the maple and rum came wafting out. During the charring light there was some crackling. On the true light the maple flavor was prominent. After the first third of the bowl the maple and rum melded together making for a great tasting smoke. From there the flavor stayed consistent. The room note was more the aroma of rum than the maple. The tobacco burned well with minimal re-lights and no tongue bite. The mixture of the golden Virginia and White Burley kept the smoke cool but flavorful. This is a good aromatic not overpowering.

3 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-06-04		Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant

I got a tin of Maple Leaf after reading on Puff.com about a sampler giveaway from Sutliffe Tobacco Company. Upon opening the tin, the smell was exceptional with hints of sweet maple and dark rum. The color was an even almond color throughout the fine cut ribbons and the moisture content was just right. It was loosely packed within the tin, perhaps more so than I normally prefer. However it has fast become a staple of my rotation though I would advise that you let it cure a few days as it seems to burn a bit saturated. The smoke was very cool, almost not bite to the blend. Four stars and perhaps one of the best rum flavored smokes I've enjoyed.

3 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-04-29		Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Very Pleasant

O yea, SPOT ON. If you like aromatics, this is a must. The tin aroma was just as sweet as your first kiss. Moist enougth to hold the casing, yet dry enough so you get a wonderfull tobacco. The tin was filled and the cut was superb. I just got a Nording 5, and I pondered on what I was going to smoke, let me tell you I took a beautifull pipe and filled it with an aromatic!!!, thats a NO NO,. Well it was worth the try. I got such a great full smoke, a great aroma, an easy light,great smoking, roll, sip,inhale, blow big smoke rings, there was a little gergle in the middle, but I let her sit for a minut or 2, and I had only one relight, this is very different, not your average aromatic, I will be keeping this on hand, and plenty of it. 5 stars in my book, I got a lot of virgina outa this, add the blend and you have one heck of a smoke, a great goodnit smoke.

3 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2009-11-06		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant

I got a tin of this in the mail today and I am very surprised at how good it is. Usually anytime Rum or Whiskey is used in a tobacco I can't stand it. I popped open the tin and had a sniff. Wow! Very nice smell to it.

I packed a bowl and had at it. The flavors came through just like sniffing the open tin! Not overpowering at all but rich and light at the same time, and very good. Very good maple flavor and the Rum complemented the overall taste. Just slightly more moist than I normally like my tobacco but only a couple of hours of leaving the tin open has easily fixed that.

I plan on having many tins of this in my tobacco cellar in the very near future. A very nice blend that I will not hesitate to purchase more of. The price is very low considering the high quality and taste. I've looked up the prices online and it's almost a drug store blend price.

My wife likes the room note so much she is encouraging me to buy more!

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	1979 (62)	2017-10-16		Very Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant

Sutliff - Maple Street

After a few years away, I picked up a can this past summer and recently popped 'er open.  Just like I remember it.

At the end of my review for Town Topic I indicated a preference for this blend.  Let me pick up there by saying that on Town Topic the tobacco base has little to no umph factor and the flavoring doesn't have much, at least for the smoker.  On Maple Street, the tobacco base has more zest, and the flavoring is richer, yet mostly overtakes the tobacco taste.  But Maple Street isn't without drawbacks of it's own, mainly that the flavoring can, and occasionally does have a slight chemical overtone, particularly if you chug it up.  This may be more the fault of the glycol than the flavoring itself.  Neither of these blends dry out willingly, and Maple Street tends to leave a bit more moisture at the heel than does Town Topic. Still, I'm going to give the edge to Maple Street.  But if you're looking for a good maple aromatic, check C&D's Autumn Evening.

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	JustDanD (9)	2015-04-25		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

Others have described this better and my short review seems almost an insult to a good blend, but this all I have to say.

This tin was a freebie from a recent online purchase and I am glad it was. In the tin there is a smell of tobacco and maple.. but not the maple syrup kind of maple. It has a very nice aroma. It lit and burned well with the maple still there in the smoke. It is sweet, but not too much. I find it difficult to really describe the excperience with it but I find myself turning to it a few times a week. It is on the good side of aromatics and I am undecided if it will be a regular stock item or not.

Age When Smoked: fresh

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	dixcreek (184)	2015-04-20		Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant

This is another HOW do over, all be it a better one! I do not smoke an over abundance of aromatic blends, and I must say that this one could make me change my preferences! I can honestly say that if I was limited to 2 Aromatics in my collection that this would be one of them. Solid tin note, easily packed, lights well, and smokes well. Solid flavor throughout the boy without the gunky residue from some blends of a similar nature. The room note, wonderful and last a good while as well. reminds me of maple syrup on pancakes with a side of buttered rum. Two wonderful aromas! If you are wanting to try a good aro with out the gunk and the bite, give this a try.

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	Kraken (1)	2015-03-09		Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Pleasant

This is my first review - I appreciate everyone sharing and figured I would do my best to start posting. The most enjoyable part of the bowl is about 3/4 finished - so if you're trying this aromatic for the first time, don't give up on it until you are well into the smoke. To me it is worth the wait. The blend lights easy with not much to offer at first. The smoke is thick in the mouth - room note is nice and definitely smells like pancakes with maple syrup to anyone around. The taste remains very mild throughout and seems to burn hotter than other tobaccos in my cabinet. About 3/4 to the bottom of the bowl the full flavor seems to come together - the maple aroma and flavor with hints of rum is perfect to go along with cold days and a warm cup of coffee. I will keep a tin on hand, but this is an occasion smoke for me - not a daily.

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	Fofo (81)	2014-09-17		Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant

A very good surprise this blend was. Does not have the traditionally chemical flavor Sutliff has (or had, thank god Altadis is out of the pipe tobacco business)

Anyhow, Maple Street is an excellent aromatic. I can very distinctly taste the maple (and I don't mean some vanilla or weird flavor, I mean MAPLE) and, unlike most rum blends out there, I can also taste the rum. Rum and maple is what I wanted and that's exactly what I got.

Additionally, this stuff burns slow and cool.

Did I mention I can taste the rum????

For those who enjoy aromatics (AROMATICS, I don't know what "aeromatics" are, I'm guessing it smells like pilot's cologne) then go ahead and try it.

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	CapnStuby (33)	2014-07-05		Mild	Extremely Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant

This tobacco smells great in the can, but doesn't carry much of the rum and maple flavor into the smoke. It DOES smoke cool, doesn't foul up the bowl and is easy to light. The taste is mostly burley and there doesn't seem to be any Virginia that I can detect in the blend. It's not the BEST smoke, but it's a mild, everyday tobacco that doesn't offend others, burns well and has good value. I paid $3.99 for a 50g tin and that's about the right price point for it. It's better than the Captain Black series and MUCH better than the drugstore stuff that comes in the 1lb bags, but it's not going to win any awards.

Update: My tin might have sat on a shelf or baked in heat for awhile, driving out the flavor. With this in mind, I can't really give a true rating until I get a good sample of it. When I can, I will adjust the rating and update this review, accordingly.

Pipe Used: Brookfield quarter bent

Age When Smoked: fresh from sealed can

Purchased From: Local Tobacconist

Similar Blends: Captain Black White.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2011-10-12		Medium	Medium to Strong	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable

The tin aroma of this long, fine ribbon is strongly imbued with rum and maple to which tobacco scents are mostly subsumed.

This is a rather typical blend of white burleys and bright virginias along with a touch of dark leaf, seemingly black cavendish. The topping, bold and authentic, is dominated by the rum and felicitously enhanced by the sweetening effect of the maple.

Maple Street is a commonly themed aromatic which is uncommonly delicious. Rum and maple, ever excellent aromatic choices, make this a constant and companionable delight. It will definitely ghost a briar and went well in a chamber of any gauge.

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	tleek (51)	2011-09-09		Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant

I have been getting into aromatic blends lately and since my favorite season is right around the corner i decided something maple flavored was necessary. The smell of this stuff is truly fantastic. Im glad i can smell it while i smoke it. The flavor is not as strong as the room note but it still tastes great. Light maple taste and a light burly taste. It is great. Light up a bowl of this close your eyes and imagine your sitting on a bale of hay at a beautiful pumpkin patch. Don't it just take you back. I am going to try autumn evening next but i think maple aromatics and either heavy english or balkan blends are going to be my fall time smokes .

2 people found this review helpful.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2011-07-19		Mild	Medium	Mild	Tolerable

I bought a tin because of the name and description from the manufacture and some of the nice reviews here. But sadly, this is a major disappointment. The packaging is very nice and professional. Smell is fairly good but the rum overwhelms the maple and not very balanced in my opinion.

Taste is mild and not very exciting at all. My wife complained about the room note saying it somehow irritated her throat and she wasn't too fancy of the smell either. So I guess I won't be smoking anymore of it. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone in my honest opinion.

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	EastEndPipes (3)	2011-05-04		Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant

A wonderful aromatic that certainly lives up to its name. A pungent taste of maple lasts throughout the smoke. Burns very well right down to the bottom of the bowl with virtually no relights. Perfect moisture content right out of the tin and therefore I would not recommend any drying out measures. Can bite just a wee bit only if puffed aggrssively. In conclusion this blend is clearly one of my favorites and a mainstay in my rotation.

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	Fountainhead (17)	2011-02-02		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant

This is a decent aromatic. It has no bite or "gunkiness" about it. The maple taste is crafted really well into the mixture and has a beautiful old-time maple syrup aroma. It has a very refined taste and smoking nature, unlike many aromatics I have smoked. I only smoke aromatics in my corn cob (I would also use a meerschaum if I owned one) which tends to tolerate some of the negative aspects of aromatics better than my briar pipes, so I tend to have pleasant experiences anyway. Like all aromatics though, the taste is bland, with a slight hint of the rum.

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	TK Pipe (101)	2010-12-18		Very Mild	None Detected	Mild	Pleasant

Sut. Maple Street.. Tin aroma is sure enough, maple with a hint of alcohol. Moisture seemed OK, but a little airing out never hurts, so I gave it 10 minutes of full sunlight. Followed by fill up and a light tamp in a clean cob. Light up, and the first puffs went as normal, Pulling in those first few puffs, I remarked to myself, this stuff sure is mild, an understatement for sure. OK aroma, but nothing else, just a faint flavor of burley, and I mean faint. Many of my favorite smokes are mild, but they all have at least some taste. This one is just too weak for me, both in strength and flavor. Add to that, the after smoke mouth feel, is similar to how your mouth feels after drinking a strong hot tea, OK for tea, but out of place for tobacco. This combination just does not suit me at all. Maybe the above description is what you have been searching for, if that's the case, your search is over. For me, no more. Because, I may be alone in finding this stuff so odd, 2 stars. My personal rating 1 of 5

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-11-26		Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

Ok first off, I am not quite sure how this tobacco came to me. I have not had any contact with the tobacco company / blender that produces this, much less given out my address to them. So when I recived this I really wasnt sure what to think.

I opened the very large evelope it was in, and saw what it was. I read that it was maple and rum flavored. By far the under statement of the century, by tin aroma anyway. It is so sickeningly sweet in the tin that I literaly had to stuff my nose with cotton to have it open long enough to pack. That being said I tend to dislike extreamly sweet smelling things.

It packed ok I suppose... I was in a hurry to close the tin to be honest. It seemed only a tad bit moist so I set I left the tobacco in the pipe to dry for about 30 minuets.

Start up was easy, With relativly few bad tasteing/smelling amounts of smoke compared to captain black royal (the only other tobacco I have smoked). It didnt seem to burn hot unless I literaly constantly kept puffing. Tounge bite was literaly non-existent with me for this blend. It does seem to burn slightly fast, but I think that was mainly because I was actually trying to get it to bite me.

As far as the flavors go while smoking, it is actually rather pleasent. A subtle spicy ness, fair amount of nutty-ness, a hint of the sweetness of maple syrup, and a dash of what seems to be maple leaves aswell. It is a very good smoke. I only have 1 persons opinion of the room note for now, but that person enjoyed it.

All in all I would have to say that It is a very nicely rounded blend, and I am very lucky to have recived a tin of this, as my cb royal is running low. I would advise smoking it in a clean cob.

3.5/4 stars

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	Xeneize (275)	2010-07-01		Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant

A fine aromatic with a marvelous maple room note and a similar maple taste with hints of rum in the background. It reminds me of Dunhill A-21000, with a woodsier taste and similar cut, smell and burning qualities.

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	Thepipehunter (43)	2021-03-02		Very Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild	Very Pleasant

From the tin the tobacco is ribbon cut, comprised of about three different shades of brown ranging from light, medium, and dark. The tobacco is fairly moist and sticky to the touch. The aromatic aroma is strong. I smell rum with the maple being a few paces behind. There’s is some butterscotch, caramel, and a touch of vanilla the background.

Upon lighting I am greeted by the boozy and spiced rum. The maple is tied with the rum, and directly behind them are notes of hazelnut, butterscotch, and touch of cinnamon, caramel, and vanilla. The toppings bring a lot of sweetness to the blend. At about the halfway mark the toppings fade into a more muted and less distinct overall sweet note leading the tobacco flavor to show through a little better. The burley offers molasses and nuttiness and rounds the flavor profile. Virginias have some light grass and citrus notes, and are a little tart. They have a little bit of a sharp edge but isn’t noticeable with a controlled cadence.

Maple Street stayed lit well, but could get a little warm if puffed fast. That being said, it never bit me. It smokes dry but left a little moisture in the pipe. There is very little nicotine to be found, so most could smoke this all day if they chose to. 3 out of 4 stars.

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	TallPuffO'Burley (633)	2021-01-11		Very Mild	Medium to Strong	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant to Tolerable

This is a decent Maple Aromatic, but it pales in comparison to Autumn Evening and, well, all the other ones that I have tried.

To start, there is no need in discussing the leaf which underlies the maple and rum topping as it is nearly undetectable. As for the texture, it is moist. I never really tried to dry it out as it smoked fine in its moist state. Based on the taste which had a slight chemical aftertaste, I figured it wouldn't really dry anyway.

The topping is mostly maple and that aftertaste which I am pretty sure is the humectant. The rum is not readily apparent to me. My biggest gripe on this other than the chemical taste is the lack of body. This is the epitome of hot flavored air to me. As I got close to the end of the tin I tossed in a healthy share of Perique and it greatly improved the smoking experience.

As to the performance; it performs fine. It doesn't really bite unless pushed (which is easy to do with hot flavored air). It takes and holds a light just fine and, surprisingly does not smoke that wet. It is only based on the performance here, and the fact that some people seem to like hot flavored air, that I am giving this two stars.

Age When Smoked: 5 yrs 3 months

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	Green Leaf (15)	2019-10-13		Very Mild	Mild	Medium	Very Pleasant

Tis’ the season for Maple Street. If someone were to ask me, what’s the ideal morning Vaper I would respond with Maple Street. The sweetness of the Virginias pair well with maple. The Maple itself is not overpowering rather you feel it nudging you in the background as if to say good morning. Regulating your bowl’s temperature is extremely important with this blend as the maple is not a fan of the heat and retreats until the temperature is to its liking. This will leave you with an underwhelming experience. Without maple there is no show. This blend is quite the mood setter. Imagine if you will, outside in the brisk autumn morning with a nice cup of Joe and a bowl of Maple Street while watching the sunrise.

Pipe Used: Corn Cob

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	BrokenRecord (124)	2019-05-29		Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

Sutliff, Maple Street: A Scrumptious Maple Aromatic that Will Bite

The topping is very nice. The rum and maple both are equally present with a generous level of sweetness that pervades the smoke.

To tobacco seems to be made up mostly of lighter Virginia varietals, which offer a grassy notes and some crispness to the smoke. The burley seems to make up about 40% and gives the smoke some body. I really like the choice not to include black cavendish in a maple aromatic. However, this blend bites me badly no matter how slow I smoke it—but your mileage may vary.

Similar Blends: A toned down version of C&D Autumn Evening, but with burley and some bite..

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	CDM Jr. (19)	2019-05-28		Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable

Maple Street came in an attrative 1.5 ounce tin with a plastic top cap that's most effective in keeping air out. Typical of Sutliff aromatics, the tobacco was damp and needed to dry for a week or so.

The artificial Maple flavor is dominant over the walnut. You'll get a good supply of propylene glycol here. Maybe it's just me but I get a slight microwave popcorn aroma that fills the room.

This is not a go-to Maple blend, I prefer Wilke's Vermont Maple thats not over-sauced. Doesn't bit unless pulled, leaves a mess even bristle pipe cleaners won't clean. The Maple flavoring will ghost a briar very badly. Not recommend.

CDM Jr.

Pipe Used: Savinelli Regimental 614

Age When Smoked: Dried for a week or so.

Purchased From: pipesandcigars.com

Similar Blends: Any Sutliff aromatic..

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	PickyPiper (11)	2019-01-29		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant

First off, I just want to comment on how spectacular Sutcliff's packaging is. This was my first experience with them, and I was immediately surprised that straight out of the tin, the tobacco was at the perfect moisture level. I thought the tin wouldn't be a great place to store it, but I saw in a video that apparently the tins hold moisture surprisingly well, and so gave it a try. 3 weeks later, and that tobacco is still moist. It's certainly drier, but definitely not crumbling.

Tin note is fantastic, sweet and deep. The room note is similar, a mixture of sweet rum and maple syrup. The topping doesn't contribute much to the flavor, it's still predominantly tobacco-y, but it definitely lends it a light sweetness that makes it a light and east smoke. Few relights needed, not much moisture left, smokes clean and leaves a powdery ash.

Pipe Used: Bent Apple of unknown brand I use for aromatics

Age When Smoked: Fresh (tin)

Purchased From: Cigar Emporium

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	Rustedrailsmokes (293)	2018-10-14		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant

With fall coming finally to Georgia (Sort of) I've been trying out some fall tasting aros as part of the ritual of the season.

I picked up some MS during a sale at P&C. Couldn't pass it up for the price.

Popping the tin, the smell was pancakes with maple syrup. Tobacco was not overly sticky or wet and easy to pack into a MM Reverse Calabash. Only one light was needed.

This is one to be sipped, that keeps it from burning hot and helps to bring out the flavors. I get maple, but not the rum. Not overpowering, but I do not get much tobacco taste either, which is not a big deal to me when smoking an aro like this.

As long as it is sipped, no tongue bit and cool smoking.

Pipe Used: MM Reverse Calabash

Age When Smoked: new from tin

Purchased From: Pipes and Cigars

1 person found this review helpful.

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	kppeterson (20)	2017-06-11		Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable

Whatever is in these sticky Sutliff aromatics really irritates my tongue and throat. This is not something I can smoke passively or while I'm working outdoors because if I'm not super careful this stuff will literally scorch my tongue. While it's a bit sickeningly sweet the flavor is decent and the Virginia and Burly makes this a slightly better alternative to one of it's vanilla, black cavendish relatives. The smell in the pouch is very nice but the scent and flavor stay with you for quite a while which is really bad for me but maybe good for others. I've had this same pouch of tobacco for 8 to 10 years and it is still sticky and moist despite being left in dry condtions. Leaves the pipe slightly less funky that some other aromatics but funky all the same. Maybe step up from nasty old sticky vanilla black cavendsih and "Somewhat Recommended" to smokers of those types of blends. Absolutely "Not Recommend" to English or straight Virginia purist or anyone that has reactions to PG laden blends.

Pipe Used: Stanwell, CAO Meershcaum, Peterson

Age When Smoked: Fresh to 8 years

Similar Blends: Other Sutliff aromatics..

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	LannarkGent (145)	2016-12-18		Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant

Rum and maple are 2 flavors that add a lot to a good tobacco. The flavor in this blend is consistent and smooth and is a very good somke. No bit, smooth smoking, and tasty to the end of the bowl, this is a delight.

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	Idlehands (2)	2016-07-21		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant

Bear with me as this is my first review. I am a new piper, 1-2 months old, so my experience level is quite low. I have been smoking a fist full of Aro's, many of which I really dislike, and Va/Burs, or Burleys with topping.

Now to Maple Street. I can detect the nuttiness of the burley, but not the virginias, and possibly it is hidden by the maple flavoring. I do detect the rum flavor also. Personnaly I haven't found a rum/whiskey flavored smoke that I really liked, until Maple Street! The maple is the predominate flavor along with the burley, and supported nicely by the rum.

I have finished my first tin, and have re-ordered. I do believe that at this point I have found a go-to Aro in Maple Street. Not overly sweet, not harsh, no bite and a good long lasting flavor to the bottom of the bowl. Good after taste follows a smoke. A keeper for me.

Idlehands.

Pipe Used: Cobs

Age When Smoked: fresh to 1 month

Purchased From: P & C

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	rushm1n3r (20)	2016-07-07		Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant

I was scared this would taste like a McGriddle when I ordered it, but it it did not. I'm an aromatic lover, and I found the rum and maple casings to be well balanced with the natural flavors of the burley and Virginia tobaccos. Smooth, but smoked on the hot side.

Pipe Used: Briar

Age When Smoked: Fresh tin

Purchased From: Pipes and Cigars

1 person found this review helpful.

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	TwelveAMnTX (28)	2016-01-16		Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant

Sutliff Maple Street is a great tasting aromatic that I can smoke all day. I really like the maple flavor & the room note is great for non-smokers as well. I'm able to get a hint of rum every now & then, but it's not a big part of the flavor. It's nice change to smoke an aromatic that doesn't contain black cavendish. The burley & virginia tobaccos burn rather cool unless you get over zealous with your puffing. The maple taste lasts from start to finish & keeps me coming back for another bowl. It's great after breakfast or any time of the day when you want something sweet. It hits the spot, not too sweet, just the right amount maple goodness!

Pipe Used: MM cobs

Age When Smoked: fresh from tin to a month open

Purchased From: pipesandcigars.com

Similar Blends: Sutliff -Rum & Maple bulk.

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	Duke Nukum (16)	2016-01-03		Mild	Strong	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

Although I have a strong preference for 'natural' styles, I had been wanting a sweet aromatic to try. I definitely wanted something with a Maple flavour and this seemed to fit the bill.

Opening the tin, there's a strong and sweet aroma of maple syrup, sugar, rum and vanilla that is about as subtle as a rhinocerous horn up the backisde.

The cut is a fine ribbon / shag and is very soft to the touch but moist and a little sticky. It packs very easily and although it seems moist, once lit it burns very well and doesn't go out easily. I tried one load in a M.M. '5-star general' pipe and it smoked on and on and on, only getting hard to keep lit in the last 5% of the bowl!

The flavour is as expected, sweet and mapley which is very obvious in the room note. This reminds me of some bulk 'nougat' flavoured blends as there's a hint of almond under the vanilla.

There is a little bite but this is more from the moisture in the mixture than the leaf itself and can thus be dealt with by slower smoking or a longer stem.I found it mild and relaxing, but despite the promised 'good nicotine hit' I got nothing. I suspect that my tolerance level must be higher than others, judging by the number of reviewers who made mention of it.

This is definitely a sweet, sticky and heavily aromatic tobacco that will permanently 'stain' a pipe so I used a brand-new M.M. Corncob now dedicated to this tin.

The one thing I found lacking was a definitive 'leafy' tobacco taste which would have made this a perfect Autumn seasonal smoke but otherwise it was exactly as expected and better burning than hoped.

Pipe Used: New Corncob

Age When Smoked: Fresh

Purchased From: smokingpipes.com

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	Giovanni Palomino (21)	2015-10-01		Mild	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant

It can smell is fantastic is very natural do not know the smell of Maple but smelled sweet nature and to ron, the mixture smokes hot so it must be experience in good smoking, at first able to get very good smoke with a phenomenal aroma but at the end of last cups flavor and aroma was not so pleasant at the beginning. Its strength is mild to medium that makes a pleasant and relaxing smoke note in the room is excellent my wife liked very much.

Pipe Used: Maple Hardwood Diplomat

Purchased From: 4noggings

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	Rhapsody Baccy (16)	2015-09-10		Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant

Wandered into a random tobacco store in California and the ‘lesser of all evils’ was this blend- checked it our here on the boards and decided to go for it—I was travelling for business and my days were being consumed by long boring drives and I needed something new and interesting AND something that wouldn't stink up the… er… rental car.

It was an anachronistic choice for me for sure—in my pouch I was carrying EMP, London Mixture, and some Proper English—so this made little sense in that lineup.

Every day, in preparation for a two-hour drive I loaded two bowls of this in the morning in a MM Washington and for the next four days this became my morning and afternoon car smoke—and boy did I love it!

Again—I’m not an Aro-snob and consider Aromatics completely appropriate as part of a healthy line-up of Tobaccos. After a heavy meal of aged angus and classified Bordeaux to reach into one’s pouch and light-up a pipe of Cherrybomb is probably akin to sharting in church but as a morning smoke—fantastic! For those of you who smoke in your cars you know that it’s easy to over-puff and get some slashing tongue-bite as the pipe sits clenched in your teeth most of the time. Smoking EMP, for example, this way is not a whole lot of fun—the Orientals in the mix needing ample space (in terms of bowl) and time (in terms of cadence) to truly sing—and this is where baccy’s like Maple Street come in.

Nicely moist (I never dry out my baccy’s) dripping with that delicious but never heavy-handed aroma (and taste!) of maple, butter, and vanilla (oh yeah, and rum which is somewhere deep in there). The Virginias are a beautiful backdrop providing a light sweetness and fruit… ditto with the Burley which melts into the maple. The flavor most certainly comes through but only just enough to make you smile.

If you like Aromatics, or like me, see them as part of a varied and beautiful landscape, get some of this.

Is this age-worthy tobacco that begs for critical acclaim and perhaps long reflection… no.

Does it taste like pancakes and syrup? Yes… but that’s the whole darn point ain’t it?

RECCOMENDED FOR: Newbie and Aro-lover alike. Like to clench the pipe between your teeth and not let go until it’s all gone? This will smoke cool no matter how long you puff. Keepin it in the rotation.

Pipe Used: MM Various

Age When Smoked: Out of tin / new

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	dustoff56 (10)	2015-06-20		Extremely Mild	Very Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant

This is the second of the Private stock to try. First was Taste of summer. When opening the can I smelt maple and pancakes. Cant find the rum.All in all its a fantastic blend.smooth, long lasting and super mellow. I could smoke this all day. As of right now this is my new go to smoke for summer time.

Purchased From: smokingpipes

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	Der Pfeifenraucher (71)	2015-05-26		Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant

Very good smoke. I tried Scotty's pancake and fell in love with the maple topping. Tried this as a variant interested in how the rum would work in the mix and it does well, a little too well. Maple street has more rum than maple, it's done well but I would prefer more maple than rum, just a personal thing. Handles and smokes like a champ, mild/med. chemistry, everyone should try a bowl or two. My next maple will be autumn evening, possibly cutting it with PA. I love the pipe.

Pipe Used: cob

Age When Smoked: 0-2 months

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	colonel jpl (25)	2015-04-24		Mild	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant

If you seek a great maple blend your search will end here. This is my everyday smoke. Smooth light maple flavor with a bit of rum. Burns clean great room note. Just a consistently Good smoke. Smokes cool great taste. Try it.

Pipe Used: larocca

Age When Smoked: new

Purchased From: smokingpipes

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	Cumarinophil (108)	2015-02-28		Very Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

Sutliff Maple Street is a mild, Burley based aromatic. I found it to be very malty, creamy and slightly sweet, but not nearly as sweet as expected from the intense tin note. Exhaling through the nose came with a subtle alcoholic impression.

It burns easy and does therefore produce some condensate in the second half of the bowl. No bite, fantastic room note.

A strong recommendation for lovers of that type of flavor, it might just be the best Rum & Maple interpretation out there.

Pipe Used: Various with and without filter

Age When Smoked: fresh to 1yr

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	mmjk (4)	2015-02-27		Medium	Strong	Medium	Pleasant

Man ‘O man, Maple Street by Sutliff Tobacco Company is a fine Aromatic.

Once you pop the tin you get a delicious wiff of the Maple topping followed by sweet rum.

This was perfect for smoking straight from the tin with no drying time. Over time in the tin the aroma changed to almost a chocolate cake.

This is a smooth smoke and I have to agree with another reviewer that the topping adds extra sweetness to the golden Virginia’s used, while the white Burley gives it some teeth that most aromatics don’t have. Maple Street is a full bodied Aro.

I really enjoyed this one, it’s has a smooth sweet flavor and the side-stream smoke is wonderful. It smokes cool and was best enjoyed by taking small sips and letting the smoke rise to your nose.

If you like aromatics do yourself a favor and pick this one up. I’m going to make sure I always have this one around.

I’d also recommend this one to the non aromatic guys who like a sweet and full smoke.

This is a 3 and a half star blend in my opinion.

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	luvinthepipe (29)	2015-01-28		Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant

I got this as a 1.5 oz sample tin about 5 years ago. Free. Free is good but I did not expect much from free tobacco so I put it in my cellar and forgot about it. I pulled this out last summer looking for something to satisfy a tobacco sweet tooth which I had never experienced before. I found this, one of only 3 Aromatics in my cellar and expected bad tobacco. I was in for a HUGE surprise. I love the sweet taste, love the now aged virginias, love the way it smokes and stays lit and just love the maple pancake aroma it leaves behind. I need to buy more! Tobacco is high quality, it ages remarkably well, soft and moist but not goopy. Any bitterness others find is likely due to it being young when smoked. Age this, let it dry with top off a few days and WOW! Every bowl I smoke, no matter what pipe it is in, tastes fantastic and I wish I had more tins 5 years aged.

=update - After trying a couple more aromatics, I find this tobacco even more wonderful. Real tobacco taste. I will have to buy a big tin or two. =

Pipe Used: Hardcastle and others

Age When Smoked: 4 - 5 years

Purchased From: Free Sample

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	Bent Dublin (3)	2014-08-24		Mild	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant

I like this smoke. Drier than most maple rum blends so stays lit and is mild. Great taste with no bite and is not sticky sweet and leaves a great room note that leaves everyone happy. Can't go wrong if you want a mellow slightly sweet aromatic.

Pipe Used: Wiley Patina bent dublin large bowl

Age When Smoked: New tin

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	Ndfmcfc (5)	2013-08-11		Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

I purchased this tobacco because I was so pleased with my first Sutcliff, which was the Molto Dolce. In looking at the description and reviews I thought I would give it a go. On opening the tin, I was delighted with the strong and sweet aroma. I had heard about the room note that was like smoked pancakes, so I was very much looking forward to it. the problem was that i used it on a virgin pipe that had no seasoning, so I am wondering if that might have had a negative effect. I noticed an immediate bite that I never got with the MD, and it was very difficult to keep alight. I definitely got some smokey pancake taste and room note, and my assumption was that it was the maple casing that gave me the thought of these pancakes. However, through it al, the bite was definitely there to be felt.

My first impression was to give it a 2 rating, but I decided to wait until my second smoke to rate it. For the second smoke I used a more seasoned pipe, and I definitely got a more satisfying smoke. This time it stayed alight longer and I only needed a couple of relights. I was more satisfied this time round, so I will give a three instead of a two. However, I will reorder my MD before reordering this one.

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	The Conde (17)	2012-12-24		Medium to Strong	Strong	Full	Very Strong

I really like this blend, but it is a little too sweet. It isn't as wet as I thought it was going to be. Room note is very strong, people walking by outside commented that it smells like pancakes. This blend is one of my favorite aromatics but may be too sweet for others.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2011-12-13		Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

A very good smoke indeed. The maple and rum comes shining through in spades but not overpowering. This one is best snoked slow in short puffs to get the full effect of all the flavors. Warning!!! If you chow down on this one it can get a little hot! Overall one of my favorites that tastes as good as it smells and that's rare! You gotta try this one!

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2011-11-13		Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant

I really like this tobacco. Its smell's great when you open the tin. It smoke's cool with no bite. The room note smell's like smoked pancakes. I could actually taste and smell the flavor as I smoked. I highly recommend.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2011-08-03		Mild	Strong	Very Full	Pleasant

It's been about two weeks since my introduction smoke of this blend. I've decided to make it a point to never judge a blend by its first smoke; but... I would have been just as well to have done so because my second smoke IS as pleasurable as the first. "Is", because I am enjoying a 45 min. bowl as I type... in a beautifully handmade Soren. I have nothing negative to report. When I opened the tin for the first time and took a whiff, I thought, "Mmmmmmmmm... Liquor". This blend is wonderfully easy to pack; very handily cut. On first light, the rum flavor was very generous, very prominent and... very tasty. What an even and... mature smoke too. Before each draw, I swallow all saliva in order to have the burst of warm flavored smoke be the most effective. I will be purchasing this blend again and... can't wait until the fall so I can try it amidst a brisker air.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2011-04-03		Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable

For a free sample, you can't go wrong. I may even pick some more up.

I was told to stay away from maple anything, but this was a very pleasing smoke.

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	constantsmoker (65)	2011-03-24		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

This is one of the better aromatics out there (this from someone who does not usually smoke aeros). It is not too moist out of the tin, lights/burns well and I found it flavorful and cool smoking. If you enjoy aromatics, this one should be in your rotation.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2011-01-23		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

This was nice stuff. One of the only aromatics i smoke right now. You can taste the rum and maple unlike other aros that taste bland and smoke hot. Every aromatic fan needs to try this

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-10-25		Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant

Maple Street is my second favorite aromatic next to my Blue Note. I also received a free tin in the mail and found Maple Street to be a surprising experience of sweet aroma as well as taste. This is a great all around pipe experience since it burns well, burns cool, has great wife approval and flavor to boot.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-09-20		Very Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant

I receieved a free tin in the mail and I really liked the blend intially. I liked it enough to order a large tin on my next order. I do like the flavor but it is not as strong a tobacco flavor as I like. It smokes HOT! I can't smoke it slow enough to keep it cool. Even in a meeshaum it smokes hot. I have blended it with some english blends to mellow out the english and cool down the Maple Street. It blends well. It will take me a long time to smoke this tin.

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	DeadMensPipes (38)	2010-08-11		Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant

After reading the reviews here, I was anxious to try this blend, so I ordered a couple of tins to try. Smelled nice enough upon opening the tin. But that was about it. Not all that tasty really, and it smokes hot. An overpriced disappointment in a pretty package.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-08-10		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant

Add me to the list of people who got freebies. Girlfriend loved the smell as soon as the tin opened. It smells like pancakes on the table. The maple flavoring doesn't take over and smokes cool until you hammer it. I actually forgot about this blend because I stashed the tin in my desk drawer instead of the tobacco shelf. Out of sight - Out of mind I suppose. Going to get a couple of big tins as soon as I hit submit.

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	ecce_ego (24)	2010-07-12		Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant

Like a previous reviewer, I found the smell on opening the tin to be quite bad. It was like taking a big whiff from a bottle of rum. I cannot stand the smell of alcohol, so I was prepared for a bad smoke, too. However, the taste really is nothing like the smell. There is a pleasant maple note with just a hint of rum. Room note is sweet without the overpowering smell of the tin. As for the aftertaste- it's not unpleasant, but I keep getting a familiar taste. Almost like pinon, but hard to describe.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-07-04		Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

I am not a big fan of aromatic blends, but our pipe club got a shipment of this blend so I thought I should try it... The rum and maple blend was interesting and smoked well in my meerschaum pipe. I wished for more "real tobacco" taste. While I would never buy this blend, I will enjoy smoking it in the company of non smokers. Everyone who smells it, loves it.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-06-01		Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Strong

Also got this one in the mail. I haven't even been smoking a full year, but this is the best smoke I've had yet, that is compared to Prince Albert, Borkum and Riff, and some cheap & horrid cherry and vanillas I bought. Untill now Borkum and Riff Whiskey was my favorite, but I will be ordering a tin of this instead. I almost enjoy just smelling it as much as smoking it. And like someone else said a 8oz tin is only $10. 5 stars from me. :)

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2010-04-28		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant

It smells wonderful, however I did not find the taste to match the room note. It has a bitter soapy taste which only gets more bitter further down the bowl. The aftertaste was even worse. It also gooped up my pipe with sludge at the bottom, which is going to have to be deep cleaned out.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2009-11-08		Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

I usually dont like Maple blends, but I was snookered into trying this from the local pipe club.

They claimed it actually smoked and tasted like TOBACCO!!!!

Sure enough, the casing came through when I opened the tin, maple it was. I couldnt smell the rum really.

After first light, I was pleasantly surprised as the casing did not overbear the taste of the tobacco.

If you have someone around you that loves IHOP or Waffle House, this blend will surely get their attention because it smells like maple syrup on pancakes.

Definitely 4 stars.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2009-10-23		Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

Upon opening the tin, the aroma of rum comes through loud and clear. The tobacco is very thinly cut, and stringy. One of the first things I noticed was the moisture level was really great and not at all wet.

I loosely filled the bowl of one of my Savinelli billiards with Maple Street. I was surprised at how well it took to a match. I was rewarded with a gentle taste of rum and maple, exactly as the description on the tin promised. Not very strong, and certainly not overpowering... it is evident that the guys who came up with this blend wanted the real tobacco taste (mostly Virginia to me) to come through loud-and-clear.

I took my time smoking this blend, and reaped the rewards of a good smoke...no bite and a great flavor...just a simple reminder that one need not spend outrageous amounts of money to buy untra-premium tins of tobaccos to enjoy a truly wonderful and relaxing smoke. I smoked this bowl all the way to the bottom with only two tamps and one match. When finished, I found a dry bowl with a fine, grey ash in the bottom. What more can one ask for?

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	The Printer Piper (18)	2023-01-17		Very Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant

This tobacco is like having a really good sweet treat after dinner. The tin note for me is a combination of maple and chocolate with a fresh Virginia aroma. The tobacco has the perfect humidity right out of the tin and burns perfectly with very few relights needed. It definitely has a delicious Maple flavor up front and incredible room note that's sure to please. It really is chock full of Maple sweetness. I only picked up a touch or Rum, but not being a drinker, others may find more in the blend. Overall, its a sweet Maple treat that is thoroughly enjoyable. But like all good sugary treats, once a day is enough - Try it you will like it.

Pipe Used: Savineli 2019 Christmas 408

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	WorkingClassChap (197)	2021-10-15		Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant

Smoking now:

From the same line as Molto Dolce comes Maple Street! A maple flavored Molto Dolce? No. That’s what I was hoping for but it’s not so don’t think it is. It’s more a kin to the codger blend by a similar name.

The tin note is a nutty sweetness. Some sugar and molasses. Also rum, lots of rum. Not an overly maple aroma but it’s there. Tan colored soft ribbons that packs loose and spongy. Moisture was fine right from the tin. Not goopy nor does it have a wet cased topping.

The taste is predominantly burley. I’m rather adverse to burley so that is going to trigger a negative bias in my opinion however this behaved well for me and did not bite me. Nutty, woody, toasted nuts, molasses are the main flavors for me. There’s definitely a dominant sweet rum flavor here that for me is the best part of this blend and really does the tobacco well. Do I taste maple? Not really. For me it’s more sweet rum and it’s good. The retrohale is more of the same and does tingle my nose. This reminds me of a OTC blend like Rum and Maple however this is done up much better and I enjoy this a lot more. If you like lightly aromatic burley forward blends like that then definitely give this a try it’ll be a treat for you. Burned well, stayed lite well, didn’t bite me or dry my mouth out like other burley forward blends. Maybe that’s due to the Virginia in it and or the topping. Speaking of Virginia it is in there and adds some grassy sweetness. Did leave a little dottle and some moisture in the bowl. All and all it is a premium old time burley forward light aromatic blend. The room note reminded a coworker of the old man who lived next door who smoked a pipe on his porch. As I said it’s reminiscent of an OTC blend but much nicer. I actually didn’t mind this for a burley forward blend even if they not up my maple street or alley. The more I smoke this the more I appreciate it and I’ve found myself grabbing this tin more than I thought.

Pipe Used: Briar

Similar Blends: Rum and Maple but better..

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	JKOD (30)	2021-05-09		Very Mild	Very Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable

This is a blend that may fit someone’s palate, but not mine. There’s something off about the maple flavor - to me it tastes like a popsicle stick if you suck innit after finishing a popsicle and the flavor is gone. Outside of that it gives a little chemical residue type flavor that is a real turn-off for me.

I sometimes give blends two stars for the benefit of the doubt someone else might like it - but, this truly deserves less than one star, IMO.

Burns OK, needs plenty of relights as I find most Sutliff aros do even after dry time. There are other much better maple blends available. See Autumn Evening for one of the better and Scotty’s Salmon River for a more mild maple smoke.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2015-08-24		Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant

The longer I smoke a pipe the more I have come to prefer the old burley blends. Rum was always a staple in the casings of yesteryear and who doesn't love maple? I'd give this 4 out of 4 but for the slightly bitter aftertaste, which is normal of burley and even more normal of the casing. I don't want my last statement to put you off, there are definitely aromatics out there that are more bitter, goopier if you will, just be aware. I won't give you a fanciful description of every nuance or subtlety, this isn't that kind of girl. This is a tobacco you don't have to think much on. Its sweet, nutty, creamy, with a little rum and a lot of maple. IMO superior to the other popular maple tobaccos out there. I don't want it all the time, but I'm always happy after I finish a bowl.

Pipe Used: Nording Freehand, cobs

Age When Smoked: Fresh

Similar Blends: C&Ds Autumn Evening.

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	Emeritus Account (30171)	2012-04-05		Medium	Extra Strong	Overwhelming	Pleasant to Tolerable

It is an economical tobacco so no over-promises. However, I found the flavoring overwhelming and somewhat artificial. The tobacco burned somewhat unevenly. I do not intend to buy it again.

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