Sutliff Tobacco Company Maple Street

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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