Sutliff Tobacco Company Great Outdoors

I received my 1.5 oz tin free from Altadis-- very generous, thanks. This is Sutliffe's purported Field and Stream copy/tribute/replacement, but I think it's a vast improvement upon the House of Windsor version that I tried. Don't know who used to make it before them, so can't vouch for that version, but if it was more like this, it was one quality smoke. This is a lovely, high-quality, semi-aromatic, with notes of licorice, maple, vanilla-- all quite subtle, with plenty of good tobacco flavor coming through. There's little or no bite to worry about, unless you really pushed it, and the biggest difference to me is the absence of the dryer sheet/Grandma's soap aroma that the HOW version reeked of. This is a beautiful blend that stands on its own in addition to carrying on the Field and Stream tradition.

Great blend. Great tin. Tin notes of licorice, rootbeer, vanilla, honey, chocolate. Taste is primarily the burley, which is flavourful molasses and nuts, with slight chocolate notes from the cavendish and I swear moments of rootbeer which, I suppose, is how the anise and vanilla taste to me. The flavouring is mild but good and it never overpowers the tobacco. Burns well, doesn't bite. Plenty of nuance. I thoroughly enjoy this blend. Would recommend to anyone.

All I can say it's Good Stuff for Me, Tin note was very pleasant, and flavor was medium, could be a all day smoke for me.

Sutliff Tobacco Co. - Great Outdoors (Sutliff Private Stock).

The mixture contains a few exceedingly coarse pieces, some look like HUGE cubes of tobacco. Sadly it contains twigs, too. In the aroma I get no vanilla, at all, the smell's consumed by sharpness. Out of the tobaccos there's far more Burley and plain Cavendish than black Cavendish. Because of the roomy tin the moisture's spot on.

The main tobacco flavour comes from the Burley and Virginia Cavendish: nutty, honey-sweet, and slightly sharp. The black Cavendish only lends a TINY amount of character. The vanilla gives a touch of taste, there's far more anisette and this causes a sharpness which I don't find too agreeable. On the positive side after half a bowl the smoke takes on sort of a fondant-fruitiness. I find the burn a decent feature and it refrains from biting.

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

Great Outdoors? Sure, many folks will love it, but I can't rate it any higher than two stars:

Somewhat recommended.

This is the third of three tins I received at the end of our show this year; half full but quite smokable. It has been a long time since I've smoked Field and Stream and it was not a blend that I fancied in my early days of pipe smoking. I do remember it as having some sort of flavoring and agree with reviewer Pipestud 2010-08-29 that it may have been something akin to licorice. The aroma of my tin was very toned down and was more of a tobacco mixture aroma than anything else. It packed, lit and smoked in a straight forward manner with no tongue bite or other problems. Unlike my experience with C&D Epiphany, another old time blend emulation, GO did not have a rough start nor did it have the weak and ashy finish that was evident with Epiphany. I enjoyed the smoke and agree with reviewer Jimlnks 2013-08-08 that GO is both different from and better than the blend it emulates - three stars.

Suttliff Great Outdoors is my Root Beer tobacco. I find the tin note very reminiscent, including a touch of vanilla on top.

This Burley/BC is mild and smooth. It burns well and fast, therefore a little hot. The flavoring is there when smoked, but not as extreme as from the tin and the taste of tobacco comes through equally. I like it.

Large and thick ribbon some thick flakes with an immediate aroma of chocolate, creme and mellow aged essence. Packs and draws nicely. Bowl aroma exquisite; the blend develops balance to enjoy. My first bowl was outside on the veranda overlooking the dry desert river bed, early blue sky desert morning. What a matching tobac. Ember sipping perfect. 4 Star easily, and a favorite!

The first tobacco I ever smoked, and what a find!

A mild aro, very sweet and savory burleys in Cavendish in this, and the vanilla casing works very well with the burley nuttiness.

Smokes cool, can get hot if you don't give it some time to warm up on its own, and the aroma is very crowd-pleasing.

All in all, I keep it around for nostalgia as much as how good it is.

Very nice.

In my search for trying Field & Stream I discovered the Great Outdoors. Originally, I think I was just looking for a licorice/anise flavored tobacco and this does evoke that flavor profile at least somewhat. The tobacco was nice and dry when I cracked open the tin. There is definitely a distinct smell of licorice in the tin as well as vanilla. It lights quickly and stays lit as well as burns fairly quickly, maybe in part because it was dry to begin with. The flavor is quite mild though and the burley takes the show for the most part. The anise/vanilla flavor wears out pretty quickly and the nutty burley flavor kicks in at about a quarter of the bowl.

I guess I was kind of hoping that more of the sweeter flavors would hang around a little longer. It starts out nice enough but becomes a bit bland toward the end. Room note is quite pleasant though and reminds me of camping trips with my father. It burns nice and evenly down to a fine ash but beware the tongue bite as this guy will quickly scorch your tongue if you don't sip it.

A nice burley/aromatic fusion blend leaning more toward the burley. This is the first of the Sutliff Private Stock blends I've tried and I am curious to try more of them.