Table of Contents: Conceiving the Blends - Stoving Katerini and Rustica Developing Pipe Force The Blends - Descriptions and info Pipe Force is the latest collaboration between  Sutliff Tobacco Company and Mac Baren master blender Per Jensen. Many will be familiar with the …

Pipe Force Episode IV is live! Last year, Sutliff introduced the Per Jensen Signature Series with Birds of a Feather. The collection included six pipe blends, each containing at least one special, rare tobacco. I knew that the series would return this year with a new line of mixtures, …

Sutliff Phantom Privateer goes live on Tuesday, July 4th at 6pmThe sixth installment of the Sutliff Barrel Aged Series has arrived. For a little background, the Barrel Aged series are limited release blends in Sutliff's Crumble Kake series, which includes regular production mixtures such a …

For May's Tobacco File, I thought I'd choose two pipe tobaccos that are on theme with another blog I was chipping away at through the month; One Decade of Sutliff Tobacco - A Mac Baren Company.May 2023 marks ten years since Mac Baren acquired Sutliff, or, the Altadis USA Pipe Tobac …

May 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of  Mac Baren’s acquisition of the Altadis USA Pipe Tobacco Division, now Sutliff Tobacco (the original name which Mac Baren promptly restored). The pipe tobacco operation was of little significance as a division of Altadis USA, itself a subsidiar …

Paradoxical is now live Hard to imagine but we are at the final release for the Birds of a Feather series.Paradoxical closes out this first collaboration between Per Jensen and Sutliff with a tobacco blend that includes the bold Rustica leaf. Each mixture in the series features one or more rar …

Boy have I been excited for this one, and it has not disappointed. The fifth of six in the celebrated Birds of a Feather series—created by Mac Baren master blender Per Jensen in collaboration with Sutliff tobacco—we have Anomalous.  For the full story, you can read our piece on  …

One aspect of pipe smoking that I was immediately drawn to is how the culture around the hobby allows for—encourages even—a certain sentimentality. Not in a cloying way, but it's something about the emphasis and appreciation for the history and the tradition shared by many who engage in t …

A quick column today to usher in the most recent addition to the Barrel Aged Series from Sutliff Tobacco. Barrel Aged No. 5 goes live today at 6:00 PM eastern time.  The Barrel Aged Series in a limb of Sutliff’s Crumble Kake line. Red Virginia, English # 1, and Va Perique compris …

We are officially over the halfway point on our journey through the six Birds of a Feather blends. The collection of course features mixtures crafted by Mac Baren master blender Per Jensen here at Sutliff tobacco in January 2022. Actually, just as I’m writing this it hits me that this was …