We’re back with yet another bonus column for the Tobacco Files, which means I’ve been digging into a new, soon to be released, tobacco blend. That new blend of course is this year's Cringle Flake, the annual offering from Sutliff Tobacco. The first year, released in 2019, featured a m …

Hello, hello! It has been a pleasant, mild October with one pleasant, mild blend and one, well, pleasant blend. I’ll be getting into  Cobblestone Camping from the Outdoors series and—a bit in theme with the spooky season drawing to a close—the Lovecraft inspired Dreams of Kadath from Co …

Another mid-month Tobacco File ushering in a new blend—Aberrant, from Sutliff tobacco.This is the third installment of the Birds of a Feather Series, a collection of six special mixtures that were concocted by Mac Baren master blender Per Jensen during a week-long visit to the Sutliff factory i …

Here we go, the first Tobacco File since going from bi-weekly to monthly for the regular column (there will be bonus posts for some new blends). I have to say, I’m very happy with this format, I had much more time to dig into these mixtures. To think I started the Tobacco Files—or, "What I Smoked Th …

So in the last Tobacco File, I wrote that I would be changing the main column from biweekly to monthly, and would write short, bonus blogs highlighting a single blend—likely something new or special in some way—when opportunity presents. Well, here is the first such installment, as I’ve spent the la …

This is a Tobacco File I’ve been looking forward to—two new releases. First we have Whimsical, the second blend in the  Birds of a Feather series. Of course, this is the collaboration between Sutliff Tobacco and Mac Baren master blender Per Georg Jensen that gave us Uno with i …

Another excursion into two fine pipe tobaccos and one premium cigar. This column we have Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake and Hearth & Home Louisiana Red. Samuel Gawith Fire Dance FlakeDeveloped with one of the U.S.A.'s lady smokers, FireDance is Our Best Brown 6" Fla …

Another two weeks enjoying two great blends, G. L. Pease Westminster and Cornell & Diehl Pegasus. This is one of those rare Tobacco Files where I’m actually revisiting a blend and not having something for the first time. I got a tin of Pegasus some months back and smoked a bit …

We have another brand new blend in this Tobacco File, the latest in Sutliff's Barrel Aged Series—Crumble Kake No. 4. Instead of doing another recently release or themed pick, for our second tobacco blend, I thought I'd find something on which there was very little information out there. I opted …

The last two weeks I've been enjoying a brand new blend, and an on theme blend for the week to come—Chris Morgan's Jackalope and Missouri Meerschaum Independence Day. On top of that, I've had a few cigars in the past two weeks, and for our latest addition to the Tobacco File template, I'll give an a …