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Tonight I am going to attempt to review Sutliff Mixture No. 79 in a MM Cob Legend. I'm sitting at the kitchen table typing this up as I smoke a bowl. At this point I'm on probably the sixth bowl, two in this pipe, one or two in a MM Cob Pony Express, and a couple of small meers. Struggling to say I've had two bowls the same, and wondering if I should have typed this up after the first bowl and been done.

The tobacco is coarse cut. In color, its is a mingling of tan, brown, and dark brown that almost appears black. While moist, it doesn't seem to moist to smoke. Most I've smoked was straight from the bag. I can only think of one time I put some out on a saucer to dry.

I believe it to be a quality leaf that burns well. Why in the name of Sir Walter Raleigh anyone would want to put a perfectly good tobacco through...what ever Sutliff did, is completely beyond me. As I was loading the first bowl, my wife turned, sitting across the room, to ask "Are you smoking something?" I could tell she was not pleased with what she was smelling. When I told her, "Not yet. Just loading the bowl", she looked totally bewildered. About three bowls later, she comes by, mid bowl, and says "That smells good. What is it?" Upon telling her it was the same tobacco as a few nights before, the bewildered look returned.
The bag note seems to be waxy raisin flowers. Before each bowl I stick my nose in the bag. Don't know why, as I'm not one who gets a charge from being in pain, or even discomfort. Once or twice, thought it smelled ok. Can't remember what I was drinking or how much. Once it smelled bad, but generally it just confuses me. At the beginning of the first bowl, I picked up a slight black licorice taste. That pissed me off, because I like black licorice. Since I haven't picked it up since then, I blame something I read. Throughout this experience, I have tasted flowers, wax, soap, raisins, molasses, and a weird chemical taste. The chemical taste is new to me. I can't decide if I have ever tasted it before. Almost the taste you get, from the smell of a freshly cleaned school restroom. I'm thinking if you pressed this stuff, you could remarket it as Urinal Cake Flake. While most of these flavors I enjoy by themselves, when put together, I don't. Understanding this is speculation on my part, I imagine this is the taste a nanny goat gets, when cleaning a newborn kid. But only if the mother, while pregnant, was grazing near toxic waste, most likely coming across needles used to draw blood from a weasel that is suspected to have rabies. Of course only if the rabies was caught from a raccoon that has been feeding downstream from where a power plant has dumped the ash left from the boilers that run the turbines. But that is just speculation.
So to summarize, this wasn't near as bad as it was represented.
Once again I would like to thank Tim for another wonderful contest.
I'm now off the see if I have any scraps of Ennerdale Flake that can be mixed with this, just to see if the EPA is real.
Hilarious review, thanks!