Kendal Plug from Samuel Gawith

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Well I decided to try and prep some of this to give it a shot. Ive smoked through a tin of Best Brown flake recently which is what this plug becomes Ive read.

Major differences first. The plug seems much more dense. Its more moist and has a different scent compared to the tin note of BBF. The plug has a sweeter more straight tobacco smell. I chewed on some and it has a smoother taste, had less bitterness than BBF and sweeter tasting. Weird because this supposed to be the same tobacco. Also the plug seems to be lacking a topping or something that BBF has, maybe it doesn't get the "Lakeland treatment".

I have cut it into flakes of varying thickness mostly because the piece im working with came with less than straight even cuts. I am letting the flakes dry for a couple hours before I pack a pipe for my midday commute.

 

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Still too wet. Decided to hold off until tomorrow I guess.

 

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Got to say, I love this stuff once it dries out. Considerably different than best brown flake and i would bet if smoked side by side you wouldn't know one becomes the other. I have noticed that the plug is decently more compressed compared to the flakes. That has got to impact the flavor and smoking experience in a big way.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

That stuff looks really tasty! Where do you order that from?

 

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Prob a special order from most any S.G. retailers. I had my local look into it and he got me a 250g box.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Thank you! I will do some checking around my local spots

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Pipesandcigars.com has it listed in their bulk section. http://www.pipesandcigars.com/pipe-tobacco/73063/samuel-gawith-kendal-plug/

Does that look right to you?

 

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Oh yeah I forgot they had it. I wrote them off because I wanted it in bigger than one ounce servings. They told me its all diced up already. I wanted actual plug tobacco not a plug someone else cut up.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Gotcha, I want the plug too. The search continues. Thanks again

 

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There is Mars Pipe and Cigar. I tried buying from him since he is local to me, but didn't want to deal and doesn't take mastercard. So I went with an awesome B&M retailer called Wingenroths.