Can I really not get Bernard Jubilaums to the UK anymore?

Is it really the case that Bernard are not shipping out of Germany now? I am really upset, there were so many good snuffs, but one I am really going to miss is Jubilaums. If anyone has any advice how to get it to the UK, I am all ears.

These UK based shops still have some Bernard snuffs. No more Jubilaums though.
http://www.mysmokingshop.co.uk/index2.php?mod=category&nm=Bernard%20Tabak%20Snuff&nc=SNUFF&man=302&cat=82
Judging from the reviews, possible closest substitute for Jubilaums might be Zwiefacher. Worth trying it out, even if it’s an old stock.
Amostrinha could bear some resemblance to your favourite, too. http://snuff.me.uk/Bernard-Snuff.asp

Kownoer and Alt Offenbacher are in a completely different league (plain and salty).

Just made a quick comparisson of compositions at BMEL. Amostrinha has less menthol and camphor and is topped with plum extract. It’s less salty, too. Same alkalis. Tobacco amount is about the same.
Zwiefacher is more complex. Less tobacco there. Lighter on menthol and camphor. Cased with molasses, tamarind extract and vinegar. Differs alkali-wise as well.

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It was available on snuff store for a while but looks like the supply has dried up. Have you tried Poschl’s Bayern-Prise? It’s not an exact alternative but does have similar characteristics. Have you tried my smoking shop UK?

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Snuff.me.co.uk has a message to say “notify me when back in stock” so might be worth registering with them just in case they get new stock.

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I haven’t even heard of this jublilamus up until now and believe me when I tell you that I am OUTRAGED that I can’t get any anymore.

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Thanks, @volunge, @PaulG and @DrOctagon.

I have zweifacher and several other Bernard varieties, also have several Poschls but havent tried Bayern prise yet. Im registered with snuff.me and other tobacco shops online, but there was just something about Jubilaums, some note that is not present in the others. Oh well.

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@LadySnuff Believe me you are so correct about that. I have stock in bulk about 75g. of the 270 and 50g. of the newer 280 labeled Jubil (maybe even better) under glass with no head space semi packed. I should be good until the holocaust ends.

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I will be in Hamburg, Germany for a few days later this year. I emailed Bernards Schnupftabak (sp?) asking if they might know any tobacco outlets in Hamburg that carry their products. I mean, they should know who is ordering what and where it’s going, right ? They don’t deal through distributors, as do beer and other alcoholic

beverage producers do, do they ? Anyway, Bernards knows of no seller of their products in Hamburg…nada.

No sense in me asking about any Bavarian sellers, as it won’t do me any good.

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@Z_2K Maybe Bernard could send you snuff to packstation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packstation
There are lots of them in Hamburg: https://standorte.deutschepost.de/Standortsuche?standorttyp=packstationen\_paketboxen&ort=Hamburg
A possible solution, though obligatory age verification could trip it up (snuffstore.de and schnupftabak-und-mehr.de don’t send to packstations).

If you have problems finding "Bernard 250 Jahre Jubil

why is my comment cut off?

i typed half a book

@SunnyDay that will be the umlauted a. This site doesn’t like special characters.

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ah that might be im german so i used the char on my keyboard im going to substitute it with  ae ok here it goes again: if you have trouble findining the jubilaeum just look for “schmalzler weiss-blau” or “wiens snuff” which is 100% the same product just the style of the label aimed at different types of people as not everybody likes bavaria here (the bavarians like themself a bit too much) and that makes it people can get turned off by the name or label alone from using this snufflzler (jubi,wiesn and weiss-blau are a mix of 50% schmalzler and 25% gekachelter virginie snuff, 75% tobacco content in total pretty nice) some people do not like bavarian tradition much but are still fans of the wiesn/octoberfest so that is why “wiesn snuff”  exists.

tldr: jubilaeum,wiesn snuff or schmalzler weiss-blau different name different label but 100% the same content

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@SunnyDay: I lived in Heidelberg area 4 years and Stuttgart area 2 years, and I never perceived that German regional animosity went to that level of triviality. Liebe Gott ! Anyway, do the tobacco stores and other outlets in Bavaria sell Bernard’s Schmalzler ? I would think it would be so popular throughout Germany that it would be as common as buying Marlboro cigarettes at the tankstelle. Perhaps Bernards sells wholesale to distributors, not to individual stores, and does not know where their product goes once it is in the distributors hands. 

btw: F (Fichtennadel) is the same like jubilaeum,wiesn snuff and schmalzler weiss-blau but with pine oil where the weight difference was offset by less smoked virginnia in the mix

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@Z_2K best way to buy bernards is online but you might be able to rarely find bernards in some tobacco shops in bavarian area everything else is in the grip of poeschl.
bernard is way less marketing agressive or as big as a company which makes them more sympathetic and trustworthy in my opinion.
they do not produce smoking tobacco nor use the common additives and processes used to make bad quality productsv for their snuff including recon rags unlike poeschl :-q
you can find gletscherprise and its extra/gold version as well as loewenprise on nearly every newspaper store, gas station and the tobacco shops often have the whole product palette in a stand up display that rotates.

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That information just sucks as sad as it is but true. Glad someone has some information as a clue to what German marketing has come to in regards to the snuff industry. Bernards products are so much better than the Poschl snuffs IMO.

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@nicmizer
No reason to be mad at bernard for having same products with different labels that is actually a very common thing in the snuff tobacco industry to better aim the product at specific people of the already small snuff market
a very popular example would be Queens from Wilsons of Sharrows where the formulation is noted TOB in an old book. Wilson sells Tom Bucks for the gentleman and Queens for the ladies as there are people that would never make something called Queens their favorite snuff even if it was the best in the world and it is true for the other way around B-)

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