@Pikey, no snuff is manufactured in Poland these days. There only are some homemakers.
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Pretty solid points but I guess McCrystals can source the right tobaccos or flours from WoS for that project.
WoS would make them great for sure I totally agree.
Now that I think about it Gekachelter Virginie Clone might end up being kinda the same as Viking Brown just a little bit oiled if made by WoS (or McCrystals assuming they get the right flours from WoS or wherever they by them from).
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I would be delighted to be wrong about the paraffin thing 
, That would improve available options no end .
On a separate but loosely related matter , is McChrystals Highland Ice Coarse a Poschl made contract snuff ? It certainly looks it from here :).
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This is why I try to buy stronger snuffs. I donāt really want to be at it all the time so like you say if itās stronger you can use less. Never really bother with weaker snuffs unless Iām trying it, knowing I could just bang something else in there to lift it if Iām not happy with it as is. Think this is why I love sharrow mills they do a good range that suits all.
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Iāve lightly oiled some of my snuff, home made, with organic coconut oil. It wasnāt bad! 
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Apparently itās the exact same base all all the rest, just ground less fine (as far as I know)
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I have done it too but I much prefer to oil my homemade snuffs with paraffin oil and they become exactly like German snuffs in consistency. Paraffin oil smells like nothing. Coconut oil has a coconut smell that I personally wouldnāt want in a snuff
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Years ago , I did do the reading about German snuff production . My tl/dr takeaway was that the Germans were traditionally pretty fussy about their tobacco selection . Also their tobacco prep sounds more like baking or kitchen work . Just to get to the base for the snuff .
Funny little old video from Bernard
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Donāt think an 100g would last a night there
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Had a Magic Moment last night and answered my own question . No it isnāt a snuff you could fake out of a bottle . You might be able to fudge the source tobacco a little bit , modernize the base flour preparation/fermentation etc without losing quality , but thatās about it in my opinion .
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Does this include tobacco- less products?
Yes, the whole company has gone out of business.
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well, Iām wondering if I need to jump on the bandwagon with Bernards. Iāve never had any in part because I donāt like tapboxes albeit very nice decorative tapboxes. My question to those most familiar with the brand is:
What are the one or two āiconicā offerings from Berbards that would be a shame to miss out on? Thx guys.
looks like there is just this one: Bernard Feinster Kownoer 10g the others look like non-tobacco snuffs which I dont care for. Late again. shoot.
The thread linked below contains precisely the sort of recommendations youāre looking for.
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Yeah, itās too lateā¦ unless and until MrSnuff gets the semi-legendary final shipmentā¦ Last update we had from @Jonny was 22 days ago. Heād received the final invoice (with less than theyād hoped for), and was getting the funds together to pay it (scroll up).
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Thanks for the information. Guess Iāll try to acquire some via the sell/trade thread.
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I have paid for it so I hope the prophecies come true.
In fact we here at MrSnuff are going to be in an interesting position when it arrives. On the one hand, we will be holding the last stock for a number of the brands, which is good for us (cornered resource) but the problem is that in my haste to buy whatever they had I have now overstocked a number of brands that donāt sell so well.
So we might find ourselves selling some edge case Bernards snuffs at bargain prices to keep up our warehouse throughput. It wasnāt the plan but at least it gets the product out there.
The main thing is to have sufficient samples of the popular products to allow us to do a good job of cloning them, if that is where we eventually end up.
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Given that a few of them were pretty similar (and at least two said to be identical), overstock on some less popular ones is still better than none! And those who havenāt tried any will now get to.
Iām guessing there will be similar dynamic to the closing down of McClelland pipe tobacco in the US. Suddenly all these blends that nobody cared about were snapped up. But hopefully a āsecondary marketā wonāt develop, with people selling Bernard snuffs at massive profits.
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Hi
A while back I mentioned that we might add a small premium to Bernards product to fund Project Lazarus.
The good news is that McChrystals has now taken on the job of keeping the Bernards range alive so no need for Lazarus, and no need to for the that premium.
We did lower our prices for our best selling Bernards as part of the recent, general price revision, but some of the slower selling Bernards remained unchanged.
I mention this here because unfortunately I have been banned from reddit.
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The price is what it is and thereās no more original product available outside a few European countries from which the EU prohibit external sales.
If I remember correctly, until Toque recently decided to cynically increase many prices in order to undercut you by a penny 
they charged Ā£4.99 for most of the Bernard tap box range and Ā£6.99 for boxes of Gekachelter Virginie. I understand that costs are incurred bringing product to the Isle of Man and that profit needs to be made, but I simply struggle to justify paying Ā£6 for something I donāt really need and which sold in Germany and other parts of Europe for a little over ā¬2. Clearly mine is a minority opinion and I wish you well in moving this last Bernard product which no one else went to the trouble of securing.
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