@petersuki I do get that rancid/cheesey smell from GH KB, glad someone else notices it, I was worried it was starting to turn or something.
I still think they have the best jasmine. And jasmine is one of the best scents.
Nay, from me. I’ve tried tubs of D light, KB and sea breezes, once i learned my lesson with tap boxes. They were ok but other manufacturers produce much better snuffs, imo.
That Gawith Hoggarth Kendal Brown is a challenging snuff. I like it, those little tubs suck for pinching though I transfer them to SG tins. It smells really like a rancid cheesy stinky foot thing at first, then it turns into something smooth and almost coconut like, just like south african snuffs do. Not something I’d give a newbie as an introduction to the style and not something I’d use every day but definitely an interesting one. Seems like Gawith Hoggarth likes to make oddballs. Only other one I’ve had is Sea Breezes which was good but too weird for me to want to use it very often.
I’ve tried them all, in the tubs and there are only 3 I like. Kendal Brown - but SG do this much better Tia Maria - the only one I would buy in bulk if they sold bulk Irish D - actually I’d buy this in bulk too because its very nice and I much prefer it to SGs which I don’t like The rest of GH are very meh imo. I won’t buy them again, even those 3 I like. Rubbish snuff manufacturer imo. Edit forgot, the SP is nice too but again, there’s much better from other companies. Edit 2 the strawberry is nice enough too until you’ve had Toques, which is far superior.
@snuffysnuff Bulk GH is (or was) available at Airey’s of Kendal: http://www.aireysofkendal.com/
@snuffysnuff Bulk GH is (or was) available at Airey’s of Kendal: http://www.aireysofkendal.com/
Yes, Aireys still do bulk. I was in their shop recently.
Thanks Xander, that’s great. The Tia Maria and Irish D really are very nice. I really may well get those in bulk. Cheers.
Put a big ol’ wad of GHKB in my upper lip. Surprisingly excellent. If this is the way snuff was in the 1780s no wonder people started putting it in their mouths. It’s delicious. Salty, smoky, sweet, better than most dipped American scotches. Incidentally, I don’t know where else to post this, I went down to the Indian corner-mart to buy more beer and brought some snuff with me. I showed a few tins of snuff to the old guy that owns it and asked him if he knew about sniffing snuff. He said few people did it anymore. Then I gestured brushing my teeth and he said lots of people did that.
SnuffySnuff, so GH are a “rubbish snuff manufacturer” but you’re buying their products in bulk… Generally, out of any manufacturer’s range (and not just GH) there’s a large percentage, maybe over half, that are just not to my taste (e.g. too flowery, too perfumed, too much menthol or peppermint, menthol+fruit, SPs). I completely agree with you, by the way, concerning GH’s best snuffs - Irish D is outstanding, lovely creamy yellow material, as you say way better than SG Irish D Light; I reckon it’s also superior to the F&T, WoS and SWS equivalents (though these all have their merits). Tia Maria is also excellent, rich and complex, the best coffee snuff I have tried, though it’s not a pure coffee flavour (no “coffee” snuff actually smells like roast coffee anyway). I also liked Sea Breezes, quite unusual, salty with hints of pine and seaweed. I shall certainly keep buying these three excellent snuffs (in the 25g tubs), and look forward to trying out a few more. So I wish GH all the best, and hope they keep making their full range long into the future.
@Hapax I’ll qualify why I class GH as a rubbish manufacturer. They make 31 snuffs. Most I don’t like. A few are OK. And just 2 I would buy in bulk. Now take what I call excellent manufacturers: Toque: 3\4 of his 40+ snuffs qualify for bulk are excellent. The rest are ok to nice. Only 1 I don’t like (violet) SG: Out of 70+ snuffs, there are about 25 I consider excellent, worthy of bulk. Of the rest, most are nice and there’s a few, but only a few I do not like. Irish D light is one I don’t like for some reason. Wilson’s: I pretty much like everything they do but out of 70+ snuffs, around 25 are excellent, bulk worthy. The rest are good though with a few a don’t much care for but only one or two I actively don’t like. It’s about the ratio of excellent snuffs each manufacturer produces. 3\4 of Toques are excellent, 1\4 of Wilson’s are excellent, 1\4 of SG are excellent, and only 2 out of the whole GH range are excellent. That’s 2 snuffs out if 31 in their range. That’s why I say they are rubbish. GH make 31 snuffs and I only consider 2 excellent. Not good is it?
@lunecat well of course these are just my opinions. I can’t express anyone else’s! 
I’ve tried all the GH from both tap boxes and tubs. Yes of course they are better in tubs, but still too chemically and yucky for my tastes 
Hmmm … can’t say I follow your reasoning @SnuffySnuff. I only have a few GH, but really like some of them. Ambassador, KB, Cherry, Dry Orange (as examples) I could probably carry every day as part of a rotation. Many of Toques offerings I like an occasional pinch from but there’s only ONE out of the full range that I’d be happy to carry everyday - Berwick Brown. A lot of the others make for great punctuation for breaking up a day, but I’d want a different Toque accompanyment on day two so as not to tire of them. Should I consider Toque a rubbish manufacturer? Absolutely not! I will continue to wade my way though most of his snuffs in the 10g tins which is the best size for me to get them in, and I have bought BB in bulk. I have also bought his Coarse Plain and Rustica for mixing. :-bd I have GH Kendal Brown in bulk now, and will continue to get Cherry and Ambassador in 25g lots. I do like Sea Breezes, Sandalwood and Strawberry for occasional pinches too, and will certainly buy at least two of them again. Even if I never found another GH snuff I was happy with, I’d be very happy with the six I mentioned. I’d also like to add that I have so far only found one SWS snuff I like, and I like none of the Abraxas snuffs so far - but I wouldn’t call them rubbish manufacturers. I don’t buy the Indian snuffs because I find them messy and oily or super fine, and I certainly won’t touch the American scotches - but I wouldn’t call them rubbish either Branding a manufacturer as rubbish based on your tastes, rather than the “quality” of the product seems very unfair to me. Whether or not you like GH or not, they do make a good product - it just doesn’t suit everybody’s taste - but then again, no snuff does 
GH SP is in my top three favorite snuffs. It has an unusual flavor and is so easy to take. Dry Orange is also a terrific and singular snuff. In private conversation I have found myself calling a certain manufacturer (not GH) crap, though I agree it’s really a question of taste. I guess I was saying they have crap taste, lol.
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Yes I concede, describing a snuff manufacturer as rubbish because you don’t care for most of their range is a poor adjective to use. That’s a fair point. It all comes down to personal taste in the end - there’s no right or wrong, great or rubbish, only opinions, tastes and preferences.
@ericthered that certain manufacturer’s name doesn’t happen to start with a P and end with an oschl does it, if so I’m going to have to agree with you
@n9inchnails No it wasn’t that company, and I’m not sure I’d even stand by my opinion today, having learned more about their snuffs.
Just tried gh cherry very fine and nice natural cherry taste that lasts. Maybe a bit too high for me as a beginner so i try to keep myself from taking too much.
@Snufferdemedicis GH Cherry is a wonderful snuff! Glad you like it. What do you mean by too high? The nicotine is too high, or the scent is too strong?
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Too high in nicotine for me as a beginner the scent is awesome cos you can feel a light tobacco scent through cherry