i love hate this snuff. at first it smelled like coffee now that im down to the last few pinches it smells and tastes like copenhagen snuff. i really dont like the smell out of the entire coffee bundle this one dissapointed me the most, i do like the nicotine hit from it. i get more from it than i do the q snuff,it plugs up my nose quite easily and the taste at the back of the throat stays too long. i wont be ordering it again

I’ll take it off your hands anyday. That stuff is tasttty.

its almost gone or i would send it to you

For just starting off snuffing, you suck that stuff in! Impressive.

I have never tried it! I use my own coffee beans. Your description of it makes it sound very appealing. I love Copenhagen.

Did you try covent garden cafe royale, now there’s a decent coffee snuff

Better luck next time. I love the stuff(snuff) ground coffee bean aroma on a V dark base , what’s not to like. That’s one of the fun things on this forum, seeing snuffs on one persons dislike list on the top of another’s most loved. The nose knows and to each his own.

For just starting off snuffing, you suck that stuff in! Impressive.

thank you lol its a bit easier than th WoS

I have never tried it! I use my own coffee beans. Your description of it makes it sound very appealing. I love Copenhagen.

i like copenhegen to just not the smell of it

Coffee snuff is my Holy Grail snuff, as until recently I hand’t found one that truly fit my criteria. I found the SG BC repellent when I first tried it; I was reminded of nothing so much as wet, stale coffee grounds left in the brewer for three days. I attempted to blend my own coffee snuff, considered actually snuffing coffee bean dust from my grinder, and made the first blood-oath in my 57 years…never to take Toque Espresso up nose or anus ad aeternum. Then I tried snuffstore’s Cafe Noir. Originally touted by some as a recreation of the Covent Garden Cafe Royale (G. Smith’s). This is false. The Cafe Noir is most probably Sam Gawith rebranded. The vacuum tins are identical, but as i have no Gawith Black Coffee on hand, I cannot make a comparison. But I love the Cafe Noir, despite my negative first impression of the Samuel Gawith Black Corffee! Goes to show you… something.

@Uncle_Squinty‌ #1 It is wonderful to have you back, as I’m sure others will agree. #2 Seegar and Snuff, UK has resurrected the old G. Smith’s recipe for Cafe Royale that is spot on. I sample it side by side with my vintage stash of the original and was suitably impressed; enough to set aside some coins for a future purchase. #3 I like the Cafe Noir, and I find it similar to SG Black Coffee, but with some vanilla notes lurking about. #4 I too have attempted to make a coffee snuff, and from what I’m hearing my Fleur de Cafe is hitting some positive notes. #5 IM me your contact info and you’ll be up to your nostrils in every coffee snuff I’ve got in my arsenal as fast as the postal units can carry them.

#2 Seegar and Snuff, UK has resurrected the old G. Smith’s recipe for Cafe Royale that is spot on. I sample it side by side with my vintage stash of the original and was suitably impressed; enough to set aside some coins for a future purchase.

So, do they ship to the states and take credit card payment???

@Mouse‌ I’m about to find out. When I do, I’ll let everyone here know so we can bundle up a purchase and distribute it stateside. I’ll keep you posted.

SCBC is my favorite coffee snuff - which basically makes it the best of the worst. After the first few pinches, I don’t get ANY coffee scent whatsoever…I can only get it when I blow my nose afterwards - at which point the coffee aroma lingers for a while and is rather pleasant. Going in, all I usually pick up is a brined tobacco - this isn’t a bad thing at all, it’s just not the show I bought the ticket for. Incidentally, the aroma I do get is similar to the briny, leathery-ness of SG London Brown, only milled much finer.

I bought this under recommendation from so many on here, and indeed I liked the first few pinches. After that it got a little too much for my tastes and abandoned it. My summary after revisiting it after a while was “needs milk and sugar”, and I stick by that appraisal. As to coffee snuffs I have found WoS Irish Coffee far more to my liking.

I love it. It brings back memories of my visits to my grandmother’s when she would make a pot of strong coffee on the wood stove.

Tryied a whole tin in these months Now it is called Black Arabica I am totally disappointed from this snuff in which I can find an aroma of old wasted coffee and the base reminds me black rappee but not good as original BP The tobacco is moist and difficult to take because it is merged in various tobacco balls The scent in the nose lasts only few minutes when I am lucky I have other 75g that I do not want anymore

@schmalzlerfranzl I did not have balls in mine but can validate that the scent was weak in the tin I got. I much prefer Cafe Noire which has an assertive scent I love.

@SammyD13 Yeah the scent is very poor and it gives nothing I have Cafe Royal by Gawith & Hoggarth but I did not try it yet Must get some Cafe Noir

I seldom catch the coffee aroma at all, I get a more earthy smell. Dank earth…peat. Ive heard leather mentioned describing it and yes, I get a wisp of stuffing my face into a new baseball glove. I love it. It’s my main course currently.

This is a snuff I have to keep chewing on (figuratively). There is a coffee scent there, though not terribly strong, more of an earthy scent. It’s not exactly pleasant, but certainly not bad, and keeps drawing me back to it for some reason.

Though it doesn’t taste like black coffee, it has the same draw. Is the flavor all that great? Not exactly, but there is something pleasant about it.

I’ll have to keep toying with it and give a proper review.

I wonder how ancient those tins are in 2024. Samuel Gawith folded in 2015 and snuff is longer manufactured anywhere in Kendal. The plastic dispensers (dreadful at the best of times) must by now just contain dry dust.

@PhilipS2 The code on mine dates to 7 October 2023 (give or take a month). Kendal 07 334

Confused non-Brit here. Could you elaborate? Gawith Hoggarth makes the current production SG-labelled snuffs as well as their own GH-labelled snuffs, and they are located in Kendal, no?

September, 2023 to be exact on the month, I believe (source: Gawith, Hoggarth, & Co. Ltd. Production Date Code Format).

As far as I can tell, it is Silky Dark with a light black coffee scenting (which does fade with time). It’s fine, but I’ve never really found that one to be all that exciting to be honest.

@Demigros Yup, pretty much my thoughts as well. Still, there’s a little nuance to dig into with it, but I can’t decide if I dislike it or if there’s something more to it.

Sorry, confused and elderly Brit here. I had always bought SG Kendal Brown and London Brown from Simon Jackson, a middle-man in Preston as one could not buy directly from the manufacturer. It was he who told me that SG had folded and that the products were no longer available. 2015 or thereabouts was the last time I bought genuine Samuel Gawith snuff and have mourned it ever since.
Looking at the list of snuff makers extant in November 2020 I see that Gawith Hoggarth is listed together with some snuffs but Black Coffee is absent. Presumably, therefore, this snuff has been resurrected since then.

Thanks. No worries. Yes, GH absorbed the SG catalog (pipe tobacco, snuff) and took some of the machinery too when operations ceased in 2015. Here is a piece on it from the time:

https://pipesmagazine.com/blog/pipe-news/gawiths-one-big-happy-family-again-after-150-years-merger-confirmed/

And, here is an insider view of how it unfolded: Samuel Gawith | Dutch Pipe Smoker.

I cannot pretend to understand all the nuances of the story in relation to Kendal snuff history, but in any case one thing I do know is that the GH-made SG-labelled snuffs sold at present are different from their pre-2015 SG-made counterparts, as one might imagine. However, they still good enough for me (mostly), but only the ones that come in the original style 25g vacuum sealed tins for obvious reasons.

Cheers!

I don’t think this is true about Samuel Gawith closing or there being no snuff making in Kendal .

Samuel Gawith is dissolved (see the link below). Simon Jackson, who was the main distributor for their products told me about the closure some time ago when I queried why they were no longer being offered…

Gawith Hoggarth manufactures certain snuffs under the old label in the same way that Sharrow still manufactures Fribourg & Treyer snuffs - so, yes, there is still snuff-making in Kendal albeit on a smaller scale. I stand to be corrected, but it seems that the main distributor now is Mr. Snuff whom I’ve never used.

Am I right in assuming that Black Coffee is now known as Black Arabica?
I received a tap tin a couple of months ago and recently had a fresh 25g tin - they feel like entirely different mixes. The tap tin dry, earthy and delivers a strong but pleasant burn/sting.
The fresh tin is moist, doesn’t carry the same flavour and seems to lack the burn - it’s not that I don’t enjoy it, I’m just assuming that I need to let the tin dry out.

That burn is caused by the sharp edges of the tobacco particles irritating your nasal passages, the moist tobacco is nice and fluffy and has no sharp edges. Just let it dry out to your liking, most people do the opposite and rehydrate their dried out snuff to get rid of the sharp edges.

Other way around: the stuff in the tap tin is dried out and not what the snuff is intended to be. The fresh 25g tin, however, is as intended by the manufacturer. Would recommend avoiding those tap tins. They are simply no good at all for most all water based English snuffs (there is some wiggle room with dry toasts, though). It is almost as if whoever at Wilsons decided to introduce them does not actually use snuff him or herself…

Thank you both for clarification - now I’m thinking I need to try the tins of Firedance and Celtic Talisman!