For the non-pipe smokers among us, who or what is GLP?
GL Pease, an “artisan” pipe tobacco maker in the US. Their Chelsea morning and Lagonda tobaccos are Devine!!
(To be read with tongue in cheek, preferably your own): It’s ‘them’ and ‘us’ - that’s what it is, these artisan snuff sniffer snobs snootily sniffing so-called superior snuff while us working class types have to make do with Wilson & Gawith’s Asbestos Blend, ‘the finest quality a broom can sweep’. I tell you what, come the revolution you lot’ll be the first up against the Wallflower. --------------------------------------------- I enjoy reading about the high quality hand made snuffs available these days, and I think it can only be a good thing that they’re around as it means snuff isn’t dying out or stagnating, but the only ones I’ve tried are Abraxas Premium Batch, Dragun and St Casura, and two of those are about the same price as regular snuff anyway. It’s always a toss up between spending the money on one artisan snuff or almost three Samuel Gawith’s (one Black Coffee, plus two I might not’ve tried yet), and Sam keeps winning. :))
Been enjoying F&T HDT all day, toque whiskey and honey this evening, now off to bed with @chefdaniel ,s Old mill pure Virginia toast . My conscious is clear :). Night all
Snuff what you like, like what you snuff. Snuff said!
Well, a quick flick through the ‘Types of snuff’ should dispel the notion that no-one talks about anything but artisan snuff. Dholakia, Viking, Toque, Poschl. Try It! Discussions on all of them raging right now, as we speak.
@willc if GLP ever got into the snuff game, my savings account would dry up in about a week!
@Idbowman It is curious you should mention that. I have been filling GLP’s ears with snuff talk for a while now, telling him of the various kinds of snuffs from the old traditional names to that of the individual snuff makers. He had only a passing acquaintance with the snuff world until recently.
@fredh His pipe blends are top notch, all the way around. I would have to imagine that the topping he uses in Haddo’s would make for a nice snuff. As to this thread: 1. The defamation of the “newb” is concerning - whether exaggerated for the sake of trollery or not. A larger market increases profitability to the producers (large or small), which increases the selection and availability to the users (new or old), and creates a larger community to share experiences, knowledge, and opinions. Without new blood, this - as with any - hobby would slowly go the way of the buffalo. “Newbs” should never be seen as anything but a sign of growth and an opportunity to further share our mutual interest. 2. Not worth repeating at length, but +1 to all comments in the ballpark of “there will always be a next big thing.” 3. As a snuffer, the topic title and OP are disappointing. The subsequent responses are wonderful.
I’m here I snuff what ever I like and, I don’t care if people feel like talking about fancy snuffs or, cheapies. Too me this is more of a place too let off a little steam and, maybe talk a little snuff.
I am guilty of raving over Artisan Snuff . I like where they are going. I live life daily and my time is limited; I use what I enjoy. But I have a larger than normal horde of snuffs. Not too many in bulk just a few of my favorites. And they all get into rotation. The few of Chef Deans Old Mill creations I tried are like nothing on the market; Definitely worthy of talking about. Snuffhouse will evolve constantly, most of the member when I joined are no longer here and I haven’t been here long. One thing stays constant we behave as gentlemen. I like 60 and 70 hard rock but I also enjoy the new hard rock bands. It is all good.
I have been on the internet since at least the mid-90s, and spent much of the past 20 years active in music forums of various kinds. I think if someone had posted complaining that forum members were talking only about new releases and had stopped daily obsessing about albums that had come out 5-10 years before, they’d have been taken, shall-we-say, not too seriously. Seems to me (as a newbie to this site, but not a newbie to tobacco), that snuffhouse is a home for connoisseurs and adventurers of sensory experience, open to experimentation and innovation in the realm of snuffs. Snuff is not stuck in any point in time, but a continuous, dynamic flow from the time Nicot brought snuff to Catherine de Medici right up to the present moment, and into the future. If we don’t take the past, present, and future of snuff seriously, it will soon just become a museum of the past, with this forum devolving into reminiscence. I love classic snuffs, but I’m also excited by what comes next. And the artisans are the vanguard of these possibilities.
Having just a year under my belt with a return to snuff I can only offer nascent insight to the big picture- for me I have found favor in some of the established brands and will likely stick with those I like, while also venturing into some of the newer ones that may appeal to me.
Sir Walter Scotts snuff, and Old Mill snuff, are my two favorites and most used. Great stuff. Period.
I am a SG man, because of good price and good quality (of their plain snuffs anyway). Also, I am definitely a creature of habit. That being said, I love SWS and Abraxas (I’ve not yet had the pleasure of trying old mill but all of @chefdaniel’s snuffs also sound divine) as treats for myself, they are going above and beyond the old guard snuff mills. These artisans are bringing passion and care in crafting into the community. I look at it like craft beer. Our artisans are like small edgy micro breweries, pushing the envelope and making amazingly interesting snuff. The “big” snuff mills are like sierra nevada or deschutes, still artisans who make good snuff. The way I see it we should all count ourselves lucky that there really is no Anheiser-Busch/Inbev of snuff. There really is no company that makes a truely substandard product and says “deal with it”. Just my two cents, and they ain’t worth a penny.
I think snuffy might be pissed because he has loads of bulk and the new snuffs just keep coming.
Very interesting comments here. Like many of you, I find the artisan snuffs fantastic. But that said, I thoroughly enjoy the non artisan snuffs as well. I like what @Roderick has to say, and without repeating it verbatim he is spot on in my opinion. While I haven’t tried all the artisan snuffs by a long shot, the ones I have I enjoy, but only as one might enjoy a rare spirit or fine cigar. I still reach for my Toques, Gawiths, Indians of all types, and my most recent discoveries from Covent and Mc Chrystals. I’m not prone to raving about any type in particular, and as I am the only snuffer I know in my world, I enjoy reading what others think about the various types, brands, scents, histories, ect, of our common interest here in this forum. I don’t enjoy seeing members slamming newbies, or soapboxing about their particular views. Maybe I have been guilty of this on occasion, I suppose I have. I won’t apologize. I just enjoy the topic of snuff, its one of my personal delights and I hope to enjoy it for many years to come.
Seems as if the OP has abandoned his own thread along with the forum…
I’ve got a short list of snuffs that I will never be without, and they are all from the major players. As a matter of fact, I’ve got a nose full of O&G right now, but after one has been here for a few years, what more is left to say about it? If someone tries one if my old favorites for the first time and wants to talk about it, I’ll jump in with enthusiasm, but otherwise, I’ll spare you all my tired old opinion. There is always more to say about what ever is new and exciting, but I always go back to my O&G, and my Wild Duck, and my SM Blue, and…
Well said @Java. I am new to snuff and love discussing all things tobacco with others. I am still somewhat new to pipes at just over 4 yrs. but with 22 yrs of cigar smoking you have summarize my position. Do I have old favorites by the box, of course. I offer them as suggestions if asked by someone who I think might enjoy them but the new boutiques, like the stuff Ezra Zion is making is what exciting now. Such is the nature of forums.
I’m not really into ‘artisan’ snuffs, or beer, or food. There’s just something about the whole idea that puts me off. I’m not saying that the products aren’t good, it’s just the whole ‘artisan’ thing that makes me shudder. It seems like everything nowadays is ‘artisan’, or even ‘artisanal’, which strikes me as nothing more than a marketing buzzword. I remember seeing, when I still lived in England, a pub advertising ‘hand-cut style chips’. Not hand cut, just made on a machine in the style of a potato that has been sliced by hand. There’s a store in my town that just sells artsanal olive oil, and is only there because they are heavily subsidized by the town, which is trying to restyle itself as a fashionable retail district. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure hand-cut style chips and $60 bottles of olive oil are fine products, it’s just the aura of the whole thing that turns me off. I also have no doubt that the ‘micro-snuffs’ are excellent too, they certainly have received glowing praise from many highly experienced snuffers on this forum. I guess that when I snuff WoS or F&T, I feel like I am snuffing a couple of hundred years of history, and that’s a big part of the experience for me.