McChrystals SP Snuff

We’ve added today McChrystals SP snuff. We’ve had a few requests for this ‘difficult to get hold of’ snuff, so hopefully the addition will please those of you who are interested in trying McChrystal’s ‘take’ on the popular SP style of snuff.

The snuff itself is a natural tobacco snuff, fine, light brown in colour and dry-ish. It has a interesting citrus / hoppy like scent to it. Of course, it may be a little ’sneezy’ for some; so test with intial small pinches before ‘diving in’!

Strangely McChrystals SP is referred to as SP 100 by McChrystals, but there’s no mention of this on the packaging. Why SP 100 we do not know!

To view the page on the store, click McChrystals SP Snuff.

McChrystals SP Snuff is available in extra large tins.

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Snuff reviews function has just been added to Snuff Store. You can now review any of the 300+ items that Snuff Store currently has in stock. Use the function to give us feedback, use the reviews to alert other snuffers of a ‘great’ snuff, or a ‘bad’ snuff. To see a ‘live’ example of a snuff review you can click Old Paris Snuff.

If you’re writing a snuff review, please bear it mind that the review will need to be at least 50 characters long, otherwise the site will return you a error message.

Once you’ve written your snuff review, we’ll be notified via email and will release submitted snuff reviews for other Snuff Store customers to read.

To write a snuff review, scroll to the bottom of the listing of a particular blend, you’ll see on the left hand side a black box with the words ‘Write Review’ in it. Click this and a new page will open. You need to be logged in to actually write your snuff reviews; so if you’re not, the page will ask you to login to Snuff Store.

Once done, the snuff review page will open and there’s a few short descriptions above the review text box that you can type into on how to use the review function. Your review will show your name - this isn’t linked to your email or anything, so you won’t get people contacting you.

If you’d like us to add your snuff review for you, or would like snuff reviews added using a different name, please contact us and we’ll happily do this for you.

If you’ve tried and liked (or maybe disliked) a particular snuff, you can now write a snuff review that will appear under the particular brand /or blend of snuff’s main listing.

Writing a snuff review is a good way of alerting other snuff users of your thoughts on a particular snuff. Try to be as descriptive as possible. Include the flavours that you can detect for example, or whether the snuff in question is a ‘must try’ snuff in your opinion.

The snuff reviews hopefully will become a ‘independent’ measure that people can use in helping them to decide whether to try a particular snuff or not.

So go on, write a snuff review today!

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Packards Club Snuff - supply in the UK to be ceased!

We don’t like to be the bearer of ‘bad news’, but we’ve just been told that very shortly Packards Club snuff will no longer be available in the UK.

Thinking this must be some kind of mistake, we immediately contacted Poschl via email. We received at first ‘promising’ news and then unfortunately second, a withdrawl of this news a few days later. The bomb shell being dropped that our supplier is correct. Packards Club will shortly no longer be imported into the UK.

Dear Tim,
Thank you for your E-Mail.
Sorry for my fault. Packard´s Club Snuff is no more available in the whole U.K.
Unfortunately we had to delete this product.
We are very sorry about this matter.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us again!
Best regards
i. A. Martina RieblingerPöschl Tabak GmbH & Co. KG
Verkauf International
Dieselstr. 1
D-84144 Geisenhausen

Packards Club Snuff is a favourite of many snuff users. Packards Club is a old snuff blend, and ironically originally it is a British blend; now made under licence in Germany by Poschl.

On a personal level, it was one of our ‘first’ favourite snuffs - way before the launch of Snuff Store and has remained one of our ‘every day’ snuffs.

Packards Club comes in a really nice retro style box, with a serving ‘doser’. It’s a fruity snuff, slightly moist and generally considered by many to be a ‘every day’ snuff.

So what can we do? Well as ‘consumers’ as well as a snuff store owner, we think it’s only right that we lobby Poschl and try to get them to change their mind.

It seems strange that during a ’snuff revival’, a time when more and more tobacco users are moving to the gentle art of snuff taking not just in the UK, (but also world-wide) that a decision such as this has been made.

Maybe if enough of us get together and contact Poschl in protest, spread the word to other snuff users and get more and more people involved in our protest, Poschl may change their mind about withdrawing Packards Club.

We recently ‘lost’ Robbies Snuff in the UK - although fortunately there are a few wholesalers left in the UK with supplies. The reason we had been given for the loss of Robbies, was that it wasn’t financially viable to print the ‘warning labels’ in English.

We do not know the reason why Packards Club is being withdrawn, as a ‘good seller’ on Snuff Store it doesn’t make any sense to us. It certainly isn’t going to make any sense to the regular Packards Club users in the UK - whether they purchase Packards Club from Snuff Store or not is besides the point…

So if you want to lodge a protest, add a comment to this post below and here’s the email address for Poschl. Make them aware of your feelings towards removing Packards Club before it’s too late.

poeschl@poeschl-tobacco.de

It could be a ‘real’ SOS - Save Our Snuff…

Look out for further Packards Club snuff updates.

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Hedges Snuff L260 - also known as ’The Snuff’ is a fine mentholated snuff.

Hedges  snuff was originally invented by William Ross Hedges, a chemist from Birmingham. Interestingly, Hedges snuff was offered as a ‘cure all’ remedy for various cold related ailments!

Hedges L260 is one of the last snuffs widely available in tobacconists. It is a snuff that has been copied by several other snuff manufacturers - I’m sure if you do a little research, which snuffs will be revealed.

Hedges snuff is a fine powdered dry-ish brown snuff tobacco powder. It is a great all day snuff for those who like their snuff on the menthol side. It has a reported good nicotine kick, so may be suitable for those looking to replace ’smoking tobacco’ with smokeless tobacco snuff alternatives - read this.

For more information on William Ross Hedges click here. I do not know whether the below entry copied from the War Graves reference site, refers to the son of William Ross Hedges the Birmingham based chemist - no matter what, it is still a reminder of the sacrifice made by previous generations on our behalf.

WILLIAM HERBERT HEDGES, MC

Captain 1st (North Midland) Field Company, Royal Engineers

Died Tuesday, 22nd August 1916 aged 23 in France

The son of William Ross Hedges and E. Hedges of Birmingham

Try Hedges L260 ‘The Snuff’ Snuff today.

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Snuff & Snow

We had a un-seasonable snow storm this morning. Some time between 7 and 8 o’clock it started snowing and at times it was near blizzard conditions.

We live in Surrey and so being in the south of England, we don’t usually get that much snow.

Now there’s a big kid in all of us I suppose, so I was just as excited about the snow as my two sons - Toby and Zach; we all rushed breakfast and as quickly as possible got some warm clothes on and ventured out into the snow to play!

Tim, Zach (in pram) and Pip the dog.

Julia and Toby.

View towards Gatton lake.

Gatton view.

I had a few pinches of McChrystals Original & Genuine whilst on the walk.

Tim & snowman in the garden.

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Making your own snuff using a snuff grinder of some description is really easy.

In the below example I’ve used a small plastic snuff mill / snuff grinder - whilst it’s not designed for everyday ‘heavy’ use, (for that I would suggest a metal snuff grinder) I think from the images below you can see that making your own snuff using a snuff mill is fairly straight forward.

You could also use a salt / pepper grinder or a coffee grinder. If you want to really go back to basics, then a pestle and mortar could also be used to grind up your tobacco into snuff.

Most snuff grinders / mills are of a similar design, they’ll generally have three parts. The first is the hand grinder at the top which you turn to rotate the grinding blades.

The second is the tobacco and sieve chamber. Depending on the snuff mill you’re using, this will vary in size. Some have a large capacity. The blades are usually on a spring type mechanism, this automatically pushes down on the tobacco that you’ve put in the tobacco chamber. The tobacco is pushed against the sieve and you turn the grinding handle to blend your tobacco into snuff.

The third is the snuff chamber, or sometimes it’s a chamber that has a funnel that you place inside a suitable container whilst grinding your tobacco into snuff in the mill.

All you then need to do is transfer your ground up snuff powder into a suitable container / or snuff box and you’re all set to use your homemade snuff.

The tobacco used in the snuff mill for this snuff grinder experiment was sourced from a old packet of ‘Lucky Strike’ cigarettes.

The tobacco in Lucky Strike I think is ‘toasted’ and so the snuff that was created in the milling process not only looks a little like High Dry Toast, it also has a similar aroma!

I found about ten cigarettes in a kitchen drawer. I do not know how long they’d been in there, so I opened them up and removed the tobacco, placed the tobacco on grease proof paper in a baking tray, then I put it in the oven for a few minutes on a low heat to makesure the tobacco was totally dried out.

I then put the tobacco in the snuff mill’s tobacco chamber in small batches and steadily ground it down. All I was left with at the end was a few stubborn bits of stalk, which I’m sure if I had the patience I could have turned into snuff with a few more moment’s work!

Now to take a pinch of snuff. I was ‘testing’ the snuff as I was grinding it, purely for research purposes you understand - the line of snuff you see below was my first ‘big’ pinch after already deciding the snuff was good due to these earlier tests…!

So that’s the left nostril done, now for the right nostril!

Right nostril done and no sneezing… Or should I say ‘with no grimace‘?!

The strange thing being, is that the wooden snuff box that I transferred the home made snuff into, had previously been full of a menthol snuff. This added a slight menthol flavour to the snuff that wasn’t at all un-pleasant!

So there you have it, if you’re interested in DIY snuff making get yourself a snuff grinder of some description and have a go!

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Below are further images of the metal snuff mill.

Snuff Mill laying on it’s side.

Overhead view of snuff mill, showing turning mechanism.

Snuff Mill showing tobacco chamber, milling blades, sieve and turning mechanism.

Snuff mill broken down into three parts, showing funnel that milled snuff is dispensed from, sieve and tobacco chamber.

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