Just added two new wooden snuff boxes to snuff store.

Two Tone Rose Wood Snuff Box and the Embossed Crest Wooden Snuff Box.

Below are four images of these snuff boxes, including images of the snuff boxes open showing the sliding lid.

Two Tone Rose Wood Closed

Two Tone Rose Wood Snuff Box Open

Crest Snuff Box Closed

Crest Snuff Box Open

We are always looking for new snuff accessories to add to Snuff Store’s inventory. If you see something elsewhere that we do not yet stock, or have an idea of something snuff related that you’d like us to try and source please feel free to contact us.

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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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Stammheimer Hopfen Schnuph is a hop flavoured snuff from McChrystals and is now available at Snuff Store.

Stammheimer Hopfen Schnuph is a snuff of distinctive flavour and quality, it is as close to a ‘beer’ flavoured snuff that we’ve come across. The flavour is bitter, sweet, and tangy all at the same time!

Stammheimer Hopfen snuff has a nice aroma of hops and tobacco and as soon as you open the tin you notice the scent, which is quite unlike any other snuff we’ve tried. Stammheimer Hopfen snuff is brown in colour and has a grind consistency similar to McChrystals’ O & G. It comes in a McChrystals ‘large’ tin and contains about 8.75 g of snuff.

Stammheimer Hopfen snuff is specifically blended for the continental European market and considered to be a ‘difficult to get hold of snuff’, it carries the same name as a Hop Farm in Switzerland. It is I believe a snuff created as a collaboration between McChrystals and the Stammheimer Hopfen Hop Farm, you can find a link to their website here. It’s a page translated into English, you can return it back to original language when you get there if you like.

Try Stammheimer Hopfen 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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Magnet Snuff update for you!

Snuff Store now stocks the following Magnet blends of snuff available in 10g tins. Magnet Snuff is a light brown fine to medium, dry-ish blend and thought by many to have a strong nicotine ‘kick’.

Magnet Menthol Snuff
Magnet Peach Snuff
Magnet Spearmint Snuff

So for those of you wishing to try Magnet Snuff, be our guest!

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