Copenhagen Snus

[piks101]

I heard Islay Whiskey was fired cured, so wouldn't one lose the health benefits of a swedish pasteurized snus?

[lxskllr]

I heard Islay Whiskey was fired cured, so wouldn't one lose the health benefits of a swedish pasteurized snus?

I'd like to hear that from GN. I assume you got that info from Northerner? They've had inaccuracies posted in the past, and I wouldn't consider their data authoritative.

[piks101]

Yes, that was one of the reviews that stated fire cured but Chadizz1 had a review on snubie.com that better detailed the process...interesting. Perhaps not pasteurized as today's swedish snus but might be even a better process?

The snus is also produced differently, "We use the ancient traditions, we sweat the tobacco in the fire room instead to pasteurize it. Pasteurization is an effective and quick process and has advantages in mass production. The time consuming perspiration was the way that all Swedish snuff was produced until 1981. When one sweats tobacco and does not stress it you get a cleaner and clearer tobacco flavor in the finished snus." The cans are all numbered, which stresses further how limited this snus is and the effort that went into the details of producing a small batch, to ensure the utmost quality. http://chadizzy1.blogspot.com/2014/0...uary-2014.html

[squeezyjohn]

I've just ordered a roll of this now ... damn you SnusOn!

From my little experiments making my own snus I've also found that the lower temperature fermenting method (takes 5 days or so) keeps much more of the natural tobacco flavours intact leading to a richer, more complex flavour. But these lower temperatures are much more likely to yield a product that's higher in TSNAs - so I always try to err on the side of caution and do mine at higher temps ... unlike me, GN and all the proper snus companies have ways of testing for this - and I'm sure they wouldn't release a product with dangerously high levels.

[DanF]

Copenhagen Long Cut is a masterpiece of a recipe for oral tobacco and for me no other American dip comes close ... but it is dip nonetheless............

Interestingly I've gone from Swedish Snus only: back to Copenhagen Long Cut and Wintergreen at the same time. The Long Cut alone is too salty for me.

My only current connection to Snus now is an occasional pinch of Offroads Los Lakrits mixed in with the Copenhagen.

For me Copenhagen reminds me of the way tobacco was when I was a kid. Back when those little Camels were real cigarettes (and .25 cents a pack).

Dan

[chadizzy1]

I'd like to hear that from GN. I assume you got that info from Northerner? They've had inaccuracies posted in the past, and I wouldn't consider their data authoritative.

http://www.islaywhiskysnus.com

Translated from this link, it's the quote supplied below.

Yes, that was one of the reviews that sted fire cured but Chadizz1 had a review on snubie.com that better detailed the process...interesting. Perhaps not pasteurized as today's snus but might be even a better process?

The snus is also produced differently, "We use the ancient traditions, we sweat the tobacco in the fire room instead to pasteurize it. Pasteurization is an effective and quick process and has advantages in mass production. The time consuming perspiration was the way that all Swedish snuff was produced until 1981. When one sweats tobacco and does not stress it you get a cleaner and clearer tobacco flavor in the finished snus." The cans are all numbered, which stresses further how limited this snus is and the effort that went into the details of producing a small batch, to ensure the utmost quality. http://chadizzy1.blogspot.com/2014/0...uary-2014.html

If I remember correctly, from talking to Conny, this was done to provide a better quality tobacco flavor. Yes, there is a rise in the TSNA levels, as is common of fermentation, but I don't believe it was too much of a rise.

[chibre]

I'm travelling to Florida next month, has it hit the stores there yet? Would be nice to bring back several cans of this since I do enjoy Cope. Although they call it snus, I probably wouldn't swallow anything made by USST.. lol

If they don't, I will probably bring back a roll of Cope pouches.

[chadizzy1]

I'm travelling to Florida next month, has it hit the stores there yet? Would be nice to bring back several cans of this since I do enjoy Cope. Although they call it snus, I probably wouldn't swallow anything made by USST.. lol

If they don't, I will probably bring back a roll of Cope pouches.

As far as I know we've only seen it in Texas. Though the Altria rep did tell me they do their test marketing in "Tobacco Barn" locations, if you can find one of those, maybe they'll have it, but we haven't seen it anywhere outside of TX yet.