Islay Whisky Portion

[piks101]

Yes - Chad simply used Google Translate in his blog which is always an imprecise science! If you're going to translate something properly it really needs a bit more research than just copy and paste and a language algorithm! However it's difficult to see even his translation as saying that the tobacco is pasteurised unless you don't read the whole thing!

The text in Swedish says:

Vi använder oss av gamla traditioner, vi svettar tobaken i värmerum istället för att pastörisera den.
Pastörisering är en effektiv och snabb process och har sina fördelar i en massproduktion.
Den tidskrävande svettningen var det sättet som allt svenskt snus producerades fram till 1981. När man svettar tobaken och inte stressar den, får du fram en renare och tydligare tobakskaraktär i det färdiga snuset. Vissa saker var bättre för

Which means:

We use the old traditions, we ferment tobacco in a warm room instead of pasteurising it. Pasteurisation is an effective and quick process and is an advantage in mass-production but before 1981 all Swedish snus was produced by means of a time-consuming fermentation process. When you ferment tobacco, it retains far more of it's natural compounds and aromas giving a clearer and cleaner flavour in the finished snus. Sometimes the old ways are the best.

Good detective work. The reviews on taste have been excellent. Now what about the TSNA levels using the fermented tobacco? That would be good info to know.

[jagmanss]

Yes GN... I just stand out by the mailbox and wait....and wait....patiently. I wave at the kids and pet the dogs that pass by. It gets cold and rather lonely at night....but I know you would never let us down..

Skelly and I are having a contest on who has to wait the longest, so far czechzar has us both beat by almost a year.

Yeah! Yeah! We all waited by our mail box and found out it was all a bunch of BS from GN... He is not a man of his word... period!

[jagmanss]

And No, Dear Mr. GN I will not elaborate you know what you did and who you owe.... Sorry not buying the Mr. innocent act anymore.... you owe what you owe Period...

[squeezyjohn]

Oh Dear :-(

[Snusconny]

Tsna

I am a big fan of this snus, and am also very curious about the TSNA levels. I wonder whether the text "sweat the tobacco in the fire room instead to pasteurize it" is imprecise, and is meant to read "sweat the tobacco in the fire room instead of pasteurizing it". That would be consistent with the rest of the text (i.e., the snus is made in the pre-1981 manner).

TSNA formation on tobacco hangs on too tight during the drying, you want it airy in the drying barn. Another critical state is at harvest and salvage of tobacco, you do not want the tobacco to come into contactwith something that has germs that such soil. A clean handling pursued. It would not be a lower level of TSNA by pasteurization than if you "sweats" But cigar tobacco contains slightly higher levels of TSNA and low Nic, but great taste. We just use a bit of that tobacco in the blend.
TSNA is not higher than some of GN Tobacco's other products. If the case had been so had you already heard it from my last employer.

[squeezyjohn]

Is that really Conny Andersson?

Welcome to SnusOn Conny ... I'm sure I can speak for all of us to say that we are truly honoured to have you here! Many of us - myself included are BIG fans of your work!

Thank you for the information - it totally answers my questions.

[Snusconny]

Thanks Mate

[trebli]

I will second that motion. Good to see you Mr. Andersson!

[Snusconny]

I will second that motion. Good to see you Mr. Andersson!

Lol, I'm on my way, there is a Big Whisky event this weekend. And I'll promote some brown Gold.

[GN Tobacco Sweden AB]

And No, Dear Mr. GN I will not elaborate you know what you did and who you owe.... Sorry not buying the Mr. innocent act anymore.... you owe what you owe Period...

Jagmanss thank you

[Skell18]

Welcome to the insane asylum Conny Great to have you here, and the Islay is fooking amazing!!!

[piks101]

And No, Dear Mr. GN I will not elaborate you know what you did and who you owe.... Sorry not buying the Mr. innocent act anymore.... you owe what you owe Period...

Provide details or please take this off line between yourselves...

[whalen]

Provide details or take this off line between yourselves...

Rut ro.......

[whalen]

Thank you Conny for all you do! A job well done.

[R.B. Kazenzakis]

TSNA formation on tobacco hangs on too tight during the drying, you want it airy in the drying barn. Another critical state is at harvest and salvage of tobacco, you do not want the tobacco to come into contactwith something that has germs that such soil. A clean handling pursued. It would not be a lower level of TSNA by pasteurization than if you "sweats" But cigar tobacco contains slightly higher levels of TSNA and low Nic, but great taste. We just use a bit of that tobacco in the blend.
TSNA is not higher than some of GN Tobacco's other products. If the case had been so had you already heard it from my last employer.

Thank you for taking the time to comment here, Mr. Andersson! I am happy to hear that the TSNA levels are not particularly high (although I enjoy your blend enough that I would probably still partake quite a bit, even if the levels were high).

Regarding the cigar tobacco in the blend, it is a great exotic touch to have Ometepe in there (I am blindly guessing that the Lancaster leaf is Pennsylvania broadleaf, which is another tasty one), and it adds to my enjoyment of the product to know what the origins of the blend components are.

Tack så mycket for all of your work in creating such an enjoyable product and getting it to the market. Is there any chance that a loose version could become available?