Chess Snus

[Guest]

Just wondered if anyone knew anything about this new snus?
http://www.northerner.com/snus/North...Portion-30866/

I'm intrigued.

[Veganpunk]

As am I. Can looks cool.

[precious007]

Nice can design.

Wondering how it tastes like.

[Guest]

1/2 cigar snus, 1/2 normal tobacco snus....Hmmmm...Wonder who's making it....

[lxskllr]

I'm guessing it's a V2 produced product.

[snusgetter]

"Snus

We produce two variants of Swedish-style snus known to the discerning user as Snus - portion snus and loose snus. All products are pasteurized, with low levels of TSNA.

Our production philosophy and concept is driven by our passion for snus, for excellence and the benefits you enjoy from small batch smokeless tobacco making.

We believe that snus is a highly enjoyable and sophisticated product, full of the varied taste and aroma from the natural freshness of fragrant herbs and spices. Packed with enjoyment for practically any social occasion.

We offer strong value for money brands"
http://www.chesscigars.com/contents/en-us/d8.html


"About Chess Cigar Comp.

From our nice factory in Villa Gonzales we produce high quality cigars, to satisfies all our world distributors. Our premium brands are Chess Cigar, Chess Extreme and Amero. We also produse bundles cigars with our brand name Olor del Cibao and Praderas. If you want your own cigar labels on the cigar, we can make it for you. We have a capacity of producing around 500.000 cigar a month, and we are most flexible to satisfies our customers desire.

We also produce aromatic cigars and small handmade flavored cigar. We are able to make the cigars with different blend. If your customers prefer strong cigars? We are able to make the cigars with more Lijero and Nicaraguan tobacco to give you a stronger cigar."
http://www.chesscigars.com/contents/en-us/about.html



Their server is located in Norway, registered in Norway. (Thanks, LX)

[precious007]

So there's the loose version too.

Wondering how the cigar flavor is.

[snusgetter]

Doesn't seem to be available in the US yet (if ever).

[lxskllr]

FlagFox says the server's in Norway. Interesting info none the less. They appear to be a whole new snus manufacturer. I'm skeptical of any company that's new to snus, especially non Swedish companies, but I'd like to give it a try.

[Jwalker]

I'd try it, but it's not available in the Northerner U.S. warehouse or on other sites.

[snusgetter]

FlagFox says the server's in Norway. Interesting info none the less. They appear to be a whole new snus manufacturer. I'm skeptical of any company that's new to snus, especially non Swedish companies, but I'd like to give it a try.

Norway seems to be making a push towards the snus market.

Maybe Mr Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad, is involved??

[snusgetter]

"Extremely flavorful new snus where a part of the tobacco used
comes from the same tobacco used for manufacturing cigars. ...
Currently only available from the Swedish warehouse but
will also be available in the US shortly."

Certainly worth a try ... sounds like an interesting combination.

[justintempler]

The president is Håkon Aanonsen he's from Norway. that's why the server is in Norway.

sigar.com is his company's website

http://sigar.com/contents/no/d88.html is the snus page for Norwegians

[snusgetter]

Justin, any idea what differentiates cigar tobacco from regular tobacco?
Their website says they use their Sunset Cigar tobacco in their snus.

[justintempler]

Remember Swedish Match is a big cigar manufacturer too.

When you make cigars. you strip out the midrib so you have a "waste" product that can be used in the manufacture of snus. I'm sure Swedish Match uses atleast some cigar tobacco in their snus too. It doesn't taste like cigars because they aren't using the lamina portion of the leaf and stem doesn't (have to) go through the fermentation process like the leaves do. Stem is also more porous so it makes it easier to flavour it.

Andrew Romeo made a comment here somewhere talking about how snus is made using high-nic stem. (He didn't specify the type of tobacco)

There is a lot of variation in cigar tobaccos, wrapper, binder, filler tobaccos. Most of them are dark tobaccos (as opposed to your white burleys, and golden flue cured) I don't know enough about cigar tobaccos to guess what "Sunset Cigar" means.