Offroad Limited Edition 2008

[aika]

I am interested in trying the decididly poontang flavored 'honey' :P

[Xobeloot]

HA! no joke. I have never had a snus review give me a chubby prior to this one ops:

[desirexe]

After reading Datrowl's review, I have to agree, it made me all excited to try these. I didn't get a chubby though. LMAO!!!

[Xobeloot]

After reading Datrowl's review, I have to agree, it made me all excited to try these. I didn't get a chubby though. LMAO!!!

I sure hope not! Unless you're packin some heat that you forgot to mention :lol:

[gentlemanly]

HAH!!! thats funny

[Mr. Unloadingzone]

Offroad: I call it "Roadkill"

It's a given that everyone's tastes are different, but I've tried 5 different Offroad flavors and they ranged from absolutely tasteless (vanilla) to being totally inferior to ANYONE offering the same flavor.

I could almost choke down the Cranberry....until I tried Skruf's...HUGE difference in favor of Skruf.

If there's any tobacco taste, it's almost completely lost to the salt. Every one of the Offroad's I tried, the taste of salt was overpowering.

In my initial taste testing, I bought 24 single cans of different snus's....even some of the lower priced ones for comparison. Some I liked, some not so much, but Offroad was the ONLY brand where, after trying a can, THREW OUT the rest of the can! Multiple times!

Offroad was more than a disappoinment to me....it was too horrible to use. I wanted some flavored snus for after dinner, they looked good on paper, but in reality.......lets just say I call them "Roadkill", will NEVER order or recommend them to anyone.

[Schweinebub]

I've included the roll of these (and a can of the coffe vanilla) in my first order since all the flavors sounded interesting, even though i have never tried any Offroad products prior to this.

I've had several portions of each of them and my clear favorite is the Brandy Alexander. It reminds me a lot of Baileys Irish cream somehow.Datrowl assumed that it might be close to the Coffee Vanilla, which makes sense - especially as far as smell is concerned but after testing both the Brandy is actually quite a bit sweeter and generally better in my opinion. It is also the only one where I do not get this weird - what many posters pointed out - Offroad chemical taste.

The Hot Honey is also really good, reminds me of honey in black tea, though the combination of salt and honey took me a bit to get used to. Still my 2nd favorite from the set.

Orange is pretty much the way Datrowl described it. I wish though that it had a bit more of the orange freshness, or bite whatever you want to call it...

The Strawberry and Eucalyptus are too me both really disappointing. It took me about 10 minutes on the Eucalyptus to get any Eucalyptus flavor over that weird chemical taste. Even after that it wasn't as much as I hoped for and i would pick a can of the Catch version over this any day. The strawberry is slightly better but still pretty bland and pretty much killed by the chemical taste.

If they were to make all the limited edition flavors available permanently I would certainly order the Brandy Alexander and probably the Hot Honey as well, but none of the others.

[Thunderbird Juicebox]

I'm just going to go ahead and throw my opinion out there, because I always check this site for reviews before buying anything, and as an American intrigued by the candy-like flavor of Camel snus, I feel like a lot of people are confused about the vividly-named flavors Offroad has assigned to their snuses.

None of the flavored snuses I have tried thus far have even remotely compared to Camel in sweetness. I have been learning to appreciate the natural tobacco flavors of real Swedish snus, but every time I try a flavored snus, I just wind up tasting lower-quality tobacco with a barely noticeable hint of flavor. I realize that the subtlety is probably a good thing to most experienced snusers, but it should not be confused with that sickeningly sweet taste Camel has.

At the same time though, a snus put out by RJ Reynolds with no ingredients listed makes me cringe. Swedish-Match-collaboration or not, I don't see how anybody could trust that company.

Anyway, the Offroad Limited Edition:

Brandy Alexander: This was the first one I tried. I was too impatient to pop the lukewarm snus into the fridge, and the result was a portion that actually tasted like a foul odor smells. I chalked it up to the fact that I've never been stupid enough to try snus warm before, and that was a lesson to be learned. A few days after sampling everything else I tried this again. It's bearable, but honestly tastes like cheap tobacco with a slight bitter hint of cocoa.


Wild Strawberry: Smells kind of like a strawberry, tastes like cheap tobacco. By cheap tobacco, I mean it actually tastes like V2 took the filler tobacco from cheap cigars and sealed it up in equally cheap tea bags.

Hot Honey: The guy who mentioned the honey dust is totally on point, but it has slightly more of a fake-sugar smell. It hit me a split-second after opening the tin that it smells exactly like a Dutchmasters Honey "cigar" (Honeydutch as it's more commonly referred to here). Not surprisingly, the tobacco is about the same grade as that of a Honeydutch. And we all know nobody actually smokes a Honeydutch with the tobacco intact.

Orange: I'm not sure if V2 is trying to poison me or not, but I don't enjoy having to suffer through the taste of Raid for several minutes to finally arrive at a split-second hint of salty oranges, before the pouch splits open and every bad feeling I've ever had manifests itself in this nauseating bouquet of flavor. This happened 3 more times, and each time I felt even more stupid for buying this stuff in bulk.

Eucalyptus: Really? I don't notice anything except for a chemical burn and a feeling of intense disgust that lasts until I can no longer taste it. I tasted a hint of cat piss, but no eucalyptus really. On the upside, it doesn't smell quite as awful as it tastes.



Overall: Besides the fact that the flavor blows, it's not an easy snus to swallow, and I wouldn't recommend it for people starting out. The trademark "chemical" flavor of offroad was not just a bitter taste, but also a burn I found uncharacteristic of other snuses I've tried. It's the only snus that forced me to spit, only to avoid the god-awful nauseous feeling I get from swallowing it. It's like holding a crushed up cigarette in your mouth.

It was my first try with Offroad and I really tried to like these flavors. But they either need to make like Camel and learn ways to cover gross processed tobacco with dessert-like sweetness, or start thinking about manufacturing anything better than this sub-par product.

[lxskllr]

I reluctantly got the Limited set due to the interesting flavors. I'm well acquainted with V2s tobacco, but I have no will power :^D

So far I've only had the Hot Honey, and I find it "just bearable" It tastes like old woman to me, and I find that unsettling. The flavor and scent reminds me a soap or something that you might find in the bathroom of someone in the 80+ age bracket. A sweet Victorian kind of smell, that tastes like it was made in England at the turn of the century. Not completely unpleasant, but not really something I want in my mouth either.

The rest of the flavors are in the freezer for use at some later date, but I'm not really excited to try them any time soon.