So, I finished my can of Kronan today (thank god...ok, it isn't bad, but it for sure isn't good!) so I decided to treat myself with a "candy snus". I decided on Offroad Licorice (OR Lic).
Initial impressions: The can smelled like a Good n' Plenty...initially a good sign IMO. I opened it up, and, as is usual for V2 los, can was PACKED. I swear they mark 45g on the can, but they pack a few extra "value grams" in there...you can barely pinch the stuff from a fresh can. *As a sidenote, I've adopted the dippers' "can snap" method prior to a hillbilly or an icetool load since it compacts the tobacco more, and for a pinch it gives an empty space in the can for a quick corner bake.* I did a quick fingertip bake in the can by just mashing the pinch into the rest of the snus and popped it in.
The flavor is so bold! It's definitely a powerfully flavored and very sweet snus. Too sweet for an all day snus, but definitely good for a few pinches a day as a change of pace from spicy General, which wears my tastebuds out a bit by the end of the day. Not terribly salty, which is a nice curveball in comparison to SM snus which seem to be a bit saltier than the rest. Due to the hillbilly pinch, the nicotine release happened fairly quickly, but it was not an overpowering amount of nic. It seems to be just right to get that relaxing fogginess that I look for late in the evening, and previously only got from a big pinch of General or a hillbilly of Roda combined with a pinch of Toque.
Right off the bat, I have decided I like this snus, but not enough to order more than say, 2 or 3 cans per order, as I don't expect to go through it at the same pace as my go to's. I'm going to wait until I kill almost the whole can to decide if it'll be a regular part of my order (it's definitely better than Probe for a sweet fix) from now on, but for a first sample, I was VERY impressed.
Thanks to lxskllr for recommending it, as I love the black licorice/anise flavor. This makes me hopeful for a return to V2's products, as I didn't like Phantom Classic yellow all that much. Hopefully I'll crack my can of Phantom Classic blue this week and post on my impressions there, but the OR Lic made me hopeful for the results.
And to Xobe...this could be proof that I'm not just an SM whore. Sometimes Bud drinkers enjoy a Miller, too, you know.
Initial impressions: The can smelled like a Good n' Plenty...initially a good sign IMO. I opened it up, and, as is usual for V2 los, can was PACKED. I swear they mark 45g on the can, but they pack a few extra "value grams" in there...you can barely pinch the stuff from a fresh can. *As a sidenote, I've adopted the dippers' "can snap" method prior to a hillbilly or an icetool load since it compacts the tobacco more, and for a pinch it gives an empty space in the can for a quick corner bake.* I did a quick fingertip bake in the can by just mashing the pinch into the rest of the snus and popped it in.
The flavor is so bold! It's definitely a powerfully flavored and very sweet snus. Too sweet for an all day snus, but definitely good for a few pinches a day as a change of pace from spicy General, which wears my tastebuds out a bit by the end of the day. Not terribly salty, which is a nice curveball in comparison to SM snus which seem to be a bit saltier than the rest. Due to the hillbilly pinch, the nicotine release happened fairly quickly, but it was not an overpowering amount of nic. It seems to be just right to get that relaxing fogginess that I look for late in the evening, and previously only got from a big pinch of General or a hillbilly of Roda combined with a pinch of Toque.
Right off the bat, I have decided I like this snus, but not enough to order more than say, 2 or 3 cans per order, as I don't expect to go through it at the same pace as my go to's. I'm going to wait until I kill almost the whole can to decide if it'll be a regular part of my order (it's definitely better than Probe for a sweet fix) from now on, but for a first sample, I was VERY impressed.
Thanks to lxskllr for recommending it, as I love the black licorice/anise flavor. This makes me hopeful for a return to V2's products, as I didn't like Phantom Classic yellow all that much. Hopefully I'll crack my can of Phantom Classic blue this week and post on my impressions there, but the OR Lic made me hopeful for the results.
And to Xobe...this could be proof that I'm not just an SM whore. Sometimes Bud drinkers enjoy a Miller, too, you know.
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