Borkum Riff - Whiskey pipe tobacco reviews

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Pseudo Nim	04/29/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Tolerable
It has been many years since I last smoked this and my recolections are that it had a slight hint of Bourbon, I was expecting Scotch, and it bit like a rabid stoat. No I didn't stock up on this.
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Storm Watch	04/28/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium	Tolerable
This bit the heck out of me. It bit me years ago too. Some things never change. The whiskey sure doesn't do anything for this tobacco. Except perhaps make it worse. I don't like giving just one star to a tobacco but this isn't even cheap enough to make it worth recommending to people who are broke. If you are like me and have to try everything you find then go ahead. Don't say you weren't warned.
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Dr. Hardcrab	03/11/2010	Very Mild	Extremely Mild	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Unnoticeable
I smoked a pipe 25 years ago and remember smoking BorKum Riff. Maybe it was a different blend. Maybe I was young and uninformed. Bottom line: The stuff was awful!!! Very little taste. Not much aroma (the wife said it stinks!). Burned terrible. Just bad. Pass on this one!
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ynrozturk	03/10/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Mild	Strong
I don't know what possessed me to try this tobacco. I had tried two Borkum Riff tobaccos before (Vanilla and Cherry) and disliked both of them. I guess I had nothing better to do and was in need for a good laugh. Like the other Borkums I've tried, this stuff smokes hot, lacks flavor, and whatever flavor you get is artificial and gross. Leaves a mess in your pipe which then requires the need for all sorts of domestic house cleaning products. Think of what it's doing to your tongue! I double dare anyone to smoke a bowl of this, and use mouth wash to get rid of it's "flavor". Don't do it!! Even Borkum's own Vanilla Cavendish is a work of high art compared to this - and that tobacco is terrible. If you can call it that, that is. Tobacco, I mean! What I want to know is this : Who buys this crap? Why? Why is it even manufactured? I'm quite convinced that the guys who blend this don't have any sense of smell, taste, or touch. Sorry Borkum, but I will never be buying any of your products ever again. I'd rather set my own hair on fire and inhale the smoke.
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muntajab	02/03/2010	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Here is the pouch http://www.mediafire.com/imageview.php?quickkey=j2mmmwd2zmg&thumb=4 I was surprised to see it rated as one star. It can not be compared to Orange and Honey. This one is far much better. I will give it 2 stars.
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beren911	10/26/2009	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
I'm new to this hobby, so far, I tasted Erinmore Mixture, Captain Black(white), Gulden Dansk(Unknown brand), and the very unpleasant Borkum Riff Whiskey. I'm a Scotch single malt fan, I know the taste of very good Whiskey and thrust me, this is F***** gargage. Normally, I have a really soothing odor that linger in my mouth and on my clothes after a bowl. But with that, i had the impression I just smoked a pack of CAMEL(Real cheap brand of cigarette). If the supplier was not so far away from me, I'd kick his arse. I' m going to trow away the pouch, not without fear that this piece of crap contaminated my new pipe.
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Kilmarnock Piper	10/12/2009	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Tolerable
Concur, but found it tolerable one time with a fresh pouch, right out of the pouch, in a pipe with a very small bowl (which is now finally smokeable again after two years) on a cold day while drinking strong black coffee to cover the taste.
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Robert	08/26/2009	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Tolerable
Do yourself a favor. Pull your spare tire out of your trunk and set it on fire. Stand over it and smell the fumes. It will be better than this stuff. I for one never throw tobacco away. Too many pipe smokers out there would give their right arm for a pouch of tobacco as times are hard. If something tastes bad to me I'll try and blend it or cellar it away for a year or so to see if it improves. Nothing has worked with this stuff. I couldn't even find anyone that would take it off my hands. This is the very first tobacco I have ever thrown away. Sorry pipe lovers, I did you a favor this time by tossing it.
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MSUMike	08/19/2009	Medium	Medium	Medium	Tolerable to Strong
Dog meat. One bowl and it was straight to the trash and that's really saying something for a cheap ass engineer. I can't fully describe it because some survival mechanism in my brain supresses the memory.
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Ghost1974	08/13/2009	Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Poor old Borkum Riff...Gee I hate to pile on, but still... I bought this before I even had a computer, so as others have said, I never read a review of this one before I bought and tried it. I mean, it was sold everywhere at that time so it had to be good, right? Wrong. It tasted bad, it was really goopy, and even my rookie palate at the time knew it. Still, being the trouper I was back then (short on funds), I didn't waste a bit of it. I can look back and be philosophical about it, it was all part of the journey. Thank goodness I stuck with the hobby... Disclaimer- If you like it, you like it. Enjoy!
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Colby	06/27/2009	Medium to Strong	Very Mild	Medium to Full	Strong
I bought a pouch of this before reading any reviews, and BOY, I probably wouldn't have bought it if I had read some reviews on it, because its reviews are horrible, even though the lady at the tobacco store said it was the tobacco she sold the most of. I didn't think it was that bad. I liked it a little more than Captain Black. It definitely is a stronger and more "tobacco" like flavor but it leaves a sweet smoky aftertaste on the roof of your mouth. The smoke is definitely not aromatic so smoke outdoors. The tobacco was a little dry right out of the pouch and it bit my tongue a little bit so I was forced to smoke slow. Seemed to stay lit fairly well. My first impression wasn't awful but at the same time I'm not in love with it either. Don't think I'll ever fall in love with a drug store tobacco. Cheers. UPDATE: Upon a second bowl of BR Whiskey, a horrible taste was detected, not sure what it was but I'm pretty sure a large mammal crawled into my pipe and died there before I smoked it. I'm not going to revisit the Riff any time soon. One star. Not recommended.
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The German	05/05/2009	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Strong
I'll make this one my shortest review yet: Horrible stuff.
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Satc001	12/29/2008	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild	Strong
Opening the package, this tobacco has the aroma of cheap American style RYO blends. Figuring that these types of tobaccos are barely tolerable in cigarettes, I couldn't expect much from them in a pipe, where quality is much more important. It lights, it burns, the taste is somewhat sweet and somewhat ashy. The flavor can become almost acrid. The aroma this tobacco produces is offensive. Smoking it indoors, I could not tolerate the aroma, so I assume that others would find it equally offensive. I didn't find it to bite the tongue, which may be its only redeeming quality. If you are looking for a widely carried blend at a cheap price, Captain Black (Blue and White), Prince Albert, Carter Hall, and Sir Walter Raleigh are all better choices.
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rhapsodyofmetal	08/01/2008	Mild	Mild	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
I tend to favor weird aromatics of this sort. I like the vanilla and cherry flavors but when I see this sort of aromatic I always give it a try. It had a musky flavor and smell similar to Sir Walter Raleigh aromatic and felt of same quality.
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Big Jim	04/12/2008	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Tolerable
This is one that every smoker should try. Buy a pouch and share it with other pipe smokers that may not have tried it. After this experience any tobacco (no matter how bad) will definitely be a step up. I didn?t care for it in the early 80?s then since my taste had changed I gave it another try in the late 90?s. After being introduces to better quality tobaccos the experience was worse than I remembered.
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Bezoar	02/02/2008	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Unnoticeable
It actually has a taste that can be considered to be of an actual beverage called whiskey. Sadly the taste fades in and out in the tope quarter of the bowl, and is gone by the end of the top third. Not the greatest but not the worst. Will serve to send new smokers to real whiskey blends.
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flaminbill'	12/24/2007	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Yuk. I could smoke this type of tobacco in the 70's, but not anymore.
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ButchA	12/18/2007	Strong	Very Strong	Overwhelming	Strong
UGH!!! Good God, I remember this awful stuff, back when I was foolish enough to try it. Take note: Do NOT try this stuff. Spare yourself and the lining of your mouth and tongue! This stuff is so bad and so foul smelling, you'll be tempted to call a HAZMAT team!
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Davetopay	12/08/2007	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild	Tolerable
Swill. CRAP. HORRIBLE! I like a good aromatic as much as the next guy, and enjoy some more traditional English blends as well, and this stuff is GARBAGE. It is shredded like confetti, overly dry and brittle between your fingers, and bites like hell no matter how gently you try and smoke it. I smoked 2 bowls on different days and tossed the remainder in the trash.
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Tobacco Saves Lives	09/24/2007	Very Mild	Extremely Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
Easy to get, very mild, slight toasty, not bad really, but will not satisfy the average pipe smoker.
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