Borkum Riff - Cherry Liqueur pipe tobacco reviews

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Old Northern Smoky	09/18/2009	Medium to Strong	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Tolerable
After a 20 year hiatus from this blend, I just, groan, endured a bowl of this junk. After half a bowl I gave up and lit a cigarette just to try to restore my palette.....didn't work! While this stuff smells rather nice in the pouch, once lit in the bowl it stinks and as far as taste goes, I haven't a clue....it turned my tongue into leather from the very first puff. Burns very hot in the bowl and there's lots of gurgle in the bottom of the bowl. I found this strong and offensive. The room note is what I consider just tolerable. Getting the junk out of my bowl was a chore. It wanted to glue itself in there. Now I remember why I used to mix this with Amphora Regular 20 years ago. I would have thought BR would have got this one right by now. Believe me....STAY AWAY from this stuff!!! Oct.3 2009 Update: I've found a way to make this horrible stuff at least tolerable: Mix it 50/50 with Amphora Mellow (yes I know, what a terrible waste of Amphora Mellow) and let it air dry for a week. It will bite a lot less once all the volatile oils have evaporated and I actually found it improved the room aroma a wee bit. Sure, it burned a bit faster but no hotter....how could it get any hotter? Besides, short to tossing it in the bin, what better way to use up a costly, but crappy tobacco quickly!
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DrugStorePuffer	05/20/2009	Medium	Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
"Be careful because it bites. OK, I didn't believe anyone on this one, so I had to try it myself. Do yourself a favor - DON'T DO IT! Why, oh why did I do this??? Dastardly, despicable and a downright abomination." AWFULL!!! HORRIBLE!!! PLASTIC TASTING!!! "DON'T DO IT!!!" This stuff needs taken off the market...can you spell G R O S S???
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Fofo	02/14/2009	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Not bad but nothing great either. A bit too dry. I'd smoke this again if I can't find anything else. Be careful because it bites.
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Hawkeyeted	09/20/2008	Mild to Medium	Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
OK, I didn't believe anyone on this one, so I had to try it myself. Do yourself a favor - DON'T DO IT!
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Papillon6	07/13/2008	Medium	Medium to Strong	Overwhelming	Tolerable to Strong
Ok, if you like cherry flavoured tobacco pass on this one. It taste more like plastic then cherries. The only good thing is the room note, but not the taste. It has an ok tobacco base quality wise but the cherry casing is horrendous. It is not the best of the Borkum Riff line at all and I didn't finish the bag. Borkum Riff is known as a not so bad 'drug store' brand that I pick up now and then as a replacement to 'proper' tobaccos. It's cheap no matter what other flavour you try so it ranges in taste from 'cheap' to 'worthwhile'. Their other blends aren't bad but this on is not good at all unless you want to burn it as incense over a fire. Don't know if they use a natural casing or not but I've tasted many other cheap cherry blends that didn't go down so nastily. Sorry guys but your casing is made from recycled tyres or something.
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churchwarden398	09/25/2007	Mild	Very Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
Some years ago, this was in my opinion the best of the Borkum Riff offerings. I went back to it several weeks ago. After a ten year hiatus. It reminded me of that song "Good Morning Starshine" from the 60 or early 70s - "Gloopy,gloop,gloopy;gloppy glop,gloppy". I am so glad I did not waste it on my favorite pipe. Paper-thin strands of tobacco wannabe. It did light. I enjoy pipe smoking and I even enjoy the cleaning process.It was a wise decision to smoke this in a corn cob.I hate to see a good corn cob meet its end. It was either that or smoke it a beloved briar and end up calling the nearest HAZ-MAT team. This deserves one star
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The Irish Apologist	12/19/2006	Very Mild	Extra Strong	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant to Tolerable
Why, oh why did I do this??? One word sums up this noxious blend.....Eeeeeeeeeew
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Maimonides	11/05/2006	Extremely Mild	Medium to Strong	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
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Bezoar	06/22/2006	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
I started pipe smoking a few months ago and this was one of my first two blends that i purchased. The first time i smoked this blend, it was right out of the just opened pouch and it was horrible. It was acrid and bitter. Well I just purchased a new pipe, dr grabow duke - bent, and the first thing i tried was a blend of Prince Albert and Captain Black Cherry that refused to light. So i dumped that out and filled my new pipe with Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur. Well the pipe is misdrilled, the air channel from the bowl hits the middle of the filter. So basically i smoked it in an unfiltered pipe. Well it was a wonderful smoke. It was generally very smooth and mild. The only tongue bite was at the charring light, initial and two relights. I had a verry hard time detecting a roomnote, but the taste was wonderful. Not only did i get a good strong taste of chocolate (think high end Belgian chocolate) but it had a strong hint of cherry in the background, and i do NOT mean artificial cherry kool aid flavoring, i mean fresh, over ripe cherries you just picked from the garden. Well I need to update my post on this tobacco. I am seeing that the packaging has changed so maybe the formula has been changed. At this moment I need to include the fact that the compounds produced by this tobacco stick to your pipe like fresh manure to your shoe treads. Very hard to get out, actually, i dont think i have gotten it out. and ive sanded the chamber down to bare wood twice now, and scrubbed it out with high proof alcohol many times. As well as smoking some extremely goopy products from tobacco galleria. OTher wise its a great tobacco.
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Pkloop	01/01/2005	Mild	Very Strong	Medium	Tolerable
Last few weeks I've had a cherry craving. Now I don't. In fact I don't think I ever will again. While not horrible this blend leaves one wanting something. What is that something? A bowl of something resembling tobacco thats what. Rev 1/1/05 Happy New Years
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Pipestud	12/19/2004	Very Mild	Extra Strong	Mild	Pleasant
Dastardly, despicable and a downright abomination. Shame on me. I knew better.
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Hermit 78	11/20/2004	Mild to Medium	Strong	Full	Tolerable
I don't think I fancy another shot of this liqueur, unless I'm in need of something to top off some kind of cyanide concoction. A goopy, stinky, cherry overdose, with what tastes like poor-quality leaf (insofar as the casing allows one to taste anything, ever again) to boot. Perfect for repenting sins, and giving to enemies as a Christmas present.
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WNDE	09/25/2003	Strong	Very Strong	Overwhelming	Tolerable to Strong
I?m pretty tolerant of Borkum Riff, I?ve been generous in other reviews of their products but I have to draw the line on this one. Don?t believe a word in its description. This is not high quality nor is it a light aromatic blend. There is no exquisite taste and aroma with the sweetness of a fine cherry liqueur. This is sickly, sweet cherry liqueur that overwhelms any tobacco taste that might be present in the pouch. The flavor when smoking is so pronounced that you could be smoking anything but tobacco because you can?t taste or smell anything else. It might as well be shredded newspaper with cherry liqueur. If you have to smoke Borkum Riff cherry at least smoke the Cherry Cavendish but beware this blend unless you want to see just how bad a blend can be.
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WxGuy	09/25/2003	Medium	Extra Strong	Overwhelming	Pleasant to Tolerable
Well, Borkum has capitalized on yet another opportunity to follow a bad idea to its ultimate conclusion. The composition of tobaccos "a delicious blend of light aromatic Virginia and rich, cool smoking Burley tobaccos" could be anything, 'cause there is no room for tobacco flavor in this experience. I had to try this on my quest for the ideal cherry blend, but had my already low expectations dashed after trying a bowl from a friend's pouch. I almost gave up before even trying as the sticky texture was horrid. About 1/2 a bowl was more than enough for me. My recommendation: do not insult any pipe you respect with this blend.
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