Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur

Well after a 50 g pouch there's my opinion.when you open it you get cherry in a bad way.more moist than should,it needs a bit drying.when light you can feel the moist through the puffs.bites a lot even if you go easy.burns the bowl a lot.and destroys your aftertaste.the nicotine is really low here and you don't taste the virginias or burleys as a result of chemically blended.

It came as a gift, it left as garbage. R.I.P. Too gross for my tastes. If you have a sensitive tongue like I do, You'll feel like a plastic film put on it... It's like a condom for your tongue that somebody eventually sets on fire. On the bright side, at some point the burley will pat on your head in the attempt of uplifting your mood. The room note pleased my partner (but she can damn well forget about it). One star for the recovery is definitely possible.

Couldn't help but notice all the failed ratings for Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur from fellow reviewers so I went out and bought a pouch as I am a fan of sweet cased aromatic varieties. Hate it when one of these gets ripped to shreds in the reviews.

But the critics are absolutely "spot on." Riff is an old, respected house and considered a premium blend among supermarket and drug store customers - but apparently some of their batches imported these days to the U.S. are simply sub par.

It kills me to say it about a sweet cased aromatic - but this tobac is simply dreadful. Reminds me of the moist concoction tobac derivatives used by hookah smokers.

Only way I could salvage any of it without tossing was to mix it with some Admiral's Choice Cherry Cavendish from the CVS Pharmacy. And then on about a 5 to 1 ratio so it gives you an idea of what is going down.

Emitted a totally bitter taste from light up to cool down, didn't stay lit, left a goopy after burn and after taste as well - all the pejorative qualities that make up one lousey smoke. I've got a pouch of BK Cherry Cavendish and I'll open that one soon and let you know. Astonishing and shocking. Rating: Thoroughly Unacceptable...

I am a fan of Virginia/perique blends. However, once in awhile stray back to old standards like Prince Albert, Half and Half and Velvet for nostalgic purposes. I smoked Borkum Riff Whiskey blend back in the day. Smoked pretty hot, but never tried the cherry liquer. Ordered a pouch just out of curiosity. Albeit, a lot of reviews claim it is hot and overly cased, I found this to be pleasant and not gooey or cloying. I will agree that it burns faster than flaked tobaccos, I did not experience tongue bite. Enjoyed this very much.

Borkum Riff - Cherry Liqueur.

I had to wait until I'd stopped guffawing to be able to type this: Pipestud's review of it made my day! I don't think he's a fan 😉

Two words would do as a review of this: strong aromatic! Right from when I stuck my nose in the pouch this was the situation: stone me, it reeks! The blend contains three colours, light, medium, and dark brown. There's no problem with my pouch's moisture.

It lights easy enough, and then goes like the clappers: hotter than hell and as fast as Usain Bolt. Don't expect much tobacco taste from it, or even ANY: it's 100% topping. The cherry liqueur is like a dichotomy of fruit and toxicity: a sweet leading taste with a chlorine-like background note. Mentioning the tobacco flavours would be moot as I can't taste any.

Nicotine: mild. Room-note: nice.

If Cherry Liqueur thinks its sorry ass is going to be saved by the redeeming feature of quite a nice room-note it's wrong! Not recommended:

One star.

I had a little of this at a football game because I forgot to bring a supply. My friend offer me some of this. I was appreciative to smoke anything until I lit it up. Good Lord is this awful stuff. Like smoking a throat lozenge. My friend asked me how I liked it and I smiled and told him not bad. I was truthful as it is not bad......it's friggin awful! This is almost the worst I have ever smoked. No stars for me but a great big trash can!! I will not go into tin note (cause it doesn't come in a tin but a sack) or room note or heaven forbid taste. Avoid this like it's medicine cause that is what it taste like.

A jar of this stuff was given to me by a friend of mine. Since I need to burn-in my clay pipe, I figure I would use this jar of stuff to do so. Nope -- not even clay pipe can save this blend.

There are a few problem of this blend. First off, it has this artificial flavor that seems to be just slightly better than those employed by cigarettes, so the flavor is strong in a bad way. Yet at the same time it definitely is strong in nicotine (surprisingly). Now I like my tobacco strong, but only when both my tastebud and my head come to the agreement to the feeling.

The other problem is that it will clog up your pipe during smoking. For clay pipe this is an even greater problem, since airway for the pipe is much smaller than those of wooden/corncob pipe, so much that you are unable to smoke more than half a bowl because it simply refuse to burn through the remaining bowl properly if at all -- you just feel your draw to be worse and worse in the same bowl, until you just cannot draw at all with half a bowl to go. Now I have not encountered the souring problem, but do note that I used my clay pipe for this.

So I decide to do a try with a woodie MM which I have broke in somewhat... in short, it BURNED away quite a bit of the sidewall. Good thing MM woodie is just as easy to replace, but I am still miffed. Picture this: MM woodie is probably one of the most common drugstore pipes, and the tobacco managed to ruin the bowl.

In short, if you have any pipe that you remotely like, do not put them into the bowl. I am not even letting it touch my tobacco pouch.

Borkum Riff Cherry Liquor is typical in it's fashion. Once properly set out this makes a fantastic Cherry tobacco with a wonderful room note. No tongue bite unless you are a soft Virginia only kind of guy. A must try for aromatic smokers.

I bought a sample pack of Borkum Riff. Cherry Liqueur is smokeable but barely. The chemical taste is obvious, the tongue bite almost painful. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.