Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur

This was the second pouch I bought when I first started pipe smoking. I walked into the smoke shop and asked what he recommended, and was then told that "this one is popular".

Packed a bowl of goopy red tobacco into a new missouri meerschaum, and attempted to light it. Finally it did light, and then it bit my tounge.

I then threw the missouri meerschaum and the pouch into the trash. This was, and still is, the worst tobacco I have ever smoked.

I bought a pouch of this stuff a little while ago. I told the lady at the tobacco shop I wanted to try something different so she pointed this out to me and said a lot of her regulars buy it. The tobacco itself smells really nice. I've been told there is nothing really special about the room note by those who are around me when I smoke it...don't really get any compliments on the smell. It burns the mouth when you smoke it. I don't know if it's because it burns so hot or what, but to me it's starting to taste more and more like smoking burnt plastic. Has a really nasty chemical-like aftertaste to it. Won't be buying it again.

This "thing" cannot be identified as tobacco.

It bites terribly.

It deserves to be punished.

Blecchh!!! I wish - oh, how I wish - it were possible to give a negative quantity of stars! Borkum Riff Cherry Liqueur is a crime against humanity; it really is.

Having been invited to try it, I did so out of curiosity, knowing I probably wouldn't like it (because of the flavouring). Why review it then? you ask. Fair question, I suppose; but I wanted to try to be objective, and to broaden my education. What a mistake! God, this is horrible! Until last Friday, Craven Aromatic and Craven Ready Rubbed were jointly at the top of my list of tobaccos to be avoided. They've just been demoted to joint second by this filthy stuff. I wouldn't wish it on Dr Goebbels.

Isn't it amazing, how the tastes of human beings can differ! So many excellent tobaccos have disappeared over the years, yet wretched offerings like this continue to be produced – and, presumably, find a ready market. There must be people out there who buy this evil substance and smoke it for pleasure!

I know – I don't understand it, but I know – that some people like their tobacco to taste of cherries. Cherries don't taste like this, though. The flavouring reminds me of the very cheap soft drinks that one used to be able to buy as a child. "A delicious blend . . . cool smoking . . .". Don't believe it, people. I've sampled some pretty blasphemous tobaccos in my time, but seldom, if ever, anything as deplorable as this. Cherry Liqueur is hotter than Satan's chestnuts, tastes like second-hand sandals, smokes wet, and leaves a liquid in your pipe that you could probably develop film in. O Lord, it's bad! It also leaves behind a ghost that will wail at you for ever. Frightful. Absolutely abominable.

A positive point: governments wishing to discourage people from smoking could sponsor stuff like this. There's absolutely nothing else to be said for Cherry Liqueur. It's a horrible travesty; the kind of profanities that would best describe it are probably not allowed on this site. The ascetically minded might like to consider smoking it during Lent, as a penance.

OK, I didn't believe anyone on this one, so I had to try it myself. Do yourself a favor - DON'T DO IT! In my admittedly non-professional opinion, the cherry topping is overwhelmingly artificial and doesn't even smell good in the room. If this had been my first tobacco I'd smoked, I would stopped right there and never had taken it up.

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.

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

This blend is for people who want to smoke a pipe without knowing they are smoking tobacco.

It reminds me of how my wife drinks coffee: 3/4 a cup of cream or milk, 1/4 cup of coffee, 4 tsp. of sugar. Need I add she doesn't like coffee...?

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