Borkum Riff Mixture with Bourbon Whiskey (Bronze)

The only tobacco Ive ever really hated. The only pouch Ive ever thrown away. The only tongue bite Ive ever had. Only bought it because it was my grandfathers smoke of choice, and wanted some kind of cosmic connection to a man who passed a few years ago. I guess Im gonna take up fly fishing, because this wasnt what I had in mind.

Can't recommend this blend.

got it out of desperation at duty free while rushing to catch a plane and was out of tobacco. smoked 2 pouches (50g each) worth out of a box of 5 pouches and they last three are hideous spectres that lurk in my pipe drawer.

casing is with the pouch when opened but slowly dissapates a reveals a bit of a chemical scent lingering beneath. I tried blending it with a straight viginia to see if it would add substance to it when I returned home but all it did was detract from the virginia I blended.

It is easy to pack with out much notion and stays lit but overall flavour for me is not there. I've had too many better tobaccos to ever want this in the rotation. To be honest I wouldn't give it to a beginner and I get way better room note compliments on stanwell melange or hearth and home marble kake (or any standard vanilla for that matter).

Bought this when I was out of tobacco... I wish I hadn't. Tasted awfull and I gave up trying to like it and ended up giving it away.

I recommend you to try this first before buying it and se if it is to your taste.

Oh and the Bourbon taste? Naaa no Bourbon just a wierd taste to the tobacco.

Absolutely horrid. Please read the two reviews below.

There is truth in numbers!

I recently bought a pouch of BRW mostly out of idle curiosity.

PROS * Readily available wherever cheap tobaccos are sold. * Finely cut ribbons of tobacco that packs easily * It light's readily and burns to a fine ash * The room note is tolerable * It is inexpensive

CONS * It tastes like crap * It BITES, hard * Burns hot

Borkum Riff Whiskey is most definitely a triumph of marketing over reality. Seriously, this stuff is everywhere.

Last week, while waiting for my wife to emerge from a local discount shop, I ducked into a nearby tobacconist in search of pipe cleaners. The BRW caught my eye and while the thought crossed my mind to whip out my smart phone and pull up the reviews here, I didn't want to look like too much of a nerd. It was cheap, so I thought, what the heck, I bought it.

I smoked a generous bowl in the confines of my truck while continuing to wait for my wife. I became readily apparent that BRW was not all that it was cracked up to be.

Now, I pulled out my smart phone and pulled up the reviews for BRW, reading while I smoked. Oh boy! I must say, some of you are quite creative and brutal.

I won't go so far as to describe BRW as "piss soaked cardboard", but as someone who NEVER throws away tobacco, even stuff I don't particularly like, I am seriously thinking about it.

By the time my wife joined me in the truck I was two thirds of the way through the bowl. I had a headache and my mouth was burning.

Do yourself a favor, buy something else.

I'm very new to this hobby, and I don't have a lot to compare this to, but I'll do my best.

I wasn't terribly impressed with Borkum Riff Bourbon Whiskey.

Seems to me first of all that the flavoring was caked on pretty thick. It almost seemed like a sort of syrup had been applied to this tobacco. It wasn't overly stick or anything, just had a slightly unnatural quality to it that indicated to me at least that someone had added something to this blend late in the manufacturing process. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that at some point this tobacco was on a conveyor belt - under spray nozzles.

My wife puts hides her nose behind her shirt while I smoke this, so I'm going to assume the room note is not very good. In my limited experience, once I begin smoking, it's difficult to get an idea of the room note... Either due to inexperience or because my senses are deadened after taking it into my mouth. The rating system here does not allow you to indicate a tolerable yet unpleasant note. Only it's intensity, not it's actual appeal as a scent. Someone should revise the rating system.

This blend bit my tongue quite a lot... it burned hot for me. I'm a novice however and probably have a tendency to draw all of the tobaccos I try a little too frequently in an effort to keep the bowl lit.

There's got to be better tobacco's out there... Don't bother unless you're really curious or want to try it to just get it out of the way.

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.

As with any Borkum Riff tobacco, it doesn't take one long to realize the recipe behind this albatross. Save yourself some money by just cutting up some cardboard and soak it in piss overnight. There you have it...in bulk.

I wonder how this qualifies as tobacco. I aged it for 3 years in a rubber sealed jar and that did not help alleviate its nasty bite - a product of the garbage it is soaked into. Also, how the pouch smells does not translate into flavor when it burns. The only leaf I’ve ever tossed in trash.