Borkum Riff Original

The Borkum Riff people really could sell water to dolphins! They've done it again (on porpoise, no doubt): made a tobacco that is purely and simply rubbish, yet managed to create a market for it. How DO they do this???

"Strong but soft to smoke with a neutral light aroma"? Everything in this sentence is untrue. BR Original is awful: hot, tasteless, characterless and a waste of money. Smoking this worthless dreck is a complete non-experience.

I have yet to come across a BR tobacco that is worth a damn. This one is beyond terrible.

I smoked BR original when I was in High School in the early 70s. It was a completely different tobacco then. It was moist, mild, aromatic and flavorful. I decided to start smoking a pipe again in my old age. I ordered BR as my 1st pipe tobacco thinking it would be as I had remembered it. It was horrible and unrecognizable from that which I smoked in my early days. Today’s BR smokes hot and tastes nasty. I then picked up a bag of Virginia Select Cavandish. Very nice, no complaints.

I tried this blend when i started pipe smoking and thanks god i didn't quit my hobby.when breaking the seal a chemical vanilla smell comes out escorted by some nuts.the blend moisture is absent.packs ok and lights ok with a few relights needed while smoking.while burning the flavours are unpleasant.tense vanilla wich disappears after a few puffs,nuts and very rare some grass notes.the tobacco flavours are really absent.the nicotine level is almost medium.some moisture is created in the bowl with perfect ash.tongue bite is very often and i felt my tongue numbed...the room note is very tense and feels chemical.burns fast and really hot.this is a blend that ruined my first smoking experiences..not recommended

I'm an OTC burley smoker. A friend gave me a sealed pouch of this stuff. On opening the aroma was OK. The moisture seemed a bit lacking but not to dry. I filled and lighted a medium size Stanwell that smokes most anything well. I have a pretty heavily seasoned mouth, 50+ years with the pipe, but this blend not only bit me,it made my lips numb. Guess there was some sort of flavor to it but nothing pleasant.There is a little nicotine present. Maybe when the last tub of Prince Albert is gone from the last shelf in the last drugstore I could manage to smoke this but it would be a dark day indeed. It's no good and glad I didn't pay for it.

Very dry from the pouch, burns quickly & gives nasty tongue bite, a harsh smoke with not much flavour. I'm not a fan. Not sure what else to say. Very disappointing.

I wish I had something positive to say about this blend other than the fact that it smells nice. The tobacco is devoid of moisture, the taste is almost flat, and the smoke bites in the worst kind of way. My mouth & gums felt itchy after smoking it, which is something I have never experienced in all my years of pipe smoking. There's a first time for everything and Borkum Riff Original provided me with two of them, itchy gums and a pouch of freshly opened tobacco pitched into the garbage bin.

In the pouch, it smelled very fruity and rich. Smoking it almost made me throw up -- it tastes worse than can possibly be described. Repeating the experience ever again would be pure masochism.

If you want to know what it tastes like, but don't want to waste money on it, crush some cigarettes in an ashtray and mix with asphalt to make your own Borkum Riff Original.

I only did this to myself once, and it's not an experience I care to repeat.

Smells good in package and in the room, but during smoking it's very poor. Burning fast, makes a lot of ash in the bowl and not tasting a good taste during smoking.