Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Schippers Tabak Speciaal

(2.61)
Schippers Speciaal is a loose cut tobacco blend made of both hand stripped tobaccos and whole leaf, which makes a traditional Dutch Baai product. The blend consists of orange Virginia, dark air cured burley and fire cured Kentucky tobaccos. The blend has a chocolate and smoky note.

Details

Brand Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG)
Blended By Scandanavian Tobacco Group
Manufactured By Scandinavian Tabacco Group
Blend Type Burley Based
Contents Burley, Kentucky, Virginia
Flavoring Cocoa / Chocolate
Cut Shag
Packaging 50 grams pouch
Country Denmark
Production Currently available

Profile

Strength
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Mild
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

2.61 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 21, 2013 Medium Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
I 'found' this tobacco in a tabac shop in Benodet, Brittany France on my summer vacation. The owner, an old guy whom appeared to have seen everything, recommended this Schippers tabac to me as a worthy pipe tobacco worth trying. So I did. Boy was I pleased, it was wonderful! I opened the 50g packet, it was all tightly clumped together, dry not too moist, and smelled of spicy creamy cocoa, with a hint of orange. I quickly packed a bowl, very fine tobacco this, and lit up... Wow, creamy, spicy, with a slight bitter cocoa taste with a hint of orange, beautiful. It burned very easily & quickly, in fact it was all gone, in a short time, just a small bit of ash left, no tongue bite, not hot, just really enjoyable.

Definitely need to pack it a little tighter than normal, or else it will disappear too quickly. In fact once packed nicely, it will puff away without any relights with fabulous smoke bellowing out, wonderful. I went back to the tabac a few days later and bought another 2 packets, which I wouldn't normally do. It has become one of my everyday smokes.

Well worth trying, especially if you enjoy a quick smoke without any fuss.
Pipe Used: Peterson Kapet 606
PurchasedFrom: Benodet Tabac Brittany France
Age When Smoked: Straight from the pouch and then few months old.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 15, 2012 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
The smoky, woody, dry, earthy, floral, herbal and spicy Orientals are fairly prominent (but not strong). There's a just a little hint of cigar to go with the spice, wood, earth, lightly sour, nutty notes from the dark fired Kentucky, which is a secondary star. The chocolate, earth, wood and nuts from the burleys are noticeable, more so when hydrated, which also enhances that nice smoky taste as a supporting player. In the background is mild tart and tangy citrusy, grassy, orange Virginias. The cocoa topping sublimates the tobaccos to a moderate degree. The strength is a couple of steps past the center of mild to medium. The nic-hit is in that center. The taste just reaches the medium mark. Has a few rough edges. As it is a shag cut, it burns fast, but it does not bite, and burns fairly smoothly all the way to the very end with a very consistent flavor, though it needs to sipped more than puffed. I recommend a little hydration. Leaves virtually no dampness in the bowl, and requires few relights. Has a pleasant, lightly lingering after taste. Can be an all day smoke, though possibly not one for the novice.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 17, 2011 Mild Mild Mild Tolerable
I can almost afford tobacco in Belgium*, and this is by far the least unpleasant. Sorry to be negative, but most of my favourites have been ruined by Orlik, and this seems to have escaped. Nothing special (despite the name) but no vices, and can be smoked in a very small after-breakfast pipe, as well as in a decent sized evening pipe. Keeps me happy! * as opposed to the UK!
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 02, 2017 Strong None Detected Very Full Strong
I find this an "honest" tobacco without an attempt to make it taste like cherries or truffles or vanilla ice-creme. It tastes to me like is is based on the semois burley tabaccos from Belgium. The added elements make it smoke a little lighter and without so much nicotine punch as the pure semois taboccos yet it is still quite strong. To be honest I prefer to mix it with a mild pure virginia to get the nicotine down to a level which i enjoy.

I would not call this cut a shag but rather a thin ribbon cut. I personally do not find it an everyday smoke because it is on the strong side for me.

I surely recommend it especially for those who are looking for a strong honest tobacco that tastes like tobacco.

again the program does not allow for smokers who only smoke out of doors as to room note.

I most enjoyed this tobacco with a Ludwig Lorenz double filter pipe.
Pipe Used: various
PurchasedFrom: cigar world in Dusseldorf
Age When Smoked: one month
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 09, 2015 Medium Very Mild Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
This mixture is a shag cut so it will burn faster than others tobaccos. The pouch smells like pure tobacco with some hint of mint. The moisture is just perfect, on the dry side but not too dry. It tastes like tobacco, I can't feel the burley but I suppose it adds sweetness combined with the orange virginia and it helps mellowing the strenght of kentucky. The flavor has something like cigarish and balsamic. Room note it's not a big deal, it's mild and not noticeable for a smoker. I recommend it, but not to newbie smokers. (It suffers relights and it turns a bit harsh and clogs my throath, but paying attention can lead to the end of the smoke just with the charring light.)
Pipe Used: La raganella, St.Claude
PurchasedFrom: Tobacco shop, Genova, Italy
Age When Smoked: Fresh
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
May 02, 2014 Medium Mild Medium Tolerable to Strong
This tobacco is a natural Dutch mixture, slightly flavored with cocoa. Nothing special, this tobacco fails to convince me. It isn't a pure natural tobacco and it isn't a real flavored mixture. Neither fish nor fowl. Even the cut (shag) is not a great choice (it burns very quickly and warm up) In my rating (from 0 to 10) my score is 3 and only a star.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 10, 2014 Medium to Strong Mild Mild Pleasant
I took this tobacco to experience the baai cut and I was very pleased. The tobacco is very dry and it's up to you to smoked it like that or moist it again. I've tried both and in both ways it is very good. I've also used to roll up some cigarette and they were strong but ok. At the end, this tobacco give you a pleasant smoke and very fresh, you've to keep an eye on the charging. If the tobacco is dry you've to press it a lot if not is up to you.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 24, 2013 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Tolerable
I am in luck because one of the best pipe makers in France (Jean Nicolas), lives in the same city as me (Lyon). He is the one who recommended this tobacco as one very good and cheaper pipe tobaccos on the market. The tobacco colour is on the dark side, almost shag cut, smells real nice of cocoa and pure strong tobacco.

This tobacco keeps burning easily and should be puffed real slow. It is very very pleasant, I could smoke it all day. Cocoa flavoured, more than chocolate, the virginias blend amazingly, the kentucky here, gives it a kick as well. Room note is tolerable. Why not 4 stars? Well, even when smoked gently and slowly, it smokes a tad bit fast. No tongue bite however. Recommended.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Nov 12, 2012 Mild Very Mild Medium to Full Pleasant to Tolerable
Another classic, allday, Holland style tobacco. Pointy, woodsy, rusty and bitter but with a preminent natural taste and less aromatic than the other holland types (like the Clan aromatic, the Flying Dutchman or the Troost). The producers say that is made with tobaccos selected from Asia, Africa and America with a hint of orientals; in my opinion burleys and kentucky are surely the main ingredients. This tobacco has not a strong body but in a certain way has the holland cigarillos character, and this is why I think this tobacco can be appreciated by cigars lovers. Hardly used in home made mixtures (simply doesn't match with other tobaccos). Like other dutch tobaccos has a little base of aromatic taste (very gentle in fact), like almond, anise and dried fruits, It's all the ingredients that make acceptable the smell by who is near the smoker, but it's less the "inside type tobacco" than the classical Holland types. It's very dry and thin so it burns like hell, optimal for a fast, light and effortless smoking.

Type: Natural aromatic ; Contents: Burley, Kentucky and Orientals (is what I detected) ; Flavoring: Classic holland flavoring but very light in taste (almond, anise and dired fruits) ; Cut: Extremly thin shag ; Humidity: I never saw a tobacco dry as this one ; Lighting: Once lighted is pratically ended ; Pipe recommended: The producers recommend "de fumer cet excellent tabac dans une pipe à fourneau assez grand", I, on the other side, recommend a thin bowl with a little more pressure than usual.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 01, 2009 Mild to Medium Mild Medium to Full Tolerable
2/2/10 Update - Thanks to Steden for sending me a pouch before I committed to a large quantity from Amsterdam.

It is amazing the difference forty years can make. Upon opening the pouch, I was quite excited because the aroma was exactly as I had remembered. Unfortunately, the flavor was not. I remember absolutely loving this tobacco and now I don't know how that could have been.

The tobacco didn't exactly put me off but it didn't attract me either. Steden's cigar reference was spot on. At the time I was smoking Schippers with some regularity, I primarily smoked Old Georgetown, a local English blend heavy on the latakia so my taste buds may have a bit suppressed. I remember not liking Troost at the time and now it is one of my favorites.

In any case, I'm revising my rating and will get my tonquin fix from SG's 1792 going forward.

And, I thank Steden again for assisting me in finalizing this obsessive memory.

10/19/09 Update - Steden - thanks for your clarification - I agree with your point regarding cigars.

STS is not sold anywhere in Iceland. My son is going back to Europe at the end of the month to shoot a documentary on a rock band so he's sure to find it somewhere. I'm becoming obsessed. Since my original post, Troost has become my regular smoke but it just doesn't have that STS flavor. I'll let you know when I succeed in acquiring a pouch.

Original Post - I smoked this a lot in the '60's and '70's - probably pounds of it. I loved it and even got a delft blue Schippers tobacco jar with the coupons in the pouch.

I still crave it but it can't be had in the US and $40 a pouch from Holland is just too much. My son is going to Iceland in a couple of weeks on business so I hope he can find it there. "Schippers" means fisherman and that's what they do in Iceland so maybe I'll get lucky.

I hope the first posting just mis-characterized the flavor because it wasn't a description of Schippers. I think the flavoring in the tobacco is tonquin. whatever it is, it wasn't cigar - it was wonderful.
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