Apres Strengths and mg Levels: Every Snus Can in Portugal

Apres comes in four strengths on our Portugal shelf, 4.4mg, 5.5mg, 8.3mg and 11mg per pouch, and nearly the whole range sits on the top two. Every can of Apres snus comes from Après Nicotine AB, a Swedish brand that produces and sells tobacco free nicotine pouches, and all four strengths fall inside the Light and Medium bands of our scale.

Picking between them starts with one number, in the way surfers at Ericeira read the swell height before deciding which board comes down from the roof of the car. Once the mg per pouch is fixed, the flavour list shrinks to a single row of the chart below, and the lid, the scale and the flavour families all become far easier to read.

Which Band of Our Scale Does Each Apres Strength Fall In?

Each Apres strength lands in either our Light band or our Medium band, with 4.4mg and 5.5mg in Light and 8.3mg and 11mg in Medium. Our scale is measured per pouch, with Light running from 1 to 8mg, Medium from 8 to 16mg, Strong from 16 to 25mg and Extreme from 25mg upwards. Across the full Portugal shelf, which stretches from 3mg to 150mg, that places Apres snus firmly in the lower half of the ladder. The strongest Apres can holds two and a half times the nicotine per pouch of the lightest, a spread narrow enough for the brand to read as one family rather than a scattering of unrelated products.

The weight of the range sits at the top end of that spread. Of the 19 Apres cans we stock in Portugal, 17 sit at 8.3mg or 11mg, and the two Light cans are single flavours with no partner at their own strength. So, a reader in Lisbon or Porto browsing by number will find that the Medium band is where the flavour choice opens out. The scale also does a quieter job, because it counts nicotine per pouch rather than borrowing any brand's own vocabulary, so an 8.3mg Apres pouch and an 8.3mg pouch from a different maker land in exactly the same place, whatever each lid chooses to call itself.

Is an 11mg Apres Pouch Kept In Longer Than a 4.4mg One?

No, an Apres pouch at 11mg or at 4.4mg is kept in for the same 30 to 60 minutes, depending on the user's preference. The figure on the lid describes how much nicotine each pouch carries, while preference decides where a session settles inside that window. A student in Coimbra fitting a pouch between lectures and someone in Faro with a slow afternoon ahead may land at quite different points with the very same can.

That being said, timing and strength are easier to understand side by side, and how long an Apres pouch lasts follows the session from the first minutes to the moment the pouch comes out. Placement is the other half of the routine, and the steps for using Apres, first time and every day cover where the pouch sits under the lip, how to handle it and what to do with it once the session is over.

What Do the Dots and Words on an Apres Lid Tell You?

The words and dots on an Apres lid are the brand's own shorthand for strength, useful for browsing within the range but less precise than the mg per pouch. An Extra Strong can carries a small black tab reading EXTRA STRONG, while a Hypèr Strong can has HYPÈR printed around the rim and a red banner with five dots. Those markings make the top tiers easy to tell apart across a counter, yet they belong to Apres alone, and another maker's dots or tier names follow a different logic entirely. For comparing one brand with another, the mg per pouch is the figure that travels.

Each lid also carries a number written with the N° sign above the brand name, such as N°12 for Blueberry, N°13 for Mochaccino and N°15 for Hugo Spritz. That number belongs to the flavour rather than the strength, so it is the tier words and the mg per pouch that separate two strengths of one flavour. Flavour is its own decision, most easily made once the strength is settled, and which Apres flavour comes out on top is the place to make it.

The maker arranges its full range under five headings, Zero, Mini, Normal, Extra Strong and Hypèr Strong, and the cans on our Portugal shelf come from Normal, Extra Strong and Hypèr Strong, with the limited Limoncello beside them. How those lines differ beyond strength is laid out in the Apres lines explained. The company behind them, a young company from Stockholm, Sweden, is introduced properly in what Apres is and who makes it.

Why Does the Per Gram Figure Look Higher Than the mg per Pouch?

The per gram figure looks higher because it measures the nicotine in a full gram of filling, and a single Apres pouch weighs less than a gram. So, mg/g describes concentration, while mg per pouch describes what one portion actually holds. To move from the first to the second, take the mg/g and multiply it by what one pouch weighs in grams; the answer is the mg per pouch. The 4.4mg, 5.5mg, 8.3mg and 11mg steps on the Apres ladder are all per pouch figures, which is why they compare fairly with any other can of snus, whatever its pouch size.

The two measures can point in different directions when pouch sizes differ, since a larger pouch at the same concentration holds more nicotine per portion. A shopper in Braga holding two cans side by side should check which unit each one prints before comparing the numbers, then convert where needed so that like sits next to like. Anyone ready to compare Apres cans will find them gathered under where to buy Apres in Portugal.

Which Apres Pouches Come Below 8mg?

Two Apres pouches come below 8mg on our Portugal shelf, Apres Blueberry 4.4mg and Apres Limoncello Dicapri Limited Edition 5.5mg, and both sit in our Light band. Blueberry at 4.4mg carries the Normal tier, the lightest Apres strength we stock, and the N°12 on its lid makes it easy to pick out. The same blueberry flavour returns at 11mg, so Blueberry is the one Apres flavour that spans both of our bands, from the bottom of the range to the top.

Limoncello Dicapri sits at 5.5mg, between Normal and Extra Strong, and belongs to none of the regular tiers. Its lid reads Après Limoncello DICAPRI with LIMITED COLLABORATION along the bottom, and the maker treats it as a limited edition. At 5.5mg per pouch it brings a citrus flavour to the Light band, giving a reader in Cascais or anywhere else on the coast a second Light option beside the berry.

Which Apres Flavours Come at 8.3mg in Portugal?

Seven Apres flavours come at 8.3mg per pouch in Portugal: Appletini, Cactus Lime, Cola, Ice Tea Peach, Lemon Curd, Menthol and Tangerine Spritz. This is the first step into our Medium band, and it is the second widest row of Apres snus after 11mg. The flavours split neatly between fruit and dessert names on one side and drinks and mint on the other.

Apple, Lime, Lemon and Tangerine

Apres Appletini 8.3mg and Apres Lemon Curd 8.3mg are found only at this strength on our shelf, so anyone who settles on either has the whole decision made in a single step. Apres Cactus Lime 8.3mg and Apres Tangerine Spritz 8.3mg both have an 11mg partner, which makes them useful for a reader who wants to keep the citrus and move between the two Medium steps later on.

Cola, Peach Tea and Menthol

Apres Cola 8.3mg offers cola at the lower of the two Medium steps. Apres Ice Tea Peach 8.3mg brings an ice tea peach flavour, and Apres Menthol 8.3mg completes the trio, with all three returning at 11mg. Menthol deserves one extra line here, because its cooling can make a pouch seem sharper than a fruit pouch with an identical figure, even though the 8.3mg on both lids is the same and only the sensation differs.

What Is the Strongest Apres Pouch on Our Portugal Shelf?

The strongest Apres pouch on our Portugal shelf is 11mg per pouch, and ten flavours come at that figure. Even at the top of the range, Apres stays within our Medium band, which runs to 16mg, so the brand's strongest step still sits short of our Strong band. Ten Apres flavours at 11mg make it the busiest row of the chart by a clear margin.

The Spritz Cans at 11mg

Three spritz flavours share the 11mg step: Apres Hugo Spritz 11mg, Apres Pink Spritz 11mg and Apres Tangerine Spritz 11mg. Hugo Spritz, with the N°15 lid, and Pink Spritz are found only at 11mg, while Tangerine Spritz also appears at 8.3mg. The names come from the aperitif glass, the kind of drink that turns up on a Lisbon terrace as the evening light turns orange over the river.

Banana, Mochaccino and the Returning Flavours

Apres Banana 11mg and Apres Mochaccino 11mg, the N°13 can with a coffee and chocolate name, are both single strength flavours that exist only at the top step. The rest of the 11mg row is made of familiar names, since Blueberry, Cactus Lime, Cola, Ice Tea Peach and Menthol each return here from a lighter can. That overlap means a flavour can stay exactly where it is while the strength moves.

Can You Get the Same Apres Flavour in Two Strengths?

Yes, six Apres flavours come in two strengths on our Portugal shelf: Blueberry at 4.4mg and 11mg, and Cactus Lime, Cola, Ice Tea Peach, Menthol and Tangerine Spritz at 8.3mg and 11mg. These pairs are the cleanest way to compare snus strengths, because the flavour and the brand stay constant and only the nicotine per pouch changes. It is the same reasoning a football coach follows when keeping the same eleven players and changing only the formation, so that any difference on the pitch can be traced to one decision.

The Apres flavour pairs also make a change of strength straightforward in either direction. A reader who knows Cola at 8.3mg can move to Cola at 11mg without learning a new flavour, and a reader at 11mg can step back to 8.3mg in exactly the same way. Blueberry spans a wider gap than the others, from Light to Medium, which is worth knowing before treating its two cans as close neighbours. The single strength flavours, from Appletini and Lemon Curd at 8.3mg to Hugo Spritz, Pink Spritz, Banana and Mochaccino at 11mg, are chosen on flavour alone once their row is settled.

Where Should Someone New to Apres in Portugal Start?

Someone new to Apres in Portugal can start at the lowest step, Blueberry at 4.4mg, or with Limoncello Dicapri at 5.5mg if citrus appeals more than berry. A lower figure paired with a flavour already enjoyed elsewhere keeps the first can simple, and it leaves room to change one thing at a time afterwards. Someone who already knows their usual mg per pouch from another brand of snus has a more precise reference, so the sensible move is to find that figure, or the nearest Apres step to it, in the chart and then choose a flavour from that row.

To set Apres against the rest of the shelf, buy snus across every brand from the full collection, or begin from snus at The Snus Life and work inward from there. Orders ship to Portugal, and every product here is intended for adults aged 18 or older. Pick the row of the chart that matches your mg per pouch first, whether that is Apres Blueberry 4.4mg or the 8.3mg row, then let the flavour decide the can.