Tasting Peterson Night Cap

jacobramsey74

Maybe it's just me but I am having a hard time tasting Peterson Night Cap. It just tastes like smoke. From the 5 different blend I have tried so far this is the only one I am struggling with. Any advice?

Londy3

Never had it

KA9FFJ

Sorry. That one's not in my arsenal...

RockyMountainBriar

 Nope, me either.

jacobramsey74

So it’s all a marketing scheme to get new pipe smokers to buy a tin.😂 Damn I thought this was a popular tobacco. I won’t be buying it again I don’t think 

PappyJoe

Peterson Nightcap was originally Dunhill Nightcap until Dunhill sold the name and recipe to Peterson. It’s been on the market for a long time. In fact it was introduced in 1951. 

mapletop

@jacobramsey74 I have not tasted the new Peterson version as I still have a supply of the original as it was made at the Orlik factory, the blend is comprised of Virginia, Latakia, and Perique; due to the Perique I don't smoke it often as my tolerance is low.

I would suggest you jar it up and give another try in a year or so and try it again.

vtgrad2003

@mapletop
Anything with Perique in it, you should just throw away or give it to Goodwill    

PappyJoe

@mapletop @vtgrad2003

WIMPS!

There is nothing wrong with a judicious amount of Perique in a blend.

jacobramsey74

@mapletop
That's why I felt fuzzy. I didn't realize there was so much "vitamin N" in it.

jacobramsey74

@PappyJoe
Wow that's a long time to keep a tobacco in production. I guess a lot of people love it, unlike @vtgrad2003

I didn't hate it but to me it didn't live up to the hype. I'll keep it in the jar for a while and see if it gets better like you said @mapletop

vtgrad2003

@PappyJoe @mapletop
Wimp my ass  I'll down straight burley with the best of 'em! But I draw the line at smoking something that  was cured in swamp water...sorry, bayou water 
Perique tastes like an alligator shit it out, then a nutria ate it, shit it out again...then someone picks it up, puts it in a barrel and hopes for the best!  

That said, I will defend your right to smoke it! 

PappyJoe

@vtgrad2003
Shows what you know. It’s Mississippi River water and it’s cured and aged in whiskey barrels. And you have it backwards. The possums eat it first and then shits it out. Then once the seeds start sprouting, the nutria eat it. The alligators just eat the nutria. 

mapletop

I can handle a condimental amount of perique, and some of periques  impart  some great flavors, but its not about the nicotine, hell I love strong burley, its the fact that it really screws with my sinuses.

mapletop

@jacobramsey74 Just an FYI about Perique, the main reason that perique and for that mater any tobaccos that have a higher PH than 7 (like what they do to cigarette tobacco) is that the human body more readily absorbs the nicotine.

Thus, two different tobaccos with the same nicotine content can seem very different with respect to perceived nicotine effect.

The high PH in perique is the result of the fermentation process that vtgrad eluded to LOL and he ain't lying.

RockyMountainBriar

Yep, I would have to say perique may have a bit of barn floor sweet/stank to it🙂.
If course I like it.  I’m part hillbilly, part redneck, part big city boy (for Montana😉).  Born in Miles City, in what once was and still is, a sheep town, with the best range sheep anywhere.  Heck, they even had “Sheep Week”, maybe still do.  Also the premier “Bucking Horse Sale and Rodeo” in the country, probably the world, it’s one heck of a party.

By the way, do you know the most common lie told by sheepmen in Montana?

”I was only helping that sheep over the fence.”😳😂😂😂

As has been said many times.
about Miles City, Montana. “Where the men are men, and the sheep are scared”.

Zouave

It's been ages since I've had night cap.  Occasionally I will smoke Peterson Irish Cask, I think it was Irish Oak originally? The perique is very light, but you can still tell it's in there.