Looking for high nicotine blends

bambam

I love the taste of Burley Tobaccos, but I need something with a nicotine kick, I would appreciate any and all suggestions 

Trailboss

This one has some serious horsepower....I love it.

http://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/4343/d-r-tobacco-picayune-the-pride-of-new-orleans

Trailboss

Just to add...when you buy Daughters and Ryan tobacco's they are the fullest tin or if you buy bulk...the most tobacco you will see for the money. Mark Ryan's blends are rally low in moisture content...works for me.

paulwansing

I could not smoke picayune, I found it to be was spicy hot as opposed to a tongue bite hot.  I tried cobs, briar, small bowl and large and I did not like that blend.  I do like the high nicotine blends though so I don't think the spice was from the nicotine but was from the high perique content.  I know some pipers love perique bombs (I like it but in much smaller percentages!) when I need a stronger kick than my codger burleys provide I usually go for Nightcap or Bayou Night-which has a healthy dose of perique but isn't "hot" on my tastebuds.  Atlas Balkan from C&D isn't bad either-sort of in between my codgers and nightcap on the nicotine level.  I have heard that five brothers and royal yacht have enough nicotine to knock a horse over but I haven't tried either one yet.

Trailboss

To me... Royal Yacht tastes like ground rubber tires burning.... just another example why we have so many different blends.

xDutchx

I could recommend Royal Yacht, which would most likely send you for a worthwhile spin, but if you are looking for the PGA of nicotine blends, you should start exploring rope tobaccos.

I am for the most part, immune to the effects of nicotine. I can smoke the heavy duty Nicaugauran full bodied cigars without hesitation, and always gravitate to any stick labeled "Ligero."

I can load up two different pipes with the same blend, and alternate back and forth as temperature recommends.

However, when it comes to rope tobaccos, specifically "brown," rope tobaccos, I'll have to admit that I do usually develop the hiccups, and will not hesitate to rest my pipe, especially so during the last 3rd of a bowl.

These tobaccos will require some additional preparation time before smoking, but the time invested is well worth it, IMO.

You may find that the black ropes may be better suited as introductory rope blends, and the browns best left for the hearty pipe smoker looking for the holy grail. As they say, the brown ropes are not for the faint of heart.

A comfortable, low light area, with an oscillating fan prepared for the horizontal position might be well worth the effort. It won't make much difference whether you have eaten or not, but I would recommend eating a heavy protein rich meal anyway. :^)

mezzoduomo

Like Trailboss noted, Royal Yacht tastes like crap, but it has an almighty wallop of nicotine.

Woodsman

Old Joe Krantz, 5 Brothers.

Philip

The Country Squire just had an episode on this subject. I can't remember the blends they mentioned but I think 10 Russians was one of them. 

Just looked it up, it was the November 2nd, episode; Sinister Pipe Tobaccos.

piperdave

For me there have been 2 tobaccos (not specifically Burley) that I had to set my pipe down while smoking:
1. Rattray's Sir William


2. Samuel Gawith Black XX

NCAnGus

Cotton Boll twist.  I've never seen it in a brick and mortar but it is available online if you search for it.  Air cured tobacco twisted into a rope.  Not what I would call tasty, but strongest nicotine effect of any pipe tobacco I have had.  I sometimes take a cigar cutter and cut a coin out of the rope and add it to something I have found too mild.  Apparently the old timers would bite off a piece and chew it, then dry that and put it in their pipe and smoke it.  I'm not a chewing tobacco guy, but I gave some to a friend and he said it was strong on that front, too.

ghostsofpompeii

I'm the complete opposite ... a real lightweight when it comes to nicotine. I must have a sensitivity to it because high nicotine tobacco of any kind makes me sick to my stomach even after a hearty meal. 

Penzance

Haunted Bookstore is pretty healthy. Also, Ye Olde Signe seems to be a heavy hitter........

glohman

Burley flakes or Dark fired flakes are my recommendations. I've had stronger blends, but the flavor and smell are not very good.

I would recommend a cigar if you want high nicotine and good taste.

thehorseman1955

most  g&h and Samuel gawith ropes twists and sliced. they add native American tobacco. nicotiana rustica. searching their websites you can find that they say they add "indian" tobacco. I have grown it and smoked and chewed it straight it could probably kill some people and was used to make black leaf nicotine insecticide in the old days.

motie2

The standard answer would be, "Check out Dunhill Nightcap..... while you still can."

thebadgerpiper

I'd recommend C&D's Old Joe Krantz and Haunted Bookshop for their wallop, especially Haunted Bookshop. I only smoke these blends after dinner in a pipe with a smaller bowl. I once had Haunted Bookshop in a larger pipe before dinner and had to escape by garage mid bowl. Even just hanging around the lingering aroma would've had me reaching for a bucket.

I'd also recommend GH's Dark Bird's Eye. I was given a sample of this blend by an online friend, and it kicked my butt the first time.

paulwansing

@thebadgerpiper I have held off on haunted bookshop because the reviews regularly say "spice" which I take to mean peppery heat like heavy perique blends can give (I do not like the perique once it turns spicy-a dab will do ya in my opinion!) How would you describe it?  What would you compare it to?  I am curious because it has that "legend" status starting but that spice word has kept me from ordering it

vinnie799

I have to go with C&D's burley flake #1 and or #2. C&D seems to have very stout burleys in my opinion. Also I have been smoking their Dark Burley for a few years now and boy that stuff packs a wallop! I mostly use it to add to Half and Half, 4 parts to one part Dark Burley. But when I want a nic hit quick fast and in a hurry, I grab a small bowl and BOOM.

Today I just ordered 4 oz each of C&D's ribbon burley and their cube cut burley just on smokingpipes.com's ratings as STRONG tobacco's. Let us know how it goes brother.

- Tony

thebadgerpiper

@paulwansing It does have Perique in it, but I always thought that the Burley had more of a presence in the blend than the Perique. While I haven't tried it, maybe check out C&D's Big 'N Burley, and if you like it order an OZ of Haunted Bookshop.

Woodsman

Warhorse Bar.

PappyJoe

Peterson's Irish Flake.

Warning: Do Not Smoke on an empty stomach! This tobacco is not for beginners either. If you don't have a high tolerance for nicotine, you will either empty the contents of your stomach or wish you had something in your stomach to empty.

Other than that it is a very tasty smoke.

ghostsofpompeii

Hate to sound like a complete ass, but since I've never been a cigarette smoker and don't really know how nicotine affects you - what exactly is the body's reaction to a nicotine kick? Is it like a caffeine jolt from coffee - or more of a 'downer' calming influence meant to chill you out? I seriously don't know. My experience with high nicotine tobacco never got past the sick to my stomach experience. I can't say it steadied my nerves or sent them into over-drive either. Just made me sick.    

Woodsman

In my case, a strong tobacco with a high Nic. content leaves me slightly dizzy and sometimes stomach upset. I've a friend with MS that can stand out of his wheel chair for a very short while. If he smokes a cigar he can't stand.

SERENTIL

Bow Legged Bear or one of the Gawith ropes.  Just got punched in the teeth by Ms Nic from a few coins of the GH&C Sweet Whisky Twist.  Yep. 

motie2

Smoked a big Bering cigar once. Almost fell off the chair. Never again.

glohman

Warhorse bar

motie2

Perhaps the ultimate, according to Sherlock Holmes' testimony:

"‘Ship’s’ can still be found at specialist tobacconists"

http://www.meerschaumstore.com/proddetail.asp?prod=CA116

<<Sherlock Holmes does seem to have settled on the cheapest and strongest tobacco he could find, for everyday smoking at least. And Watson, in the early stages of their acquaintance, did the same, for in _A Study in Scarlet_ Holmes asks if Watson has any objections to strong tobacco, and Watson replies that he always smokes ‘ship’s’ himself. ‘Ship’s’ is corded plug, formed by placing the leaves of an inexpensive tobacco – in Watson’s day, quite probably the inferior “Nicotiana rustica”, rather than the now universal “N. tabacum” – on top of one another in a long row, then rolling them up and compressing them, originally with a thin cord, though machinery was used on a commercial scale later. When the resulting roll was a very thin one, the tobacco was called ‘pig-tail,’ and this form was widely smoked, or, in the days of wooden hulls, when burning tobacco would have been a fire hazard, chewed, by sailors.

‘Ship’s’ can still be found at specialist tobacconists, but is not recommended for those of a weak constitution. The mere act of lighting the pipe produces a concentrated blast of tar and nicotine at the back of the throat, which makes breathing extremely difficult. There is no taste as such, only a harsh, rasping sensation, and the fumes and smell are ‘acrid’, just as Watson describes them in _The Hound of the Baskervilles_. A marvellous line by the underrated Nigel Bruce, in one of his films with Rathbone, sums it up very well: ‘Fresh in here. Smells like a pub after closing time.’

If Holmes’ before breakfast pipe consisted, as Watson says in “The Engineer’s Thumb”, of plugs and dottles from yesterday’s smokes, and if he had been smoking ‘ship’s’ yesterday, then it is not surprising that he sometimes left his breakfast – and other meals – untouched.

Holmes remained faithful to his early love, the strongest possible tobacco, frequently asking Watson to arrange for vast quantities of ‘shag’ to be sent round. ‘Shag’ is a generic term for any rough-cut tobacco, but Holmes usually insists on the strongest available.”>>

motie2

Addendum: Please ignore the meerschaum URL, above. It should not have been there.

ghostsofpompeii

No longer need to ask anyone what a nic- hit is like, I just experienced it while smoking a 50/50 mixture of Out Of Office "Civic Duty" with blending Perique ... and that Perique did a number on me. Not only did I get light headed but also very sick to my stomach. That ranks right up there with the worst smoke of my life. Not one bit enjoyable. If I even attempt to add Perique to a blend it will be in such a small quantity that it probably won't be worth the effort of pulling out the jar and adding it in.  

motie2

@ghostsofpompeii -- Back in the day, when I smoked "manly" blends like Balkan Sobranie (unlike the toosie-fruitsie stuff from Sutliff that I currently favor) the only way I could handle Perique was in Cope's Escudo, which I remember as an excellent VaPer. Maybe leave the Perique blending to the master blenders.....