the perfect drinks combo?

[Ken Gargett]

a UK website was looking at strange drinks ingredients. this one might make the perfect match for a cigar!

anyone ever tried any of these?

Tobacco

Forget smoking the stuff, tobacco is thought to have a long history of being incorporated into alcoholic beverages by native Americans in a tradition which can still be found on our shelves today.

More likely to be used as a bug spray during the 19^th century, today tobacco liqueur is used for more recreational purposes. Among the best known modern examples of its use as a beverage are France’s Perique Liqueur de Tabac and an Argentine version produced by Historias y Sabores distillery in Mendoza.

According to distillers, tobacco’s toxic nicotine component has too high a boiling point to rise through the still, leaving behind only the plant’s distinctive flavour. The Perique version uses grape eau-de-vie and is aged in oak barrels.

Inventive bartenders have also been known to incorporate tobacco into their cocktail recipes, often by infusing their own tobacco bitters. Be careful though – there’s no guarantee that these homemade concoctions won’t include dangerously high levels of nicotine.

[Jeremy Festa]

That's great. Very interesting.

I think I have mentioned before, Perry Scott's Bowery bar here in Brisbang has a tobacco syrup they use in a cocktail called Methuselah's cigar. Pretty Awesome!

[PapaDisco]

If tobacco is perfectly fine absent the nicotine, then I wonder why no one's bred a tobacco plant without it altogether? We get a different clone every few years anyway, it's not like anyone's preserving 200 year old vines . . .

[Skyfall]

I've had tobacco infused Rum. I love it! I few others on the forum have had it too!

[sengjc]

Search "Jade Perique". It's a tobacco liqueur that is supposedly good.

It is also available in Australia at one of the more famous independent wine merchants.