I Feel Like Some Licorice

IslandCobFog

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Feb 28, 2014

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• May 13, 2014

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Good evening fellow pipers. I was just sitting down with the wife to a cup of tea as we wind down for the night. It's a licorice flavored tea and I thought wow this would be great in a tobacco. I have some Sutliff great outdoors and while it is growing on me I still can't taste the licorice in it. I can smell it but no taste what so ever. Now maybe it's just because I'm still so new to this. Anyway a question. Is there any other blends out there the have a strong licorice characteristic to them?

 

dottiewarden

Lifer

Mar 25, 2014

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Toronto

• May 13, 2014

• #2

Pick up a bottle of Seedman’s TOB515 Black Licorice at http://www.seedman.com/flavor.htm

They say it imparts a woody, licorice note to tobacco. Let us know if it’s true!

 

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jitterbugdude

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Mar 25, 2014

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• May 13, 2014

• #3

I make my own dip. To it I add some cocoa and then spritz it with anise oil. It tastes exactly like black licorice!

You can use either star anise or "real" anise. They both contain about the same amount of anethol which is the chemical that gives you the licorice flavor. I have not tried spritzing any pipe tobacco but I will in the near future. Three Nuns (back in the 70's) used to add anethol to their mix.

 

cortezattic

Lifer

Nov 19, 2009

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• May 13, 2014

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rmbittner

Lifer

Dec 12, 2012

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• May 13, 2014

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Braumiester:
This question seems to come up fairly regularly. A search for "anise" and "licorice" should bring up a recent thread or two.
Bob

 

petes03

Lifer

Jun 23, 2013

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The Hills of Tennessee

• May 13, 2014

• #6

Though I've never had any, Uhle's Crushed White Burley is supposed to have a bit of a licorice taste to it, and it's supposed to be very good.

It is on my list of blends to try.

 

metarzan

Part of the Furniture Now

Nov 14, 2012

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• May 13, 2014

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Yes "anise" as stated above is what gives pipe tobacco the licorice flavor without heavy casing. I would like to try others but my favorite blend at this point by far is Tewsbury Nosferatu. It's a nice English/Lat with a hint of anise. Love it.

 

kibo

Starting to Get Obsessed

Mar 22, 2014

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• May 13, 2014

• #8

A quick fix/hint of anise that you could likely find easily is Half and Half. It isn't terribly pronounced and there are a couple of other flavors in there, but it would probably go nicely with your licorice tea.

 

mso489

Lifer

Feb 21, 2013

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• May 13, 2014

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I get a little licorice from Sutliff's Great Outdoors. I really surprised me. I'm not a big aro smoker, but always have some in

rotation to set off the non-flavored blends. When I was in grade school, my dad showed us how we could buy licorice root

from our local (old time) pharmacist and chew it like candy. You just wore out the root and discarded the over-chewed

shreds. It was primitive in a really good way.

 

mrjerke

Lifer

Jun 10, 2013

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Midwest

• May 13, 2014

• #10

Try Peter Heinrich's Dark Strong Flake.

 

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harlockfan

Might Stick Around

May 8, 2014

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• May 13, 2014

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Try Tewksbury and company Chicago or Nosferatu. Both of those have anise. Wish I have some Absinthe right now. Jade 1901 is in the liquor cabinet waiting for me.

 

drrock

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• May 14, 2014

• #12

Uhle's Blend No. 55

 

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pipejunky

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Feb 16, 2014

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• May 15, 2014

• #13

Almost all lat blends goes great with licorice tea.I don't think you'll ever find a blend that will give you the flavor of the tea, but for me latakia certainly brings out the best in licorice tea.