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jaytex1969

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Jun 6, 2017
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The International Delegation Invoking Oak Trees (IDIOT) has lodged a complaint regarding the association of the noble oak tree to the lesser regarded tobacco plant.
The cask community, apparently, has less advocacy...
Honestly, I don't know anything. Just thought I'd bump the thread for you. :P
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Most of the time when they change the names over here (England) it's to do with you not being allowed to have flavours in the name anymore, like Alsbo Cherry is called Ruby now and Peterson's Irish Whiskey is referred to as Irish Mixture.

How the word 'Oak' would fit into all this I don't know and maybe it doesn't, perhaps the name change wasn't foisted onto Peterson and they just rebranded it for their own reasons.
Chris

 

kylef

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Oct 17, 2018
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As a consumer I'm a craft beer and cask ale fan, so "cask" does sound more appealing to me than "oak."
Just my two cents (or pence, as it were.)

 

tobefrank

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Jun 22, 2015
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Thanks for the bump, jaytex969. I guess it’s difficult to determine the real reason they changed the name, but at least we’ve got a few plausible and less plausible reasons... I thought it might have something to do with the Dunhill blends being put under the Peterson umbrella, but changed regulations around tobacco blend naming sound like a real possibility.

 

logs

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Apr 28, 2019
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No need to overthink this; Peterson just wants to mess with you. They're laughing even now.

 

northernpipeshed

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Its one of my favourites as well.............
Is there any difference in the taste?.....I ask because I have smoked all but one of my Irish Oak and I'm about to put an order in for a few tins of Irish Cask

 

jaytex1969

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Maybe they are running low on sherry casks made from oak.
Changing the name to Cask allows them to use sherry casks made from hickory or cedar or plywood.....
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sasquatch

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Jul 16, 2012
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It's an EU regulation thing, coming soon to a store near you. Had the same thing in Canada for ages, re: things like "Mellow Mixture" - they can't put, for example, use the term "light" on Dunhill Light Flake, which is why it's just been "Flake" for the longest time. Basically anything descriptive, tempting, indicative of being safer, or in any other way corruptive of youth. So you can't call something Light Raspberry Delight in the wider tobacco world anymore, you can only call things weird stuff like "Durbar". I think even things like Standard Mixture Mild/Medium will have to be rebranded. This is why Mac Baren's new product is "Modern Virginia". They can't market anything as mild or sweet.

 

trubka2

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Feb 27, 2019
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Is there any difference in the taste?
Not as far as I can tell. Which stands to reason, as it's the same manufacturer, same everything. I actually smoked them back to back when my last tin of Oak got to the bottom. Maybe (and that's a big maybe) a touch more sherry in the Cask, but that's probably just because it's obviously a newer tin. I really love the stuff, so I'm just glad it's still around under any name.

 

puffermark

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I'm no super taster, but FWIW this is also my go to favourite. I'm on my 2nd tin of Irish Cask and there is (to me) no discern-able difference to Irish Oak. Still the same Irish more-ish goodness.

 
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