Cask Aging Tobacco

[saintpeter]

Yeah, well it’s a hair brained idea, but here goes. Say you have a couple 1 liter oak “casks” that one has used to age cheap rum in an attempt to get good tasting swill. These casks are dry, but infused with the esters and flavors of assorted and sordid rum. What might happen if you shoe horned tobacco into one, packed the doggy do-do out of it and let it set for a year? Do you think it would do anything at all? Have you tried it? I ask because the little barrels are not cheap and the only way to get the tobacco out would involve total destruction of the cask.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I would think the tobacco would absorb some of the rum flavor. There was McClelland Frog Mortons Cellar and Stave Aged Virginia that had chunks of a barrel in the tin. I believe Seattle Pipe Club is introducing a version of Plum Pudding that will be agreed in a Bourbon barrel. I'm sure there have been our are others.

 

[tobefrank]

Isn’t this what they do with Irish Oak / Irish Cask?

A rich blend of cavendish, Zimbabwean, orange, Thailand burley & black perique, matured in oak sherry barrels. Made in Ireland.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I think you'd end up with tasty dust. What ever you put in there will dry out significantly. The casks are liquid proof, but not airtight- unless sealed with something else.

 

[verporchting]

This reminds me of those Reese’s commercials from the 70s - I say, your chocolate is in my peanut butter....

 

[badbriar]

Do what McClelland did - put a stave that was soaked in your rum (and then dried completely) into the tobacco jar and age for a year. No likelihood of damage to either the cask or the tobacco.