Do You love Cornell & Diehl's Old Joe Krantz? Is G L Pease's Haddo's Delight your hidden gem? Well, Rum Soaked Perique may be your friend.
If you've had Haddo's Delight and researched about its origins, then You have come across the legend of Aleister Crowley smoking Straight Rum Soaked Perique.
I began this experiment about two years ago, searching through Crowley's Magickal Journals, doubting that he actually did smoke Rum Soaked Perique. I couldn't come up with conclusive evidence there. So I took a break. I ran across Deathmeatal.org on Tobacco Reviews one evening, (this gentleman happens to be the same Deathmetal that frequents this forum)I did a Google search. Deathmetal.org, is an underground blog for death metal fans. It so happens that our friend DeathMeatal wrote an article on that site, about smoking straight perique with Aleister Crowley. Deathmetal did his own research through Crowley's fiction and found evidence that Crowley did smoke Straight Rum Soaked Perique. (If your interested in the topic check out Deathmetal.org)
With a little private messaging between Deathmetal and Myself, Deathmetal enticed me to try Soaking Perique in Rum and have a go at it. Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to say Mission Accomplished. The experience was well worth the time.
I started out with C&D's Granulated Perique. Then soaked it with Appleton's Jamaican Rum( Great Stuff by Itself). I let the perique sit in rum for about six hours. Next I placed the perique on a paper towel and let it dry. I suggest a mini corn cob, in case you do not like it. This isn't gonna be your go to smoke. Perique by it self has a sweet fig, raisin and has an incense profile. Cosmic has said that its like strong cigarettes. He is quite right about that. In fact, if you have smoke cigarettes or do smoke cigarettes then this is going to be easy street. Not that it taste like cigarettes, it just has that mouth feel.
Anyway, when the rum is added the Perique takes on a Chocolate covered raisin and fig flavor, which develops into a strong cigar spiciness. It reminds me of Old Joe Krantz and Haddo's Delight. These two blends are more refined and more complex than Straight Rum Soaked Perique. I would suspect that if Old Joe Krantz and Haddo's Delight were at Crowley's Tobacconist he would have grabbed for a tin of one of them, Rather than soaking perique in rum.
Well, that about wraps it up. Straight perique! No big deal.
If you've had Haddo's Delight and researched about its origins, then You have come across the legend of Aleister Crowley smoking Straight Rum Soaked Perique.
I began this experiment about two years ago, searching through Crowley's Magickal Journals, doubting that he actually did smoke Rum Soaked Perique. I couldn't come up with conclusive evidence there. So I took a break. I ran across Deathmeatal.org on Tobacco Reviews one evening, (this gentleman happens to be the same Deathmetal that frequents this forum)I did a Google search. Deathmetal.org, is an underground blog for death metal fans. It so happens that our friend DeathMeatal wrote an article on that site, about smoking straight perique with Aleister Crowley. Deathmetal did his own research through Crowley's fiction and found evidence that Crowley did smoke Straight Rum Soaked Perique. (If your interested in the topic check out Deathmetal.org)
With a little private messaging between Deathmetal and Myself, Deathmetal enticed me to try Soaking Perique in Rum and have a go at it. Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm proud to say Mission Accomplished. The experience was well worth the time.
I started out with C&D's Granulated Perique. Then soaked it with Appleton's Jamaican Rum( Great Stuff by Itself). I let the perique sit in rum for about six hours. Next I placed the perique on a paper towel and let it dry. I suggest a mini corn cob, in case you do not like it. This isn't gonna be your go to smoke. Perique by it self has a sweet fig, raisin and has an incense profile. Cosmic has said that its like strong cigarettes. He is quite right about that. In fact, if you have smoke cigarettes or do smoke cigarettes then this is going to be easy street. Not that it taste like cigarettes, it just has that mouth feel.
Anyway, when the rum is added the Perique takes on a Chocolate covered raisin and fig flavor, which develops into a strong cigar spiciness. It reminds me of Old Joe Krantz and Haddo's Delight. These two blends are more refined and more complex than Straight Rum Soaked Perique. I would suspect that if Old Joe Krantz and Haddo's Delight were at Crowley's Tobacconist he would have grabbed for a tin of one of them, Rather than soaking perique in rum.
Well, that about wraps it up. Straight perique! No big deal.
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