Royal Yacht Components

[kane]

Hi Folks,

My first time trying Royal Yacht. I finally opened the tin of RY I was keeping for a while. This one has almost 4 years on it. The first bowl a few days ago, right after cracking the tin, was not that great. It was kind of shallow and cigarettey (not in a good way). Now a few days later it's better, I can taste the Virginia sweetness and the figgy flavor, but I am also getting a black pepper spice that I associate with perique and VAPers. However, I believe that RY contains no perique. I do not know tobaccos well enough to I.D. every flavor, and perhaps what I always thought was perique was in fact something else. What leaf in RY gives the pepper taste?

Thanks

 

[sablebrush52]

What leaf in RY gives the pepper taste?

Probably the sauce.

 

[kane]

Hot sauce?!

 

[kanse]

It is pure Virginia plus the plum topping,

From what I know, it was designed to imitate a Perique blend without containing the leaf itself, to cut down on costs.

 

[kane]

Hmmm....that sort of makes sense. This does taste like a VAper (from my limited experience with VApers) with the sweet, fruity, and pepper flavors. Perhaps the sauce is a plum and black pepper conconction? Anyone know? I assume that it's probably a heavily guarded secret, like Colonel Sanders' secret recipe.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

It tastes like a VaPer that has been stored in Christopher Walken's ass while being held as a POW. I kind of like it though. Is that weird?

 

[kanse]

Shame Ioseb did not extort the recipe from Brits while he could have done.
Cosmic

That's the only description I've seen to beat the:

This baby has all the flavourful charm and sweet redolence of slightly gangrenous horse meat.

 

[kane]

Cosmic. Please, I am still working on this bowl.

 

[mayfair70]

Anyone know? I assume that it's probably a heavily guarded secret.

I've heard whispers of a white bearded man clad in black ascending to a high stone tower in the dark of night. Naught but crows frequent its lofty peak and those who come near it die most disturbingly. Rumors of an iron cauldron bubbling with sweet golden ambrosia can be heard in the seedy watering holes dotting the countryside. Those who know, do not speak. Those who speak, are never seen again.
:rofl:

 

[kane]

Well, that shit burns pretty fast. At least I got a nice nic hit.

 

[sablebrush52]

It is absolutely true that yak piss is not an ingredient, though, since the announcement from BAT, the stock price of Yak Piss Global has plummeted.

 

[pagan]

Don't ask what's in it, just smoke that fine blend and enjoy

 

[snoopy311]

I have an unopened tin and I’m trying to age it for a bit. Hard to resist the urge.

 

[philobeddoe]

When I first tried Royal Yacht maybe 20 or so years ago I thought it tasted like unsweetened iced tea with lemon, not something I wanted to smoke! Fast forward to about five years ago and I tried it again and positively loved it....go figure.

 

[hawky454]

Now I've gotta go dig through my cellar to break out my RY. After Cosmic's descrition how could I resist?
Love it!

 

[toobfreak]

I bought a tin of RY once and thought I'd age it a bit.

Went back to check on it a few months later and it had

apparently eaten out through the bottom of the tin.

Most damned thing I ever saw.

Right out through the wood shelf below it was sitting on!

I never did find the tobacco, don't know where it went.

All there was left to remember it by with a tear on my face

was the cheerfully faint lingering whiff of Yak piss!

And now I know. ::

 

[jpmcwjr]

This is a very disturbing thread! Walken's ass and lots of yak piss. Good thing I have only a couple of tins stored away. They will stay that way until the above images fade from memory.

 

[mso489]

To my taste, the Virginia leaf is definitely respectable and tobacco forward, so the fig/plum flavoring just emphasizes the tobacco. I'm a relative newcomer to RY, but appreciate both its simplicity and unique spin. It's aromatic but in a tasteful restrained way, to me.

 

[toobfreak]

Blenders occasionally try something different and sometimes they really hit a chord in a lot of people, and you either love the difference or hate it, much like Lakeland toppings. Fun to kid about it a little bit, hope no one ever takes any of it too seriously.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Don't get me wrong, Royal Yacht is amazing, and I have dozens of tins set back. I don't think that the Walken's ass flavor comes from the topping as much as it is a natural flavor reaction between the topping and the imperial dark Virginias that they use.