You can now drink tobacco...

[Engineer99]

Well, sort of.

While channel surfing last night, I happened upon Travel Channel's Booze Traveler. Upon changing the channel, I saw guys with leaves of tobacco in a curing barn and was somewhat amused that the parties involved had found a way to incorporate tobacco into liquor. There was something about how old whiskey and rum barrels had been used to cure tobacco for some time and how they could flip that paradigm on its head and flavor alcohol with tobacco. The host of the show quite enjoyed it, citing a lot of the same flavor identifiers that we associate with good tobacco.

http://www.absintheonline.com/acatal..._de_Tabac.html

[Branzig]

Well why the hell not?

I already do everything else that is bad for me, I mine as well combine my alcohol intake with my tobacco intake all at once. I am a fan of efficiency after all.

[HIM]

Thats pretty cool but .... PLEASE DONT TRY MAKING THAT AT HOME!!!! Thats a really dangerous line to walk. I looked into this idea because I wanted to use tobacco in a beer and learned it isn't something to mess around with. Most of the nicotine in the tobacco we smoke burns off the cherry and doesn't make it into the smoke in our mouth. The concentration of nicotine you'd end up getting could easily be lethal.

[Jolly_WhiteGiant]

Yikes. I have no plans to drink my smokes, but not all Bums have the common sense that I do. Attachment 150

I was making a chocolate tatuaje milkshake when I saw this. Thanks for saving me!

[AlanS]

Twenty years or so back we were headed for the Beach. 2 hour drive with the Wife and boys. I was a cigarette smoker at the time and had been using a Coke can for an ashtray. We stop at rest area and my five year old grabs my can to down my coke. That's was as close as I care to get to ingesting tobacco. That's when I threw my cigarettes in the trash. I think I'll stick with Bourbon or Rum with my Cola not Marlboro Reds.

[steelman]

Twenty years or so back we were headed for the Beach. 2 hour drive with the Wife and boys. I was a cigarette smoker at the time and had been using a Coke can for an ashtray. We stop at rest area and my five year old grabs my can to down my coke. That's was as close as I care to get to ingesting tobacco. That's when I threw my cigarettes in the trash. I think I'll stick with Bourbon or Rum with my Cola not Marlboro Reds.

That reminded me of being at a party in high school and several of us chewing tobacco and spitting into a beer bottle. Some were also smoking some other green leafy product. Anyway after awhile one of the bottles was about 1/3 full of spit and chew and someone must've misplaced their beer and decided to grab that one and chug from it. After seeing the result of this even after 25-30 years I am still squeamish about the moment. So no tobacco infused beer here.

[Dave.73]

Interesting...but reading all of the horror stories following the initial post makes it an easy decision for me. Steer clear of drinking tobacco!

[AlBaron]

Well why the hell not?

I already do everything else that is bad for me, I mine as well combine my alcohol intake with my tobacco intake all at once. I am a fan of efficiency after all.

+ 1000

Alex

[_peps]

As a smokeless tobacco user, I have "drank tobacco" on a few dip spit mishaps. Disgusting

[DataJockey]

I think a nice Port would go with that cigar better