Peterson Sweet Killarney

This mixture does not deserve all the nasty reviews. Too many people either can't smoke a pipe adequately, pack their pipe with tobacco that is too moist, improperly pack it or invest in poor quality pipes. You get what you pay for and can't expect an inadequate smoking instrument to highlight your tobacco! I have found this mixture to be quite pleasant. Variously coloured Virginias combine with a bit of Black Cavendish. the caramel casing smells delicious. The cut is fine and thus packing, lighting and relighting are child's play. Yes, freshly bought, it might bite slightly but once the moisture level has decreased, it doesn't anymore. But this is quality tobacco and casing. It smokes well until one is done. The casing does sublimate the tobacco taste but it still delivers a very pleasant smoke. Sweet Killarney leaves a nice aftertaste and the room note is quite the crowd pleaser. Nicotine level is mild. I will definitively buy again and recommend this quality tobacco.

First review, new to pipes, only two months now. This is my first 'tin'.

Smells wonderful, lights and packs easily. First quarter light and sweet. I got so excited to taste an imported tabac I over puffed, got it too hot and started to get some bite. Set it down, also calmed myself down and relit once cool.

Boom! A real tasty sweet maple syrup mixed with peacan nut nougat... too excited and... too hot again. Set it down, again. I'm feeling rather stupid at this but also thrilled. It really tastes of quality. Just got to smoke it better.

Third time lucky... the rest was a slow and sweet enjoyable smoke. I'll update again once I smoke this in my Keyser which has a better fishtail stem.

Update: Second bowl in my Keyser No.1

Much easier to control the heat, no bite, taste the same but able to enjoy it more consistently. Very nice through the nose, quite sweet second time around. Couldn't smoke this a third time. I'm going to recommend this as you would a sweet aperitif after a meal. Like Frangelica or Controu. It's a good choice for a sweet pipe and would be followed well by something more hearty.

Thanks for reading

Hands down the best of the Peterson aromatics.

If you are new to smoking try the Virginia, And Virgina/Perique blends first before moving on to aromatics.

This was very wet and needed drying before it could be smoked.Otherwise it will burn your mouth out with steam bite.

Like all aromatics the flavour does die down after the 1/3 of the bowl and your left wanting.

I recommend you try it but only because it’s better than most other aromatics out there.

Peterson Royal Yacht is the tobacco to smoke!

The jar note is simply beautiful, fresh apricots and light fruit cake, however it has to be dried out for around 15 minutes, gravity filled and sipped slowly if you want to appreciate the nuances in the slight casing. Very enjoyable and lends well to a blend with Century Irish Cream which on its own is a bit meh. This is my breakfast pipe tobacco. Flavour lasts throughout the bowl and burns down clean to a light gray Ash. I've experienced no tongue bite but then I'm not a mad puffer. I can easily smoke a few bowls a day but I like to have this in rotation with other aromatics. Very pleasant tobacco and I recommend to anyone who is a newbie or an experienced pipe smoker who fancies something light and breezy with a fair amount of character. 7/10 for me but only because I love my Lakeland sauce!

I was initially reluctant to buy this after seeing the review scores, but I'm glad I did get a tin. I like it. Not the greatest smoke I've ever had, but still pretty good.

Opening the tin you get a nice caramel like aroma. It smoked nicely, and tasted pretty good up until the very last bits. My wife said the room note wasn't bad. Didn't make me feel sick afterwards, which is always a plus.

I could see myself adding this to my rotation.

As a side note, it was great to get an actual tin instead of a pouch, and a tin that wasn't covered in plain packaging or stickers. Very rarely happens here in Australia.

Even after smoking a pipe for over 40 years, I still look for the illusive perfect blend. I do prefer aromatics, but find many of them quite lacking. I got a tin of Sweet Killarney when I bought a new Peterson pipe from Smoking Pipes.com.

I was surprised to see so many negative reviews for the Peterson Sweet Killarney. I think it has a pleasant taste, nearly zero tongue bite, and almost no aftertaste. There are many other blends that when I awake the next morning, it tastes like rodents marched through my mouth during the night.

It does seem to have a bit of a nicotene hit, which I don't care for. But, in my GBD Dublin, which is rather small, it smoked for 1hr 15min. Perhaps that's why the N hit. Perhaps half a bowl will be sufficient.

All in all, I find it a pleasant tin of tobacco. I will try another, and see if it varies from tin to tin. It could be that I got one of the good ones, not to be repeated.

I was quite pleased with this blend. The taste is mild to a low medium, and is of a basic nutty and sweet tobacco with mild whiskey and apricot. The smell is wonderful, as told to me by everyone who walked past me in the shop where I bought it.

Mild and pleasant all around. Might not appeal to someone who is used to heavy flavor bombs. I find smoking this slowly but steadily gives it the most flavor.

Many smokers are disappointed with the 'bland' taste of Sweet Killarney, and it's true that the tin aroma is intensive, while the smoke is comparably 'empty'. A very hot smoker, so you better accompany it with something to drink - a milk tea, coffee with cream or a hot chocolate would fit best, or maybe an iced Bailey's or a vanilla milk shake, IMO. Not too much nicotine, so a good morning smoke (as I have it right now, without Bailey's but a cup of cappuccino) without many highs and lows. Selected leafs are of very good quality, the rather dry ribbons I got burn down evenly. Not that many of the mentioned "hand-rubbed VA flakes". Room aroma is more than pleasant - sweet, light, very slight bitter touch (Burley's?). It is maybe worth to mention that the flavouring is probably meant to be like this: giving a little touch and allowing the underlying tobaccos to develop their natural taste. Sweet Killarney is not as sauced as "Connoisseurs Choice" or "Sunset Breeze", it rather competes with "W.O. Larsen No.80" or "Mac Baren's Original Choice" in terms of casing intensity. I would call it a light aromatic, not as Danish as Danske Club or the Truffles, and by far not as sloppily blended as Borkum Riff. It strongly depends on your oral chemistry, I noticed. Give it a chance in different pipes, different times a day. Not Peterson's best (maybe their worst?) but it still gets 3 of 5 stars. Update 2014-01-28 Yeah, this stuff bites. I recently discovered that it tries to emulate some Irish Cream like Bailey's.

My first backy: I was in Ireland, at the cliffs of Moher. I digress...My version is that after a pint too many of Bulmer's, I, a non-smoker, decided I was tired of the stale, pungent smell of my mates' cigarettes and decide to smoke a pipe out of spite (and a slight whim of eccenterictity). I've never gone back. I cruised around Galway sporting my Peterson. I was an instant hit. The aroma (and new look) was the perfect chick-magnet. I actualy had a bowl on the train on my way to Scotland (you could actually do that, back in the day). Not a single complaint, only compliments- most importantly so from the womenfolk. Of course, I considered the brutal bite as a sacrifice, but as I improved in my skills (keep in mind the Peterson pipe was also being broken in), as saw my selection for a beginner's brand was well-placed. It was like lighting up a Snicker's bar: sweet with caramel.