I know of only one Belgian beer which claims to have tobacco in it: a “cigar stout” by Beryllium Erbium. Was a bit meh and decidedly un-cigar-ish, but I get the idea of how tobacco aroma could work in a stout.
Not a beer, but I did make a coffee and tobacco creme brulee once. You can get lots of the aromatics out of tobacco by extracting with vodka.
Pipe tobacco might taste better than cigar.
Oh totally, and I get it… I get and enjoy notes of Spanish cedar and Pipe tobacco in big, typically wood aged beers. In that sense, I appreciate “tobacco” in my beer.
The notion of actually placing any tobacco in my beer though… makes me wanna barf.
I recall working on cleaning up a pesticide-contaminated SuperFund site in Tifton, GA a couple of decades ago. There was a tobacco warehouse next door where the local growers would bring in their pallets of dried leaf for the brokers to come and purchase. What a wonderful, rich aroma emanated from that warehouse! All I could think was: how does something that smells so good, stink so bad when smoked??? (I’m not a smoker).
I think that some tobacco notes might be nice in a beer.
I agree - the smell of unburned tobacco is quite nice.
This reminds me of that Ron White comedy bit where he talks about the paper plant making such horrible smells. “You must be doing it wrong - trees don’t smell like $…t, paper doesn’t smell like $…t”. Of course he got sued over that bit, but it’s still funny.
When I was a child I spent some time on a working tobacco farm in Central Kentucky. The smell of fresh cut tobacco hanging in the barn is still one of my fondest sensory memories. I need to go back and revisit that.