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luchajones posted:You have to stamp down the ash every few puffs to keep it lit. You are packing technique. It is wrong.
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Big Beef City posted:You are packing technique. it's fun!
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Jul 5, 2020 17:12
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Impressed with the pipe chat, if anybody wants to talk about how to store pipe tobacco, or the kind of pipes to get, or whatever I'll add it to the second post.Big Beef City posted:Right now in my humidor I have multiples of: I've got around 100 in my humidor right now. I had to impose a moratorium on buying new cigars on myself because I was running out of room and also I've got several months stocked right now and I should smoke some down before continuing to buy new stuff. How are the Macanudos and Montecristos? Those are brands I've been interested in trying out. Torquemada posted:I appreciate your effort OP, but pipe-smoking is the nicotine equivalent of a fedora, the only method of nicotine inhalation more annoying to witness than vaping. While I quite like the smell of cigar smoke fresh and old, ain’t nobody got time for that any more. Who the hell wants to smoke the same thing for 90 minutes these days. I've literally replaced the budget, both money- and time-wise, that I would have spent going out to eat or going to bars with smoking cigars cause of the plague. It is the one pleasure left me.
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Jul 5, 2020 18:03
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The Macanudo 97's are a big miss for me. Flavor and burn is fine. Draw is terrible. Terrible. Like "something has gone wrong at the golf-ball-in-a-hose factory" terrible. I've tried punch, v-cut, cutting the cap at multiple depths, nada. Bummer because otherwise the wrappers are v pretty and the flavor is good and Macanudo makes a really sold "technical" cigar, if ya feel me. The montecristo white series is...excellent. I got a ludicrous deal on them and did not realize what the actual value on these sticks normally are and sorta undersold myself on how good these things are. They're killer. I'm sort of an odd duck when it comes to cigars because I can appreciate everything from a claro to an obscuro wrap and varying strengths and dig them all. I try not to get hung up on "I only smoke midnight black churchills that are XXXTRA strong" or whatever. Which is good. Because the White Series is NOT that. These are very mild. Good nicotine hit, but the flavors are VERY present, but also very mild. It's the only cigar that I've smoked that I've repeatedly, on multiple different sticks, consistently thought "That tastes EXACTLY like coffee with milk in it." Like, specfically. Not espresso or 'roast nuts' or something. It tastes exactly like a cup of decent coffee with 2% milk in it, it's weird as hell. It's that mixed with a decent almondy taste on the back half of the cigar. I am STUPIDLY looking forward to the Macanudo Green line (It's coming out in like, a couple of days, it's brand new.). Cannot wait. Check it: quote:Inspirado Green is a robust, full-flavored blend that delivers the unique flavors of Brazilian tobacco. Using the rich and lustrous Arapiraca tobacco, this is the first Brazilian tobacco used in Inspirado and opens up a whole new flavor experience within the Inspirado line of cigars. This four-country, medium-bodied smoke is loaded with flavors of earthy sweetness and black pepper.
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Jul 5, 2020 18:17
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Big Beef City posted:I wouldn't even feel comfortable at a cigar lounge, typically, I think. I'd probably smoke with other friends who were into it if we had a private space to enjoy it, but that'd be extent of it. There’s a cigar lounge by me that has absolutely killer food as well, and a great scotch selection to boot. Me and the guys from work used to go once a month and have a blast. It’s a fun, fancy place where we can eat a dry aged steak, get buzzed on expensive whiskey, and blow off some steam. The tables are sort of wrapped by high backed seats so you feel like you’re with your own group and nobody else is around, except the waiter when he/she comes by. Plus you feel cool when someone cuts your cigar and someone lights it for you.
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Jul 5, 2020 20:15
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There is a davidoff by my job and i get smokes with coworkers once and a while its too smoky imo
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Jul 5, 2020 20:23
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here are my favorite flavors of blunt wraps lol cigars are stupid: swishers: easy to roll, pretty thick tropical fusion pretty good, coconutty wild rush like a weird strawberry blueberry pretty dope dolce too sweet grape is the nuts strawberry is worse than wild rush the silver ones are just tobacco flavor it sucks regular can let the taste of the weed through so it can be a good choice mango smells good but doesnt taste good peach same thing chocolate is pretty rough but i could see people like it arctic ice tobaccoey white grape pretty poo poo green sweets also very tobaccoey banana smash pretty fuckin good. very banana flavor white owl: always dry at the store white grape not great honey sucks blue ras is ok. i dont use white owls i dont like how they roll zigzag: a little thin but easy to roll all flavors are good but very strong and mostly sickly-sweet dutch masters: kind of annoying to split w/ a vein running through it and dont like the layers best white grape in the game vanilla quite good afaik the rest are unsmokeable backwoods: i dont know who smokes these. they are hard to roll and the flavor is the most harsh thing in the world. thanks for reading about the only good use of cigars
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Jul 5, 2020 23:15
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I think my humidor is too humid. It's been sitting at 72%, which is what the Boveda pack I have in there is calibrated to. I smoked one of the Rocky Patel 1999 Connecticuts with a cup of coffee this afternoon and it felt like it was struggling to get complete combustion. Once I got it lit there was a great bit of citrus and cream smoke, but the back half was pretty so-so. Gonna take my humidity pack out to see if I can calibrate it a bit better. Humidors man. I'd like to have it down to like 68% or 69%. Guess I'll keep fiddling.
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Jul 5, 2020 23:24
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Kenning posted:I think my humidor is too humid. It's been sitting at 72%, which is what the Boveda pack I have in there is calibrated to. I smoked one of the Rocky Patel 1999 Connecticuts with a cup of coffee this afternoon and it felt like it was struggling to get complete combustion. Once I got it lit there was a great bit of citrus and cream smoke, but the back half was pretty so-so. Gonna take my humidity pack out to see if I can calibrate it a bit better. Humidors man. I'd like to have it down to like 68% or 69%. Guess I'll keep fiddling. buy this.  It's cheap online and it lasts forever and regulates itself using the sponge in your humidor. If you don't have a thing in your humidor go get some florists foam and put it in a tupperware box with a bunch of slits in it or something where it has air flow. Now you do. That $10 solution to your issue will last you a few years. I used to gently caress with calibrating my poo poo and using distilled water and those hydro packs and..and..gently caress that. I buy one bottle of that poo poo every few years for like $7-10 depending on whatever it's running online or whatever it is. You spend 100's on smokes who cares just buy the bottled poo poo and say gently caress it.
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Jul 5, 2020 23:43
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Gonna chime in with support for not using Boveda packs for your primary humidor maintenance. I've been using some cheaper version of these guys and it's been great: https://www.xikar.com/products/humidification/crystal-jars/ A friend saved a few Arturo Fuentes Añejo Sharks for me and I'm gonna smoke one today. It is an unusual looking cigar: https://i.imgur.com/wN3DMNu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/G3OvTme.jpg Smells funky as hell on the foot, it's gonna be memorable one way or another.
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Jul 6, 2020 00:33
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Seconding the gel jars or tubes over florist foam or bovada packs. Those AF Anejo are amazing smokes, enjoy!
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Jul 6, 2020 00:44
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I actually also have one of those jars, I got the Boveda when I was starting out because it was one-and-done. Right now I'm letting the humidor air out and then I'm going to go for the jar instead of the pack. I'll keep that in a ziploc for emergencies.NewFatMike posted:A friend saved a few Arturo Fuentes Añejo Sharks for me and I'm gonna smoke one today. It is an unusual looking cigar: Ohh, that looks cool. Report back how it goes!
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Jul 6, 2020 00:56
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I love box press and I love torpedoes and I love fuentes so basically can I come over is what I'm saying
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Jul 6, 2020 00:58
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I said it in the last thread, but the Flor de Las Antillas maduro box press torpedo is such a great smoke.
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Jul 6, 2020 01:03
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I used to go to this lounge in Tokyo sometimes to smoke cigars with friends, you can get real cubans there because there's no stupid Cuba embargo like in the States and it owned Really good ventilation, as others have said places that are too smoky suck   Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4uq-2dBDbU
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Jul 6, 2020 01:06
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Also gonna echo what someone said, for me the Montecristo White is best cigar I've ever smoked and my all-time favorite
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Jul 6, 2020 01:11
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Big Beef City posted:I love box press and I love torpedoes and I love fuentes so basically can I come over is what I'm saying All are welcome, my dude. Kenning posted:
I'm not a big Fuente smoker for the most part. I feel like there's generally enough crap to have to sift through in their catalogue to find a good smoke, that by the time I've found it, I'd rather have spent the time and money on something else. A friend who has steered me right on nearly every single stick (despite my reservations on many) said to try this, so I am. And I'm very happy. I generally like big, spicy smokes. I wouldn't turn my nose up at an Opus X probably ever, but I feel like that's kind of a line of its own, not a "true Fuente" or whatever. This is totally a winner, though. It's lighter in body than I expected. If you like the palate of a La Flor Dominicana (especially double ligero) but not the strength of it, this is very much worth picking up. Red fruits, dark cherry, super dark chocolate are all in here. A fun little part of this vitola is that as you burn down the taper, the flavors, strength, and heat very noticeably build. It's a really cool way, in one cigar, to see how different vitolas might impact the same blend (especially if you're still building your palate). It's not my favorite. It is, however, very very good. Money and time extremely well spent. I'll see if I can't snag a 4 to smoke throughout the year.
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Moved to A/T, if you wanna join us.
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