Cigar/Pipe tobacco question.
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As a long time cigar smoker the pipe blends I've been told would appeal to me really don't. I mean, they're fine, but cigar leaf and heavy burley mixtures are kind of one-dimensional to me. I've gravitated far more towards VaPers which provide a range of flavours totally different from cigar leaf.
Similarly, while I love dark fired kentucky in my pipes, I tried the same in a Drew Estate MUWAT and while I didn't hate it, it's far from my first choice in cigars.
Similarly, while I love dark fired kentucky in my pipes, I tried the same in a Drew Estate MUWAT and while I didn't hate it, it's far from my first choice in cigars.
Nothing whatsoever in common in Davidoff pipe tobacco vs cigars. If you're looking for that famous mustiness, sad to say it is not found in their pipe tobacco, but all I've had from them are the Flake Medallions.
C&D Seersucker is a decent blend with cigar leaf when I want something off the beaten path. I can taste the cigar leaf, but there is much more going on than that.
When I want a cigar flavor, I grab a cigar. Usually, however, and with increasing frequency, it's a pipe.
At my local B&M shop one of the employees was telling me that they have a couple of customers who are military veterans and smoke their pipes/cigars a bit differently.
Apparently when these gentleman were still serving, they found it very difficult to procure pipe tobacco. They could, however, acquire cigars.
They would cut the cigars down and smoke them in their pipes. I don’t meant they unrolled the cigar, they just cut it into a few appropriately sized pieces and smoked it like a cigar stuffed into the pipe.
They became so used to this method that they still do it today, every smoke.
I would think it would be cheaper to just smoke pipe tobacco, but I won’t question their method, I guess it works for them.
I am pretty certain that is the best way to get a cigar flavor out of a pipe.
Apparently when these gentleman were still serving, they found it very difficult to procure pipe tobacco. They could, however, acquire cigars.
They would cut the cigars down and smoke them in their pipes. I don’t meant they unrolled the cigar, they just cut it into a few appropriately sized pieces and smoked it like a cigar stuffed into the pipe.
They became so used to this method that they still do it today, every smoke.
I would think it would be cheaper to just smoke pipe tobacco, but I won’t question their method, I guess it works for them.
I am pretty certain that is the best way to get a cigar flavor out of a pipe.
The short answer is NO
A tin of Gurkha (or Davidoff or Dunhill) pipe tobacco is very unlikely to be the same blend of leaves as the cigar(s)
If you smoke a cigar and shred up the same cigar and smoke it in a pipe it will taste quite differently. Different burning characteristics.
Believe me - I've tried.
Perhaps if you were to chop up the cigar into bouchons (small lengths or nubs) and insert that into a pipe and smoke it that way it may approximate smoking a cigar.
I have not tried smoking cigars that way, so I can't confirm.
I find cigar leaf in a pipe blend identifiable, but the experience is so different, and the cigar leaf is usually mixed with other more typical pipe tobaccos, although cigar leaf by itself is quite tasty, but still nothing like a cigar. If you want a cigar experience, smoke a cigar. I like a good cigar, sometimes even a cheap cigar, now and then, but i still prefer a pipe. I have cigar leaf on hand to mix with pipe leaf and blends. It's distinctive as a condiment.