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cmdrmcbragg

Lifer
Jul 29, 2013
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I order bulk samplers from Cigars International. $79 for 25 cigars is a damn good price. Obviously I could have ordered quite a bunch of tins for the same price, but I like some variety and can appreciate a cigar.

 

daimyo

Lifer
May 15, 2014
1,459
4
Cubans get the media attention but they are a serious and powerful cigar for the most part. While it is true that many of the wealthy cigar producing families fled, their poor employees for the most part did not. Cuba still produces some of the worlds best cigars but certainly not all and many people will enjoy cigars from other areas taste wise. Nothing in the world like a Cuban Montecristo No. 2 (there were years these suffered inconsistencies, it takes a master roller with large hands to even roll one) but the flavor will knock over most inexperienced cigar smokers. The best thing about Cuba though is the weather. You don't need a humidor in Cuba and nothing effects the flavor of a cigar like being in the correct environment. If we can pay them to keep Guantanamo open, I should be able to get my stogies. :evil:

 

msandoval858

Part of the Furniture Now
Jun 11, 2012
954
3
Austin, TX
Cigars were my thing for a long time. I've been fortunate enough to have had a chance to try some of the best ones out there over the years and have had lots of good experiences. However, as much as I like cigars, I absolutely have grown to love my pipes.
I enjoyed both off and on for a long time since I started with pipes about a year or two after picking up the cigar hobby. Looking back now, I think I have only smoked 2 cigars in the past year. I still have a nice collection of premium cigars in my four humidors that I maintain however I never find myself even in the mood to reach for one. I'm sure as time goes on I'll start smoking cigars more often again but for now nothing beats a good pipe. In the meantime, my cigars will be resting and aging to be enjoyed someday :)

 

greatbrittn

Might Stick Around
May 21, 2014
77
1
Upstate, South Carolina
@sailorjeremy I'll give that cigar a shot for sure! @yorkshirepipe I'm the same way. I enjoy the process of choosing a pipe and tobacco about as much as the experience of smoking it. There's really nothing quite like it.

 

bulletsnbriars

Can't Leave
Nov 9, 2013
323
1
Nashville/Williston
I started on good cigars, but when I found out how much cheaper pipes were I switched. Now I cant picture going back, pipes have so much more to offer. But I do like setttlinv back with a Nub Maduro. I havent found a cigar to match those, they are excellent.

 
Mar 31, 2014
385
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greatbrittn, I've run into the exact same thing.
After smoking a pipe for a few months now, I've lost my cigar cravings altogether. My father in-law bought my husband and I some Cuban cigars during an out of the country trip. I decided to save mine and just have a few puffs of Andy's. It was a Romeo and Julieta, a cigar, when made from Cuban tobacco, I used to enjoy very much. But, it didn't really do anything for me this time.
So, I gave my Cuban Cohiba to my boss, who's "at work humidor" is bigger than I am. He'll enjoy it more than I would. And with some C&D Billy Budd from P&C on the way, I am at no loss. Being from Pennsylvania, I believe P&C pipe tobacco is tax free...

 

cobguy

Lifer
Oct 18, 2013
3,742
18
LOL ... Just kidding!
They say the easiest way to rob a bank is to own one! :puffy:
Today I had yet another AJ Fernandez Spectre Cigar ... FANTOOBULOUS!!

 

andrew

Lifer
Feb 13, 2013
3,126
597
Winnipeg, Canada
I love a good cigar, I've got a bunch of monte cristo #4's and a box of Cohiba esplendido's, it's more of a very special occasion kind of thing. I can't say I prefer the pipe to the cigar, it's just the pipe is much more affordable and practical, as an esplendido costs over 50$ a stick in Canada, plus it's quite the long smoke, regardless about once a year I'll have one on a special occasion and am quite content to let them age for 10 years or so as I make my way through them. C&D's habana daydream is a great cigar blend I really enjoy.

R&J's are a pretty broad range of cigars, there's alot of them with quite different ratings, so just because a cigar is a cuban R&J doesn't mean it's going to be something you enjoy immensely, plus they need a few years to age properly.

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,211
60,651
I've had my fun with cigars, cheapies in college, and some nicer ones with drinks and after fancy big meals.

On business trips to Canada I sampled Cubans, but I've always preferred Dominicans at the same price level.

But seriously, guys, I just can't compare cigars, even primo cigars, with pipes. Pipes have an art and poetry

to them, a level of control of what you're smoking, a sense of breaking in and developing the pipes, that

make cigars a sort of pale consumer exhibitionism by comparison. Nothing quite as off-putting as a bunch

of loud drunks puffing away at their twelve dollar stogies they barely know how to cut and light. Pipers,

drunk or sober, newbies or old hands, always show signs of thinking about what they are doing and

savoring the experience. I've enjoyed many cigars, but to me, no contest at all.

 

chervokas

Might Stick Around
Jul 21, 2013
53
0
I love both cigars and pipes. I've smoked cigars for 30 years, pipes, although I've tried 'em off and on over the serious, seriously and regularly for only the last year plus. Yeah, the price of the best cigars has gotten crazy; and pipe tobacco is cheaper -- but factor in the money we all wind up spending on pipe themselves (and how many of us stop at one, cheap pipe), and other pipe accessories and the cost of smoking one vs. the other might not be quite as one-sided.
For me they scratch different itches. Pipes are relaxing; and offer a huge range of various flavor opportunities. But sometimes the whole ritual, the sheer amount of stuff that goes along with pipe smoking, is less fun and more of a pain. Cigars, it's about the terroir, the varietal flavors; and pipes never duplicate the huge smoke volume and mouth feel of a decent ring-gauge size cigar. You can smoke one, discard the end and be done with it -- even nipping off the cap with your teeth, if you don't want to be bothered with a cutter. I don't feel any less love for one because I also love the other.

 

beefeater33

Lifer
Apr 14, 2014
4,277
6,872
Central Ohio
I love a good cigar on occasion-- But If its a really good one, I've got a little Georg Jensen Danets pipe that I stick the butt in and smoke that baby all the way to ash! No waste! Just did that last week, with a Tatauje 2013 Bon Chasseur, which to my taste was one of the best I've ever had. To me a good cigar gets all concentrated at the end,(in a gooood way!) and I can't stand to throw it away.

 

latbomber

Part of the Furniture Now
May 10, 2013
570
4
Cigars are more expensive, fragile, hard to store, and more prone to defective smokes than pipes are. However, if I'm in a hot/tropical environment nothing hits the spot better.

 

yazamitaz

Lifer
Mar 1, 2013
1,757
1
+1 msandoval, you said it, so I don't need to type it.
I will still take a cigar if I am at a function and don't feel like dealing with carrying a pipe bag and all of its contents. Especially those events where if you leave you can't come back in. I'm not walking around with my pipe stuff for hours.

 

chervokas

Might Stick Around
Jul 21, 2013
53
0
I dunno, if your cigars are a more complex smoke than your pipe smokes, you're probably not smoking the right blends. I love cigars, but in 30 years of cigar smoking I've never tasted in a cigar the kind of flavor complexity to be found in something like Nightcap or Magnum Opus.

 

eightywon

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 4, 2014
563
0
I used to maintain a humidor but gave it away a few years ago. I find that even pipe tobacco blends (Billy Budd for example) with cigar leaf are better than any cigar.

 

trucha

Starting to Get Obsessed
Jan 26, 2013
106
0
I know what you mean. I threw a few sticks in wih my last tad and they just werent what I remembered.

 

cuchulain

Starting to Get Obsessed
Feb 28, 2014
215
1
Massachusetts
I recently bought an Acid Blondie. Used to love them. Now, not so much. Maybe because it's an aromaic cigar, but it just didn't do it for me.

 
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