I was working the other day in a guys house, and caught a whiff of some wonderful tobacco coming from his garage, so of course I followed the aroma and caught the guy with a pipe in his mouth!! Needless to say I was pretty excited to find another brother of the briar. I asked what he was smoking and was surprised to see that he slices cigars into inch long pieces and shoved them in his pipe. This might not be new to some of you, but I thought “Damn! That’s a great idea!” I gotta try it. A good way to do it when you don’t want to smoke a full cigar. Have any of you guys done/heard of this?
Combining Cigars With Pipes
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I don't see why that wouldn't work although I haven't tried it myself. A big part of the cigar experience in my opinion is the flavor you get from the cigar leaf touching your lips and just simply holding the cigar. So you would just be missing a dimension. Still tastes like a cigar of course. I've heard of people taking the very last bit of a cigar they are smoking, and is too short to hold, and putting it into their pipe to finish it off. Doing either of these things probably won't make you very popular among the cigar purist crowd if that matters to you.
I do it sometimes. But, if the cigar is of any count to begin with, I usually just smoke it as a cigar. But, sometimes I buy a box of just so so cigars, and just add and blend with them.
I like it mix them with Englishes sometimes to kick them up a notch and add mouth feel to them.
I like it mix them with Englishes sometimes to kick them up a notch and add mouth feel to them.
A venerable member here posted a photo of himself smoking a fine premium cigar full-length in his pipe. I think it is a fine old tradition. My dad did it from time to time. I smoke cigars so little, I just want to enjoy one without the pipe, but it seems like kind of a good, unconventional way to enjoy a cigar. I've heard some chop up and rub out the cigar, but that doesn't sound so good; cigars are crafted to smoke as they are assembled, with the wrapper and filler in place.
This is why I like to use those with a ligero filler or something just as strong to add to blends. Yes, if you want maduro, those are usually just the wrappers, so it would be better just to buys some maduro leaf or blender.
Incidentally, cigar leaf makes a fine pipe tobacco condiment or single-leaf smoke,, as long as you understand it is not a cigar experience. There's a glimmer of cigar taste to it, but it becomes something else in a pipe and goes well with other tobaccos. C&D cigar leaf is good, but various blenders offer it.
My Grandmother used to do this, as a little boy I was in awe!
I have cut up cigars for the pipe, but only because I've accidently dropped or have a cigar that is otherwise too damaged to smoke. I have a jar of cut up Nicaraguan cigar leaf and a jar of Cuban leaf as well, but I hardly ever use them.
Bollito Pipe actually sells a number of pipes meant for Toscano-style cigars just like tbradsim.
Bollito Pipe actually sells a number of pipes meant for Toscano-style cigars just like tbradsim.
Paronelli made a special pipe for smoking cigars.
General U.S. Grant mentions doing this (using old ends of previous smokes) in his memoirs.
In theory at least one of the pleasures of smoking a good cigar is noticing the transitions as the long leaf filler burns down. The different concentrations of the rolled tobacco result in changes in taste in many cigars -- in theory. I have trouble picking that up. So cutting up a cigar and shoving it in a pipe would miss that. And usually the nictone in a cigar concentrates as it burns down, so would be a factor in just smoking the nub. And damn, stuffing a whole cigar in a pipe looks ridiculous to me. But hey, why not.
When I gave up cigarettes I also gave up the cigars.
From my early 20s I rarely had a Saturday off work so when I did, I'd often spend an hour or so in a hot bath in the morning after a sleep-in with a good book, a glass of decent port and a good cigar.
I'd stick half a split match into one end so I could hold the cigar with my teeth without it ending up in the bath. After a sip of port, I'd wipe the end of the cigar with my tongue.
It took a bit of practice; if the cigar butt became soggy it would fall apart but when done right, I'd end up with a butt that tasted superbly of tobacco and port.
I'd carry that thing gripped between my teeth for several days before it fell apart.
Does anyone here recommend putting a cut-up cigar in a pipe bowl (without disassembling the cigar) as a decent way to help new pipe smokers learn to smoke a pipe?
A friend who is a cigar smoker tells me that he's interested in pipes but can't get the packing right. I'm figuring smoking a cigar piece might make it an easier transition until he learns to pack a bowl just right.
A friend who is a cigar smoker tells me that he's interested in pipes but can't get the packing right. I'm figuring smoking a cigar piece might make it an easier transition until he learns to pack a bowl just right.
Maybe the cigar piece in a pipe would bridge the transition from cigars to pipes. It's worth a try. But packing is easy to learn. You get better at it over time, but getting started is not difficult. And it is such a savings to smoke pipe tobacco rather than cigars, that it is a shame not to enjoy that. You can get some of the fancier premium blends in a tin for the cost of a few quality cigars, and get about twenty smokes or more. Reflecting on that might "send your friend packing," so to speak, packing the bowl of his pipe that is.
No, I just enjoy the taste of cigar tobacco in my pipe. But, it could be a great way for someone who is having problems with their pipe technique and enjoys cigars. I imagine this would be a very narrow margin of people though.
I have not smoked a cigar in a few years, but when I did smoke a few I found they were mostly too much smoke for me, and I would chop off the first inch for my pipe so as to make a smaller cigar (I did not enjoy burning the soggy bottom end of the cigar in a pipe). They burn nice in a pipe but different from smoking it as a cigar. I did not enjoy burning the soggy bottom end of the cigar in a pipe.
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