Recommendations for cigar smoker

[cauffrey]

Hello to all-
Just bought my first couple corn cobs & looking for a suggestion on tobacco. I am a cigar smoker, mostly Dominican & Nicaraguan leaf / brands. Read somewhere that the mild aromatics would not be so good for me. True? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Cheers-
Chris

 

[mrenglish]

True. You would want something fuller in body than what most aromatics would provide. I would recommend Mac Baren Old Dark Fired as a good place to start. It's available from smokingpipe.com and other site sponsors.
English blends will be a good place to look as well. They are flavored but with different types of tobaccos and not sauces like aromatics are. Check out English blends by Greg Pease. Blends like Westminster, Charring Cross, Blackpoint and the such are good.
Pipe smoking is a lot different than cigars in many ways. More attention needs to paid to the pipe in terms of lighting, packing, tamping, etc. and does take some practice. It is worth it though. I find pipe smoking brings a much deeper level of relaxation and peace than cigars.

 

[acutabovebriar]

Since I am a cigar smoker myself, I would say that anything with Kentucky in it is going to suit you just fine. You see it gives that extra body that we think its missing when smoking a pipe.However if you adjust your taste buds then VA and VA/PER blends are a totally different world.

 

[mso489]

I used to smoke cigars occasionally, and enjoyed Cubans when I was in Canada now and then on business.

Dominicans were always my favorite, bar none. I'm not sure the cigar-to-pipe transition really translates

so closely. I think you have to approach it as if it is a separate habit, without many assumptions. In a pipe,

you might like almost anything. It's that different an activity. A cigar is a sort of consumable, like buying

a steak. It goes with sociability and liquor, beer and wine. So can a pipe, but it is as often something enjoyed

alone or with a friend or two. It seems more meditative and slower paced. You can let a pipe go out and come

back and finish it the next day, which isn't so usual with a cigar, though possible. So I would reboot. Maybe

get a sampler. Go to a pipe show and try around with samples, or a pipe shop if available. It's a new game,

and I don't think I'd try to bridge the two habits.

 

[branzig]

Go Virgina flakes.
I smoke cigars, and the Virgina flakes are the closest things I have come to that unadulterated tobacco taste. Think CAO Golds, Cru-Royale, etc...