Tobacco Ideas for a Cigar Smoker?

[RobertL]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title ( See Rule 9 ) - Bob

I have friend wanting to make the jump from cigars to a pipe and he isn’t happy with my tobacco choices. I like lighter tobaccos and aromatics and he is looking for something with that “big” cigar flavor. What varieties should I pick up for him to try?

Thanks!

 

[cigrmaster]

Solani 660 Silver Flake and 633
Mac Baren Old Dark Fired
Peterson Irish Flake
Savinelli Doblone d'Oro

 

[docrameous]

I have read some like Key Largo. It’s on my short list to try myself.

 

[Mr.Mike]

CD is 15 percent off bulk right now on smoking pipes, have him order some habana daydream. It has cigar leaf in it and its pretty robust, he may like that.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Twist is the blend that gives me that cigar flavour the most.
J F Germain's Brown Flake also has cigar notes and is definitely worth a look.

 

[cigrmaster]

My list of blends are readily available and are all super stars. I have the best taste in tobacco on this site so just ignore the other recommendations and buy what I told you too. You will save a lot of money if you listen to me, I don't smoke dog turd tobacco.

 

[sittingbear]

Have him take his cigar clipper and slice one of his favorite cigars into coins. Rub them out and stuff them in a pipe. He'll notice a couple of things: 1) the method of smoking the cigar this way changes the flavor noticeably (for the better, IMO) making it smoother and more mellow while retaining the same flavor, and 2) smoking a cigar this way will make that stick go five to eight times further.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

C&D Seersucker and HU Nyala are my two favorites for cigar type tobacco.

 

[mingc]

If he wants "big cigar" flavors, why not smoke a cigar?

 

[cigrmaster]

Screw pipe tobacco that has cigar leaf. You want top of the line pipe tobacco to get you interested in getting into pipes.

I was a huge cigar smoker but once I found a few blends of pipe tobacco I really liked, I was all done with cigars.

Another incentive is that a bowl of the most expensive pipe tobacco's is like .85 cents for a good 1-1.5 hour smoke. Try getting a good cigar for that.
I forgot to mention that the first pipe tobacco that showed me how great a pipe could be was Escudo.
Alsos, buy a good Savinelli pipe. Having a good pipe from the beginning gives you a baseline as to how a good pipe should smoke. Screw cobs and cheap basket pipes.

Pipe smoking is so much cheaper than cigars even with buying pipes. I bought a 20 plus year tobacco supply for around 18,000.00. All of my tobacco is top of the line and I don't have to fork over 11 bucks for a Padron Anniversary Exclusivo. I used to spend more than 18K a year on cigars.

 

[RobertL]

If he wants "big cigar" flavors, why not smoke a cigar?

All the cool kids are smoking pipes!

 

[cshubhra]

I enjoy both pipes and cigars. When I smoke a pipe I smoke a pipe tobacco and when I smoke a cigar I smoke a cigar. I do not look for cigar flavor in a pipe or vice versa.
Pipe tobacco to me is more nuanced and subtle. Cigars to me are full bodied. They are different smokes - like the difference between a curry and a steak

 

[mingc]

All the cool kids are smoking pipes!

In that case, I suggest Tabac Manil Semois. Copious amounts of smoke and less pipe-tobacco like than any other pipe tobacco I've smoked.

 

[F4RM3R]

Black XX twist or some of the other ropes
Irish flake
Mac baren bold Kentucky

 

[alaskanpiper]

A cigar.

Pipe tobacco is just a whole different thing. Even blends that contain cigar leaf will not even be in the ballpark.

Wouldn’t hurt to try the above recommendations though. But learning to love pipe tobacco for what it is will be the much greater benefit.

 

[thefishguy]

I was a cigar smoker before I moved to pipes. Aro’s didn’t please me at all. Still don’t. Nightcap was the blend that got my attention. Currently my favorite cigar leaf blends are Billy Budd, GLP’s Robusto, and Habana daydream.

 

[danimalia]

Well cigars are awfully expensive which is one reason he might want to get into the pipe a bit more. I'd rec dark-fired Kentucky blends like Jackknife or Old Dark Fired or maybe a stouter VaPer like a Fillmore or Bayou morning. Perhaps some latakia blends as well which are milder in nicotine but full in flavor

 

[kurtbob]

C&D produces a blend for warped cigars called Kings Stride.......I think it will fill the bill for what you’re asking

 

[Spinkle]

I’m smoking Billy Budd Blonde right now as I type. I ordered it as I seem to love burley and I wanted to test out how cigar leaf affects pipe tobacco flavour. I’ve also found I sometimes get minor cigar notes out of burley heavy blends. This stuff is strong and has a nice choclately flavor that melds nice with the cigar leafs in the background. First bowl but I’d say I recommend giving it a shot as a bridge.

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

Screw pipe tobacco that has cigar leaf. You want top of the line pipe tobacco to get you interested in getting into pipes.

I was a huge cigar smoker but once I found a few blends of pipe tobacco I really liked, I was all done with cigars.

Another incentive is that a bowl of the most expensive pipe tobacco's is like .85 cents for a good 1-1.5 hour smoke. Try getting a good cigar for that.
I forgot to mention that the first pipe tobacco that showed me how great a pipe could be was Escudo.
Alsos, buy a good Savinelli pipe. Having a good pipe from the beginning gives you a baseline as to how a good pipe should smoke. Screw cobs and cheap basket pipes.

Pipe smoking is so much cheaper than cigars even with buying pipes. I bought a 20 plus year tobacco supply for around 18,000.00. All of my tobacco is top of the line and I don't have to fork over 11 bucks for a Padron Anniversary Exclusivo. I used to spend more than 18K a year on cigars.

There is only one blend in your list of four in your post above this that I think is worthy of more than 3 stars, and I won’t say which one. ?. But there is a lot of wisdom in the post I quoted. There are good blends out there that have a modest amount of cigar leaf as a condiment, like Peretti Cuban, but they don’t usually have a cigar forward taste, at least to me.