Using Cigars As Pipe Tobacco

[badbriar]

Has anyone tried cutting/chopping cigars to smoke in a pipe?
I have an extensive cigar collection and got a wild idea to try cutting a bowl size piece from a Churchill and maybe add a bit of stoved Virginia and latakia to see what's what. My preference is for full bodied cigars, like LFD, Padron, etc. I figure that starting with a tasty cigar may lead to something really good and would surely result in a strong pipe smoke.

 

[danimalia]

I have. I have a jar of cut Nicaraguan leaf from a Padron Londres that I sacrificed back 5 years ago or so, along with a Cuban Partagas. I never had much success blending them, but I'm just not a skilled blender, I guess. My one semi I success story was adding some to a bulk bag of 965 that I didn't care for. The cigar leaf made the blend fuller and creamer.

 

[haparnold]

The author PG Wodehouse was known for doing this.

 

[Zack Miller]

Long ago and far away when I lived in California and Davidoff had a store on Rodeo Drive, I purchased a tin of pipe tobacco that was made from cigar leaf.

it definitely tasted and smelled like cigar. . .so much so, my wife who doesn’t mind pipe tobacco wouldn’t let me smoke it.

 

[craig61a]

I have retained the butt and left it outside for a few days on a table, expanded metal. Rain washed it, dried, so I sliced it up. Mixed it and smoked it. Not bad...

 

[pantsBoots]

I have some Cuban Hoyo de Monterrey tobacco cutoffs that was supposedly packaged and sold in a limited capacity as pipe tobacco. Been meaning to blend with it to at least spice up a couple boring straight virginias.

 

[mso489]

I think cigar leaf as a condiment, available from C&D among other places, is a good mix with pipe blends and quite good on its own. Cutting up cigars for this purpose is probably not the best approach. Cigars are crafted with a wrapper leaf and cigar blends to give a quality smoke as a cigar, but no pipe is going to deliver that. Cigar leaf is just pleasantly mild and reminiscent of the cigar scent, but not a cigar experience. If you crave a cigar, smoke one.

 

[kcghost]

I think most of us have tried it at one time or other.

 

[markus]

I ordered some cigarillo's that tasted pretty good, but I couldn't get used to the quick smoke and they burned a little hot, so I sliced them up and occasionally add them to various blends to give them a little extra body and nicotine.

 

[Mr_houston]

I tried it with a Cuban cigar, straight then blended. It wasn’t very good. I do like The Bankers that has cigar leaf.

You should try it. Because.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

finished cigars and cigar leaf are a different animal - cigar leaf in a blend is typically successful when incorporated first hand and cut/treatment is a major factor- you can buy blending leaf and that is probably the best option - like Pure Caribe by Mcconnel etc.. a light handed cigar leaf blend is always better

 

[aquadoc]

Yes, and it was OK.. I will not do it again..Billy Budd satisfies any cigar (civet cat smoke) desire I might be having.

 

[python]

No I don't.

If I want a cigar, I will smoke a cigar. If I want a pipe, I will smoke a pipe.

I will smoke pipe blends that have cigar leaf in them. But cigars are already made with a flavor profile in mind, I don't mess with it.

 

[anotherbob]

I tried it with a Cuban cigar, straight then blended. It wasn’t very good. I do like The Bankers that has cigar leaf.

You should try it. Because.

yeah that's a great one that I don't hear enough people talking about. Weird thing about it people will compliment the way it smells all the time while admitting to being confused by why it smells so good to them.

 

[anotherbob]

only one way to really find out. Try it. Though I don't have high hopes for any success.

 

[Ahi Ka]

I know people who do this fairly regularly, just be careful of the ghost.

 

[logs]

I've tried it but always found the results disappointing. There are better ways to go if you want cigar flavors from a pipe tobacco. Several of the Warped blends do it well, especially King's Stride

 

[anotherbob]

most of the time I've heard of people doing this is with damaged cigars or people who don't want to smoke a whole stick.

 

[danimalia]

Yeah, the Partagas I cut up had a badly cracked foot and what felt like an impossible draw pre-light, so I sacrificed it. Interesting that virtually nobody on this thread reports much success, including myself. People have mentioned the difference between finished cigars and blending cigar leaf, and I think that's part of it. Even a Puro cigar made with tobacco from one country will have different seed types and printings from the plant. So they are blends themselves and might make isolating for a specific flavor trait more difficult.

You should still do it, though, if you're interested. For science. And just because.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I've never done it, but I have heard of some guys putting the nub of a cigar into their pipe bowl to finish it.

I would say go to blends like GL Pease's "Key Largo" that are pipe blends that have cigar leaf blended into them instead.