Foundation Tabernacle Goliath, pretty good. The wrapper for this cigar is grown on a farm an hour north of me.
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What Cigar are You Smoking? 2024
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Having a Gran Habano Vintage 2002 Churchill (listed as a 7.0" x 50, but, it’s closer to 46).
I just put a couple Bovita bags in the bottom of mine and call it good. Those foam pads just ask for mold.
That did cross my mind. At one time I thought I would be happy with a handful of pipes, now I have well over 100 (lost count). I went to pick it up on my way home today from work and almost fist bumped this beauty when reaching for the box. Just finished seasoning it.
Finally getting to try a Camacho Triple Maduro
Haven't had one of these babies in a while, but i used to like them for an evening smoke with whisky.
Yes! I’ve got Glenfiddich Solera 15, and it’s a very nice combo
Eh. I’m going to make a cigar night of it, but needs to be cheaper now: so an 1876 next
I prefer heavier, deeper flavors than this cigar. Having never tried it, I rolled the dice. It has that, for lack of a better term, graham cracker taste that I don't much care for. It was not terrible flavor, but I won't buy any more.
Additionally, this batch seems to have been poorly maintained. Minor runs throughout the smoke and a major problem with the wrapper splitting, flaking and shedding all over.
Cuba Aliados Cabinet Edition Torpedo to start the day. 
Oliva Serie V Melanio. Today it’s a torpedo vitola from the bottom of the humidor. This also has some age and I know when I purchased it, since I wrote the date on the cellophane. It is from September 2022. I typically don’t write the date on my cigar.
Fuente 858 Rosado and a cognac mojito while deep watering my garden. Sometimes to beat the summer heat, you just have to wallow around in it.
Micallef Migdalia Petite Corona
So today I took out 3 cigars and laid them on the dressor for a few hours. I then clipped and draw tested all 3, and selected the most open one. This worked well and smoked evenly on this 90° and humid day.
Perhaps a bit involved, but I felt like a real doof wasting that Colmena a few nights ago.
So today I took out 3 cigars and laid them on the dressor for a few hours. I then clipped and draw tested all 3, and selected the most open one. This worked well and smoked evenly on this 90° and humid day.
Perhaps a bit involved, but I felt like a real doof wasting that Colmena a few nights ago.
I need to invest in the Perfect Draw tool for when I encounter such roadblocks. As frugal as I can be, I would grind up a cigar and smoke it in a pipe (little by little) before I tossed it. Don't feel like a doof. It's your money, you can be as involved as you want to be
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Another cigar tonight. Drew Estate Factory Smoke
Thanks Zero!I need to invest in the Perfect Draw tool for when I encounter such roadblocks. As frugal as I can be, I would grind up a cigar and smoke it in a pipe (little by little) before I tossed it. Don't feel like a doof. It's your money, you can be as involved as you want to be
Perfectdraw has definitely saved (and improved) a few for me.
Little backstory on the Colmena "Black Honey." My buddy bought a box this past winter and we each smoked 2 and loved them. He brought 2 over a few nights ago for a treat. Clipped, draw tested- way too tight. Perfectdraw... still tight (should have stopped here and picked something else), but we were eager to smoke them so lit up hoping they would loosen. They didn't. Perfectdraw some more, but it seemed that any time we got some space inside, the leaves would just swell in response and we'd be tight again almost immediately.
He tossed his, I suffered through mine.
I suppose I'm learning when to set a smoke aside, if it's not seeming like it will work. Best time for this is before lighting it seems
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Took the motorcycle out for a spin and rode over to a neighboring town to visit a life-long friend. Fired up an Undercrown Maduro while there. Always enjoy these.
Fuente Petite Corona
Behaved well in the heat/humidity. Bundaberg ginger beer paired surprisingly well
Behaved well in the heat/humidity. Bundaberg ginger beer paired surprisingly well