What Cigar are You Smoking?

[OzPiper]

Slowly scrolling up from the last post, seen the bottle and thought ’Ahh this will be an OzPiper post..’

Connection between the Rum and Monetcristo, brand wise?

Edmundo Dantes AKA The Count of Montecristo. Apparently on of the rollers favourite books when they had readers in the rolling rooms

 

[odobenus]

Hoyo de Monterrey Elegante, a gift from my good buddy.

 

[cshubhra]

Caldwell Cigars Eastern Standard Sungrown

 

[tbradsim1]

Zero turning lawn early morning to beat the heat, Oliva Series V Melano on porch cooling off with ice water.

 

[sallow]

Yesterday a Drew Estate Connecticut

 

[5star]

Smoking an Illusione Rothchildes NC this afternoon. Accompanied with cold coffee & chocolate creamer.

 

[username]

Grand habano vintage 2002

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Don Carlos Belicoso, this this was fantastic!

 

[Brendan]

CAO Cameroon.
1/2" in and a bit meh, will see how it opens up.

Can't seem to post photos from my phone all of a sudden..

 

[Brendan]

Half way in to aforementioned CAO Cam.
Better, but with slightly sour aftertaste..
Nutty, a little creamy and a little cedar.
Great draw, burn etc but does anybody else get an acrid/sour aftertaste with Cameroon wrappers?

 

[5star]

Hello everyone - Having a Boli Royal Corona this morning with my coffee. Am listening to a podcast on the psychology of survival with Laurence Gonzales. Very interesting.

 

[cshubhra]

Ashton Aged Maduro- About 5 minutes in, looking to be a very promising smoke.

Midway through the Ashton 10 cigar sampler, my impression is that they are very good cigars. One thing about a cigar sampler in my opinion- Smoking 1 or 2 of each variety is not enough to know the cigar. At a minimum I need to smoke through a 5 pack. On the flip side, if I don’t like it, I will still have a bunch to smoke.

 

[saltedplug]

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Zero turning lawn early morning to beat the heat, Oliva Series V Melano on porch cooling off with ice water.

That looks like a box packed with goodness!

 

[pantsBoots]

Half way in to aforementioned CAO Cam.
Better, but with slightly sour aftertaste..
Nutty, a little creamy and a little cedar.
Great draw, burn etc but does anybody else get an acrid/sour aftertaste with Cameroon wrappers?

It's happened, but I am not familiar with the CAO cameroon, so could be the filler. Good cameroon seems to need a little time to cure out and age a bit. They end up a little tangy, and the sourness fades.

 

[jttnk]

Romeo Y Julieta 1875 Exhibicion. A little too mild for me, but the final third was nicer. Draw pretty tight, but burn was good. Smoke a bit thin for my taste. I would say a nice mild cigar, nothing great, but nothing offensive or bad about it.

 

[weezell]

Earlier...

 

[danimalia]

inspired by your coffee selections. Today I was gifted by the Owner of an Arizona coffee roaster, a coffee aged in whiskey barrels. Super cool, the whiskey is distilled in AZ too. I’ve heard from a friend it is really good. I’ll find out tomorrow morning with a pipe. Cult Coffee/ Arizona Artisan Beverage. Really cool people.

How was it? Coffee and booze was always a good combination, IMO, so I could see how aging the beans in whiskey barrels could taste pretty nice.

Now smoking a Sobremesa with espresso from Nicaragua.

 

[jaytex1969]

Gurkha Black Ops Maduro.

 

[kg.legat0]

Just smoked a Room 101 The Big Payback -fantastic smoke!

 

[saltedplug]

Ashton Aged Maduro- About 5 minutes in, looking to be a very promising smoke.

Midway through the Ashton 10 cigar sampler, my impression is that they are very good cigars. One thing about a cigar sampler in my opinion- Smoking 1 or 2 of each variety is not enough to know the cigar. At a minimum I need to smoke through a 5 pack. On the flip side, if I don’t like it, I will still have a bunch to smoke.

Like you, the verdict of my palate required repeated exposure. 50g with the pipe, 5-10 cigars. Initial smokes in either were more confusing as anything else.

Were wrapper, binder and filler aged or just the wrapper? An Ashton that they aged sounds very promising. Seems expensive, but it was unusual that when I spent more that I didn't get more.