Ronin you kill me.

For Thanksgiving I'm traveling to visit family I'll be taking a bunch of cigars as the uncle I'm visiting likes to smoke cigars.

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Ronin you kill me.

I had a wiff of one today and could not resist. Just two though, one to smoke and one to save. To add - the problem with saving "one" of some of these is that you never smoke them. They sit in a tray looking pretty, but once you smoke it then it's gone. Stupid.

GA Gator....dayum! Those sticks will take two hours to burn!

I'll be up in Austin with my girls for Thanksgiving, so I'll probably smoke something I pick up at the Bobalu store on Wed.

Yesterday I smoked a Gurhka Legend Vintage 2001. Wow, incredibly smooth and flavorful but not overpowering.

I do have a question though. On Torpedo shaped cigars (regardless of actual size as I don't know all the names) I find I have to cut the cap off 2-3 times by the time I smoke the entire cigar. The draw will start smooth but then get tough as the cap gets damp from my lips. Once it becomes unreasonable I cut it off again and sometimes have to repeat a third time. Then I end up with a more traditional looking end and it finishes fine. Is it something in my technique of smoking? or maybe I just need to stay with more traditionally shaped cigars in the future?

I've had that happen a few times.

See if it happens with the same stick. I've had it happen with very tightly rolled sticks, but not enough times to notice it. I agree, if I start a torpedo I don't want to end up with something that look like a normal cigar. .

I think my Thanksgiving smoke will be the last Anejo 46 I have! I'll buy another box but I'm not sure if it will be the 46 or 48.

I did get a box of AF Hemingway Classic Maduro last night, they'll sit a while before I have one. I've always liked this and the Work of Art.

The burn of any cigars is a function of the quality of construction. Rolling any figurado is different than rolling a similar sized cigar without a shape.

My preferred cut is leaving a 1/4" of cap, cut on an angle. The angle cut provides more surface area than a cut perpendicular to the cigar. Being cut at near the end of the cap does cut most of the taper off but it helps the draw but more importantly to me keeps tar from building up and getting bitter.

There are some bellicosos / torpedoes that I have V cut and they smoke great. Monte #2 is one of those.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
I didn't resist-

Oh my, have you tried one yet?
Did you buy a whole spendy box?

What are we starting the weekend with?

I'm having Crowned Heads TAA

Today's choice!

I had a leccia white yesterday while doing a side job in my driveway. Good chewy tobbaco flavor, very mild and one dimensional though. Boring! Today i got another side job on the way here, about to torch up a perdomo champagne noir with a huge cup of coffee. Beautiful weather this weekend, the highs have been in the 60s with it dropping into the 40s overnight.

Return of nice weather today, high temp in the low 60s. Just bought 10, Gurkha Legend-Vintage 2001. I felt like they rested and stabilized their humidity long enough to try one. First one was rolled slightly looser than I like, but it was flavorful. I think it will take a couple more to form a more solid opinion.

Enjoying the fact that I don't have to wait until 8 PM for it to be cool enough to enjoy a stick on my back patio.

Tonight was a Davidoff Double R. Man, what a smooth, well-built cigar. Last night I had a Punch something and the difference could not be more obvious.

There is something wrong with Punch cigars. Maybe its their "thing" but all the ones ive smoked i could not get through the whole stick. Harsh as heck.

Tonight I got home to find two pork chops that needed to be cooked. So fired up the smoker and could not let the extra room go to waste so added a pack of Costco all beef dogs and a pound of bacon



Fired up a Ghurka Black Ops torpedo while cooking

I tried something interesting yesterday. It was the Rocky Patel Snowman.... 80 ring size behemoth. I got it from one of the other guys here who I smoke a cigar with regularly. He bought some as a semi joke buy.

PITA to light and keep light, very one note on flavor (and not a great note) and the construction wasn't great, wrapper fell apart as you smoked it. Neither of us finished the entire thing.

My boss was passing these guys around this morning:

The Brickhouse maduro is a tasty beast of a smoke. Ive only had the Mighty Mighty size. Tonight's stick is a perdomo lot 23 maduro, very dark with heavy pepper flavor but also velvety smooth. Got the yard cleaned up for all the company we have coming tomorrow.

Also took my stepdaughter to the range to shoot for the first time. I got her a 10/22 for her birthday a couple weeks ago. She had a blast! It was definitely a good enough reason for me to buy a membership, now we shoot for free without a time limit.

Smoking a very old Monte #2 in honor of Mr. Yarchin, who has more important things on his mind right now.

Schedule has been crazy. Haven't had a cigar in a while.

Just sat down and lit up an Acid Kuba Kuba.


... not a fan. Don't like this stick at all.