Cigar-like tobacco

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by Hydrated

Eggzactly!

I'm down to about 2 or 3 cigars a month nowadays... but 2 or 3 bowls a day. I usually resort to a cigar when I'm on the move or doing something that makes pipe smoking difficult or inappropriate.

I figured, when I first picked up a pipe for a serious pass at the sport, that it couldn't be great if it didn't taste like a cigar, somehow, someway. So I was gifted a little Virginia SPice and, yep, there was the cigat taste floating ion and out. I got disabused of the notion that cigar+pipe=good on my first bowl of Escudo. Boing! Wow.

While there are several cigarleaf pipe tobaks, the couple I tried seemed to diminish rather than enhance the quality of the smoke. Now this is just my personal taste and no disrespect meant to folks who like cigarleaf pipe tobak, of whom there must be at leasdt seven or eight.

So, fact remains that Thursday night was a regular goll'danged cigar orgy over in Fayetteville and I did my share of cigar smoking, by golly. And the Moo-House herf yesterday (with friends SmokeyJoe, BudPrince, Brave Dave Nathan, BarneyBandMan & BarneysFunGirl) put me right in the middle of some serious cigar enjoyment. But for the same reason I wouldn't like a latakia cigar, I would be disgusted if my favorite briar was cigar-ghosted.

Originally Posted by Mister Moo

So, fact remains that Thursday night was a regular goll'danged cigar orgy over in Fayetteville and I did my share of cigar smoking, by golly. And the Moo-House herf yesterday (with friends SmokeyJoe, BudPrince, Brave Dave Nathan, BarneyBandMan & BarneysFunGirl) put me right in the middle of some serious cigar enjoyment. But for the same reason I wouldn't like a latakia cigar, I would be disgusted if my favorite briar was cigar-ghosted.

Meee toooo!

Someday I'm going to make one of those mad Moo House herfs.

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by Joan

Someday I'm going to make one of those mad Moo House herfs.

They're quite tame, ektually; next one starts when you hit the driveway.

Originally Posted by Mister Moo

They're quite tame, ektually; next one starts when you hit the driveway.

I am so not worthy of riding the FJR across country in the winter, because besides being quite nipply, it's like SNOWING on the all high spots between here and there. *sigh* Next summer, hopefully.

Say, what is the closest major airport to Moo House, anyhow? I'll start watching for good deals!

Originally Posted by Joan

I am so not worthy of riding the FJR across country in the winter...

Whoa whoa whoa there! You ride an FJR? I think I love you! Waaaay more than Dan does...

Originally Posted by Hydrated

Whoa whoa whoa there! You ride an FJR? I think I love you! Waaaay more than Dan does...

[she laughs] You are welcome to try, but Dan is extra very awfully good. ;d

Pretty good for a camera phone shot:


I STILL think the best cigar+pipe combo is GLPease Robusto blend. WAY good, smokes cool and dry and gets the Joan Seal of Approval. :

Another suggestion: JJ Fox's Bankers mixture; hope it wasn't mentioned before. An English blend which contains cigar leaf. The Latakia in this well balanced mixture does not overpower the cigar leaf, which remains noticeable. Used to be one of my go to mixtures.

[physiognomy]

I save the caps from every cigar I clip & throw them in the closest open tin... For me it adds a depth to my favorite VAs (and most anything else). I can also change things up by packing in some cigar tobacco or not. This afternoon I threw a few misc caps (mostly SP Bachilleres) into my bowl of Wessex Burley Slices. I think it complimented the deep nutty flavors very well. Give it a try...