It's a Sunday afternoon and I'm enjoying my weekly tradition of a pipe and coffee in the shop. Good times.
Pipe/cigar smokers: What are your favorite or go-to smokes?
It's a Sunday afternoon and I'm enjoying my weekly tradition of a pipe and coffee in the shop. Good times.
Pipe/cigar smokers: What are your favorite or go-to smokes?
I'll go first.
I'm not interested in nicotine but I very much enjoy the ritual and flavors of smoking pipes and cigars.
On Saturday nights I generally hang out with a good friend of mine and have a cigar. Ashton Cabinets are our go-to weekly smokes; on special occasions I'll break out my stash of Monte Cristo #2s (Cuban, not Dominican).
On weekend days (or sometimes at work if I'm feeling fancy) I'll smoke a couple bowls of pipe tobacco. These days my taste in pipe tobacco runs towards milder aromatics; Sutliff's Creme Brulee (similar to Molto Dolce) and Queen Anne's Revenge are favorites.
I've been having the age old favorite of a fuente double chateau in a natural, Connecticut or shade grown wrapper. My other fill-ins are usually a padron 4000 or a 10 or 20yr anniversary (I can't remember which it is), or maybe a rocky Patel in a similar size to the Fuente.
Canadian here so we get proper, Cuban cigars.
Bolivar Tubos no.2 are my all time favorite.
Pipe tobacco, I like a blend called Balkan Express from a tobacco shop in Vancouver that is now out of business.
In reply to brandonsmash :
Who makes that pipe?
Illusione 68 as cigars by far my favorite but they are black as the night with no moon. These are fantastic if you like that sort of thing they will put someone who likes Cubans in the ground though so you do not want anything bigger then this. Pretty sure a churchill would kill even me.
Frog Morton on the Town for pipe or golden lion if I can ever find it.
It's been a long time, but I used to get H. Uppman when I was fishing saltwater regularly. I think it was the 1844 reserve in either Corona major or the Toro Tubos in the white aluminum tube.
In reply to Woody (Forum Supportum) :
That's a Vauen. All of my pipes (save one corncob) are by Vauen right now. In addition to the workshop pipe I have a nice flat-bottomed bent-stem that I like for traveling so that when I'm smoking and reading a book as I can set it down without it tipping over; I also have a sandblasted bent apple I quite like.
Vauen use 9mm filters, which I tend to prefer over 6mm.
TIL that pipes have filters.
Either a Cohiba, an Oliva, or a rocky Patel.
However, I haven't had a cigar since October 5th 2023.
I am not opposed to it at this point. I feel like I could have 1 and not fall back into full time smoking. However, it would need to be for a cool event / occasion.
Like a dudes weekend mountain biking or the GRM challenge.
Still dabbling in both of these
Havent had enough pipe tobacco to have a favorite. I just got a tin of Capstan blue but haven't tried it yet.
For cigars my favorite so far was a Cuban Hoyo De Monterrey. Perdomo Reserve 10th Anniversary champagne is the last one that I really enjoyed beyond that.
Both my Dad and my maternal Grandfather smoked pipes. My grandmother shopped at the Iwan Ries shop for gifts and bought my dad the Three Star brand. The store has been here forever.
My dad smoked 2-3 Dutch Masters Presidents a day for 40-50 years. It made it easy to get him a Fathers Day gift. Seriously, he always had a few in his shirt pocket.
When I smell cigar smoke I flashback to thoughts about my dad -
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