Thanks John, I have an empty humidor right now, plus I got in an assortment of my fav sticks recently, I think I can spare 20 or so of them for what sounds like a great investment, smoke on brother
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Thanks John, I have an empty humidor right now, plus I got in an assortment of my fav sticks recently, I think I can spare 20 or so of them for what sounds like a great investment, smoke on brother
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One of my DIY rolls. I rolled this one too tight. It was originally a stretched out perfecto sort of shape but I had to cut off about 1-1/2" from the head end for it to draw decently. Nice smoke, though. Very mild, sort of like unflavored hookah tobacco but more woody and aromatic. Filler is all seco and viso. Just a little ligero would probably improve it, overall, but I got to get my roll a little looser. Burns very evenly though.
If you really like the taste, try to find a tall jar,you know the ones that clamp shut, and with some velcro attach one of the round humidifiers that you usually use for water ,and soak your spirit of choice, and clamp it shut. Open it once in a while, and you'll get some great flavor from it. Someone bought me one when you could get LaDiva cigars, they were infused with cognac and this thing let me experiment with different liqueurs. Easy to make and cheaper than permanently flavor your humidor, if you don't care for whatever you used first. Or if you're like me, you already have OCD,obsessive collector disorder and have humidor to spare.
And you're a Marine, treat yourself, and aim a little higher than Fink,I'm familiar with them...
That's an interesting concept. Never considered that. Since I have this humidor set up for this process, I'm going to stick with it though. Works for me. You know, I have tried all cigars; expensive to cheap, and I have to say that the Finck's brand suits my palette the best. It's economical and tastes good to me. I'm content at this point but Thank You! But when we stop the embargo with Cuba, I'll get on board.
If you like them, who am I to tell you what you like. That being said I tried them when I started smoking cigars in 96, you really can't tell what you like until you have tried them a couple of times, because one box may be great and a few months later, (so there not from the same batch) they are nasty. Funny thing is my first favorite cigar was a brand named Carbonell, and buy all accounts they were the Marlboro of the Dominican republic, and for about a year they were great. Then something funny happened, a brand so popular changed their label, no big deal I thought, boy was I wrong, completely different and not for the better. I was so glad that I had bought all of the boxes with the yellow label and had them tucked away in my big humidor, where two boxes still reside, waiting for my son's to get married. The new ones
(Which have a green label) went over like the bombing of Pearl harbor. Gone and almost completely scrubbed from the internet. I can't find anything about either one. But we're way off track here, it you like your system don't mess with it, but consider this, after a few days you can turn the bottle, my wife thinks there called a canning jar, but doesn't know, upside down, so the vapers have to go up through the stogies imparting more flavor. It really does work, I tried it with two different jars using Grand marnier and the difference was noticeable. If you like just respond to this and I'll post a picture. The nice thing is that you can change flavors, infused with different tastes. I never thought I would like the LaDiva cigars and now believe it or not, are collector items, I found one cigar on Etsy, and it said not for smoking. I'm not sure why as there sealed in glass tubes, so they should be fine to smoke. I have one left and now I can't smoke it because of guilt.
Have a good smoke.
Griz
I'm going to look into this. Like I said this is an interesting concept. There are only 3 cigars from Finck's that I'll smoke - Lamb's Club classic, Lamb's Club classic Cubano (Dominican Republic), and their Puritano's (Nicaragua). They have been consistent for a number of years and are modestly priced (about $5.00 a stick) so they within my budget and I do like the taste. Full body with lots of flavor!
That's a very nice looking vitola. I have to try making something like that. I was thinking something like a Fuente Hemmingway Short Story, just a little fatter, but that looks very nice.
So I smoked up the last of the batch I rolled, and the next day I rolled up a few more, with a new awareness of what I have to do to make a cigar that not only tastes good, burns good, but also draws good. I just finished smoking one and it was superb. All viso filler this time, same wrapper and binder, but I built a bunching machine and messed around with it, modifying it and testing it. I apply a preliminary binder in the machine, then roll a mano in an outer binder before rolling in the wrapper.
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Smoked great, and even the couple of unruly veins didn't hurt the burn. Only two re-lights, even though the cigar was still fairly wet. Left alone in a humidor, the cigar alone sent the hygrometer up to 75% rel. humidity. Very tasty, just a faint hint of pepper and berry, went nicely with my glass of port. I came up with a new finish for the head that works great for keeping it together even after a long smoke.
I prepped the remaining wrapper and binder leaves, and have about 6 or 7 of each left, plenty of filler. I just got my order of Connecticut shade wrappers in, along with more binder, some Sumatra seco, and a little ligero. Looking forward to digging into the new stuff when I finish rolling what I already got prepped. I really like shade grown wrapper. It looks nice and smokes divinely and I believe that, and the increased variety in my fillers will improve my stogies quite a bit.
I think rolling my own is going to be a permanent thing now.
I thought you were supposed roll cigars om your naked thigh.
Not quite correct. The thigh is supposed to belong to a beautiful dusky Cuban maiden. We don't have any of those at our house. If I used my thigh, there would be the odd hair or two to get rolled up into the cigar, and burning hair would ruin the flavor and aroma. The wife shaves her legs but she won't let me teach her to roll out of concern that she would then have to roll all of my cigars. I just built myself a nice 16' long workbench in the detached garage in the new house and that's where I roll. My tableta is a 24"x24" piece of 1/4" acrylic sheet. Apparently, rolling on the bench is the latest fashion in all the great Cuban factories. They must be running short of beautiful dusky maidens there, as well.
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not rolled with my naked thigh,