Thread: What cigar did you smoke today?

I'm curious: Is anyone else British enough to take the band off?

My Father Le Bijou 1922 Grand Robusto on the way into work this morning.

These have been in my regular rotation for a while now, always enjoyable.

A fair amount of coffee, with just an underlying hint of sweetness.

On a side note, I picked up a V-Cutter (Colibri) that it quite impressive. It carves a deep wide swath with clean edges that affords an aggressive draw.

I think my guillotine cutter will be strictly reserved for Torpedos/Belicosos/Figurados from now on.

Originally Posted by Ezekiel81

I'm curious: Is anyone else British enough to take the band off?

Lol!! I prefer to smoke "band off." And do 95% of the time.

But if I am going to take a picture of me smoking one to share here...

I wait till it's smoked down a bit and the adhesive softens so the band comes off easily.
I have had them pull the wrapper off before
I am much more careful now
Mike

Originally Posted by Mcbladescar

I wait till it's smoked down a bit and the adhesive softens so the band comes off easily.
I have had them pull the wrapper off before
I am much more careful now
Mike

I'm with Mike on this one, I ruined the wrapper on a couple of sticks before I learned my lesson!

I think a rather interesting but expensive experiment would be to take a box of cigars, peel the wrapper off one and replace it with cigarette papers and smoke just filler. Then peel all the rest and roll a cigar of just wrapper leaves and smoke that to see the difference in flavour. I doubt anyone will ever do it.

I'm curious: Is anyone else British enough to take the band off?

From the beginning, for a long time I smoked "band off". But after a great number of bad experience with removing that band from unsmoked cigar. Now I smoke with band and remove it when need.

QUOTE=Ezekiel81;1314235]I think a rather interesting but expensive experiment would be to take a box of cigars, peel the wrapper off one and replace it with cigarette papers and smoke just filler. Then peel all the rest and roll a cigar of just wrapper leaves and smoke that to see the difference in flavour. I doubt anyone will ever do it.[/QUOTE]

I could do it no problem... but why? If one doesn't want a blend, smoke a pipe.


I think much of the pleasure of cigar smoking is the blends and how they take to the different ring gauges. It not like coffee snobs who get all up tight when you add cream - there is art behind "bastardizing" the leafs by blending in others to compliment lol.



That's my two cents anyway.

Curiosity I guess. I think it would be interesting to see which flavours come from which bit of a cigar. I was also wondering what it would be like to eat one, but I'm not planning on doing that either. I think my brain just kind of works that way, I'm an inquisitive kind of chap. I'd love to taste whisky fresh from the still to see what flavours come from the cask and which are inherent in the spirit. I once spent a day brewing beer with a friend who does that and I got to taste the stuff at different stages. That was fascinating.

Originally Posted by Ezekiel81

I'm curious: Is anyone else British enough to take the band off?

depends on the smoke. Sometimes I'll leave it on and wait a few puffs for the cigar to warm. This helps release the glue on those stubborn ones that like to rip the wrapper.