Cigar /Pipe Smoking thread

[Tin Man]

Fine afternoon for a CAO gold maduro robusto. Bringing the cocoa.

Edit: Born in Turkey, Cano Aret Ozgener founded CAO cigars in 1968 while living in Nashville, TN.

 

[BSAvol]

Having a pre-game bowl of Peterson’s Early Morning Pipe in my Brigham bent bulldog. Go VOLS!

 

[Gandalf]

Won a bet on the election, finally got my winnings - 10 Padron 1964 Presidente maduros - victory is sweet indeed!

 

[Gandalf]

Not wasting anything special based on what I have seen so far tonight. But still not bad of course. A very dry dark coco is main profile.

 

[Nkyvolfan]

Not wasting anything special based on what I have seen so far tonight. But still not bad of course. A very dry dark coco is main profile.
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I really like that cigar. Smokes slow and easy, lots of cocoa.

 

[Tin Man]

It’s 27 degrees and still. Of course, I’m smoking a BDL on the porch after breakfast. I’m nuts.

 

[feathersax]

It’s 27 degrees and still. Of course, I’m smoking a BDL on the porch after breakfast. I’m nuts.

Sometimes nothing but a good stogie will do.

 

[Tin Man]

Yeah, it’s 29 degrees this morning. Time for another BDL!

 

[Tin Man]

Sweet aged fermented leaf! I am back from doting on the grands, on my porch, and enjoying a CAO maduro robusto this fine, mild Christmas Day afternoon.

 

[Regulator]

Warm enough today.

 

[Tin Man]

Lovely, mild afternoon. Time for a Don Carlos reserva robusto and some Tennessee whiskey.

 

[Gandalf]

On a beautiful afternoon last week.

Emissary, an Interesting new addition by macanudo. Much richer in flavor than their other offerings. Milk chocolate profile, with a number of transitions. Great construction, adequate smoke output, mild building to medium.

 

[Tin Man]

Running errands this morning and stopped in at the local cigar shop, asked what’s new. Proprietor Steve handed me a Jamie Garcia reserva especial. Full bodied maduro, with cocoa, leather, pepper, and cedar. The temp has dropped 15 degrees from this morning, so I’m on the porch dodging the downdrafts, smoking this fine stick.

 

[m_scott]

I got introduced to some of the cigars from Deadwood Tobacco Co. Sweet Jane and Leather Rose are becoming my favorites.

 

[Tin Man]

This morning’s butt-freezing stogie is a CAO America. Chunky 5x56 barber pole with cocoa, toasted bread, spice, and a slightly sweet finish. Medium body.


It’s cold outside, folks…

 

[Tin Man]

26 degrees, and I’m smoking a stogie bare handed. Of course I am.

 

[Tin Man]

The CAO Italia is a full bodied cigar with a habano wrapper grown in Italy from Cuban seed. Pepper, leather, earth, and a surprising sweetness in the finish - perfect for butt freezing weather.

 

[Nkyvolfan]

This morning’s butt-freezing stogie is a CAO America. Chunky 5x56 barber pole with cocoa, toasted bread, spice, and a slightly sweet finish. Medium body.
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It’s cold outside, folks…

That's a fine looking cigar.

 

[Tin Man]

This morning, I did not venture out when it was 19 degrees. I waited until the temperature hit 29.

 

[Tin Man]

The CAO Columbia mixes Cuban seed tobacco from Columbia and Brazil with a Camaroon binder and a Nicaraguan wrapper. Nutty, earthy, woody with a hint of fruit and spice. Medium full body.

 

[Tin Man]

This morning, it’s a quiet 30 degrees and snowing. If birds farted, you could hear them. My barehanded smoke is the CAO Nicaragua, a mix of Nicaraguan fillers in a Honduran binder with a Honduran Jamastran wrapper. Pepper on lightning fills out with nuts, wood, and a toasty tobacco prominence. Full of flavor, its nicotine is more muted than I would expect. Medium to medium full body.

 

[Gandalf]

@Tin Man this is for you
How to Get an Even Burn on a Cigar

 

[Tin Man]

Despite @Gandalf’s merry mischief, I do take care in lighting my cigars, rotating them slowly above the peak of the flame and examining the cherry for even completeness before puffing away. No, I don’t have a palsy.

This morning’s stogie is a CAO Brazilia, Nicaraguan filler with a Brazilian Arapiraca wrapper - nutty, toasted bread, hints of coffee, cocoa, and spice, a little floral, and smooth. Medium body.

 

[BSAvol]

I’m impressed with the ability of some of
You guys to handle the cold. Very thankful for this sunny afternoon in the mid 40s. Counting down the days until spring.

 

[Gandalf]

Despite @Gandalf’s merry mischief, I do take care in lighting my cigars, rotating them slowly above the peak of the flame and examining the cherry for even completeness before puffing away. No, I don’t have a palsy.

This morning’s stogie is a CAO Brazilia, Nicaraguan filler with a Brazilian Arapiraca wrapper - nutty, toasted bread, hints of coffee, cocoa, and spice, a little floral, and smooth. Medium body.
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Well you finally lit that one evenly

Sometimes it is the cigar and sometimes its the herfer. I have had ones that wouldnt burn straight no matter what I did. Those CAOs though seem to have a pretty sharp burn line and a pretty tight white ash.