CIGAR-MAFIA

I was smoking with a friend the other week and we had a discussion similar to this. He was selecting a cigar and I would point to one and he would comment "That's not an outside cigar". I questioned and his reasoning was that he prefers to smoke all of his 'higher end' cigars indoors to get the full bouquet of flavours. This philosophy was also shared by our friend and avid collector. I have to agree to a point as the aroma that comes off the foot of the cigar is much different then the aroma of the smoke drawn through the body. And I think you do loose some of this 'experience' to the wind.

I can see your friends inside/outside reasoning.... if I'm smoking by myself. But I don't have a lot of opportunity to smoke indoors and it's generally in a place where others are smoking and unless the fresh air turnover is good I seem to lose a lot of the nose of my smoke. I don't know I guess for me, cigar smoking is an outdoor experience. I've smoked stogies in what some folks would figure were pretty damned adverse conditions and enjoyed them. On the other hand the "Cigar Lounge" on a cruise ship "smothers" me.

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Paraphrasing Irish soccer legend George Best to suit my own life, "I've spent a lot of money on booze, dogs and cigars. The rest I've just squandered."

I agree with this.

That being said, I do not like smoking in excessive wind. I believe it makes the cigar burn too fast and too hot, as well as shotgunning the smoke down my throat and smoking harsh.

My "ideal smoking experience" is the screenporch of my hunting cabin in the Nicolet-Chequamegan National Forest of northeastern Wisconsin. First quiet stirring sounds of the night. Frogs and loons doing their thing down the road on Crooked Lake. 55-65 degrees with low humidity and just a bit of a breeze. Cabin faces southwest so you get the sunset in shades of orange, blood red and magenta. Glass of Scotch booze and a glass of German beer. Ignition and blast-off.

Heaven.

Cool image Steve. Can't remember if it was on here or the old CR but we once had a thread on memorable places for a smoke. I'm there with you brother, just insert a drumming grouse in the distance with that loon and my 28 leaning in the corner.........

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Paraphrasing Irish soccer legend George Best to suit my own life, "I've spent a lot of money on booze, dogs and cigars. The rest I've just squandered."

...Gas grilling hissing with Jamie and Steve's grouse breasts layered with smokehouse bacon sizzling on the grill......

Awww man, best fowl flesh on the planet... and baste with honey apple butter sauce...

(damn, where's that grease ear to ear drooling emoticon)

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Paraphrasing Irish soccer legend George Best to suit my own life, "I've spent a lot of money on booze, dogs and cigars. The rest I've just squandered."

But I see the appreciation of smoking out doors (since that's where I smoke most often) but the experience of smoking indoors on a rainy afternoon has it's advantages. A few months ago me and two friends were all smoking the same cigar, an El Rey del Mundo Choix Supreme, with two other smokers in the lounge and I have to say it was an experience. I would like to be at some of the events where they review a specific cigar as a group and see how that impacts the overall 'experience'.

But I don't really like being in a room with too many different cigars all burning at the same time (Cigar Fest auditorium?)




As long as they are ruffed grouse and not sharp tails...made the mistake of shooting some sharp tails up in the Chequamegan years ago that tasted like turpentine Guess it didn't help that we were hunting in the Moquah barrens that are mostly jack and red pine. Guess we should have let them browse on the burnover green up a bit longer

My lesson in that regard began with my father's edict that if I shot it I had to eat it..... squirrels, rabbits, robins, freaking sparrows.... you name it. Soooooo when I was 13 or so sitting on a stump pond in south Georgia waiting for a dawn flight of what ever might come off the Flint River and I killed 3 ducks in five shots and was tickled to death with myself until I learned they were Hooded Mergansers.... fish eaters..... and apparently mud in large quantities because that's sure as hell what all three tasted like. A valuable lesson in avian identification.

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Paraphrasing Irish soccer legend George Best to suit my own life, "I've spent a lot of money on booze, dogs and cigars. The rest I've just squandered."

The details for how to retrohale are very good. Still, don't get much from it. One thing I will do is draw the smoke, then open my mouth and let the smoke lazily waft out. I think the scent/taste combo is enhanced with your mouth open.

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No one appreciates the water till the well runs dry.

At least thats what we will tell her

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"The day I die, I hope its from eating too well and smoking too much." -BMM

"Light a good cigar and let your problems burn with it." -BMM

doing some STTN last night with that JJ maddie. Yummy. Lots of sweetness in that smoke.

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