Daily Cigar

It was just about exactly one year ago when some friends of mine, at a conference  down at Disney in Orlando, handed me a Fonseca over drinks out on the patio. So tonight I decided that I’d take a trip down memory lane and smoke a Fonseca – one of the originals from the box of Fonsecas they sent me after I’d gotten home. It was that box that got me started in cigars.

I’ve been accumulating a lot of cutoffs and scrap in my workshop, so I took one of the tubs full of scrap wood and fired up my outdoor fireplace, and experienced two kinds of smoke – one enjoyable, one not so much. I was amazed at the memories that popped into focus as I puffed away. They say that smell is the sense that has the strongest connection to memory and I believe it. I remembered sitting on the porch in a warm summer rain, sitting outside Disney’s convention center talking about various things, and the taste of the Bushmills I was drinking at the time. I remembered the feeling as I opened that package with the first box, feeling like I was opening pornography or something. A good kind of bad ;-)

Anyway, it burned perfectly despite a recent surge in humidity in my humidor and very poor lighting on my part. It started very uneven, and soon evened out to a perfect burn. Taste was as a remember – mild but satisfying, if a bit sensitive to over-pulling.

It was a shame they were only 5-50, and not larger. Tonight would have been the night to smoke a 9-60 if they made such a beast.

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A long while ago I wrote about the 5 Vegas I’d bought, and how I’d though they were nasty. I thought I’d try them again, after a year in the humidor. They’ve mellowed just a tad, but they’re still pretty nasty. I won’t say they were unsmokable, they just didn’t have any character. It was like smoking sawdust. Bad sawdust. Dry sawdust.

Now it’s possible that since they were still in their original box, and each cigar was wearing it’s original cellophane nighty that they were just a bit dry. I normally strip anything that goes into my humidor, because I firmly believe that humidity needs to have as few barriers as possible. Maybe it’s because they are Panetelas. I don’t know. But I’ve stripped the rest of them, and I hope they’ll improve a good bit more.

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It’s been exactly 1 month since my last cigar, and 1 month since I’ve been home when it was warm enough to sit on my porch and smoke one. And, it looks like it’ll be warm enough for the next several days. Can it be that spring has finally sprung? Even though my lawn looks like every dog in the neighborhood has had it’s way, I’m ready to have some warm weather. I’m even ready to mow the lawn.

As I lit up my Acid Kuba Deluxe I noticed a strange sensation agains my butt cheeks. It took me a minute to figure out what it was. Warmth. The afternoon sun had actually warmed the porch enough that I could feel it. That’s prime cigar smoking real estate right there ;-)

The Acid was pretty sweet. Very much an after dinner cigar. It was pretty sugary on the outside, but it had enough meaty tobacconess to it I knew I was smoking a real cigar and not some grocery store special. I expected it to get more spicy near the end, and it didn’t so much. It did burn like every cigar should – nice and even. Overall, it’s a bit sweet and mild for my tastes, but right now my palate is rustier than a sewer grate so I need the cigar equivelant of training wheels. I think the Acid Kuba Deluxe is the deluxe version of that very thing.

I’ve been impressed with the cigars I’ve gotten from TexCigars.com, a great place for discount cigars. I’m not talking about the flavor, but the fact that they aren’t so dry they’re tinder or so wet they’re compost. They just smoke well. I’m convinced that even though cigars may sit in my humidor for a while, how they come from the supplier has a big effect on how well they smoke.

I’m afraid to make predictions, as both the weather and my schedule have been very unpredictable. But since I’ve got no travel planned, no relatives coming for babtisms, and have no furniture projects underway, I think I can safely say I may experience an increased probability of having an opportunity to possibly enjoy another cigar tomorrow night.  God, I sound like an economist.

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There is nothing like a warm, relaxing night to sit on the porch and smoke a good cigar. Tonight was nothing like a warm night to sit on the porch ;-)

As I mentioned last time I had gotten some cigars from www.texcigars.com – a supplier of cheap cigars online – to bring in the new season. I kept waiting for a nice, warm (ok, above 50 degree) evening to smoke one. Tonight I finally decided that the warm weather wasn’t coming until I brought it here, so I went out and did my part to bring in Spring.

I chose a Baccarat, 6×50, and it turned out to be a pretty good choice. My first impression was that it was very sweet – actually the wrapper is sweetened it seems. Kind of like smoking a Twinkie, only without the thick clouds of black, toxic smoke you’d no doubt get if you smoked a Twinkie. Instead it was mild, sharpening just a tad about an inch in, and gradually getting just slightly peppery near the end. I didn’t smoke the whole thing. Once both butt cheeks got down to the 35 degree ambient temperature I called it quits. But it was enjoyable. 35 degrees is an excellent temperature to drink light beer.

The Baccarat is not quite as smooth as a Fonseca, but a pretty good smoke all the same. Given the price, it’s a lot closer to a reasonable daily cigar than Fonseca as well.

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You probably haven’t been watching the weather in Milwaukee, but if you’re in the midwest you know we’ve had some pretty spring-like weather lately. Since my smoking room is my front porch, enjoying a cigar is definitely a seasonal activity.

I just got some new cigars from www.texcigars.com – a supplier of cheap cigars online – to bring in the new season, and I’ll be trying those suckers out. More in a little bit.

Our normally damp basement has been extraordinarily dry this winter, and my humidor suffered from a little neglect. I don’t think the humidity ever got much below 55%, but I’ve been trying to get it to stay in the right range. I think I may have to empty it and get another coat or two of varnish on it to make it a bit tighter.

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