Custom rolls

[Drewster]

Hi sorry if this sounds a bit of a stupid question but I keep seeing the term custom rolled cigars are these ones you have made yourself or purchased from someone who makes them.

[simwells]

Hi sorry if this sounds a bit of a stupid question but I keep seeing the term custom rolled cigars are these ones you have made yourself or purchased from someone who makes them.

Purchased from a roller direct, normally means bought in Cuba from a known roller but there are other routes. In Cuba every cigar shop over a certain size will have its own in house roller who sells custom rolls from the shop.

In Cuba they’re generally 25-50% of banded cigars


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[Drewster]

Purchased from a roller direct, normally means bought in Cuba from a known roller but there are other routes. In Cuba every cigar shop over a certain size will have its own in house roller who sells custom rolls from the shop.

In Cuba they’re generally 25-50% of banded cigars


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Ahhh okay thank you i kept seeing them but never really knew what it meant i thought maybe you rolled them yourself haha

[ha_banos]

Some of the shops over here have their own commissioned custom rolls. I've bought a handful from the cigar shop in Hastings. They were Nicaraguan cigars IIRC.

[Drewster]

Some of the shops over here have their own commissioned custom rolls. I've bought a handful from the cigar shop in Hastings. They were Nicaraguan cigars IIRC.

That was going to be my next question are they available over here because I'm guessing getting them from Cuba without actually going would be difficult

[simwells]

That was going to be my next question are they available over here because I'm guessing getting them from Cuba without actually going would be difficult

Some shops here do sell NC customs, you won’t get Cubans through a shop or anything like that here. Cuba doesn’t allow export of them for retail so any sold here would generally be from someone who’s physically picked them up there.


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[ha_banos]

In the long distant past shops would get in rollers from Cuba who would roll custom cigars. They would be available to buy. Found an old example here https://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/custom-bl...te-p-7588.html

I think such events would normally be organised by the importer? So H&F or say Tor.

Wonder when the last roller was over here...

[Drewster]

Awesome thanks for the info guys was always curious as to what they was or where to aquire them.

as for the NC customs would that be the shops own brand that would be classed as a custom rolled like Cgars Dutch blend?

[Tomm783]

Generally you need a mule unless you’re holidaying in Cuba. There are means if your interested but it all seems to have dried up during the pandemic as travel is restricted. There are a few on here who have a stash though!


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[ha_banos]

Awesome thanks for the info guys was always curious as to what they was or where to aquire them.

as for the NC customs would that be the shops own brand that would be classed as a custom rolled like Cgars Dutch blend?

The custom rolled cigars are usually produced by a well known roller. There's loads of Cuban and non-cuban rollers who produce custom cigars. But yeah, getting them means going to the source one way of the other!

There's loads of other types though like house rolled (https://www.cigaraficionado.com/arti...-rolled-cigars), limited custom runs commissioned by someone (https://halfwheel.com/review-cigars-...-rolled/34855/, https://www.ukcigarforums.com/forum/...der#post745814), CGars produce their own (https://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/cigar-lib...ed_cigars.html, https://www.cgarsltd.co.uk/cigar-lib...nd_page_1.html) which you can get online one way or the other.

And many more that you likely can't get!

https://www.reddit.com/r/cigars/comments/b8t7tc/custom_made_mj23s_cuban/

https://www.reddit.com/r/cigars/comments/bnc2bd/ksa_cigars/