Sunday 13th January 2013

[Puff Scotty]

Just about to start a Corona Cigar Co. 10th Anniversary Triple Phatty 60 X 8..it's bloody huge going to have a port with it...or two...

[DavidD]

My second cigar of the day - working my way through some singles I have - an Ashton Magnum. Was gifted 3 of these ages ago, enjoyed the first two so here goes with the last one. My very well known bottled game bird and I make our way to the shed - snowflakes falling - long johns on (me, not the bird) doing a bit a Titus Oates replay.

[monkey66]

Funnily enough most of the flavour profile of Turkish/Greek coffee comes down to the beans/roast blend (not the brew method, which does, of course, provide it's texture/body/mouth-feel.). Buy a bag and put it in a regular filter machine and it makes a very nice, distinct cup.

[DavidD]

Sorry Monkey, I'm going to disagree with you on this one. It is the texture and water evaporation that gives Turkish coffee its distinctive identity. You don't get evaporation in a filter coffee machine but you do get stewing which spoils rather than enhances the taste. It's a bit like conventional cigar smoking versus screwing-up a good cigar, sticking it in a pipe bowl and smoking it that way - same ingredients, different process ! Horses for courses.

[donkeydrop]

was the magnum a good smoke?I have never had an ashton, I almost got a vsg tres mystique at xmas, but bought a hupmann mag 48 instead, its on my 2013 list of must try

[donkeydrop]

you have a thing for huge cigars this weekend!!

[Wardjrz]

A bowl of Balkan Sasieni for me today. This was my first smoke using a pipe I picked up really cheap and have been trying to restore. I'm hoping this is a true vintage pipe as the company that made them closed in the mid 1960's. It was the pipe that U.S. troops were given during World War 2 so it could date that far back. It is an LHS Ultrafine with a 10 stamped on the underside. A U.S. made straight pipe with a meerschaum lined bowl.

The tobacco has a real smokiness (you don't say huh?) to it. Not the grey plume that comes from the bowl when you light it but an aroma like a smoky whisky coming off the tobacco.

It started to bite a bit so I left if for a couple of hours and went back to it after tea.

[baileyth]

Had a Avo classic robusto nice easy smoke I've mild but very smooth

[DavidD]

Donkey - The Ashton Magnum was a very good smoke. I do rather regret having smoked all I had.

[Puff Scotty]

you have a thing for huge cigars this weekend!!

Certainly do! I'm ramping up for my birthday, only just nubbed that bugger..not a bad smoke but got a bit same-same near the finish the last couple of inches was hard work....more whisky sorted..I'm off to beddy byes now...

[donkeydrop]

so its something you would buy again, that says a lot for them, im definitely getting one, either the vsg tres mystique or the enchantment, the enchantment is a stunning looking cigar

[senor_robusto]

bolivar petite corona for me tonight.......

alex