Saturday 30th July 2106

[SHAMZ84]

Well [MENTION=13448813]SHAMZ84[/MENTION] in some cases the fakes are in effect the real deal! The ones I had in Cuba were RYJ Churchills with a Cohiba band on... Made with lifted tobacco from the factory!

The issue with this is when they run out of the good tobacco and use floor sweepings or banana leaves... And anything else that's on the floor!

So they can be great, they can be awful!

Also, the factory workers get to take real product home. So imagine you save 25, lift a box and seal them up... They aren't really fake!

I'm not dismissing a fake as being problematic, but the ones I have smoked, have all been ok!

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Interesting... a few years ago my mate smoked these fake cohiba gran reserva and said they were amazing...he didn't know they were fake at the time though.

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[Decky]

Well 56 not my cup of tea had this same time as 52 even switched to whisky to try change my pallet still no flavour no sweetness like 52 ah well live and learn

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[TJCoro]

Twist & Shout!

Well 56 not my cup of tea had this same time as 52 even switched to whisky to try change my pallet still no flavour no sweetness like 52 ah well live and learn

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Hi Mr. Decky!

Any possibility of rotating your pictures 90 degrees before posting. My neck's beginning to hurt.

Ricky Bobby

[Decky]

Fair comment

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[mcdee]

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MUWAT Nightcrawler for me tonight/ this morning.

[PeeJay]

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Do that with your lancero!

[cj121]

Saturday 30th July 2106

A hitchhiking FdC Selectos '99, whilst waiting for BBQ coals to do their thing

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[Decky]

When people say a cigar is smoking well do they mean with age or just rolled cheers would like to clear this up in my mind

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[PeeJay]

When people say a cigar is smoking well do they mean with age or just rolled cheers would like to clear this up in my mind

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[Greg]

When people say a cigar is smoking well do they mean with age or just rolled cheers would like to clear this up in my mind

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I understand is well manufactured, nothing related to taste, just good burn and good draw,


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[Greg]

Easy if looking at the checkered white squares,

they should not be cutted by the COHIBA square... its wrongly printed.

WOW! That is soooo cool, Greg. How can you tell it's a fake?

One of my tasks is to lean how to identify counterfeit Cuban cigars.





Ricky Bobby

[Greg]

Would you recommend smoking fakes? How can you trust what's in them?

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I dont recommend it at all,
And I will never buy any fake cigar.
Still it can happen as a Custom Rolled, which we never know what is inside, and they are great cigars.
In my case it depends of the procedence of that fake, if a good connoisseur gives it to me as a present I normally smoke it.
But as I dont have any trusted source I dont ever buy any other place than at official store.

I hope this answers your question

[nubchugger]

Had another first for me, a Fuente Short Story......finaly found a Dominican cigar i like😍😍

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[PeeJay]

Had another first for me, a Fuente Short Story......finaly found a Dominican cigar i like

Short Stories are generally well regarded even by Cuban smokers, not my cup of tea though

[TJCoro]

Fake Me!

Easy if looking at the checkered white squares,

they should not be cutted by the COHIBA square... its wrongly printed.

Thanks, Greg! This is good stuff. But just so I understand, you're saying the first row of white squares above the word "COHIBA" should not be be partially covered, correct?

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What do you think of the Cohiba cigar pictured below that I found in don TJ's humidor? It has two rows above and two below the COHIBA box. Real or Fake?

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Perhaps there should be a thread dedicated to counterfeits. I love this stuff.

Rickfy Bobby