Rolled and smoked my third imperfecto tonight:
while applying Pig Snot to this:
An hour and a three quarters. It never went out.
Typical Dull-Aware super damp evening. Tried to drizzle all day long. I smoke most of my cigars with my hands full of steel, out in the garage, doing something or other, because, well, you know the old saying: idle hands are the internet pornographer's playmate. Or something like that. Either I'm doing that, or I might be sitting in the unfinished man-cave, reading a book like Bob's deep philosophy of history thing I'm reading now. I'll put a cigar down, it has to set three or four minutes before I get back to it. It's nothing for me to get an hour and a half or two out of a robusto. In this case (see how I sneaked case in?), a cigar has to burn well. I hate re-lighting the damn things cause the flavor goes stank. I used to keep a supply of Black Market cigars on hand for drizzly nights, cause they will burn. I have not had one in the house for I don't know how long, any more. I just reach for a home rolled. They burn like perfect. They really do. The last three or four bought cigars in a row that I have smoked, they all had burn probs.
What's the diff? Why do home rolled cigars from Don's WLT tobacco burn so much better?*
Is it just they tend to be looser than what the pros aim for? I dunno. I get pretty firm stuff out of the mold, yet they burn well. Is it cause the blenders grab baccers for intense flavor without regard to burn? This last imperfecto was plain corojo viso and criollo, bound and wrapped in CT shade which I scored from FX Smith's Sons**, for the burn of it. Nothing special.
What makes this WLT the best burning stuff around?
footnotes:
* With the single exception of that dark corojo wrapper stuff we couldn't figure out. That leaf could put out a blowtorch.
** I love this stuff. Thin, flexible, and really let's the filler flavors come through. All it brings to the party is a creamy mellowness. Love it.
while applying Pig Snot to this:
An hour and a three quarters. It never went out.
Typical Dull-Aware super damp evening. Tried to drizzle all day long. I smoke most of my cigars with my hands full of steel, out in the garage, doing something or other, because, well, you know the old saying: idle hands are the internet pornographer's playmate. Or something like that. Either I'm doing that, or I might be sitting in the unfinished man-cave, reading a book like Bob's deep philosophy of history thing I'm reading now. I'll put a cigar down, it has to set three or four minutes before I get back to it. It's nothing for me to get an hour and a half or two out of a robusto. In this case (see how I sneaked case in?), a cigar has to burn well. I hate re-lighting the damn things cause the flavor goes stank. I used to keep a supply of Black Market cigars on hand for drizzly nights, cause they will burn. I have not had one in the house for I don't know how long, any more. I just reach for a home rolled. They burn like perfect. They really do. The last three or four bought cigars in a row that I have smoked, they all had burn probs.
What's the diff? Why do home rolled cigars from Don's WLT tobacco burn so much better?*
Is it just they tend to be looser than what the pros aim for? I dunno. I get pretty firm stuff out of the mold, yet they burn well. Is it cause the blenders grab baccers for intense flavor without regard to burn? This last imperfecto was plain corojo viso and criollo, bound and wrapped in CT shade which I scored from FX Smith's Sons**, for the burn of it. Nothing special.
What makes this WLT the best burning stuff around?
footnotes:
* With the single exception of that dark corojo wrapper stuff we couldn't figure out. That leaf could put out a blowtorch.
** I love this stuff. Thin, flexible, and really let's the filler flavors come through. All it brings to the party is a creamy mellowness. Love it.
