Cuban cigars!

[Irving]

Wow . . . combining the world's best cigars with arguably one of the world's worst rotgut mixto "tequilas" blows my mind. I'm guessing you were in your early twenties when you perpetrated this act?

Hoser once told me a story about how he would hollow out Cohiba's and fill them with Swisher Sweets tobacco.

[Goodburbon]

Wow . . . combining the world's best cigars with arguably one of the world's worst rotgut mixto "tequilas" blows my mind. I'm guessing you were in your early twenties when you perpetrated this act?

You've obviously never had K&B brand Tequila.

Makes cuervo seem like top shelf.

[Lurch]

Never buy Cuban cigars unless you know the source. If you want Cubans I have a few places to get them. The Cubans do make some good cigars but you need to know what you are buying.

[xring]

So whats a good budget cigar? A cigar that you would consider smokable but no more?
Its probably been ten years since I had a cigar. Bad influences yall are!

[Lurch]

So whats a good budget cigar? A cigar that you would consider smokable but no more?
Its probably been ten years since I had a cigar. Bad influences yall are!

What do you consider budget?

[xring]

What do you consider budget?

$5-7

[rondog]

Keep in mind that just because it's made in Cuba doesn't make it a "Cuban cigar". I've been told by my cigar shop that there's more fake "Cubans" made in Cuba than anywhere else. As in, there's real Cohibas and many bootleg Cohibas. There's places on the 'net where you can buy the real things, but they're pricey, and who the hell knows what you're really getting? I'm perfectly happy with Dominicans or others myself, my tastes aren't that discriminating. I prefer A. Fuentes.

I also highly recommend Edwards Pipe & Tobacco on Broadway in Englewood. Great guys and great selection, fair pricing too. The Fuente Cubanitos I smoke are $22.50/can there, I've seen 'em well over $30 in other shops.

[hatidua]

Keep in mind that just because it's made in Cuba doesn't make it a "Cuban cigar". I've been told by my cigar shop that there's more fake "Cubans" made in Cuba than anywhere else. As in, there's real Cohibas and many bootleg Cohibas.

Cohiba (Esplendido), Monte Cristo (#2), and Romeo y Julieta (Churchill) are the three most faked cigars in the world (all of which are 7x50 in size or close to it...why fake a little one?!). The only place I'd trust buying a "real" Cohiba is at the Partagas factory in Habana, where they are rolled. Anywhere else, including a certified "Habanos" store entails a significant chance you are getting a fake.

There are other brands rolled in the same factory that are very good but not as frequently faked and are therefore far less risky.

When you do get a good one, a real one, it is the closest thing I've found to religion....and that's coming from a devout born-again atheist.

[Heep72]

Cubans are way overrated. If they were legal in the States they would be rated much lower. But to each his/her own.

+1 Yeah.....what he said!

[kidicarus13]

+1 Yeah.....what he said!

By the sound of things I may have smoked a fake ... Twice!