Hi all,
I've been flat out with work and study and the occasional night out when there has been a chance to keep sane and break up all the lonely hours on my derriere studying. As a diversion to take study breaks I have been educating myself on cigars and not just any cigars but fine cigars. I have subscribed to a Youtube group called cigarobsessions where many cigars are reviewed. Bryan Glynn in the videos is a great reviewer and a lover of cigars. He really knows his stuff and has a developed sense of taste as can be seen in his descriptions of the flavours he experiences while smoking the cigar. He uses very similar terminology and vernacular we use in our e-liquid reviews. He will take a cigar from the point of lighting it up and then have time segments in the duration of smoking the cigar (some cigars last for over 2 hours!). In those segments he will comment on how flavours have transitioned at various stages of the cigar.
I really like his reviews and it's giving me some inspiration to consider trying the art of extraction. This is only bolstered further by the fact that I found a rare good cigar shop in Sydney that stocks all the good cohiba's including the award winning Cohiba Behike 52 and the Padron Family Reserve No.45. There is even a box set of Drew Estate cigars which includes a Kuba Kuba, Acid Blondie, Cold Infusion and Acid Atom Maduro!
I would really find it satisfying and personally rewarding to be able to extract a good cigar like this and I don't know why more vendor's don't do it considering the costing structure of extractions. For example - one cigar makes for about half a litre (500mls) of liquid so the incremental cost of a cigar is spread over 500 mls of liquid making it economically feasible to extract an expensive cigar.
It is ironic that when I was a smoker I never cared for cigars and it is experiencing the aroma, nuances and complex flavours in naturally extracted tobaccos that has given me an appreciation for the complex flavour profiles in cigars.
For anyone who may be interested to see the kinds of reviews Bryan does on a cigar I recommend the following. I find it fascinating to see reviews on the very 'sticks' that form the basis of all our naturally extracted liquids.
Padron 1926 80 Years cigar review cigarobsession.com - YouTube