Archive for August, 2022

Long Ash Podcast EP. 125 NFT???

Friday, August 26th, 2022

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Long Ash Podcast: One Fine Day in Connecticut

Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

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Top 5 End of Summer Cigars

Wednesday, August 24th, 2022

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Top 5 Partagas Cigars

Monday, August 22nd, 2022

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Top 5 JR 50th Cigars

Wednesday, August 17th, 2022

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Best sweet cigars: Top Five

Tuesday, August 16th, 2022

Understanding different flavor profiles is a great starting point when shopping for cigars you’re likely to enjoy. At JR Cigars you’ll find many different flavor profiles, from earthy and woody cigars, to alcohol-inspired creations with hints of whiskey and wine, to sweet and even fruity cigars.

The best sweet cigars will satisfy your sugar lust, but still offer plenty of balance and body. In this top five, you’ll find our pick of the best sweet cigars available from JR Cigars, all of which offer excellent value when you’re in the mood for a sweet and syrupy smoke.

Kentucky Fire Cured Fat Molly

Kentucky Fire Cured Fat Molly is a 5 x 56 stick that offers the very best of Nicaraguan filler and binder tobaccos, with a San Andres Mexican EMS wrapper. Created by the innovative minds at Drew Estate, Kentucky Fire Cured Cigars use tobacco normally found in a pipe, rather than a cigar.

This is fire-cured in barns, giving it a smoky profile, like the tobacco equivalent of BBQ sauce. Sweet, nutty, with a hickory twist, it’s a great starting point if you have a sweet tooth.

Sizes/Vitolas

Kentucky Fire Cured Cigars come in a long list of shapes and sizes, which you’ll find on sale at JR Cigars. These include:

  • Kentucky Fire Cured Chunky (4 x 46)
  • Kentucky Fire Cured Exclusive Midnight Rambler (7 x 60)
  • Kentucky Fire Cured Fat Molly (5 x 56)
  • Kentucky Fire Cured Flying Pig (4.12 x 60)
  • Kentucky Fire Cured Hamhock (3.75 x 56)
  • Kentucky Fire Cured Just A Friend (6 x 52)
  • Kentucky Fire Cured Kyotos (5.5 x 34)
  • Kentucky Fire Cured Ponies (4 x 32)

Most vitolas ship in bundles of 10, with some available in tins of 10 and boxes of 25 aluminum tubes. Find your favorite at JR Cigars.

La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva

La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva is a 5-star box-pressed delight by the Garcia family. Nicaraguan puros with a Cuban-seed Mexican oscuro wrapper come in five different sizes, with full strength that holds steady from start to finish. Expect a flavor profile of spiced earth and cocoa, with a rich and creamy smoke that delivers sweetness on the retrohales.

Sizes/Vitolas

From the 5.5 x 54 Maximo to the 6.87 x 50 Romantico, La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva gives you several sizes to choose between, so you can savor its sweetness for as long as you prefer.

  • La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva Beso (5.62 x 48)
  • La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva Divino (6.25 x 52)
  • La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva Maximo (5.5 x 54)
  • La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva Pomposo (6.5 x 60)
  • La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor Reserva Romantico (6.87 x 50)

With singles, packs of 5-10 and boxes of 24 all available from JR Cigars, you can try just one stick or fully stock your humidor with this sweet and creamy smoke.

Ashton Aged Maduro No. 60

Moving away from Nicaragua, Ashton Aged Maduro is a line of Dominican Republic sticks created by Ashton founder Robert Levin. With most vitolas identified by number rather than by name, we’ve picked out Ashton Aged Maduro No. 60 for this shortlist.

It’s a 7.5 x 52 Churchill with a Connecticut maduro wrapper and comes in a cedar presentation chest containing 25 cigars. The mellow to medium smoke is sweet, nutty and effortlessly delicious.

Sizes/Vitolas

Ashton Aged Maduro’s vitolas are numbered rather than named, with the exception of the torpedo-shaped 6 x 52 Pyramid.

  • Ashton Aged Maduro No. 10 (5 x 50)
  • Ashton Aged Maduro No. 20 (5.5 x 44)
  • Ashton Aged Maduro No. 30 (6.75 x 44)
  • Ashton Aged Maduro No. 40 (6 x 50)
  • Ashton Aged Maduro No. 50 (7 x 48)
  • Ashton Aged Maduro No. 56 (6 x 56)
  • Ashton Aged Maduro No. 60 (7.5 x 52)
  • Ashton Aged Maduro Pyramid (6 x 52)

Buy Ashton Aged Maduro at JR Cigars and choose between singles, packs of 5, or those stunning cedar chests of 25 sticks each.

Brick House Maduro Robusto

You can’t beat a good Robusto when you want to reach for a medium-sized cigar, and Brick House Maduro Robusto is perfect for a sweet palate. Measuring in at 5 x 54, the dark maduro wrapper gives this cigar a richness of flavor balanced by sweet chocolate, caramel and dried fruit.

It’s a mature sweetness, not sugar candy, and the Nicaraguan filler and binder tobaccos are impeccably enhanced by the chewy Brazilian Arapiraca wrapper leaves. A Brick House Cigars triumph that draws on 125 years of JC Newman expertise.

Sizes/Vitolas

Choose from several Brick House Maduro sizes at JR Cigars, including the vitola that lives up to its name, the 6.25 x 60 Brick House Maduro Mighty Mighty.

  • Brick House Maduro Mighty Mighty (6.25 x 60)
  • Brick House Maduro Robusto (5 x 54)
  • Brick House Maduro Toro (6 x 52)

Brick House Maduro is just one blend in the Brick House series. For more sweetness, try Brick House Double Connecticut for a flavor profile that includes coffee, cream and sweet cedar.

Perdomo 20th Anniversary Sungrown Epicure

Perdomo Cigars celebrated their 20th anniversary in style with a line-up of maduro and sungrown special editions. For our list we’ve chosen the Perdomo 20th Anniversary Sungrown Epicure, a Nicaraguan puro with a bourbon-barrel-aged EMS wrapper.

Zesty fillers and a flavor profile of sweet spices and cedar are enough to satisfy your candy cravings, with great savings on packs of 5 and boxes of 24 when you shop at JR Cigars.

Sizes/Vitolas

The full Perdomo 20th Anniversary line contains plenty of choice, both of size and of wrapper type.

With several gift sets available from JR Cigars – including a 5-stick Sungrown Epicure Gift Set – these cedar-sweet smokes make the perfect present for friends, family, or just to treat yourself to arguably Perdomo’s finest creation yet.

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Top Cigars with Dominican Tobaccos

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

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Top 5 Consensus Cigars

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022

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Best Cigar Ashtrays: Top Five

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022

Ash plays an important role in successfully smoking a premium cigar. Once the first inch of the cigar has burned to ash, it helps to regulate the airflow and prevent the cherry from burning too hot.

Keeping a steady inch of ash on your cigar — rather than allowing it to fall off of its own accord, or tapping all of the ash off as you go along — is part of the journey to becoming a true aficionado.

To achieve this, you need to adopt a gentle rolling action, removing fractions of ash at a time to keep around an inch-long stem hanging from the cherry. So what’s the best cigar ashtray to help you to do that?

JR 50th Anniversary Gold Ashtray

We launched the JR 50th Anniversary Gold Ashtray as the first cigar accessory in our year-long golden anniversary festivities. A striking white ceramic bowl with gold details, the ashtray features our 50th-anniversary logo in the center of a three-corner bowl. At each corner you’ll find an oversized cigar rest, suitable for even the fattest vitolas.

The feedback has been hugely positive, with 4-star and 5-star reviews across the board praising the ashtray’s striking good looks and sturdy performance, and we think it will become a firm favorite as a showpiece, a table centerpiece when smoking with a couple friends, or just as a companion when smoking alone.

Prestige Large Red Ceramic

A classic square ashtray with four cigar rests, Prestige Large Red Ceramic has one small but important design detail: the cigar rests are offset to the right of center. It’s a subtle difference that means when smoking with friends, your cigars won’t collide in the center of the ashtray. It also leaves the central space free for ash and makes full use of the entirety of the ceramic square bowl.

The durable ceramic finish can be cleaned easily with soap and water, and with an extra-deep basin to contain the ash, that makes this one of the best cigar ashtrays for outdoor use, or as a vibrant addition to your indoor smoking setup. You certainly shouldn’t have any problems spotting its scarlet ceramic, even if you prefer to enjoy your smokes after dark.

Stinky Cigar Large Black

More a cigar cauldron than a cigar ashtray, Stinky Cigar Large Black is a premium ashtray for true aficionados, and another excellent option if you like to smoke outside, especially with groups of friends. The solid construction of this chalice-like ashtray includes a black powder-coated malleable iron body with stainless steel cigar stirrups that safely hold your smokes clear of the ash.

With a diameter of 7 inches and a height of 6.5 inches, the deep basin offers some of the biggest ash capacity you’ll find, making the Stinky Cigar Large ashtray the perfect accompaniment to a cookout where guests will be smoking all day. If you’re not inspired by the plain black finish, we stock this one in multiple colors, including blue and red.

Cupholder Black With JR Logo

One more option if you want to show some love for the world’s largest cigar store! Cupholder Black With JR Logo is proof that the best cigar ashtray doesn’t have to cost more than a few bucks. All you need is somewhere to rest your cigar when you want to put it down, and a nice deep bowl to contain the ash as you tap and roll it off.

The genius of this cigar ashtray is its cup shape, allowing it to rest in any standard cupholder. Add an integrated ashtray to your car, golf buggy or favorite camping chair in an instant — just remember you’ll need to find somewhere else to hold your beer! With 5-star customer reviews across the board, you can put your trust (and your favorite cigar) in this clever little ashtray, while showing off the classic JR Cigars logo on the side of the cup.

Xikar Wave Black Ashtray

We end with a genuinely designer cigar ashtray from Xikar, one of the leading names globally in designer cigar accessories. The Xikar Wave Black Ashtray caters for larger groups better than anything on this list, with a total of six sloping cigar slots around a deep circular basin.

The bowl’s vertical edges give you maximum capacity to hold ash inside, while the open-faced cigar stirrups mean even the fattest vitolas will rest comfortably on the edge of this ergonomically designed ashtray.

Finished in durable black ceramic, with the iconic Xikar logo to show the world that you have excellent tastes in designer cigar ashtrays, this is a must-buy if you ever smoke in groups of five or six. Remember you’re not limited to buying just one ashtray — choose 2-3 from this list and you’ll have options inside, outside and even on the move!

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