Comments on: Nub Connecticut Cigar Review

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:15:39 +0000

Here is what some people do not know, as my commetns above on the quality and mold in the NUb I smoked. Torano, CAO, Oliva, and such are all made in the same place, so when it comes to quality you have to really blame it on production. CAO Sopranos have had a histoyr of being full of bugs, or eggs and especially when exposed to shipping or higher temperatures than 73 degrees the eggs hatch and they are buggy, I have experienced this in 3 different Sopranos cigars. Including the Tony Signature. The NUB is a great concept and I have smoked a Vegas 5 Miami that are stubby and they were great, no good luck with the Nub and yes it might be isolated incident but when you realize that the potential for lack of quality control all comes form the same factory, you begin to wonder. It is my understanding that thsi factoyr has been sold to some foreign entity. I am sure Jack has the details. Will it get better or worse? That si the question. I love the big ring gauges and short smokes as it provides a powerful punch as you have much more tobacco in a shorter cigar. You get alot more flavor and concentrate o nicotine.
I love the short cigar and larger ring gauge idea, it is a great smoke, but as in all cigars, production and tobacco dictates taste.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:11:55 +0000

What exactly do people have against larger ring gauges? If you prefer one size over the other than that is fine but why would you make a sweeping judgment about people based on Ring Gauge? That’s absurd. Why not hate people that drive blue cars?

I don’t like small thin cigars and I despise big Churchills as well. I like torpedoes mainly (5-6″ x 52 54 typically) and I do enjoy larger 60 cigars. They smoke cooler most of the way and typically I get a nice volume of smoke. I find that I can taste a cigar better when it doesn’t last 20 minutes and burn my face off for the last 10. But that doesn’t mean I would look down on a Churchill smoker. I mean what does it have to do with my smoking? Nothing.

So my question once again is why do people feel so strongly against a larger gauge? Is it some sort of cigar snobbery or is there some actual technical reason why larger sizes suck?

-Dave

By: Vincent S

Vincent S — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:13:04 +0000

You really cannot judge a cigar with one try – there are so many variables. Sometimes cigars get mold or beetles…it happens. The construction on these is as good as any other $5 cigar. Why are so many so upset about large gauge cigars? Get over it and try something new. I’ve smoked several Connecticut Nubs and a few Cameroons and they are among the best I’ve had. Like any cigar they need some time in the humidor. If you smoke a cigar, any cigar, straight out of the shop or right on delivery it’s going to be dry or unstable.

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:20:15 +0000

I smoked one of these back in August that I had got from the IPCPRA show and it was not too bad, personally a bit dry for me, but last night at the local B&M, he had just got his first delivery of them, to try one of the CONN wrapper as the first one I smoked was the maduro, I hole punched it and lit it up and YUCK what the HAY,, another puff and I almost puked, then inspecting the cigar noticed the blue coloring coming through the wrapper, went back in the HUMI and about 1/3 of the box had blued and the wrappers were spotty and stained. Make sure if you buy a box open it right away and check the contents, we went through a second box and foudn the same thing so it was not isolated to one box. Sorry but I prefer to let others know, so in my opinion they fall into the category of the CAO Sopranos cigars, lack of quality control. I tried to smoke another cigar but the lingering taste from the NUB ruined it also.

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By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 06:53:30 +0000

I have been smoking a few of these and I really like em! They are a very nice addition to the cigar world IMHO! A bit of humidor time without the cellophane should take away the slight tanic taste.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:06:01 +0000

Right… that’s like saying any cigar over 5 inches is a waste of tobacco. It all depends on what you want to smoke and how much time you have.

So you are going to avoid a whole group of people just because of the type of cigar they want to smoke? I’m sure they appreciate the courtesy.

By: Tom from NC

Tom from NC — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:04:14 +0000

Huxley,

While typically I would agree (though I’ll go 54-56 on a torpedo), the point of doing that with the NUb was to extend the smoking time. The cigar is kept to 4″ or so, because they only wanted to use the heart of the leaf. The theory being that a cigar gets good when there is 4″ left, why not just start there.

To keep it at an 1.5 hr smoke, they had to increase the ring size quite a bit.

While I agree that maybe they should also make some 50 ring gauges for shorter smokes, I will certainly try a NUb when I can.

–Tom

By: Adam Snider

Adam Snider — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:04:01 +0000

@Thomas: How is it “wasteful,” especially in the case of something like the Nub, which is such a short cigar? I tend to prefer smaller ring gauges, but I would never refuse to smoke something just because the ring gauge was “too large,” nor would I assume that the type of people who do enjoy such cigars are somehow not good people to be around.

Besides, the ring gauge can have a significant effect on both the burn time, and the flavour profile of a cigar, so it isn’t “wasteful” to make sticks with larger ring gauges.