Evolving Tastes

PuroFreak

Krieg

I have actually been noticing this with myself also. When I started, I usually stayed with the mild cigars such has Macanudo Cafe and Maduros. I remember smoking a Mac. Robust which is a medium bodied smoke and not liking it too much. And now after about a year, I find myself smoking and enjoying medium to full bodied cigars. I smoked another Robust and loved it. I guess it's the natural progression of things, start with mild and just work your way up to more full bodied cigars. I still have to take it easy when smoking a cuban, I am pretty much done smoking cigars for awhile after smoking one of those.

Dude Love

My range is still pretty broad due to the lack of smoking weather...come on spring time!

dutyje

My tastes have evolved exactly the same way that you described, Puro.

PuroFreak

dutyje:

My tastes have evolved exactly the same way that you described, Puro.

Wow, soooo different, yet so alike... haha

kuzi16

rwheelwright

I can say that my tastes have changed a lot of the past year. However, I am still not very good at picking out flavors. I can detect different flavors and more of them now but I can't say "Wow, that is chocolate or Pecans, etc..."

dutyje

bbc020

kuzi16

PuroFreak

phobicsquirrel

I'm a newb! Only been smoking for a few years but really started to burn money last year. hehe. I too have noticed my likes and love change. Before I was very strict on what cigars I like and enjoyed. But over the last couple of months I have really been noticing that I like stronger cigars and even several cigars which I at one time didn't like, but now love. The most recent cigar was the triple ligero and beast. I first had them about 3 years ago or mabye 2.. but I really didn't like them. Too strong but now They are on my top 5 list. I'm also able to detect subtle tastes that I didn't before.

phobicsquirrel

PuroFreak

gaberox

kuzi16

Jetmech_63

I started off on RP 90 & 92. From there i tried diffrent things but still in the same realm of body and flavor (5 Vegas Classics, REO, Other RP, Oliva...) Now i go into the b&m humidor...sht the door...look around and do a Dr. Evil impression of putting my pinky to my mouth LOL. I'll smoke ANY cigar i havent tried before but really like smoking cigars from diffrent regions and makers with the same wrapper or filler just to see the diffrence. I dont smoke as many milds as i used to but i dont mind them at all. I love wine so i approach cigars like wine. A Cab from one winery in Napa tastes diffrent than one from a diffrent winery....though they both still have Cab characteristics...all in all it's really fun!

gaberox

Jetmech_63

MMMMM IPA. We got a brand here called Lagunitas...deeeelightful

gaberox

kuzi16

rwheelwright

kuzi16

urbino

Yeah, to me the IPA takes a good thing and carries it much too far. If I want something that bitter, I'll just chew an aspirin.

kuzi16

urbino

True. I have to be in just the right mood for Guiness. I'm not much of a beer person to start with, so it's pretty rare for me to want to visit that far end of the spectrum.

phobicsquirrel

urbino:

Yeah, to me the IPA takes a good thing and carries it much too far. If I want something that bitter, I'll just chew an aspirin.

lol, wow. Some IPA's are too overboard... Though I do love them. I've had a lot. I like stouts myself. Guiness is one of my favorite beers. Sam Adams makes a great few beers. I have however figured out that I do not like combining beers with cigars. Though a mocha stout sometimes works.

SmokeRing

I also don't generally care for beer with cigars, when having an "adult beverage" with my stogie I prefer good single malt scotch or bourbon. >< Back to the topic, I have been smoking cigars and pipes for a long time. I started with pipes and didn't care for cigars until years later. In a way I think this helped because I was able to decern the different flavors in the blends of cigar tobacco right from the start (I just didn't know what to refer to them as) I started with mild sticks, predominately dominican and almost everything I smoked was by Arturo Fuente. I gradually moved up the fullness scale but it took a number of years before I could stand maduro blends. Now maduros are my mainstays. In the last year or two I have found myself getting a bit fatuiged by them and came to the realization that what I want in a cigar is complexity since then I have been working more variety, both in terms of strength and blend, into my rotation. I have to confess that it still takes an act of will to not automatically pick up the darker selection of a blend, but I'm improving!