Comments on: Coffee and Cigars

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:43:41 +0000

Yeh I know what you mean mate… although my personal philosophy is that if you’re trying two things you really enjoy, then the union is always going to be a good thing. I find my favourite things to have with cigars are coffee, red wine, port / fortified liqueurs, and dark chocolate.

By: bkroll

bkroll — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:36:27 +0000

Matt.
This is an awesome idea! Some of my buddies and I spend many nights trying to match the perfect cigar with that perfect bottle of vino. As you can imagine this is a difficult task. It’s really just the idea of combining two of my favorite things into one event. I will definately have to give the coffee paring a try.

By: Grendel

Grendel — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:45:21 +0000

Lucky for me I picked Cuban coffee – I almost went with another Central American origin. I’ll be interested to see how it pairs with the cigars.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:26:48 +0000

Cheers for that Josh. I’ll have to find a note book or something to bring along this time. Or perhaps make sure to take a photo of the wrapper at the end, seeing as this entire blog is my extended list of tasting notes :)

By: Josh Devlin

Josh Devlin — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:57:51 +0000

Matt,

The cigar we smoked last time was a Bolivar Belicosos Finos, and I’ll be damned if it wasn’t the best Bolivar I’ve smoked in the last 3 or so months. The cigar for this Sunday is a very, very special cigar, a limited release Cuban that will go down a treat – looking forward to catching up again mate!

–J.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:19:20 +0000

Brad: You’ll find the Dominicans are not too shabby at all when it comes to rolling the odd cigar (or pancake for that matter)… So I’ll thank you to keep your cigarist opinions to yourself ;)

Silverbrow: It’s banned mostly everywhere here too… In fact Western Australia has some of the strictest smoking laws in the world. Which is why we’ll be sitting in a nice little courtyard outside of the cafe, which is currently still allowed (although who knows for how long). So perhaps a private gathering out the back of a sympathetic local cafe might work ?

By: Silverbrow

Silverbrow — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:44:48 +0000

Now that is a way to spend an afternoon. On reading the post I started to get all excited about how I might be able to arrange one – only to be thwarted by the afterthought that smoking is now verboten here. Damn those health laws.

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 05:59:59 +0000

Matt,

Just make sure those cigars haven’t been rolled by a Dominican. You could lose an eye if that happens.