Cold weather...to what lengths for a cigar?

[kuma]

When all else fails we do have a  great cigar bar in New Haven, Ct about 3 miles from my home called  "The Owl Shop".

Where it is ok to sm0ke, drink and eat all at once.  If anyone is ever in the area ring  (PM) me up and I'll do my

best to meet and greet you.  Great bunch of people there from townies to a Yale Profes. with construction workers thrown in

to P.H.D. cnaidates (hot honies) that like to smoke and drink.  Even though it is a blue city in a blue state there is nothing

fake about the place and people.  Common thread is a good smoke paired with a good drink which makes for a level

playing field!

[BellevilleMXZ]

Non attached garage for me, that's heated so not a huge issue. I have tried outside when real cold, but cigar never seems to burn or taste real good

[GrouchoMarx]

On 05/11/2017 at 3:52 PM, BTWheezy said:

Winter (well, the rain in Seattle) is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere...

It is an increasingly pain in the ass to bundle up for a smoke, as Mrs. Wheezy says “not in the house.”  I find myself donning several layers of clothing to keep warm for an hour or so, and I don’t even live in a REAL cold climate like plenty of you do.

For those in the same boat - colder climate, must smoke outside - how do you prepare for a cigar?  Any tips you can pass along?  Is a full ski mask too much?  

 

Lets hear it Canada!  Sweden...how about you?  Chi-town?

My house. My rules. 

I do have a "smoke eating cleaning" fan - and I limit my sticks to my office and the family room. The smoke eater works pretty darn good.

Oh - and no kids in the house.

[ComancheKeen]

I’m usually smoking in the garage from mid October to April. Anything below 0C and I won’t bother smoking outdoors as I find the low humidity and temperatures does not work well with cigars.

We’ve had a bit of an early cold spell the last week or so. -15C to -20C. Not outrageous for here (Canadian prairies) but if the wind is blowing, look out. My attached garage (no heat) has been staying around 1-3C in this weather. Winter coat and hat and I can tolerate it for an hour or so. My little fan assisted electric heater will bump it up to around 8-10C if I let it run for a few hours before hand. Any colder than -20C and I’ll head for the car if I really want to smoke. That said I normally just stick to shorter smokes in this weather. Usually 30-60min smoking time until spring hits.

[Buck14]

1 hour ago, ComancheKeen said:

I’m usually smoking in the garage from mid October to April. Anything below 0C and I won’t bother smoking outdoors as I find the low humidity and temperatures does not work well with cigars.

We’ve had a bit of an early cold spell the last week or so. -15C to -20C. Not outrageous for here (Canadian prairies) but if the wind is blowing, look out. My attached garage (no heat) has been staying around 1-3C in this weather. Winter coat and hat and I can tolerate it for an hour or so. My little fan assisted electric heater will bump it up to around 8-10C if I let it run for a few hours before hand. Any colder than -20C and I’ll head for the car if I really want to smoke. That said I normally just stick to shorter smokes in this weather. Usually 30-60min smoking time until spring hits.

Wow, we MIGHT get 5 days total in Chicago this winter at -20C, and only if you count wind chill. You are way more of a man than I am if you smoke in that temp!

[Pharmacovigilant]

Surprised no one‘s mentioned this, but I sit on my porch with an electric blanket draped over my legs. With space heaters, the heat is lost to the atmosphere, but the heating blanket delivers it directly to me. That, and a mug of hot coffee or tea.

[ComancheKeen]

8 hours ago, Buck14 said:

Wow, we MIGHT get 5 days total in Chicago this winter at -20C, and only if you count wind chill. You are way more of a man than I am if you smoke in that temp!

I only smoke in the garage or car when it’s thats cold! We get the occasional day (or week...) of around -30C or around -45C with windchill, but I wouldn’t dare to smoke outdoors then as not worth losing digits over!

[LordAnubis]

There are the same problems for the opposite climate. Who wants to smoke a cigar in 40 degree heat!?!? Worse yet if it’s 35 and 90% humidity and lots of mozzies buzzing around. Stuff that ****!. Cohiba Shorts is about all I can handle for those situations.

 

 

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[JR Kipling]

Last winter temps got down to -22C and I smoked cigars. I’d either sit in my pick-up truck while running the engine or use a little improvised ‘smoking shack’ with electric heater on our homestead. The door on the shack has to be opened a little for ventilation. Same with the window on the pick-up. Results were somewhat satisfactory. The outside cold air hitting the cigars & ultra low winter humidity impacted wrappers, the burn, and taste for most cigars.

I’ll smoke a few this winter, especially if temps run closer to 0 C on some days. But, the colder months are those when I do more pipe smoking. (I actually first got into pipes for that reason.) You can have a short smoke with a pipe and later come back to it. For some reason, pipe tobacco seems less impacted by extremes in temperature and humidity (especially if a cob is chosen). There are also lots of pipe tobacco blends that have a very pleasant ‘room note ‘ and can be smoked inside without bothering non-smoking family members. So now I enjoy both cigars and pipes.

[JoeyGunz]

London traffic, a cracked window in the motor, heated seat and AC on.

[CaptainQuintero]

  I wait until spring, I look forward to it throughout the winter and get more and more excited the closer it gets 

  I don't see too much points sitting outside for two hours going numb. If I had a roaring fire going then that another thing, but I'm not going to get huge fire going every time I fact a cigar!

[RazorbackFan]

Winters are mild in Atlanta but I still scale my cigar smoking way back. When I do smoke, I burn through smaller cigars like minutos, Perlas, CoShos, etc. 

I also bought a corncob pipe and a few tins of pipe tobacco for the winter also. Shorter smoke for shorter time period. I’m an extreme rookie and can barely pack the thing, but that’s my “pipe plan”, anyway. If nothing else, it’ll give my CCs time to rest a bit longer.