Habanos & Puros

[Alga]

I saw the whole Guild and I could not find a Topic about "Habanos & Puros"
So...since today, there is gonna be a place for the ones that loves them.

First of all, I'm gonna make an introduction about the things that we should know about Habanos & Puros for those who does not know too much about them. So lets start!!!!! burning_eyes

We will start with the flavors:
An Puro might be sweet or might be with some bitterness, could be asperous, smooth or hard to smoke, and its important to say that as it burns...the flavor can change. We can smoke an smooth one with sweet flavors and as it burns you might feel a flavor a little bitter, this is a normal thing and it does not means that your Puro is a bad one.

You start to enjoy your Puro by the touch, then by your vision and then by your sense of smell. Now I'm gonna share some tips that someone must know if he wants to buy a good Puro:

1.- When you select a Puro that you wanna buy, you have to press it smoothley with your fingers, taking care that the puro does not got some parts too smooth or to tight. If you notize that the Puro has some of this things...it might burn to fast.

2.- Its very important to smell it very close to your nose. If you find some smells like wood or species, its for sure that the Tabaco has been selected very carefully, and because of that its gonna be a good Puro. Now, at the time that you are smelling it...if you find some smells like grass, its probabably because the tabaco is too young, and its level of Nicotina and Pitch might be high, so be carefull.

3.- With our sight we can figure the kind of Tabaco wich was used for the Puro; we need to chose one with a continious color, smooth and with good shape, all those things...means that the Puro was made by expert hands.

Well...now with all those things, the buyer got the half of what a real Puro is about. And for the ones that have not smoke a Puro yet, I'll give an advice:

(If you want to start to smoke some Puros, I thin the best thing you can do is buy first some smooth ones, then get used them and after that...buy a harder one).  

[Alga]

THE ORIGIN OF THE TABACCO.

Sometimes when we smoke any kind of Puro or Habano, we wonder where did they come from, its roots, its origin.

The first people in the whole world that smoked the Tabacco...were the Mayas, 1500 years ago. Its legacy of peculiar images show us the caracter that they gave to the tabacco. They used to smoke it as an spiritual thing.
Later, other kind of civilizations from the pre-Columbian America, since Canadá until Brasil, passing by the Caribean Islands used to smoke the tabacco, not just as a remedy against pains or some illness but also as a narcotic and complement nutritious.

The idea to smoke as something spiritual died when the Aztecs started to smoke the tabacco with their people as something social.

FROM AMERICA TO EUROPE.

When Cristóbal Colón found all the beautiful things of México, he had a pal called Rodrigo de Jerez, a seaworthy that took the tabacco into Spain.

From Spain the Tabacco traveled to the whole Europe, and the French ambassador in Portugal, Jean Nicot, introduced it into France as a remedy to the pains that the Queen Catalina had in her head. Years later the maritime trips took the tabacco into Asia and the rest of the world.
The tabacco was and keeps being a thing so social.

SOME IMPORTANT THINGS THAT WE SHOULD KNOW.

a) The name "Nicotine" came from Jean Nicot, a french ambassador.
b) We can say that thanks to Cristóbal Colón, the europeans know the Tabacco.
c) Thanks to the trips of Drake & Hawkins, the tabacco traveled around the world.
d) Sir Walter Raleigh was the first dude that took the seed of tabacco into Ingland. (In mexico we have a brand called "Raleigh")