I have been trying to get hold of this stuff from Bernard for about a year.
I finally have some in stock. The problem is I really don’t know what it is. It looks like twist on a stick. Has anybody tried it? Any opinions? A review would be great.
Thanks,
Dave
it’s for playing drums? If you sent me a box and wrote it off on your taxes as a business expense I could figure it out.
The internet says it’s a cigar and that the stick is removed before smoking which leaves a channel for the smoke to go through.
hah, I saw those on their website a while back and was wondering what they were, myself. Strange things but interesting.
They look like the Skoal Sticks i have only read about. I think you chew on them, kinda like the old lady w/a twig and some scotch snuff.
according to german website they are cigars. Either everyone selling them has no idea what they are or they are cigars. The stick to make a draw way is brilliant.
@bob your right of course, i was speculating on what they resembled. Although, i have chewed on some mighty tasty cigars.
it’s a cheroot
I think that’s an olde-timey european traditional way of making them.
Why leave the stick in? You can find many cheap cigars that are pre-punctured for you, but I never seen em with a stick stuck in it too.
maybe it helps it hold shape. Maybe they just think it’s funny. Maybe it’s so you keep it in your septum piercing untill you’re ready to smoke it.
It would help if you could take one apart and tell us if it’s actually whole leaves around the stick or what. But regardless of the stick, it certainly seems to be a cigar. The only english written reference I could find was on a pipe forum and one user said very confidently that it was a cigar.
Thanks for the input. I guess I will have to create a new category then: cigars.
Also it seems like it is not actually a Bernards product, but rather just something they sell.
I think the point is to keep the passage gauranteed(sp?) to stay clear. If you’ve smoked cigars for quite a while you’ve probably had a cigar that just wouldn’t draw, which is a bummer for sure!
Is it a stick or a straw ?
There is a brand of Austrian cheroots with a straw through the middle for ease of drawing.
The cheroot is constructed round the straw. I believe they make something similar in Mexico.
@Mr.O and it’s always a really good expensive cigar too.
Yes, well I’ve been lucky with the really top shelf ones-knock on wood, but I may have had a bad $5-6 stick here and there. I suggest that if anybody is unfamiliar, they should look up the “Drawpoker”, which runs a fat needle through a clogged cigar, it does work- I have one.
my cigar shop that is no more 
would replace one if it didn’t draw. I found this out cause they asked me what I thought of one and I said it didn’t draw. They insisted I get one that smoked good.
That’s a bummer to lose a good shop. A couple of years ago we lost the last shop of a nice local 3 shop chain. With the taxes in MN it’s hard to run one, but there are a few good shops left at least. Just for comparison a local shop has Silver Dollar for $4.99, WE Garret for $5.99, or Honest for about $7.50 ea. It seems like many areas they would be less, but I could be wrong…
Lost it over ten years ago. Yeah I was 16 when I started buying cigars there. Great place. Like a bar with less stupid (though they didn’t mind my drunkeness.)