Puro Pot Pass III

[Mizicke5273]

EGQ notified me he is ready via PM. These should be flying today.

[ashauler]

Congrats on the win!!! I agree, the El Baton is a fine smoke indeed. You don't hear very much about them either.

[mail man]

Wow, congrats on the huge prize pack.
I got to asy, you really know how to make someone want a cigar... the way you described that one, I am looking for one right now.

Keith

[mrtr33]

Its about time some one got it right.

Congrats. Awesome job! I was getting worried about the size of that thing.

My puts:

LFD Double Press
La Aroma De Cuba Robusto (old blend)
Padron 1964 Anniversary Principe Maduro

If these are good, I'll get this out on Monday.

EGQ notified me he is ready via PM. These should be flying today.

Thanks for posting your puts. Sounds like things are already in the works as far as moving the pass along to EGQ. Ya'll don't even need me.

Sig tag sent.

[ashauler]

Congrats. Awesome job! I was getting worried about the size of that thing.





Thanks for posting your puts. Sounds like things are already in the works as far as moving the pass along to EGQ. Ya'll don't even need me.

Sig tag sent.

Yes, we do!!

[Mizicke5273]

Thanks, I'll be enjoying this pot for a bit.

I've dropped off the package to the PO, DC #9405 5036 9930 0222 0602 01

[EGQ]

Cigars arrived this afternoon -- I will try to smoke the puro tomorrow or Friday.

[EGQ]

I looked at my social calendar and realized that I would be hard pressed to smoke this puro before early next week, so its coming out of the humidor with only 8 hours rest...

The cigar is Churchill sized -- 7.25" x 48, I would say it has a Colorado wrapper -- medium to dark redddish brown, and the pre-light aroma was almost all cedar (was it cedar wrapped at one point?). The wrapper was smooth with a few pronounced veins. This poor guy got banged up a bit in transit, but it is still a nice looking smoke.

After the cut, the draw was perfect -- no real taste hints here -- pretty confident this will smoke nicely. After smoking this for 10 or 15 minutes, the spice and pepper start come on strong -- definitely a medium to full bodied smoke with a lot of spicy flavor. The spice/pepper flavor was pervasive for the remainder of the smoke.

I've never been one to focus that closely on my smokes -- I never delve deeper than whether I liked or didn't like it; so this is new exercise for me. I'm more of "sit back and relax" cigar smoker -- I don't want to give it too much thought. So in a way, this has been like trying to guess a woman's bra size -- in the end, I know what I like, and the only way to figure that out is a hands on approach... Turns out I liked this cigar -- a lot.

I ruled out Cuban based on the size -- most Cuban Churchills come in at 7" religiously. I'm torn between Nicaraguan and Dominican, but I'm going Dominican (flavor, wrapper).

[Mizicke5273]

I ruled out Cuban based on the size -- most Cuban Churchills come in at 7" religiously. I'm torn between Nicaraguan and Dominican, but I'm going Dominican (flavor, wrapper).

The stick you just smoked was one of the new Brick House Churchills, a NICARAGUAN puro.

I'm glad you enjoyed the smoke, and sorry it got roughed up a bit in transit. I hope it wasn't too bad.

These have been very tasty lately and are one of my favs. I need to pick up a box of them soon.