Puro Pot Pass III

[badwhale]

Mark,

I'd love to participate in this.

Thanks,
Will

[buzz]

Me too, I have been practicing for months.

-Buzz

[ndv21]

I'll give it a shot. Count me in!

[ashauler]

I'm in.

[TheRichLife]

I'm in.

[Cigarbear]

I'll jump in on this!

[Mangyrat]

I'm in.

[Tdre977]

Me too, I have been practicing for months.

-Buzz

Looks like practice makes perfect, good job buzz!

[mrtr33]

So, with EdgeMan (temporarily?) out of the pass, I'm up after Eville. And, as promised, you'll be able to make a sig tag for me. Go ahead and make it embarrassing - I don't care. Just make sure it's legal. I'm going to win, anyway, so all of this is a moot point........

For uniformity purposes, it would be cool if the style of the fonts and sizes were kept intact. I use a font called "Eight Track" for the title and the year, another font called "Pericles" for the country of origin, and another font called "Base 05" for the Winner/Loser title. "Eight Track" and "Base 05" are freely available at dafont.com - "Pericles" is a Windows font. If you want, I can e-mail this font to you.

For sizes, for vertical images, I've been going with sizes around 360px X 460 px. Horizontal tags are just opposite of that, but you know, they grow/shrink as the image allows. I do most of the work in PhotoShop.

I suppose, if you wanted me to, you could send me the photo you wanted, and I could make the tag myself......but I know that wouldn't be any fun. Let me know if you have any questions, and have fun at my expense!

[Eville]

Just got the pack a few minutes ago. The prize is at it's new, permanent home in my humidor along with the puro. I will likely knock this out later tonight if the weather holds out.

Edit: Almost forgot, mrtr33, I already have your puro and the new, 3-cigar prize pack boxed up and ready to go. Go ahead and PM me your addy and I will get that out first thing in the morning.

[Eville]

Smoking this puro now. A few things about it, nice solid feel, no major soft spots and smooth with only one vein that is noticeable. It measures 5x50 and has a Colorado shade wrapper. I couldn't discern much of a prelight taste. Upon lighting was an initial kick of black pepper followed by mellow woodsy and earthy notes. Right off the bat I am thinking Nicaraguan. Into the second third and the wood and pepper is coming out much more strongly than the earth. This one is strongly reminding me of a certain cigar I smoked about a month ago but just a little different. Could be due to the different size or the fact that I only let this one rest for about 8 hours after traveling. Back to the puro now into the final third. Wood notes are picking up even more, about the only thing that is coming through.

I am going to go with my initial guess and say that this was a Nicaraguan puro, and reminded me strongly of an Oliva Serie O I smoked about a month ago. If I'm right, I enjoyed this size more then the other one, so I might need to get some more. Thanks for the smoke, Buzz!

[buzz]

Smoking this puro now. A few things about it, nice solid feel, no major soft spots and smooth with only one vein that is noticeable. It measures 5x50 and has a Colorado shade wrapper. I couldn't discern much of a prelight taste. Upon lighting was an initial kick of black pepper followed by mellow woodsy and earthy notes. Right off the bat I am thinking Nicaraguan. Into the second third and the wood and pepper is coming out much more strongly than the earth. This one is strongly reminding me of a certain cigar I smoked about a month ago but just a little different. Could be due to the different size or the fact that I only let this one rest for about 8 hours after traveling. Back to the puro now into the final third. Wood notes are picking up even more, about the only thing that is coming through.

I am going to go with my initial guess and say that this was a Nicaraguan puro, and reminded me strongly of an Oliva Serie O I smoked about a month ago. If I'm right, I enjoyed this size more then the other one, so I might need to get some more. Thanks for the smoke, Buzz!

Glad you enjoyed it bro, I too thought they tasted like an Oliva.. and was hoping that would fool you! That was a Joyas de Panama, 100% Panamanian, my friend. Dang that was mean of me choosing such an obscure stick, I feel really bad

For those interested, I have only found these cigars available from their website: www.joyasdepanamacigars.com (or you can buy them locally in Oregon). They only have 5 sizes and one wrapper shade, but in my newbie opinion they are worth checking out. If nothing else just to see what a cigar from Panama is like.

-Buzz