buzz: I’ll admit that because I had already ready a half dozen reviews of this stick that I was ready to toss it out with a F grade before I even pulled it out of the humi. Honestly, it wasn’t as bad as I expected flavor-wise. The burn was nice and even, and the draw was perfect. It produced a great amount of smoke that had a semi-decent aroma. The appearance and construction of the stick were good. The prelight taste was very bad, but the 1st third was ok, followed by fair in the 2nd and then poor in the 3rd. I remember back to my days playing trumpet in a jazz band when in a set, we wanted our two best songs to be the first and the last – that way we woke the audience up with a tune that really got them excited about the show - then we would close with a song that they would remember. This stick was a great example of how not to perform a jazz gig. Was that too poetic? Probably...
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