[Review] Mizicke's Custom Special

**Mizicke5273** · 05-10-2011, 12:13 PM

The Review

Movie: Canadian Bacon
Drink: Bird Dog Blackberry Whiskey
Location: Back deck

Prelight:
- I used a punch to limit the damage to the wrapper and cap. I think I made the right decision doing that.
- The draw was loose, which is to be expected, but not as loose as I would have thought.

First Part:
- This was tough to light, which I'll attribute to the small cracks and damage.
- For the first few puffs I wasn't able to pick up any flavors. Unfortunately I had to put the cigar down for ~20 minutes and had to relight it.

- Upon the relight, I was able to pick up a smooth peppery taste.
- As the more I got into the First part the pepper continued to pick up and become stronger. There were also some hints of leathery spice developing.
- I had to do some touch ups to the burn, nothing too bad though. I was actually surprised the burn wasn't worse than it was.
- Continued to be smooth.

You can see a crack in the wrapper developing here, though nothing came of it and it didn't impact the burn.

2nd Part:
- The pepper has begun to pick up again....but so have some burn issues.
- The leathery spice flavor has begun to meld with the strong pepper taste. Which is a bit fascinating as I don't think I ever experienced that with flavors in a cigar before. Oh, it is quite good to.

- With about a little less than 2 inches left, I quite taking notes and just enjoyed the great cigar.

Final:
This was an enjoyable smoke to say the least, and it was pretty fun to smoke and review as well. In the end, I think my patch work held up pretty well. I have no idea how much, or if any, the wrapper patches effected the original taste. I'm really happy I was able to salvage the cigar and that it smoked really well without any incidents.

**badwhale** · 05-10-2011, 12:49 PM

Thanks for the review. Next thing ya know, you'll be making barber poles for fuente...

**JiveTurkey** · 05-10-2011, 02:35 PM

How about a camouflage pattern with three wrapper colors?

Mizicke, did the binder on the Ashton also tear? I had a cigar with a split/torn wrapper and I just used a gelatinous pectin solution to seal the wrapper to the binder. There was exposed binder and it smoked normally.

**Mizicke5273** · 05-10-2011, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by JiveTurkey

How about a camouflage pattern with three wrapper colors?

Mizicke, did the binder on the Ashton also tear? I had a cigar with a split/torn wrapper and I just used a gelatinous pectin solution to seal the wrapper to the binder. There was exposed binder and it smoked normally.

The big area at the bottom was both wrapper and binder. Never thought to mention that, good catch there. The rest was just the wrapper, thought the crack at the top was as big as the Grand Canyon.