mjolnir01
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After starting a thread about these cigars in the Lounge here, I finally decided to light this cigar up tonight.
Man O' War Torpedo
Size: 6.1" x 54
Country: Nicaragua
Beverage: Greene King Abbot Ale
The cigar is well made with no obvious flaws. The wrapper is reddish-brown with some tooth. The band, even though it's trivial, is very nice. The prelight is predominantly barnyard.
After toasting the foot and taking the first puffs, the taste has a hardwood core, with touches of light pepper and a pleasant creaminess. The cigar produces a large amount of brown smoke. The draw is good and the ash is dark gray with brown spots.
By the middle third, the complexity dies down a bit. The creaminess goes away, and the finish has a slight mineral taste to it. It's not unpleasant at all, but by the final third the cigar isn't really producing much flavor at all and I find myself drawing more frequently to get more spice out of it. It doesn't turn bitter though, which I like.
I let the cigar go out with about an inch left. I get no nic kick out of this smoke at all.
This cigar has been touted, at least by it's internet vendor, as a poor-man's Opus X. I didn't get that at all. The Man O' War isn't a bad smoke, but it doesn't have the complexity in flavor that I like. I would classify it as a solidly medium-bodied smoke. Like so many CI sticks, it's not as transcendent as they claim. That being said, it isn't a bad cigar-- very decent at first, and definitely at least worth a try. I've got 4 more left and I'll smoke one again in a few months to see what a little age does for them. I'd also like to try a smaller one, maybe a corona or a robusto to see if it maintains it's original charm longer in a smaller size.
Barry
Edit for some wording and grammar.
Man O' War Torpedo
Size: 6.1" x 54
Country: Nicaragua
Beverage: Greene King Abbot Ale
The cigar is well made with no obvious flaws. The wrapper is reddish-brown with some tooth. The band, even though it's trivial, is very nice. The prelight is predominantly barnyard.
After toasting the foot and taking the first puffs, the taste has a hardwood core, with touches of light pepper and a pleasant creaminess. The cigar produces a large amount of brown smoke. The draw is good and the ash is dark gray with brown spots.
By the middle third, the complexity dies down a bit. The creaminess goes away, and the finish has a slight mineral taste to it. It's not unpleasant at all, but by the final third the cigar isn't really producing much flavor at all and I find myself drawing more frequently to get more spice out of it. It doesn't turn bitter though, which I like.
I let the cigar go out with about an inch left. I get no nic kick out of this smoke at all.
This cigar has been touted, at least by it's internet vendor, as a poor-man's Opus X. I didn't get that at all. The Man O' War isn't a bad smoke, but it doesn't have the complexity in flavor that I like. I would classify it as a solidly medium-bodied smoke. Like so many CI sticks, it's not as transcendent as they claim. That being said, it isn't a bad cigar-- very decent at first, and definitely at least worth a try. I've got 4 more left and I'll smoke one again in a few months to see what a little age does for them. I'd also like to try a smaller one, maybe a corona or a robusto to see if it maintains it's original charm longer in a smaller size.
Barry
Edit for some wording and grammar.
