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benjiev
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Yahoo............. Large box sitting inside my doorstep
Off to govern at city council meeting will open it when I get back and smoke my cigar (man is it going to be hard sitting through 3 hours of agenda knowing there is a cigar waiting for me at home)
Not alot of comments coming out of this councilman tonight LMAO
Will do P/T tomorrow and hopefully get box back out the door and on it's way to Misc tomorrow.
"The Honorable"
Benjiev
Yahoo............. Large box sitting inside my doorstep
Off to govern at city council meeting will open it when I get back and smoke my cigar (man is it going to be hard sitting through 3 hours of agenda knowing there is a cigar waiting for me at home)
Not alot of comments coming out of this councilman tonight LMAOWill do P/T tomorrow and hopefully get box back out the door and on it's way to Misc tomorrow.
"The Honorable"
Benjiev
benjiev
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Package went out yesterday on it's way to Misc. conf. # 0301 0120 0003 7493 3309 Changed out box old one was getting a little too beat up.
Sorry for the delayed post. Additional post to follow shortly with all puts and takes as well as my smoke me guess.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Heads up Ted
BnejieV
Package went out yesterday on it's way to Misc. conf. # 0301 0120 0003 7493 3309
Changed out box old one was getting a little too beat up.Sorry for the delayed post. Additional post to follow shortly with all puts and takes as well as my smoke me guess.
Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Heads up Ted
BnejieV
Ok... review #1.
First -- THANKS! to HBooker for letting me be in this pass. I love passes in general, but this one is particularly fun.
(And thanks to Pepe for having me in his pass, which was the turning point when I realized what should've been obvious: that I really like Maduro cigars.)
Anyway, those of you who know me from ASC know that I've been doing fairly regular reviews of every new cigar I smoke (3-5/week) -- here's the one that'll hit that group in a few minutes:
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Mystery SFE "Smoke me"
5.5x40 (42?) box pressed maduro
Came in a zip-lock bag marked "smoke me"
W: ? B: ? F: ?
Mild-Medium bodied
HBooker's "Something For Everyone" box pass, on <http://www.cigarpass.com> nada, but a boatload of fun.
Suspected age: No idea. Not young. Aged enough to be even and "mature" tasting.
$?/? at ?
A mildish, maduro, with a "normal" maduro taste. Good, but milder and more unidimentional than my favourites.
I dig box passes. There's just nothing quite like getting a box in the mail, and it's even better if it's full of 40-100 cigars. It's just like Christmas, any time of year. I have this idea that I may try over at CP some day, where the pass just goes around and around and around, we just keep swapping out cigars and adding new people -- the "never ending box pass"
Anyway, Kudos to HBooker for thinking up this one. It's really 3 passes in one.
1) Everyone pass a single, unbanded, "mystery cigar" to the next guy, in the "smoke me" bag. The instructions say you're supposed to light it up & smoke it, then take a guess at what you're smoking, while you peruse the rest of the box.
2) The "mystery bag." It's got a bunch of unbanded, numbered cigars. Take one, replace it (after removing the band & numbering it), enjoy at your leisure, try to guess what it is.
3) Normal old box-pass. Rifle through, pick a few that look good, replace with same or greater number of equal or better value cigars.
How you could not have fun?!
Ok, anyway, my 1st thought on this cigar was "yum, yum, another maduro. My, how I just LOOOOOOVE maduros!" Initial smelling and lick gave a bit of cedary taste, with just a slight waft of chocolate.
The snip was uneventful. The SX-2090 had it toasted & lit in a few seconds and my first puffs confirmed the light waft of chocolate, in something remeniscent of a liqueur -- only more bitter -- like dark-chocolate liqeur.
This taste gave way to the slight cedary taste, and "the normal sweet maduro" taste (sorry, don't know how else to describe it -- it's what I like about maduros.) This taste persisted pretty much to the end of the cigar, which I burnt to the nub.
All in all, a tasty cigar -- a tad smaller than my preference, and a bit milder than my preference, but certainly a fine cigar. I give it ||I -- 2.75 (out of 4) match-sticks, and put it on my "smoke 'em if you got 'em"
list.
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Ok, I guess I'm on to the "mystery-bag" portion of this pass... Oh -- I have no idea what this is, nor can I guess it's origin. The only science I could do on it showed: possibly 2 kinds of tobacco in the filler blend; a well constructed, moderately-filled cigar with a sturdy (double? Triple? Couldn't tell) cap. Snipping the head-end exposed a few thicker leaves, perhaps the stem-end of the filler.
Please forgive my inability to guess -- my excuse is that I've spent the past ~100 cigars trying to smoke a different one every day, and just don't have enough experience with any one cigar (or even a line, or a type or a country of origin, all studied in a contiguous time-line) to make any meaningful guess as to what it is.
First -- THANKS! to HBooker for letting me be in this pass. I love passes in general, but this one is particularly fun.
(And thanks to Pepe for having me in his pass, which was the turning point when I realized what should've been obvious: that I really like Maduro cigars.)
Anyway, those of you who know me from ASC know that I've been doing fairly regular reviews of every new cigar I smoke (3-5/week) -- here's the one that'll hit that group in a few minutes:
---
Mystery SFE "Smoke me"
5.5x40 (42?) box pressed maduro
Came in a zip-lock bag marked "smoke me"
W: ? B: ? F: ?
Mild-Medium bodied
HBooker's "Something For Everyone" box pass, on <http://www.cigarpass.com> nada, but a boatload of fun.
Suspected age: No idea. Not young. Aged enough to be even and "mature" tasting.
$?/? at ?
A mildish, maduro, with a "normal" maduro taste. Good, but milder and more unidimentional than my favourites.
I dig box passes. There's just nothing quite like getting a box in the mail, and it's even better if it's full of 40-100 cigars. It's just like Christmas, any time of year. I have this idea that I may try over at CP some day, where the pass just goes around and around and around, we just keep swapping out cigars and adding new people -- the "never ending box pass"
Anyway, Kudos to HBooker for thinking up this one. It's really 3 passes in one.
1) Everyone pass a single, unbanded, "mystery cigar" to the next guy, in the "smoke me" bag. The instructions say you're supposed to light it up & smoke it, then take a guess at what you're smoking, while you peruse the rest of the box.
2) The "mystery bag." It's got a bunch of unbanded, numbered cigars. Take one, replace it (after removing the band & numbering it), enjoy at your leisure, try to guess what it is.
3) Normal old box-pass. Rifle through, pick a few that look good, replace with same or greater number of equal or better value cigars.
How you could not have fun?!
Ok, anyway, my 1st thought on this cigar was "yum, yum, another maduro. My, how I just LOOOOOOVE maduros!" Initial smelling and lick gave a bit of cedary taste, with just a slight waft of chocolate.
The snip was uneventful. The SX-2090 had it toasted & lit in a few seconds and my first puffs confirmed the light waft of chocolate, in something remeniscent of a liqueur -- only more bitter -- like dark-chocolate liqeur.
This taste gave way to the slight cedary taste, and "the normal sweet maduro" taste (sorry, don't know how else to describe it -- it's what I like about maduros.) This taste persisted pretty much to the end of the cigar, which I burnt to the nub.
All in all, a tasty cigar -- a tad smaller than my preference, and a bit milder than my preference, but certainly a fine cigar. I give it ||I -- 2.75 (out of 4) match-sticks, and put it on my "smoke 'em if you got 'em"
list.
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Ok, I guess I'm on to the "mystery-bag" portion of this pass...
Oh -- I have no idea what this is, nor can I guess it's origin. The only science I could do on it showed: possibly 2 kinds of tobacco in the filler blend; a well constructed, moderately-filled cigar with a sturdy (double? Triple? Couldn't tell) cap. Snipping the head-end exposed a few thicker leaves, perhaps the stem-end of the filler.Please forgive my inability to guess -- my excuse is that I've spent the past ~100 cigars trying to smoke a different one every day, and just don't have enough experience with any one cigar (or even a line, or a type or a country of origin, all studied in a contiguous time-line) to make any meaningful guess as to what it is.
I'm having great fun! I love passes in general, and this pass was especially fun. It was almost like being in 2 passes, plus having someone send me a tasty single out of the blue!
Ok, I put in my "smoke me" for HBooker -- obviously, I won't tell him what it is.
Likewise, I took out #16 from the unbanded box, and replaced with #16b (didn't want to look for the highest number and risk missing one and double-numbering -- or was I supposed to re-use the #16. Well, whatever Again, for obvious reasons, I won't eMail booker & tell him what it is. Hopefully, he'll post reviews of all those cigars, eventually, and give us his guesses.
Then I snagged the "Cuban Parejo" (by Perdomo) #42 and the Onyx reserve box-press #71, and will be replacing with Duque gran duque, La Gloria Cubana double corona & Punch After dinner.
(Don't have numbers, yet -- I left the pass handbook in my wife's car. Oops!)
All this will be boxed up tonight and mailed-off tomorrow. Will post tracking # when it happens.
(Sorry for the delay -- I'm late getting a pass of my own in the mail and, well, I've been extremely busy doing some serious power-slacking
)
Ok, off to smoke & review #16. Who's that from?
Ok, I put in my "smoke me" for HBooker -- obviously, I won't tell him what it is.
Likewise, I took out #16 from the unbanded box, and replaced with #16b (didn't want to look for the highest number and risk missing one and double-numbering -- or was I supposed to re-use the #16. Well, whatever
Again, for obvious reasons, I won't eMail booker & tell him what it is. Hopefully, he'll post reviews of all those cigars, eventually, and give us his guesses.Then I snagged the "Cuban Parejo" (by Perdomo) #42 and the Onyx reserve box-press #71, and will be replacing with Duque gran duque, La Gloria Cubana double corona & Punch After dinner.
(Don't have numbers, yet -- I left the pass handbook in my wife's car. Oops!)
All this will be boxed up tonight and mailed-off tomorrow. Will post tracking # when it happens.
(Sorry for the delay -- I'm late getting a pass of my own in the mail and, well, I've been extremely busy doing some serious power-slacking
)Ok, off to smoke & review #16. Who's that from?
hbooker
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You know I really never thought about the the end of the pass and those blind sticks.
Well the box certainly will not near empty.
I guess I will have ot do that review one at a time...
Allright,
Everyone did real good on this pass glad you had some fun.
A couple of demerits are awarded for;
1 Not posting your review or guess allready.
2 Not posting your puts and takes in a timely manner..(Hmmm ? )
3 Delaying pass (No- Im only kidding)
Now let post those reviews, if you haven't and bring this pass to a surprise ending..
Well the box certainly will not near empty.
I guess I will have ot do that review one at a time...
Allright,
Everyone did real good on this pass glad you had some fun.
A couple of demerits are awarded for;
1 Not posting your review or guess allready.
2 Not posting your puts and takes in a timely manner..(Hmmm ? )
3 Delaying pass (No- Im only kidding)
Now let post those reviews, if you haven't and bring this pass to a surprise ending..
Well, sure -- but I figure since you're the only one left, it wouldn't be fair to tell YOU what my unbandeds were! So you can at least guess what #16b is. <G>
Ok, here's my ASC review for #16:
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Mystery Cigar SFE Unbanded #16 (perfecto)
Naked
5.6x52
W: ? B: ? F: ?
Medium-Full bodied
Something For Everyone box pass, unbanded mystery section
Suspected age: no clue.
$?/? at ?
A powerful, tasty cigar, that wasn't as maduro as it looked.
I originally picked this one because it was the darkest cigar in the unbanded box, and I've been on a kick for the ultimate Maduro, lately. Also because it was a perfecto, and I'm a sucker for the perfecto shape. Even more so than I am with glass tubes This is from the 2nd part of the SFE pass that I told you about, earlier.
It was well wrapped, firmly and evenly packed, and tightly capped. It snipped just like a cigar and lit effortlessly, which is why I so dig perfectos.
Actually, shortly after lighting, it acted like it wanted to go out. But it came around... false alarm. Thrice during the smoke, it threatened to go out again, but all 3 times this was easily corrected by a gentle warming of the wrapper over the pocket lighter. I wonder if this baby might have been a tad over-humidified. I did just get it out of a box pass, with zero down-time for stabilization. Oh well, these things happen.
With that dark-brown wrapper, I was expecting a strong maduro taste, but it had almost none. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb right now and guess that it was something from Villazon. It reminded me strongly of the JR Ult Cab, although I don't think those are available in perfecto. But it had that "looks like a maduro, but it's not" look/taste, as well as "that distinctive Villason flavour profile". (Heh, now I can be all ashamed when I'm totally off ;D) Anyway, that's my guess.
It was a good, tasty cigar -- as I said, above, I had to touch it up a couple of times, but no big deal. About half way through I got a strong nicotine hit, and remembered that it was lunch time. This cigar was almost too powerful to just smoke by itself, and I finished it with some spicy meatball stroganoff and an A&W (since 1919!) root beer, which it complimented quite well. What would have really gone well with it was a thick, juicy steak, but I didn't have one of those handy. Ah well, next time
Rating: ||| (3 matchsticks [of 4]). And on my "smoke 'em if you got 'em (with a big, meaty meal!)" list.
Ok, here's my ASC review for #16:
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Mystery Cigar SFE Unbanded #16 (perfecto)
Naked
5.6x52
W: ? B: ? F: ?
Medium-Full bodied
Something For Everyone box pass, unbanded mystery section
Suspected age: no clue.
$?/? at ?
A powerful, tasty cigar, that wasn't as maduro as it looked.
I originally picked this one because it was the darkest cigar in the unbanded box, and I've been on a kick for the ultimate Maduro, lately. Also because it was a perfecto, and I'm a sucker for the perfecto shape. Even more so than I am with glass tubes
This is from the 2nd part of the SFE pass that I told you about, earlier.It was well wrapped, firmly and evenly packed, and tightly capped. It snipped just like a cigar and lit effortlessly, which is why I so dig perfectos.
Actually, shortly after lighting, it acted like it wanted to go out. But it came around... false alarm. Thrice during the smoke, it threatened to go out again, but all 3 times this was easily corrected by a gentle warming of the wrapper over the pocket lighter. I wonder if this baby might have been a tad over-humidified. I did just get it out of a box pass, with zero down-time for stabilization. Oh well, these things happen.
With that dark-brown wrapper, I was expecting a strong maduro taste, but it had almost none. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb right now and guess that it was something from Villazon. It reminded me strongly of the JR Ult Cab, although I don't think those are available in perfecto. But it had that "looks like a maduro, but it's not" look/taste, as well as "that distinctive Villason flavour profile". (Heh, now I can be all ashamed when I'm totally off ;D) Anyway, that's my guess.
It was a good, tasty cigar -- as I said, above, I had to touch it up a couple of times, but no big deal. About half way through I got a strong nicotine hit, and remembered that it was lunch time. This cigar was almost too powerful to just smoke by itself, and I finished it with some spicy meatball stroganoff and an A&W (since 1919!) root beer, which it complimented quite well. What would have really gone well with it was a thick, juicy steak, but I didn't have one of those handy. Ah well, next time
Rating: ||| (3 matchsticks [of 4]). And on my "smoke 'em if you got 'em (with a big, meaty meal!)" list.
benjiev
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Sorry for the delays in posting but a got a little swamped with Holiday, work (2 new Listings), was elected Deputy Mayor for the City, pulled off a successful Indian Guides meeting at the last minute all done with my kids still out of school because of a teachers strike. I am now just coming up for some air.
The review of my mystery cigar:
Connecticut Shade wrapper a little veiny but well constructed firm throughout stick. Nice draw was easy to light. Nice grey ash good and tight as it burned down. Very creamy taste with hints of cocoa. I have smoked these before.............. my guess is an Avo Uvenzian
Takes;
#41 Perdomo Fresh Rolled
# 9 La Luna Reserve
#56 ERD Choix Supreme ISOM
Puts;
CAO Anniver. Churchill Maddy
Bolivar Belicoso Fino
Perdomo Exponente 2
Cusano Camaroon Churchill
One other that I forgot (sorry)
Thanks again for a great pass very creative and fun!
Oh by the way my mystery smoke me put was................................
CAO L Anniversario Extreme
Sorry for the delays in posting but a got a little swamped with Holiday, work (2 new Listings), was elected Deputy Mayor for the City, pulled off a successful Indian Guides meeting at the last minute all done with my kids still out of school because of a teachers strike. I am now just coming up for some air.
The review of my mystery cigar:
Connecticut Shade wrapper a little veiny but well constructed firm throughout stick. Nice draw was easy to light. Nice grey ash good and tight as it burned down. Very creamy taste with hints of cocoa. I have smoked these before.............. my guess is an Avo Uvenzian
Takes;
#41 Perdomo Fresh Rolled
# 9 La Luna Reserve
#56 ERD Choix Supreme ISOM
Puts;
CAO Anniver. Churchill Maddy
Bolivar Belicoso Fino
Perdomo Exponente 2
Cusano Camaroon Churchill
One other that I forgot (sorry)
Thanks again for a great pass very creative and fun!
Oh by the way my mystery smoke me put was................................
CAO L Anniversario Extreme