bilder
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Decided to try this cigar tonight. Was not a pleasant experience.
The cigar looks good, all dark and inticing, but that is as far as I got.
I should not have tried to smoke this tonight. When I took it out of the humi, it seemed a bit dry, some of the black wrapper had chipped off, but it had been sitting in the humi for a couple weeks, so I thought I would give it a go. I am not sure why I did not follow my gut feeling on this one. Drove the truck to my secret smoking spot and turned on some nice Christmas music.
When I cut the head, the tip pretty much vanished in a cloud of dust. Went to take a pre-light draw and found that it was like sucking through nothing.....a very loose draw.
Toasted the foot and lit up. Yech! What was that! I am holding a cigar, not an old tire! After that first shocking puff, I was hesitant to take another, but I did and found it to be not as harsh, but really dry feeling and with the loose draw, it was hard to take a decent puff.
About 45 seconds later, I heard a loud crackling sound followed by the entire wrapper literally turning to dust in my hand and falling to the ground. Another minute passed before the entire cigar started to fall apart in my hand. Wish I had my camera with me to take some photos of the fallout. Would have been neat to watch if I had not been the one trying to smoke it.
I think this particular smoke had been traded so much that it had become too dry and the sub zero temps outside were too much for this smoke. Either that or this line is just a dry cigar and not suitable for smoking.
In either case, with the terrible first puff and sub-par draw, this cigar was less than impressive. I will reserve final judgement till I have another just in case I got a bum stick.
I went back and picked out a CAO Anniversary Cameroon. Much better smoke that did not dissapoint me.
The cigar looks good, all dark and inticing, but that is as far as I got.
I should not have tried to smoke this tonight. When I took it out of the humi, it seemed a bit dry, some of the black wrapper had chipped off, but it had been sitting in the humi for a couple weeks, so I thought I would give it a go. I am not sure why I did not follow my gut feeling on this one. Drove the truck to my secret smoking spot and turned on some nice Christmas music.
When I cut the head, the tip pretty much vanished in a cloud of dust. Went to take a pre-light draw and found that it was like sucking through nothing.....a very loose draw.
Toasted the foot and lit up. Yech! What was that! I am holding a cigar, not an old tire! After that first shocking puff, I was hesitant to take another, but I did and found it to be not as harsh, but really dry feeling and with the loose draw, it was hard to take a decent puff.
About 45 seconds later, I heard a loud crackling sound followed by the entire wrapper literally turning to dust in my hand and falling to the ground. Another minute passed before the entire cigar started to fall apart in my hand. Wish I had my camera with me to take some photos of the fallout. Would have been neat to watch if I had not been the one trying to smoke it.
I think this particular smoke had been traded so much that it had become too dry and the sub zero temps outside were too much for this smoke. Either that or this line is just a dry cigar and not suitable for smoking.
In either case, with the terrible first puff and sub-par draw, this cigar was less than impressive. I will reserve final judgement till I have another just in case I got a bum stick.
I went back and picked out a CAO Anniversary Cameroon. Much better smoke that did not dissapoint me.
