Drew Estate Barn Smoker event today in FL

[steelcity]

No Habanos smoked today but a fine day.

Very cool day at the Florida Sun Grown/Drew Estate Barn Smoker event in Clermont, FL. Drove up with two buddies from Tampa. The farm was pretty soggy from all of the ran we've been getting over the last week. It was amusing to try and watch a Mercedes sedan drive through an obvious mud trap. I guess they said Damn that mud! The mud won. 

After watching that you go check in. The give you a tupperware/travel humidor full of swag and then you give them $10 and they in turn gave you over $150 in cigars -Liga Privada A, Liga Privada Velvet Rat, Kentucky Fire Cured Just a Friend, Pappy Van Winkle Barrel Fermented Limitada, Larutan NDB, FSG Box Press Ltd, FSG Toro, FSG Robusto, FSG Belicoso, FSG Sixty, Undercrown Maduro Coronet Tin, and Undercrown Shade Coronet Tin.

The education behind the process was pretty cool. Getting to ask questions directly to John Drew, Jeff Borysiewicz (owner of Corona Cigar Bars, Davidoff in Tampa, and FSG), Master Blender Willy Herrera, and Pedro was also a very nice aspect of this. Everyone got to plant their own tobacco seedling in the field. The catered bbq lunch was very good and of course several libations to sample as well. 

They were doing various Drew Estate and FSG raffle items on behalf of Cigars for Warriors. I picked up 10 tickets for $20. As usual they were going through the items and I had nada. Down to the very last item we go. We start gathering or items when they start calling out the last ticket. Holy shit! I just won the mega FSG standing ash trays. Pretty cool. Practical? Probably not, but who cares. It's pretty cool and a good memory with friends. I'll put it on my  pool deck in my covered smoking area. 

A very solid event and well worth the $90. Thanks to Drew Estate and Jeff Borysiewicz. Now we're thinking about doing a guys trip to the Cigar Safari down in Nicaragua. 

   
   
 
   

[prodigy]

I've heard the cigar safari is awesome, and a great value. I plan on going when I have the time and money. Great post!

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[Philc2001]

Drew Estate is great, despite that Saka is no longer involved. They were great sponsors of our HERF events in Miami years ago, very generous and great to chat with. Always enjoyed their company.


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[kalibratecuba]

I did the Connecticut Barn Smoker a few years back. I had a great time. Would love to do the Safari too. FOH Group Cigar Safari?

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[rd151]

It was a great event! I drove down from Savannah to attend, well worth it! I didn't post to see if anyone else was going so we could meet up, but wish I had. I tried posting for another event in the FOH Events International section and didn't receive any feedback so I didn't try on this one. Congrats on the ash tray, it looked very nice!

[Randy956]

How many people would you guess were there?
It looks like a lot of fun

[fitzy]

Sounds like a great time. I missed out on buying tickets for the Connecticut barn smoker. 

I like DE cigars I just have a hard time buying Jonathan Drew's ridiculous persona. Did he see Ali G and want to be like him or is that reversed? 

[JLFIRST]

Congrats on the win of the ashtray! I have a buddy who has 3 of these ashtrays that Jesse made. They are super cool and should look great where you plan on putting it!

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[steelcity]

On 5/20/2018 at 1:32 PM, Randy956 said:

How many people would you guess were there?
It looks like a lot of fun

I'd probably guess 250. It was managed pretty decently and we were split into three groups (F-S-G) for the different learning stations. Only thing that could have used some work was the placement of two of the food lines. There were three food lines but two were right on top of each other and created some confusion in crowding among the cattle. 

[El Presidente]

Looks like a well run fantastic fun event