A ‘22 - Epi 2 (VitRW)

[MagicalBikeRide]

Yesterday’s D4 had me reaching for another robusto. And one I’ve been enjoying in recent months. The sun came out and whilst cold (just below 0°C), I took one out for a stroll as the sun started to set - the kids were with the mother in law, so I snapped at the opportunity. The cigar was from a three pack of tubos with a ‘22 H&F stamp. Don’t have more info than that. 

 

Overall 

- perfect Cuban / tight-ish draw

- nice nutty aroma 

- needed a single touch-up - ideal otherwise

- darker wrapper than I typically see 

- subtle rather than mild (if that makes sense?)

 

-1-

Opened with strong cedar / cherry wood aroma, tons upon tons of cream, hints of honey and something floral that I’m bad at describing.

Great smoke output, firmly mild

When we were kids, my mother would make hot porridge on winter mornings. After boiling the oats in water, she’d add cream, honey and a little salt - the first third of this cigar brought back memories of this.

-2-

Woody-ness on the retro (no pepper in sight), still boat loads of cream, sweetness dying down a little and some brown spice type notes making an occasional appearance (maybe cinnamon, cardamom or that brown all-spice I find at the Asian markets here?)

Still tons of smoke and stepping up toward medium 

-3-

A lot of the same notes as second third, but increased intensity in the brown spices and more subdued honey notes, cream still there, still retrohaling with pleasure - a banging finish and certainly medium or slightly above 

 

 

Cracking cigar all round. My only regret was not pairing with a Guinness - as I love the HdM cream and Guinness cream combination. So I attempted to fix that by stopping on way home (I live ~50m from a nice pub and had 30 mins to spare before the rugrats were delivered back to the house). Enjoyable two hours to myself. 

 

 

 

 

[99call]

Bacon Fries,........good man!

Love porridge notes in a cigar. It's why a love QDOCC so much

[MagicalBikeRide]

Bacon Fries are the king of pub snacks 

[El Presidente]

Excellent review 

[99call]

4 minutes ago, MagicalBikeRide said:

Bacon Fries are the king of pub snacks 

I beg to differ. 

1- scampi fries. Dirty but oh so good

2- bacon fries

3- proper scratchings

 

[MagicalBikeRide]

We’ll have to agree to disagree 😅

1 - bacon fries  

2 - dry roasted peanuts  

3 - cheese and onion Tayto 

[99call]

8 hours ago, MagicalBikeRide said:

We’ll have to agree to disagree 😅

1 - bacon fries  

2 - dry roasted peanuts  

3 - cheese and onion Tayto 

Oooh interesting.....Tayto's are good. Don't see them too much in this neck of the woods.

[ha_banos]

WTF are Taytos? Anything like Crunchips?

 

[99call]

Taytos are Cheese and Onion Irish crisps that they are so obsessed with, that they sell them crunched up into chocolate bars. The Devil's work

[ha_banos]

9 hours ago, 99call said:

Taytos are Cheese and Onion Irish crisps that they are so obsessed with, that they sell them crunched up into chocolate bars. The Devil's work

Holy macaroons. I would never in my life have expected anything like this! Lol

The Irish making crisps, naturally. I'll have to hunt some down.

My earlier post was off course a nod to the fact we have Germano-Turkish stuff here in London before we get Irish produce.

[MagicalBikeRide]

An interesting fact - there are two types of Tayto - one for sale in Ireland and one that is exported (at least to the north of Ireland). They have a different logo for the little man on the bag. Also taste different. Have never researched why it is this way. 
 

[ha_banos]

Well look what wife found. No chocolate but still.

 

[MagicalBikeRide]

How were they? 

[ha_banos]

12 minutes ago, MagicalBikeRide said:

How were they? 

Meh. Very thinly sliced. And not overly tasty. We have a mixed pack so looking forward to working through the others.

I think I set my expectations to high.

And the bags are almost empty to begin with! 25g EU standards can F*** R**** O**!

[MagicalBikeRide]

I still maintain that you guys get the export version and we just keep the good stuff at home 😅

[ha_banos]

1 minute ago, MagicalBikeRide said:

I still maintain that you guys get the export version and we just keep the good stuff at home 😅

That's sounds like an invitation to treat.