FOH International Blind Tasting Cigar Number 4 Reveal.

[El Presidente]

Very impressed 

 

Who will the winner next week be? 

 

[BlueWS]

Congrats Griller, you're 1 away from winning it all.

[Marco_011t556]

Congrats Griller! Kurt is coming up!

[TacoSauce]

D'oh!

 

[Montezüma]

Super @griller !!

[Luca]

Wow @griller well done!

[griller]

WOW! My first thought is a broken clock is right 2x a day & that I've been REALLY lucky here! Never thought I'd hit the first 4 guesses, but I will say that good construction has been a big help in my guesses. Hard to get some of the telltale flavors when a cigar is plugged, wind tunnel, not burning worth a crap, etc.

We'll see what #5 brings & hope I can go 5 for 5 (but not holding my breath LOL). This has been a lot of fun regardless & very grateful to FOH for allowing me to be a part of this.

[EMC12]

Nicely done @griller. 👏 

[vvvendo1969]

Really GREAT! @griller

Hope you can achieve 5 for 5!

[BlueWS]

@griller If you tank #5, the door is wide open for six other people to tie. PRESSURE'S ON!

I'm abstaining from guessing #5. I think I'm going to vote BHK 58 for lol's. Here's all current production Hermoso #4 if this helps anyone. I'm tired of seeing TacoSauce pick the wrong vitola 😁

Por Larranaga Picadores
H Upmann Connie #1
Vegas Robaina Fomoso
Romeo y Julieta Exebicion #4
ERDM Choix Supreme
SLR Regios
RG Coronas de Lonsdale

[Duxnutz]

🤠 This round was tough. The twang for me was why I picked JL2 as it’s very prevalent in ny experience. The usual orange flavor was actually more lemon/honey for me and led me down the CORO path (nearly oh so nearly) but I’ve never seen a Cohiba look like this. Some floral elements and general inconsistency led me short Churchill. 
In the end a coin toss JL vs RyJ. Twang gave it to the JL in the end. 

[JohnS]

9 hours ago, BlueWS said:

@griller If you tank #5, the door is wide open for six other people to tie. PRESSURE'S ON!

Indeed. Those other 5 contestants are:

• @Superhans
• @Duxnutz
• @Chucko8
• @EMC12
• @vvvendo1969
• @garifo

Oh, and congratulations @griller. All the best of luck for Cigar No.5!

[LordAnubis]

This was my least favourite cigar, I think from memory, and I'm surprised it’s a JL2 because I thought I mostly like 'em. Is @Fuzz even trying? 

[BG318]

Go @griller!

This has been fun to follow, and good luck to you all for pick 5.

[TheDonTX]

7 hours ago, Duxnutz said:

🤠 This round was tough. The twang for me was why I picked JL2 as it’s very prevalent in ny experience. The usual orange flavor was actually more lemon/honey for me and led me down the CORO path (nearly oh so nearly) but I’ve never seen a Cohiba look like this. Some floral elements and general inconsistency led me short Churchill. 
In the end a coin toss JL vs RyJ. Twang gave it to the JL in the end. 

Almost my exact review. It was a tough one. Wow griller! Keep it going. No pressure at all lol. 

[chasy]

I can already tell Cigar 5 is going to be very hard…

[Chucko8]

11 hours ago, griller said:

WOW! My first thought is a broken clock is right 2x a day & that I've been REALLY lucky here! Never thought I'd hit the first 4 guesses, but I will say that good construction has been a big help in my guesses. Hard to get some of the telltale flavors when a cigar is plugged, wind tunnel, not burning worth a crap, etc.

We'll see what #5 brings & hope I can go 5 for 5 (but not holding my breath LOL). This has been a lot of fun regardless & very grateful to FOH for allowing me to be a part of this.

I’m rooting for you on this one mate. Really hope that you can attain that 5/5!!

[Ruggerpgh99]

I got, almost no flavor on this one, which made it hard to make a guess. Very impressed with Griller, and anyone else getting a lot of these right. 

[chasy]

Correct guesses so far:

RASS: 12
PSD4: 10
HDM2: 22
JL2: 20

Looks like the guessing is getting easier, as more of the Robusto's have been elimanted. Cigar 5 has been said to be a Hermoso 4 vitola, so I expect Cigar 5 to have the fewest correct guesses!

[Shakey]

Congrats to @griller for excellent work!  Hope you are able to sweep the event. 

[griller]

18 hours ago, chasy said:

Correct guesses so far:

RASS: 12
PSD4: 10
HDM2: 22
JL2: 20

Looks like the guessing is getting easier, as more of the Robusto's have been elimanted. Cigar 5 has been said to be a Hermoso 4 vitola, so I expect Cigar 5 to have the fewest correct guesses!

Have we gotten official confirmation that Cigar #5 is indeed a Hermoso #4? I swear my example is so close in dimensions to the previous 4 (and a Bolivar Royal Corona I have in my 'dor) that it seems odd to me that 1 cigar would be an oddball to the other four in the tasting.

Then again, El Prez could be pranking all of us too, LOL! 

[Chibearsv]

11 hours ago, griller said:

Have we gotten official confirmation that Cigar #5 is indeed a Hermoso #4? I swear my example is so close in dimensions to the previous 4 (and a Bolivar Royal Corona I have in my 'dor) that it seems odd to me that 1 cigar would be an oddball to the other four in the tasting.

Then again, El Prez could be pranking all of us too, LOL! 

If I had to bet all my pennies, I’d confirm Hermoso #4. Tiny bit longer than the 1st 4 and a tiny bit narrower. Good luck!

[Fuzz AI]

16 hours ago, LordAnubis said:

This was my least favourite cigar, I think from memory, and I'm surprised it’s a JL2 because I thought I mostly like 'em. Is @Fuzz even trying? 

Nope. 

[Bijan]

11 hours ago, griller said:

Have we gotten official confirmation that Cigar #5 is indeed a Hermoso #4? I swear my example is so close in dimensions to the previous 4 (and a Bolivar Royal Corona I have in my 'dor) that it seems odd to me that 1 cigar would be an oddball to the other four in the tasting...

Then again, El Prez could be pranking all of us too, LOL! 

Cigar 5 made me think Bolivar but there's no Hermosos #4 Bolivar. So maybe Bolivar Royal Corona.

But I did originally think it might be a BPC since I thought some of the other cigars were Hermosos #4 and this was noticeably smaller in RG.

And I'm 0/4 so far. And I felt pretty confident cigar #4 was a Romeo y Julieta.