FOH'ers Daily Smoke

[BoliDan]

Punch 48 old grandad bonded. Featuring some of my son's sidewalk chalk art.

[Mcoad]

3 days of rain. Cloudy this morning. Average weather at best tonight. Still, bbq and cc tastes and feels good. The Connie B is just a bit too big for me. The Brunello is the best part of the combo. 
 

 

[StogieSteve23]

53 minutes ago, bundwallah said:

No issues. Got 3 boxes of this code. Have smoked about 7 sticks. Draw is perfect and the flavours are smooth.  Fire one up!

?? looks like I know what one of my sticks will be next week. Thank you!

19 minutes ago, Mcoad said:

The Connie B is just a bit too big for me. The Brunello is the best part of the combo. 

Agree on the B and great choice on the V. 

[Mr.T]

Patagas Lusi from an early 00’ cabinet. Not the prettiest looking, but a wonderful smoke. Still plenty of life left in this guy. Happy Memorial Day. I hope everyone has a great long weekend whatever that might look like during these times. Thank you to all that have served. I’m smoking this in honor of my grandfather who served in the Korean War..


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[jtfrizzy]

Hope everyone is doing well on this wonderful Memorial Day weekend. '15 Bolivar Liberatador paired with a Dragon' s Milk Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout. Take care all and enjoy the weekend.

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[Raskol]

C&C Time. RA Superiores (2017) - 24:24

 

C&C Time. Monte MC (2017) from our host.

C&C Time. JL No 1 (2017) - 24:24

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[StogieSteve23]

8 hours ago, Rhinoww said:

Edit to add something I had not seen before  the Epi 1 band has the ring gauge printed where it is glued.  Failed pull but now I can say I learned something today 

Love this! I was kind of blown away when i learned this and now I see it on almost every CC.  Sometimes it’s fun to see what size bands they put on the sticks because they don’t always match up with what size the smoke is. M

[BellevilleMXZ]

A San Cristobal De La Habana Torreon (LGR OCT 17) up tonight. Have a great night folks!

[daleighan]

Mag 50

[Habana Mike]

On 5/23/2020 at 8:01 AM, torsion said:

El Rey del Mundo, Choix du Roi.
Been forever since I posted here

Miss you Don. Hope all's well across the pond!

 

[JayHabanos]

D4


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[Hotboxx]

UAO 2017 E2. Last time I smoked one of these I said it was a La corona factory of course these are El Laguito.  I didn’t bother to look at all the expert responses who corrected me.  I know what the F I have. BTW these don’t suck. 

[Ej456]

[Astar20]

Monte #2 with some Stagg Jr batch 9 Monte is big cocoa biscuit with the Stagg Jr is a cherry bomb!!! Great pair 

[Theophilus]

Ramon Allones-Specially Selected TOR DIC ‘16

[StogieSteve23]

I know there's a lot of haters out there but I'm a big fan of the hard seltzers.  Especially on a hot 90 degree afternoon.  Pairing with a TPO NOV-18 Rio Seco. 

Watching a glorious sun shower and enjoying a delicious MC with my Nespresso.  Have a great day everyone! 

Fiancé and I rode our bikes to my grandparents.  Enjoying a delicious Chuck before a few afternoon storms roll in. This thing is reaaaallly good.. 

Breakfast. I hope everyone has an excellent Sunday! 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Partagas Short 

 

[ha_banos]

Too many cigars this month ? 2008 Mercaderes.

Tapacrap says! How dare you!

[bigbwalls]

 

Juan Lopez #2 - Jan 18

[HDGSN]

Juan Lopez No. 1 MOL JUN 17

[SigmundChurchill]

Wild Turkey, paired with a Monte Leyenda.

[TheFullMontecristo]

Epi1 w rum punch

[JohnS]

Cohiba Robustos MUO May 2014

I surprised myself when I looked at my Cuban Cigar Website inventory and noted that I have had 18 Cohiba Robustos in the last three-and-a-half years. Upon closer inspection, it proved to be closer to 12 as I have given six away to share in that time. Of those 12, in an overall rating system out of five I had given 4 CoRos three marks, 6 CoRos four marks and 2 CoRos five marks. That's an average of 3.83 marks out of 5. How can one describe that average in words? Possibly 'dependable' would suffice.

The interesting note about my Cohiba Robustos consumption in the last few years is that it was across a number of box codes, the box code of today's CoRo has been excluded as they have been sitting in my humidor aging. So, it was a delight to pull one out of my humidor to smoke today.

The flavours from the cold draw were an inviting cedar, baking spice and refined barnyard. The initial flavours of the draw in the first third were exemplary; mocha coffee, buttered cream, honey and spice with plumes of smoke. I was thinking at this point of the cigar, "what else could one want from this cigar?"

In the meantime, I reflected on how Robustos came to be so popular in modern trends. There was once a time when Simon Chase commented in an interview with Nic Wing in 2015 that the Partagas Serie D No.4 sold a total of 5000 boxes in the mid-eighties worldwide. Even up to that point there were only four, yes four Robusto (i.e. 50 ring gauge x 124 mm or 4⅞ inches in length) vitolas available. These were the Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No.2, the Bolivar Royal Coronas, the Partagas Serie D No.4 and the Ramon Allones Specially Selected. The Cohiba Robustos itself wasn't released until 1989. Soon after, the Juan Lopez Seleccion No.2 was released in the early-90s. No, it wasn't until the 2000s that Robustos started to get more popular. In the 1980s and prior they were just thought of as very large ring gauge cigars, an anomaly, if you will.

Today, Cohiba Robustos simply sell. I would say they would be amongst the very highest selling Cohiba vitolas, and I think this can be gleaned from their availability recently when other in-demand Cohiba cigars such as the Behike line and the Cohiba Siglo VI have been in hiatus. In the last decade the Partagas Serie D No.4 has via communal consensus moved past the Montecristo No.4 as the number one selling Habanos cigar in the world today.

As I approached the middle third, the cigar still had those mocha coffee, buttered texture and a touch of spice notes joined by some hints of honey sweetness and lemon citrus too. The retrohale was nice and refined in the middle third too. The construction was spot-on, ash lengths were long and the ridging on the ash was consistent.

Coming into the final third of the cigar, I reflected on the quintessential Habanos cigar in terms of size. In the 1970s and 80s, it was definitely the coronas, a 42 ring gauge x 142 mm vitolas with each marca having one. Today only the Montecristo No.3, Quai d'Orsay Coronas Claro and Romeo y Julieta Cedros de Luxe No.2 are left in regular production. After this the petit corona (or should I say, marevas?) a 42 ring gauge x 129 mm vitola became more prominent, perhaps as result of the popularity of the Montecristo No.4. The trend towards larger ring-gauged cigars with the streamlining of Habanos S.A post-2000 saw 50 ring gauge robustos become more popular. In 2020, I feel we've come near to full-circle with the idea of the quintessential size as the petit robustos, ranging in size from around 4 to 4¾ inches or 102 to 120 mm in length seeing a plethora of releases across all Habanos marcas in the last five to ten years. After all, it was only around fifteen years ago that the Hoyo de Monterrey Petit Robustos (2004) and Montecristo Petit Edmundo (2006) was released to market.

The final third only reinforced the exceptional nature of the cigar throughout the first two-thirds. This was the third Cohiba Robustos to receive an overall rating of five in my Cuban Cigar Inventory. The irony is, I can only see these getting better with a little more age, especially in regards to its buttered texture.

[inter4alia]

TES Nov 16. I've had 6 from this box so far. They just don't float my boat. 

Esmeralda gifted by @lovethehaze. I think I'm going to have to find a box of these. Thanks, brother! 

[Smalls]

2012 Serie D No. 4