Our friend, John, is visiting. Having a 2006 Torano Noventa Santiago Robusto 5.0" x 49. It’s 87⁰ out today.
What Cigar Are You Smoking? 2025
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Having an Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur I, English Claro Presidente, 7.2" x 54 on the porch.
John brought some cigars for us to smoke. Having a Blackened M81 Toro, 6.0" x 52, a collaboration between Drew Estate, James Hetfield (of Metallica), andRob Dietrich (master distiller of Blackened American Whiskey).
San Cristobal Revelation, a gift from a friend who got a job as a sales rep for Ashton. Very enjoyable medium bodied smoke. Great burn, well constructed. Tedeschi Trucks Band on the juke.
Encore Majestic with a coupla years on it
Worth trying if you haven't, and worth revisiting if it's been a while... a solid Nicaraguan
Worth trying if you haven't, and worth revisiting if it's been a while... a solid Nicaraguan
Oliva series g belisco at about the 10 year mark. Aged Nicaraguans are awesome, really tames all that pepper
Having a Bahia Maduro Corona Gigante/Churchill (7.0" x 54) on the porch. It’s 69⁰ F outside at 1:18 am and quite pleasant.
On the menu for my morning smoke is Crowned Heads Mil Días Maduró in the edmonds vitola. I haven't had one in awhile and it's pairing very well with a cortado.
Hope you all have a terrific Friday!
Hope you all have a terrific Friday!
One of my all time favorites!
I typically prefer the V series, especially the Melanio, from Oliva, but the Serie G Presidente Maduro is an excellent smoke!
Back in in the middle of May, Susan and I took a couple days off and made a short day trip to New Hope, Pennsylvania, to celebtrate forty years of her working at her current job. They had some interesting shops, but nothing so amazing that we felt we need to go back. This window display was appropriate for a store called “Creeper Gallery.”
We stopped into a little cigar shop and were surprised by a box of Asylum 13 cigars we saw. She said, “What do you think the gauge size of this cigar is?” I might’ve let out an audible chuckle. I don’t think in my thirty-plus-years of smoking cigars I’d ever seen a cigar with this girth. I knew I had to pick a couple up to smoke with our friend, John, when he would visit us to watch the PPV UFC this weekend.
Having an Asylum 13 80x8, 8.0" x 80 (US paper currency for scale) outside.
I don’t think I have a cutter that can accommodate the width of this end cap. This punch seemed appropriate for this Magnum sized stick.
John and I took a walk to the Post Office to drop a couple of issues of Weird Tales. He felt it made sense to do a fist grip on this gargantuan cigar:
It’s 83⁰ F outside, but Wasabi is glad to be out on the porch.
We stopped into a little cigar shop and were surprised by a box of Asylum 13 cigars we saw. She said, “What do you think the gauge size of this cigar is?” I might’ve let out an audible chuckle. I don’t think in my thirty-plus-years of smoking cigars I’d ever seen a cigar with this girth. I knew I had to pick a couple up to smoke with our friend, John, when he would visit us to watch the PPV UFC this weekend.
Having an Asylum 13 80x8, 8.0" x 80 (US paper currency for scale) outside.
I don’t think I have a cutter that can accommodate the width of this end cap. This punch seemed appropriate for this Magnum sized stick.
John and I took a walk to the Post Office to drop a couple of issues of Weird Tales. He felt it made sense to do a fist grip on this gargantuan cigar:
It’s 83⁰ F outside, but Wasabi is glad to be out on the porch.
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Overall I'm not really into the really large gauge cigars, they seem to be almost q gimmick. Even 60 ring is too much for me. We use the term it gives you C C which you can imagine what it means, not appropriate to repeat. I don't mind them for a bonfire or something if I'm drinking and want an obscenely long cigar, buy I definitely don't seek them out anymore. A box of macanudo 6×60 gold label are the biggest I've ever had, still have them, they're good, but too big to grab usually
80 gauge definitely seems like a gimmick; the novelty of the length and gauge was its main appeal. Perhaps, these Asylum 13 80x8 sticks project Small Dick Energy—if so, so be it. Thankfully, these cigars have a decent flavour; their construction leaves something to be desired, as they don’t burn very evenly, but I’m enjoying it well enough.
I love CAO Flathead v660 cigars—the 60 gauge seems to work well for that cigar.
Time in the humidor fixes most of the burn issues. My macanudos 6×60 had all kinds of issues until a good year in the humi. I also had double coronas that had bad burn issues until a year in the humidor