Back in August I launched this thread: http://www.botl.org/threads/stash.87687/ to discuss stash plans. Here six months later, my stashed boxes are coming ripe in rotation as the plan begins to bear fruit. Today, I unwrapped the Stash of the Month -- these here Sopowa Ovals:
I like the bands. It's an oval pic of Sopowa, my Indian Scout, up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Blend is a half leaf each of LO Honduran seco, viso, and ligero, with a half WLT criollo seco, a Nic binder from LO, and an H2K wrapper from WLT. Hard to stuff that much into one wee fecto. This was back when I was stuffing the center of the fecto extra full, then letting the stick swell out in the middle after it was removed from the mold. Makes a more oval shape. This was the less than optimal batch of H2K which Don got a while back. Tasty, sure -- but rougher in texture and less flammable. We'll see what some time may have done to improve the burn.
I figure I can easily run thru a stash a month. I do smoke too many store boughts I admit. I have too large a supply of them. People keep me cigars. I really am getting to prefer my own stash, tho, cause I can rely on my own, whereas it seems like at least half the store boughts I smoke are gack-worthy. If I could get off the store boughts, I'd prolly run thru two stashed boxes; but then I'd feel like a piker when it comes time to give sticks away.
Hope to finish off two more stash-worthy boxes here this weekend. One just needs a mold full of fectos, where the other just needs a mold full of bustos.
So the purpose of this thread is, show off what ripened stash you're cracking into.
I like the bands. It's an oval pic of Sopowa, my Indian Scout, up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Blend is a half leaf each of LO Honduran seco, viso, and ligero, with a half WLT criollo seco, a Nic binder from LO, and an H2K wrapper from WLT. Hard to stuff that much into one wee fecto. This was back when I was stuffing the center of the fecto extra full, then letting the stick swell out in the middle after it was removed from the mold. Makes a more oval shape. This was the less than optimal batch of H2K which Don got a while back. Tasty, sure -- but rougher in texture and less flammable. We'll see what some time may have done to improve the burn.
I figure I can easily run thru a stash a month. I do smoke too many store boughts I admit. I have too large a supply of them. People keep me cigars. I really am getting to prefer my own stash, tho, cause I can rely on my own, whereas it seems like at least half the store boughts I smoke are gack-worthy. If I could get off the store boughts, I'd prolly run thru two stashed boxes; but then I'd feel like a piker when it comes time to give sticks away.
Hope to finish off two more stash-worthy boxes here this weekend. One just needs a mold full of fectos, where the other just needs a mold full of bustos.
So the purpose of this thread is, show off what ripened stash you're cracking into.
