LigaPrivadaFanboy
Unrepentant Hoarder
Gene, one of XDCCO's friends and a fellow motorcycle fanatic, traded me this stick for one of my custom blends. All I know about it is that it's a gorgeous chocolaty Cameroon wrapper in a 6x52 (maybe 54) Toro. I paired it with Zaya and Coke Zero after a bowl of Frog Morton Cellar to wake up the palate.
Light: Short blast of pepper with cedar on the retrohale. Draw and burn are spot on!
This stick was stored in a cedar box along with my own blend in it and a 65RH boveda pack. I pulled the stick right out of the box and lit it up. It burns astonishingly fast - almost 3/4" in the first 4 minutes!
One inch in, the pepper is a little overwhelming but disperses quickly. Like a fresh FFP without the peaty notes. This is closer to a wet-tasting-but-dry-drawing Dirty Rat dipped in bittersweet chocolate! Gene - how many Ligero leaves did you cram in here? Jeebus! I've never had a Cameroon-wrapped Liga before, and this is quite different from what I was expecting....in a very cool way.
I'm drawing once ever 90-120s but over an inch is gone in 8 min since I lit it. My palate has been totally cleaned out of the pipe baccy now. The ash looks rock-solid too. Draw and burn remain consistent as described previously.
So the pepper is starting to die down, and leather notes reminiscent of T52s emerge. This stick does not pour smoke at all. In fact I have to draw on it occasionally just to make sure I didn't let it go out. When I do, wafts of smoke pour our just like I'd expect.
At about 2 1/2" the ash dropped off the end as I set it down in the tray. Good timing! A lot more smoke is pouring out now as you'd expect.
At this point the smoke is getting cooler and a minty note develops, like unsweetened iced tea with a mint sprig in it. The pepper is entirely in the background, and dark chocolate is beginning to emerge.
At 1/2, the dark chocolate continues to subdue the pepper and an explosive amount of smoke gushes forth.
Don't know if my palate is trashed or if this stick is staying consistent so long, but no noticeable change-up from 1/2 to 2/3.
Whoa! WTF?! Butterscotch? Just a whiff of butterscotch and sweet cream at 2/3.
That was a tease! The sweetness is all gone as I nub it. Total time was 1hr 30min-ish.
Special thanks to Gene and XDCCO, as well as all the awesome folks at Drew Estate. Can't wait for the safari next year! Might hafta experiment with a Cameroon-wrapped blend myself!
Light: Short blast of pepper with cedar on the retrohale. Draw and burn are spot on!
This stick was stored in a cedar box along with my own blend in it and a 65RH boveda pack. I pulled the stick right out of the box and lit it up. It burns astonishingly fast - almost 3/4" in the first 4 minutes!
One inch in, the pepper is a little overwhelming but disperses quickly. Like a fresh FFP without the peaty notes. This is closer to a wet-tasting-but-dry-drawing Dirty Rat dipped in bittersweet chocolate! Gene - how many Ligero leaves did you cram in here? Jeebus! I've never had a Cameroon-wrapped Liga before, and this is quite different from what I was expecting....in a very cool way.
I'm drawing once ever 90-120s but over an inch is gone in 8 min since I lit it. My palate has been totally cleaned out of the pipe baccy now. The ash looks rock-solid too. Draw and burn remain consistent as described previously.
So the pepper is starting to die down, and leather notes reminiscent of T52s emerge. This stick does not pour smoke at all. In fact I have to draw on it occasionally just to make sure I didn't let it go out. When I do, wafts of smoke pour our just like I'd expect.
At about 2 1/2" the ash dropped off the end as I set it down in the tray. Good timing! A lot more smoke is pouring out now as you'd expect.
At this point the smoke is getting cooler and a minty note develops, like unsweetened iced tea with a mint sprig in it. The pepper is entirely in the background, and dark chocolate is beginning to emerge.
At 1/2, the dark chocolate continues to subdue the pepper and an explosive amount of smoke gushes forth.
Don't know if my palate is trashed or if this stick is staying consistent so long, but no noticeable change-up from 1/2 to 2/3.
Whoa! WTF?! Butterscotch? Just a whiff of butterscotch and sweet cream at 2/3.
That was a tease! The sweetness is all gone as I nub it. Total time was 1hr 30min-ish.
Special thanks to Gene and XDCCO, as well as all the awesome folks at Drew Estate. Can't wait for the safari next year! Might hafta experiment with a Cameroon-wrapped blend myself!
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