herfdog
I am no rocket surgeon
It is BIG. 64 ring gauge. 1 inch diameter.
Oily dark brown cape with little nerves.
It is EP Carillo's Inch Maduro.
But the question is: is it herf worthy or some huskey's dog rocket? Who better than a dog to recognize dog rockets? Let's try it out.
The cigar has great aromas of hay. The smell is more faint, but even without canine smell you'll recognize the maduro-ness of this stick.
But, but, but... IT IS BIG. too big for the usual cutter, which only fit it somewhere at the middle of the shoulder. Without having a punch cutter, had to resort to give it a try. Luckily it was deep enough to give a nice pre-draw, leading to flavors of hay, licorice and pepper.
Lighting was done with matches. Matches in plural. its bigger, harder to light than smaller sticks. But it does light good, and its oily wrapper even generated a flame upon lighting, and once lighted the smoke smelled good.
First draw had woody flavors with hints of coffee.
Straight at the beginning, the burn had to be adjusted. It never became fully straight, but will burn equally crooked trough the whole cigar.
During the first third, we could find subtle flavors, wood and grilled nuts, and it evolved to sweet almonds roasted coffee by the next third. But very subtle.
Retrohaling revealed some spices
The second third continued in the sweet nuts department, with a bit of spices and some subtle woody flavorish coffee.
The third third keeps the subtlety but the wood and sugary coffee flavors are subtly more prominent: it looks like sweet coffee cedar.
The ash is rock solid, white, and kept together all the way to the beginning of the last third when it was time to remove the band. The ash-to-wrapper line is fine and black.
The burn kept burning even if the cigar was left unattended, but had some issues at the last third. A quick relight solved everything.
The smoke produced is rather cold. more than most cigars, particularly in the first third. Might come with the larger ring size territory, but it is not as nice as warmer smoke.
It was paired with a Bourbon barrel aged craft beer, which had more flavors than the cigar.
Duration of this cigar: about two beers, or nearing two hours.
It is a good smoke, but the larger wrapper-to-filler ratio makes that flavors are dim and subtle. It would likely be awesomerer as a robusto. But as is, it isn't a cigar to bring to a herf: too long and not strong enough. Smoke it at home, as a week-end morning gar. It would be awesome for a Sunday morning. Wake up late, breakfast, and smoke till lunch.
What happens to a good cigar that cannot receive the herf paw of approval?
Oily dark brown cape with little nerves.
It is EP Carillo's Inch Maduro.
But the question is: is it herf worthy or some huskey's dog rocket? Who better than a dog to recognize dog rockets? Let's try it out.
The cigar has great aromas of hay. The smell is more faint, but even without canine smell you'll recognize the maduro-ness of this stick.
But, but, but... IT IS BIG. too big for the usual cutter, which only fit it somewhere at the middle of the shoulder. Without having a punch cutter, had to resort to give it a try. Luckily it was deep enough to give a nice pre-draw, leading to flavors of hay, licorice and pepper.
Lighting was done with matches. Matches in plural. its bigger, harder to light than smaller sticks. But it does light good, and its oily wrapper even generated a flame upon lighting, and once lighted the smoke smelled good.
First draw had woody flavors with hints of coffee.
Straight at the beginning, the burn had to be adjusted. It never became fully straight, but will burn equally crooked trough the whole cigar.
During the first third, we could find subtle flavors, wood and grilled nuts, and it evolved to sweet almonds roasted coffee by the next third. But very subtle.
Retrohaling revealed some spices
The second third continued in the sweet nuts department, with a bit of spices and some subtle woody flavorish coffee.
The third third keeps the subtlety but the wood and sugary coffee flavors are subtly more prominent: it looks like sweet coffee cedar.
The ash is rock solid, white, and kept together all the way to the beginning of the last third when it was time to remove the band. The ash-to-wrapper line is fine and black.
The burn kept burning even if the cigar was left unattended, but had some issues at the last third. A quick relight solved everything.
The smoke produced is rather cold. more than most cigars, particularly in the first third. Might come with the larger ring size territory, but it is not as nice as warmer smoke.
It was paired with a Bourbon barrel aged craft beer, which had more flavors than the cigar.
Duration of this cigar: about two beers, or nearing two hours.
It is a good smoke, but the larger wrapper-to-filler ratio makes that flavors are dim and subtle. It would likely be awesomerer as a robusto. But as is, it isn't a cigar to bring to a herf: too long and not strong enough. Smoke it at home, as a week-end morning gar. It would be awesome for a Sunday morning. Wake up late, breakfast, and smoke till lunch.
What happens to a good cigar that cannot receive the herf paw of approval?
This dog says: smoke it to the nub
