Stogie Guys Friday Sampler No. 252

1) J. Glynn Loope, executive director of Cigar Rights of America, calls for "National City cigar room" to make local politicians more aware of issues relating to cigars. "[The legislators] need to see that cigars are not marketed to youth, that you're enjoying a luxury that is not addictive and only helps your peace of mind and relaxation. They need to note the nature of handmade cigars, and the walk-in humidor is not a death trap evil ... "He wrote."This is our time to use the democratic process and our grassroots movement to advance the necessary legislation, now more than ever."

2) In July the "Question of the Month", we asked readers how they felt about the Fair Trade ICCPR in 2011. "Excited about the news published" came top with 50% of the vote, followed by "concerned of the brand-extension "(34%)," as I have not tried many releases of 2010 "(10%), and" consolidation of the industry curious about "(6%). Be sure to posed the question of the month by voting in the sidebar on the right.And feel free to contact us if you have a suggestion to interview one month future.

3) Overwrite California and the West Cigar Roll Wine Festival has some major additions this year, including a one-year membership in the Cigar Rights of America as part of a registration fee of $ 125 . Also a lot of wine and cigars, September 16 to 17 party at the fairgrounds in Paso Robles has a poker tournament, entertainment, auctions and educational seminars. Fans of cigars on the Internet know where the participation of Doc Stogie Stogie costs and podcast, which helped launch the event three years ago.

4) In industry: another new version of Altadis introduced in the lounge ICCPR is the "Casa de Ortez," a cigar in price (from 1.50 to $ 1.83 per stick) of Nicaragua with an envelope Ecuadorian Connecticut. n Cuba Habanos Cigar Company announced they are releasing a new thickness Partagas Series E No. 2, 5 1 / 2 "by 54 RG Parejo.

Episode #62 Carlos Torano The Brick

In this episode we review some cigars donated to us by the Torano Family cigar company. Many know them for their premiums, but do their budget lines match up with the same quality? Find out on this week’s Crap Cigar show.

This cigar is called The Brick (not to be confused with the Brick House cigar).  This cigar is a box press shape (they call it square press, generic for box press??) and is only $2.50 a stick for the churchill size (7×56).  It has a sumatra wrapper with a honduran binder and long filler.  The construction is really great on these with hardly any imperfections and only a few larger veins.  The wrapper is more of a toothy wrapper and a bit rough around the edges.  There is not much of an aroma to this cigar, only a feint barnyard smell on the foot of the cigar.

The first few puffs is really great, especially for a cheap smoke.  I had them resting in my humidor for awhile and even when I first got these, they were still really great sticks.  This cigar has a nice creamy smoke with an addition of spice.  The spice smoothed out over time in the humidor and became more mellow.  These age surprisingly well.  Bobby Butane’s started out with cream and changed into mostly spice characteristics.

Toward the middle of this cigar all the way into the nub it burns even, smooth draw, and lots of enjoyable flavors.  It starts out with a cream and slight pepper and kicks in to a full pepper taste starting from the middle all the way to the end.  This is a damn good cigar, especially for the price.  This is a diamond in the rough for us.  I may have to buy more of these even though we already smoked through a whole box of these.  This is one of those cigars that you can enjoy as an everyday smoke because of the price or even as your “special/weekend” smoke.  Pick these up at your B&M or on bestcigarprices.com online.  You can’t go wrong with these boys, smokem up!  We smoke the shit so you don’t have to!

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