#2 from Illi
6x35 double cap, dark brown tight visible seams, a bit veiny, with a very oily wrapper. With some plume.
First light, draw is alittle on the snug side but producing ample amount of smoke for a 35 ring gauge. Mouth is instantly coated by a thick oily mouth feel.
1/3 thick rich tobacco smoke, alittle pepper but not to much. Oil stays with ya but a short finish. Medium to Full mor on the medium side. Nice start.
2/3 pepper ramping up a good bit, getting a good nicotine tingle in the back of the throat. Still super oily chewy smoke. Finish is staying around longer. Started tunneling on me. Just slowed down my draws and it caught back up after a touch up.
Last third having issues with the burn. Have to really throttle it to produce some smoke but not a bad tasting cigar. One dimensional, thick oily rich tobacco.
Got a good buzz going. Double puffing seems to be the key with this stick.
It's a head scratcher
Pepper died down. Decent flavor, tunneling issues, nice room notes....
Down to the nub. Tunneling gone. Peppers back, still on the fence....
If it wasn't for the burn issues I am willing to go out on a limb and say this might have been a CC with the flavor profile.
But then again, I was pretty much hot boxing it during the second and last third trying to get a decent smoke output.
I'm probably shooting myself in the foot but I'm going to say this was the yard gar. Might have a more conclusive opinion when I ash #3
I'm curious to know what this was.
Thanks for the smoke. It was humbling. I have a feeling I'm about to get schooled on this one.
Paired with a Dickle 12 old fashioned.
Two sugar cubes
Two dashes of bitters
Two teaspoons of water
Two shots of Dickle
Two ice cubes
frou-frou but good!