Never heard of it. Wasn't bad, but not my thing, too strong.

Putting another butt on the smoker, probably fire up no 3 this evening

^^^damn, Dan is burning through his, literally.

Well, I'm a slacker. Dan is almost done, and I haven't even sent mine... well, just now sent mine:

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The hot sauce is coming separately (direct ship from Amazon).

It's the same sauces I was going to send (along with one additional one), but I couldn't find a box big enough around my house. Cleaned out our cardboard after the holidays and tend to throw away boxes.

Starting in on chazbos number 3. Another toro, this time without the neutering. Note: I've been drinking since 8am, might be long winded.

Medium-dark wrapper, uneven color, poorly capped. Cold draw gives me nothing, just dry tobacco leaf.

First light: bitter cocoa, tree bark. Excessive cap glue I suspect, my lips stick to the head... yup, wiped my mouth on my flannel sleeve and got lint stuck to my lips.

Pretty quickly making its strength known with a lump in my throat despite a very full stomach. Flavor is unremarkable, still a bit of bitter cocoa and tree bark. Very heavy tannin-like flavor, dry. Finish is bitter, dry, but long. Not bad. Several times stronger than I like, but it's decent.

Boutta inch in now, flavors the same, still full power. Finish is longer, less dry. Still a bit of tannin, cocoa, bitter wood. Not terribly unlike number 2, but suspect this has more age, no green flavor.

Halfway, unchanged. Full power. A bit more bitter initially, though the finish is sweeter. Same overall profile. Cocoa and wood.

Smoking to the end, it's finishing overall sweet with a cocoa and wood flavor, still full /full, and less dry finish. If I liked full power cigars, I'd like this one more. Got it down to an inch after an hour 30.

So, what was it? Can't venture a guess, don't think I've had this or similar before. At least not that I've smoked this long.

Dandude!
You've lost your joy. Your readership is craving passion!

Lolz.

that was my intention.

Dan, #3 was Project 805 maduro
Good reviews, sorry nothing really hit your wheel house.
Chazbo

Which was the yard gar?

Dan is done and I am behind on sending mine. Better step up the game.

Yard gar

I got mine first, and happened to have a lot of free time for brewing and meat smoking which allows for plenty time to smoke cigars.

Love doing blind reviews. Can't wait to read the others.

I think reviewers should have to guess the rank of all three.

All part of the fun of blind reviews.

Last time i sent out, I sent all milds-mediums and CCs to a full/full lover. [frypan]

🤦 ....hate when that happens, a great top shelf cigar for you is barely smokeable for someone else...but this forces you to concentrate on the cigar...

Just got my package in from Al.....looks like it exceeds thread specifications. Hot Licks hot sauce, no name lemon garlic tri-tip marinade and two packs of Pacific Gold Beef Jerky. Three unlabeled sticks (per thread requirements) and two additional sticks........an old brown label Camacho and a room 101 master lancero.......Nice! but work first....I will post soon.

USPS taking a page from the FedEx playbook. Took my package to MN from IN, to Chicago, then to Cincinnati OH... been happening a lot in the last month to my packages. Yesterday I finally got a package shipped from Indianapolis that went to WI, then MI.

Received my three unbanded cigars from dharbolt today.
Plus a bottle of BBQ sauce from Carfagna's meat market.
Hitchhiking were three different Tatuaje cigars.
Will let them rest a few days in the humi then do some reviews.
Thanks Dylan

Mine landed from bgz today. A 3 pack of Arizona gunslinger hot sauce that is fantastic (tried all 3 right out of the bottle lol) and 2 very nice hitchhikers to go wit has the blind smokes. Thanks Ben really looking forward to them. I'll try to get my first review up by the weekend

Ahhhh, glad you liked the hot sauce.

The Jalapeno pepper is my main goto hot sauce.

And now it's in Des Moines... But still expected delivery day of yesterday!#-o

Maybe just taking the Johnny Cash route. He's been everywhere, man.