cacman
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12 years ago
A little something from a B&M in my home town. Have heard some good reviews, and a recent Sampler offer was hard to pass up. Believe Skip Martin of RomaCraft is involved with another recent blend for the B&M too. Just can't get away from the Strip District in Pittsburgh. Had some Parma and Mancini's delivered too (not through B&M though)!

Note the pigtail twist of the wrapper at the foot extends under the band and is affixed at the head. Can't wait to open, see what the actual cigar inside looks like, and smoke. The smell of each is incredible.

LEAF by Oscar

The four varieties of Leaf & Bean By Oscar cigars include the Connecticut, Oscar’s original cigar, which is very creamy with a sweet, nice flavor; the Corojo, which is a medium-bodied cigar; the Maduro, which is a full-bodied cigar; and the Sumatra, which has an Ecuadorian wrapper and is the most recent addition to the line.

In addition to high quality, exquisite flavors, and distinct leaf blends, another unique aspect of Leaf & Bean By Oscar cigars is how they are wrapped. After the cigars are hand-made and banded with organic paper, each one is then rolled again in a whole tobacco leaf.

http://thestrippgh.com/2013/11/the-leaf-bean-company/ wrote:




Triodes - How do you think the BOTL's receiving these should age them? Do you remove the tobacco leaf (or cello) or leave them as delivered? The outer leaf already looks to be developing some plume. Although they're not wrapped in foil, what's your opinion?
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Oscar
12 years ago
WTF... How did you find my cigars? Wheres mine?
bs_kwaj
12 years ago
reckless
12 years ago

WTF... How did you find my cigars? Wheres mine?

Oscar wrote:


I wouldnt smoke oscars cigars, they arent actually cigars but something else wrapped in a cigar leaf. You have been warned 😗
The Truckist
12 years ago

Oscar missed a good opportunity to get in on the trend of quirky names for new cigars...

CHEWBACCA woulda worked well with these hairy-lookin' critters.

At first look, I thought this might be a little gimmiky but I was very wrong. That 3rd cigar from the left is a legit cigar. Dark and oily as Dice Clay's hair-do when you strip it down.

And if your tongue still has a little skin left on it & one can still appreciate a good connecticut at certain times, that fuzzy one on the left is enjoyable in the A.M. with a cup o' Dunkin...by the fireplace...nekkid....with fuzzy socks...watchin' Fox News...

👍
triodes
12 years ago
Without question BLUE foil.

I have used blue foil in the past very successfully, so successful in fact that you just wouldn't believe it.

Blue filters out certain layers of the spectrum that are harmful to the repair process. If you wrap those totally in blue foil they will repair themselves. _Don't_ wrap them all together like you would be aging them, wrap them individually.

Then let them stay like that for no less than 90 days, those look so rough it will probably take at least 180, more like 270 or so.

Problem is, if you check them too early and they haven't completed the repair process you have to start from day 1 again.

I know, it's a bitch - but that's how life can be at times🇨🇮
cacman
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12 years ago
^^^ LMAO at the foil !!!

Don't think it's coming across that the finished cigar is covered with a leaf instead of cello or foil. The rough, gnarly outer leaf is removed (like cello) to reveal the final cigar. Believe covered in a tobacco leaf instead of cello or foil would add nicely to the flavor and age very well.

In my short cigar experience this is the first time I've seen this technique offered. Some may call it a sales gimmick, but I wonder? Almost like opening a Christmas present.

After the cigars are hand-made and banded with organic paper, each one is then rolled again in a whole tobacco leaf. “We came up with this idea after a couple cases of beer and a lot of bottles of rum,” notes Jim. Oscar notes that this process not only takes extra time but also adds expense—but it definitely provides a recognizable and ruggedly natural look to the cigars at first glance. The aesthetic surprise comes when that first full-leaf wrapper is uncovered to expose the perfectly pristine Leaf & Bean By Oscar cigar treat inside.

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reckless
12 years ago

^^^ LMAO at the foil !!!

Don't think it's coming across that the finished cigar is covered with a leaf instead of cello or foil.

cacman wrote:



He gets it he just trolls that hard...
triodes
12 years ago
Nah, didn't read the last sentence.

advertising blurbs seem to go with endless meaningless nice sounding things, I think I didn't make it past creamy in the first sentence.

But, I did have some fun on the blue foil🇨🇮

So, have you smoked one and how did it smoke?
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