Cigarro del dia - numero siete

[Stewmuse]

Nuffin. My tung thtill 'ant 'aste much. 'ung 'ite, oo thay?

Hope you learnt your lesson, "traitor."

[Kip]

I guess it's like riding a bike. I was worried I would have similar issue. Even though I've dabbled lately, I don't often crack a tin and dive right in seconds later. No issues Friday night, and none so far after smoking pipes like a man possessed since. Seriously. I've been lighting bowl after bowl pretty much all weekend and twice today so far.

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[Kip]

Courtesy of @815DC (thanks man). I am trying to calm myself, as I'm currently building a website for a ministry here and have lost my notes from our last meeting. You know....the place I wrote down all the information I need to create the design.

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[815DC]

Courtesy of @815DC (thanks man). I am trying to calm myself, as I'm currently building a website for a ministry here and have lost my notes from our last meeting. You know....the place I wrote down all the information I need to create the design.

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Best of luck Kip. Hope you enjoyed the small Ogre. I know how pivotal those notes are what with you having a tumor and all, but I trust things will work out. As a side note will this website replace fishers4him?

[Kip]

Courtesy of @815DC (thanks man). I am trying to calm myself, as I'm currently building a website for a ministry here and have lost my notes from our last meeting. You know....the place I wrote down all the information I need to create the design.

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Best of luck Kip. Hope you enjoyed the small Ogre. I know how pivotal those notes are what with you having a tumor and all, but I trust things will work out. As a side note will this website replace fishers4him?

No, not at all. It's for a whole different thing. A friend of ours, in fact.

But, before too long, I'll be reviving the 4 Fishers site....its been all but dead for a long time. We're firing the blog back up and redesigning the site.

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[Kip]

Enjoying more of that Escudo from Friday night in this delightfully craggy sandblasted Jobey.

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[815DC]

Enjoying more of that Escudo from Friday night in this delightfully craggy sandblasted Jobey.

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You got an Ogre in your literal tray sir

[Kip]

About ten-ish years ago, when the original Casa Magna achieved CA's #1 cigar, I scoffed. I guffawed. I ridiculed. It was a crap cigar. I thought it was straight-up trash. I never looked back.

The last time I was in La Fábrica, David gave me this Casa Magna Colorado. I just lit it, and I'm liking it quite a bit so far. I don't think my tastes changed this much. Does anyone remember what the original line was that made #1? Was it this one? If so, this is an entirely different cigar than then. If not, this is a much better offering from them....



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[815DC]

My progress thus far on Stews wrapper bomb:
San Andreas- the faintest hints something.. coffee on the retro?- I had to really work just to get this.. this stuff may be best as binder or for making mix filled cheroots... Infused with some dark rum wouldn't hurt either.
Conny- some grassy sweetness and creaminess to the cigar
Hab maduro- molasses type sweetness with a nutty fat quality... reminded me of a mr goodbar. Also so far the most enjoyable.

All of the sticks smoke very young obviously which is why I forgive any sharpness or rough edges.

[kurtdesign1]

About ten-ish years ago, when the original Casa Magna achieved CA's #1 cigar, I scoffed. I guffawed. I ridiculed. It was a crap cigar. I thought it was straight-up trash. I never looked back.

The last time I was in La Fábrica, David gave me this Casa Magna Colorado. I just lit it, and I'm liking it quite a bit so far. I don't think my tastes changed this much. Does anyone remember what the original line was that made #1? Was it this one? If so, this is an entirely different cigar than then. If not, this is a much better offering from them....

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I can't help you out on that front. I never even realized that there were different lines offered at the time of the CotY prize. What I will tell you is that I was not impressed either. Some necessary background; I had been put on reduced wages as well as half time at work. It was 2008 (maybe early 2009) and architecture SUCKED. I was meeting friends at a B&M on Tuesday & thursdays and spending much of the day there. One introduced me to that year's winner and I developed an initial impression. My memory has that cigar in line with the most generic habano tasting cigar from Nicaragua. I didn't get it. The backstory matters because I was in a dark place. Work sucked, I had just gotten married and now was making less than my wife. I had just bought a house (in the span of a mortgage, that is. I think it had been 2 years). My wife and I were just finding out about some of the fertility struggles we'd come to deal with over the course of the next 3 years. etc, etc. (in my best Yul Brenner)
All added up, I tried the Casa Magna a few times over that year and never once had it stand out like a great cigar, let alone the best from the year. I didn't get it, nor do i now.