Bradley Unversity Herf is going down!

Well its official! My girl friend and I are going down to BU for the weekend. I can't wait, its going to be an awesome weekend. I've got my bags packed and I'm bringing along at least 6 cigars with me to share with my buddy and his friends. I really hope they enjoy the cigars, hopefully we have some good conversations, good smokes and good....sodas. Hope all of your weekend's are awesome! I'll be sure to report back on how it all went.

-AJ

PS: This is my 20th post! woohoo!!!!

Letter to CigarBid

In response to being banned from CigarBid, I wrote them a letter explaining my position on the events taht took place. Here's a sampling of the letter that I sent to them. I am hoping I will help open their eyes, realzing taht their 21 year old and older policy is wrong and they should change it. I have yet to hear back from their customer service.

"I have been smoking cigars for about a year now and I truly enjoy every aspectof our great hobby. I am currently a member of the CigarWeekly.com forum aswell as a member of the CigarPass.com forum. With this being said, I mustinform you that I am 19 years old.As I understand it, your website has a 21 year old and older policy. I waswondering what the reasoning for this is. If I am not mistaken, the law statesthat you must be 18 years or older to purchase tobacco and tobacco relatedproducts, and in some states you must be 19. I also know that some of yourbiggest competitors have their age restriction set at 18 years old."

I guess we'll see what happens here, but right now...I will be taking my business else where. So much for customer service!

-AJ

Bradley University Herf?

On Friday night I think my girl firend and I are goign to be stopping by BU to visit a friend of ours. He gave me the go-ahead to pack some cigars so that we could smoke them, man I'm excited! i plan on bringing plenty of extras (yard gars) to toss around to our friend's frat brothers. It should be a great time. I'm sure my girl friend will partake in the herfing as well :) I cant wait!!! Is it friday yet?!

-AJ

That was short lived...

I seem to have gotten myself banned from the cigarbid forums because of my age. I forgot about their age restriction and admited that I was 19, however, I'm still angry about it. I dont see what the big deal is that I'm 19 and not 21...I can legally purchase tobacco and that is all that should matter, but what they're really telling me is that I can go fight in a war and die, but I cannot purchase their products. Hrmmm....brain scratcher.


-AJ

Cigar Bid Forums

I just joined the cigar bid forums. It seems like there are a lot of interesting people over there, some funny, some weird. I think it'll be a nice change of pace when Cigarweekly's forums are slow. I did mention that I was 19 without even thinking bout their age restriction on bidding. I really hope that doesnt turn out to bite me in the ***! I guess we'll see in the next few days!

Anyone else a member there?

-AJ

Snow day!

Snow day in college? HELL YES! Classes were canceled for the entire day because of almost a foot of snow. No cigars today...but man, this couldn't be sweeter!!! Off to go play some video games....


Later-

Punch Rare Corojo Magnum

I only have a short time to review this cigar, but I figure a quick review is better then no review at all!

I would like to start out this review by thanking Jacob (JCole311) for hooking me up with a number of Premo smokes so that we could do a side by side review!

Setting: Outside my dorm. around 2:20pm (after lunch)
Beverage: None
Smoke time: 45-50 minutes

The wrapper on this box pressed cigar looked terrific. There were a few veins, but nothing a little box pressing didn't smooth out! The cigar produced a lot of thick smoke, which I really enjoyed. The burn on the cigar was suprisingly off. I did not have to relight the cigar at anytime which was nice, but I expected more of an even burn with a cigar made by Punch. Although it never fully evened out, the burn did correct itself somewhat about halfway into the cigar. The construction of the cigar was quite good, the ash finally fell off on its own after I smoked more then 1/4th of it!

At first, I thought that this was going to be a mild cigar, but shortly after it was lit, it turned into a medium bodied cigar. I couldn't exactly put my finger on a certain "taste", but it tasted somewhat peppery to me. Towards the last quarter of the cigar, the taste got somewhat bitter, but not overwhelmingly.

Although I am VERY greatful for the opportunity to review this cigar, I would have to say that I enjoyed the Punch Pita EMS a lot more then I enjoyed the Rare Corojo Magnum. With the prices being around $4 for the Pita compared to a $7 price tag on the Corojo, I will stick with the Pita. With that being said, I did enjoy the cigar and I would smoke another one if it was gifted to me, I just dont think I will be purchasing any of these in the near future.

Punch Rare Corojo Magnum Score: 29.5/50.

Local B&M at school...

I think I might check out the local B&M down here at school. My first impressions of this place wasn't too wonderful back when I purchased my first smokes from there, but man, if its a warm place to smoke...I may just go back! Their humidor was just a small cabinet humidor, so I might toss them a few bux for lighter fluid or purchase a few diet cokes just so I can sit there smoking a cigar I want to smoke, rather then a Baccaratt or Helix. Hopefully I can report back some good news!

-AJ

Punch Pita EMS

I had heard great things about this cigar, so I had to give it a shot. It definitely did not let me down!

Setting: B&M while watching the OSU vs Texas Tech BB game
Drink: Diet Coke w/ Lime
Total Smoke time: (roughly) 65 minutes.

PRE-SMOKE (16/20 total)

Appearance and Construction -7, Classic punch look. Great looking wrapper with a few veins. It felt like it would be a bit plugged, but it wasn't!
Burn-5, flawless burn. Great white ash, held on for a good inch. I knocked it off though, I didnt want to be rude and have it ash on the store's carpet!
Draw- 4, it was a bit tight, but produced great smoke and eventually opened up about an inch in.

SMOKE (16/20 total)

Flavor-8, Great taste, medium-full body. It had strong tobacco taste with a bit of a spicey taste as well. I hate to put it this way, but "classic punch taste"
Taste/Aftertaste-8

SUMMARY(9/10 total)

Overall Quality-9, I really enjoyed this cigar. It ran me about $4.35 and it was well worth it! The cigar had some age on it (yellowing cello!). I really should have picked up the rest of the box (3) but I didnt have a way to transport them from my house back to school.

TOTAL-41/50

H311oLHD's Ranking System: 40-50points: This cigar would make Fidel proud!

No meeting

Ah well. Keith and I weren't able to link up for a cigar this time. Hopefully next month we'll be able to smoke together.

I was able to go to the B&M though today! I smoked a Punch Pita EMS. Man was it good! It was nice to be able to smoke and still be able to feel my hands afterwords! I was watching the OSU vs Texas Tech basketball game while I smoked. Wow what a crazy game that was, double OT. OSU ended up winning the game. I've gotta go do some homework. Work at 5am.

Later!

Meeting a BOTL.

On Saturday I might be given the opportunity to smoke with a long time online bud, Keith. Lookin forward to it, although still pretty nervous about the entire thing, about being the youngest kid there. I hope everything goes well and I want to continue to seek out other brothers, maybe i'll learn some new things or maybe i'll start to make connections that will help me when I'm out of college, who knows?! I guess we'll see if this goes down or not.

Off to study some Cold War stuff. Later -

Smoking in a B&M

I definitely have a phobia of smoking in B&Ms. I'm not sure if its because I usually get looks like "Betcha he picks up a vanilla flavored turd" or if its because I'm just generally a shy person...but I want to get over this fear...but i'm not sure how. I'm going home for the weekend to work, but I have all of Saturday off and I want to smoke in a warm place...but that leaves only B&Ms. I was thinking of bringing a book and just reading, keep to myself and if someone talks to me then talk to them. I hope this'll get me to feel more comfortable!

Website finished!

I was able to finish my website today...so check it out! It was a pretty cool experience and I'm extremely glad I was able to learn how to use front page. I thought it would be a lot harder than it actually was!

I've gotta go study for my accounting exam that I have tomorrow, but I wanted to give myself another plug :). Leave me a comment!

-AJ

Perdomo Lot 23 Robusto

Time for a quick review!

Last Saturday I was able to smoke one of these beauties. The construction was flawless, a few veins, but nothing to shake a stick at. I tried a pre-light draw..but I cant ever make out any flavors, just tobacco. Once I lit this puppy up, almost immediately I thought I was smoking a Cool Ranch Dorito! This may sound gross to you, but I thought it was awesome. I thought I was dreaming, so I had my girl friend try a drag. At first she thought I was nuts, and then she took another drag. Sure enough, she tasted the same great taste I did! The ash was nice and strong, held for over an inch before I had to help it off so I didn't ash on my buddy's carpet.

I would definitely give this a 4 out of 5. If you have the chance to smoke one of these...don't hesitate!

JR Ultimate Robusto

Whats up guys!? I hope your friday's are going well. Last night I managed to smoke a JR Ultimate Robusto in the freezing cold weather! By the end of the smoke I was shaking, but no worries! This was my first Ultimate experience. It was pretty interesting I would say. It definitely was no "one-dimensional cigar" thats for sure. During the first half it had a spicey flavoring to it (I couldn't pick out the exact flavorings...I'm not that cool ;). During the second half of the smoke, the cigar had a creamy taste. I enjoyed the cigar, as it was my first one in almost a week, but it wasn't one that I would go out of my way to purchase. I received it in the Trick or Treat package, so no biggy. The cigar lasted about thirty minutes. I'm not sure how much they get for this cigar, but I hope it's not more than $3.00! Sorry this isn't an official review, I'm running short on time, as always. Feel free to send me some of your guys' opinions!

Have a great weekend fellas. Don't drink too much, but certainly smoke too much!

-AJ