The Cigar Stop: It’s a Wrap (per)

The Not Ready for Premium Cigar smoking Players

Well CigarFest 2: Clash of the Stogies is a wrap. Hosted at the Smoking Troll Bar and Grill at a camp in the woods of Maine the Members of the Dead Ringers Cigar Club gathered for their annual cigar event, where they stuffed their faces and smoked many cigars, There was a cigar grab, and a cigar swap and a Whiskey tasting and a Longest ash competition, a grand time was had by all.

For me it started at 6:30 A.M. browning the chicken and getting the crackpots of food going, arranging tables and chairs, dusting off Chief Wooden head our Cigar Indian and mascot, gathering up the boxes of cigars for the swap and the bags for the grab bags. At Noon time the first person arrived and that is when it all started, the food, whiskey, wine and beer flowed like water and the ice tea was perfectly chilled. Instead of giving you a dull minute by minute rundown I will keep to the highlights.

The event was sponsored for the Dead Ringers Cigar Club By the following.

The Smoking Troll Bar and Grill

M&C Realist Consultants LLC

The “IT” Department

The B.B.E.

The Sherburne & Sherburne Deck Construction Company

Marchant Methane Corporation

A. Looney Rescue Services

The McLaughlin Snuggie Ninja Services

The menu was vast we had:

Homemade hand cut French fries, chicken fingers, Chinese sausage, multiple cheese and cracker patters, cashews, Dips, Venison chili, Burritos, teriyaki wings, BBQ Chicken thighs, Rum Soaked Pineapple, 3 different salads and so many other things, too many to go on about

The Cigar Roster for the swap was the following:

Diesel Robusto 5.5 x 54

Gurkha Park Avenue Maduro

Arganese Maduro

Black Ops Maduro

Puros Indios Reserva Maxima 2003 - Maduro Toro

Carlos Torano Hogshead - Toro

5 Vegas Gold Robusto - Natural

Gurkha Master Selection Torpedo #2

Baccarat Rothschild Natural

5 Vegas Series 'A' Special Edition Animal

CAO Lx2 Robusto

Tabak Especial Cafe con Leche

Bahia – Maduro - Toro

The Whiskey List was narrowed down to a small list, but in my mind perfect choices were made here.

Crown Royal

Crown Royal Black Label Reserve’

Gentleman Jack by Jack Daniels

Jameson Irish whiskey

Jameson 12 year old Irish whiskey

Cabin Fever

Fireball Whisky

Jameson Black Barrel Reserve’ Whiskey

The Winner of the Longest Ash contest was none other than the head of The B.B.E. Enterprises and Cigar Club member Paul “The Brain” Linscott Jr. He won hands down while smoking a 5 Vegas Series 'A' Special Edition Animal. All the other participants could not top his 3 and 1/8 inch long ash. Most dropped their ash due to laughing and eating and one lost it as he went to put it in the tray. Congratulations Paul!

Paul "The Brain" Linscott winner of the Longest Ash

The Longest Ash 3 1/8 inches

We doubled the number of attendees from last year from 8 people to 16, with 6 being women and gained two new members to the Cigar club. The event last year lasted 6 1/2 hours, this year is went 12 hours and 15 minutes from first guest arriving to the last two leaving at 12:15. There were over 40 cigars smoked in that period, 3 bottles of Whiskey emptied several others were almost emptied or half gone and we lost count of the number of beers consumed. There were also nine tongue scrapers and toothbrush sets given out that day as door prizes.

The next morning several members got together and we used the leftovers to make a huge breakfast for whoever was hungry or interested in eating after the previous day’s events.

We have got some great feedback from participants and some great ideas for next year’s event. I will have some reviews up in the next coming days/weeks on all the cigars we sampled at the event and I will try and get some of the members to give me their thought on them, but for now here are some of the highlights of CigarFest 2: Clash of the Stogies

Thanks for reading and if you have questions or comments send them along to us here. See you next time ~Cigar Ash~