White meat or Dark meat? what goes well with your Turkey

  Its Thanksgiving here in the U.S. which brings up the question white meat or Dark meat, what do you like better and what cigar would go well with Turkey?

 That question is easy; the answer is ANY cigar you like. However I do have a couple of suggestions for you Turkey feasters. Most of us have mashed potatoes, carrots, Squash and Turnip among other vegetables with your Thanksgiving Turkey, so although Turkey is not a heavy meal all of it together is enough for you to want a nap afterward, so I suggest a light airy cigar like a Baccarat or a Macanudo, But for me he cigar I will be having either a CAO Italia or a Puros Indious.

 These are cool light smoking cigars that don’t take a lot of effort on the draw and are unassuming in flavors and strengths so not to compete with the meal you have eaten. Once again here would be out choices for you’re after your holiday meal of Turkey.

CAO – Italia

Baccarat

Puros Indious – Reserva Maxima ‘03

Macanudo – Robust

Rocky Patel – Connecticut

5 Vegas - Gold

Arturo Fuente – Hemingway

Bahia - Trinidad

                                                            Happy Thanksgiving

 

                                                           B.O.T.L.

                                                         ~CigarAsh~

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~

 
 

Thanks to all that made it a great time.

CigarFest2:Clash of the Stogies - The Event of Smoke

So we are a mere week away from CigarFest2: Clash of the Stogies,

 I don’t mind telling you I was on edge a bit, running your own “HERF” is not easy, you have to have several back up plans in place incase participation is not up where is should, and doing one  that is 100% voluntary is tough, no venders to help you and you have to find yourself a hook. Lucky for me I have a solid cast of characters that all want to participate.

Last year was the first one I organized and it went well with a small group of 8, this year we have 10 men and 4 women so I am interested to see how things go. We will see how this one goes get some feedback and see what we can do to make next years as good as this one.

 The Cigar list for this year reads like a who’s who of cigars, as you can see by the list we have quite the array and variety of choices and every one of them is a new cigar for each of us. This year instead of all the members of the Dead Ringers Cigar Club getting together and picking cigars, we had each member purchase their own to share and with all the members in but one, it looks like a great success, so long as they don’t forget then at home the day of the event. So here is a revamped list of cigars sans one member who is operating on the fly. I will have more soon. Happy Ash to all you “B.O.T.L.” out there.

 Cigar Roster

Tabak Especial – Café’ con Leche - Belecoso

 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