Cigar:            JFR (Just for Retail) Robusto

Size:             50 x 5-5/8"

Country:          Nic

Wrapper:          NA

Binder:           NA

Filler:           NA

Flavor Strength:  Medium

NicotineStrength: Medium

Date Received:    2007-04-14

Suspected Age:    NA

Vendor/Price:     Gifted by Woody49, ASC, Thanks Woody!

Hype:      

Beverage(s):      Water, Hales Pale Ale

Smoke time:       0:30

Date:             2007-05-01

Posted to ASC:    2007-05-01

Overall score:    2.0 / 5.0, for good construction.

Sock color:       Blue outer, brown inner

Hat:              Ocean Shores, WA - no photo available at this time

Overall:    Well constructed.  Flavor of burning leaves with a acrid, rasty aftertaste.  Not recommended.  Will try again in a few years. 

Ambience:   Evening in the sunroom.  Solid overcast.  Just mowed the !@#$%&! lawn.  Crappy day at work.  Need a vacation.  As if in recompense, the little woman is practicing nude laundry.  I think I may forbid the nude ironing as too hazardous.  The day is looking better. 

Appearance: Long for a robusto, more like a toro.  Knotted head, unfinished foot.  Medium veins.  Heavy, evenly firm (some give) along length.  Wrapper color on the gray side of milk chocolate, with a bit of a sheen. 

Cut & Prelight:   Mild aroma of coffee and cocoa.  Cut well, but made a mess of tobacco debris.  Open draw with strong dry grass draw flavor. 

First third:      Initial mild, slight peppery flavor.  Moderate smoke volume.  Somewhat bitter edge to a dry paper flavor.  Ashed at 1" - compact and firm. 

Second third:     Still dry burning leaves with an acrid, rasty aftertaste.  Abandoned, and replaced with a KDT.

Third third: