Cigar:            Mr. B's Honduran Selection 1945

Size:             46 x 5.75

Wrapper:          Ecuador, Rosado

Binder:           Hon

Filler:           Hon/Nic/DR

Flavor Body:      Medium

Stength:          Mild

Country:          Hon  

Suspected Age:    3+ years

Vendor/Price:     Gifted from Beans, ASC

Beverage(s):      Water, Full Sail Pale Ale

Smoke time:       1:30

Date:             2004-07-24

Posted to ASC:    2004-07-25

Ambience:   Another record breaking Seattle scorcher - 95F / 35% RH.  Sun is 15 degrees off the horizon and falling toward the Olympic Mountains.  Cloudless blue sky with occasional variable breeze.  A half moon is chasing the sun about 45 degrees back.  Puget Sound is flat.  None of the sailboats have their sails up.  An few freighters steam north, leaving on the falling tide.  Got in over 2 hours of flight time and bagged 2 new airports.  Did some plane and hangar maintenance.  The plan was to smoke this cigar at the hangar, but it was just too damn HOT!

Construction:     Pretty nice construction.  Double cap.  Wrapper with one large, full-length vein.  A few soft and hard spots, but nothing egregious.  The wrapper is reddish, a bit oily, with a tiny bit of tooth.  Nice sweet, cedar aroma.

Prelight:   Cut exposed some large veins in the filler.  Cut flavor is VERY mild.  No pepper.  Moderate draw.

First third:      Lots of green, sweet, nutty flavor.  Good smoke volume.  Nuttiness mellowed quickly and lost much of the "green", becoming toasted.  Never a hint of pepper.  Finish is the same - toasted, sweet, nutty.  Cigar seems to smoke from the ash much more when drawn than any other cigar I have smoked.  Burn self-corrected during this third.

Second third:     Same flavor.  Burn not great and needs some fire to correct.  Ashed consistently at 1" though crooked. 

Third third:      Took it down to 1.5" and abandoned it when the smoke got hot. 

Overall:    Very pleasant cigar.  One-dimensional which is not necessarily a negative characteristic - nutty and sweet throughout with a similar finish.  The flavor is what I have come to recognize as "typically Honduran".  Burn was a little ragged and need fire a few times to correct.  This cigar was over 3 years old, I wonder what they are like off the truck or after only a month in the humi?