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UAO MAY 19 Excellent size for outdoor in this season TGIF FOH!

I’m still trying to find my footing with Cuban marcas as I’m still new to CC. But Bolivar just shot up to the top. Sourdough bready from start to finish with a little nuttiness and caramel sweetness. Incredible.

Hoyo de Monterrey Epicure No. 2 (TRU NOV17).

Esmeralda

Didn't really have a last cigar of 2025 but I do have a first of 2026. A 2012 VR Unicos

JLPC, sadly discontinued, really great smoke. Always hunting for old PCs like this one.

Topes EL - ROM SEP 16

Boli CG, FPG ESU (June, '98). Regal smoke. Last couple inches got a tad bitter, a few quick purges and it was back on line. Heavy on the palate eight hours later, still plenty of life!

Cohiba Coronas Especiales 2003 - Reserva Selección - Circa 2003...

Beautiful Cigar. Thanks @Gemini_Man

I am very proud to announce "LizardGizmo" George as our FOH Man of the Year Gizmo is a FOH stalwart who lends a hand to all, whose interaction with FOH members sets the standard of how discourse should be in the modern world. Great bloke online and in person. Keeper of the Box Code list, Head of the much loved Lounge Lizard Podcast, lover of the leaf. George/Gizmo follows on from Mike (BigGuns), Charles (Chas.Alpha), John S, Fuzz. Congrats Mate!!! Steve will touch base to arrange your Tshirt.

OBM ABR 17

Wow....I haven't been stunned in a while...! This is incredible, Rob, thank you! *lights an impossibly tight Cohiba Lancero and clears throat* This really is a special place. I stumbled in here years ago looking for humidification guidance (shoutout @PigFish), and since then I’ve been an absolute sponge for the depth of knowledge this community offers. Before FOH, I didn’t really have an online ‘home’ - and not just for cigars. Obviously that changed very quickly… Every time I log on, it feels like I’m walking into our 24/7 member lounge - where the technical, the historical, the experiential, the business-savvy, and the humor all coexist (and let’s not forget the cigars). This combination is impossibly rare and it’s what keeps the bar here set so high. FOH has also been instrumental in the success for the podcast - and certainly a great deal of fuel each week, also. Without Rob’s and the forum’s early support of it in its infancy, I’m not sure if we’d be even close to where we are today. Every single time I receive feedback or recommendations from a fellow member, it’s helpful, constructive and often hilarious. I can’t thank you all enough for this. I also want to sincerely thank the entire admin and moderator team as well. Keeping a place like this honest, thoughtful, and welcoming isn’t easy, and it doesn’t go unnoticed - especially when we’re all teeing off about arrests, nations collapsing and NFL lunacy. The fellow FOH Men of the Year are titans and I am truly honored. I feel like Wayne and Garth today: “NOT WORTHY! NOT WORTHY!” I proudly wear my 2024 BigGuns FOH MOTY t-shirt often. Having this brilliantly modified FOHLizard shirt to wear into every podcast recording and on FOH Discord is both hilarious and a complete honor. I’ve been fortunate in the past to receive recognition in other parts of my life, but this one hits differently. To be recognized by Rob and FOH - a class act of a community I genuinely admire and learn from means more to me than I can easily put into words. Thank you all for contributing so positively to my cigar (and life) experience. I’m eternally grateful!!

Last night's cigars 24' Saint Luis Rey La Cuna Edición Regional Italia Dried fruit, Angel food Cake, Shortbread 1/2 21' Por Larranaga Galanes Butterscotch, Bread, Molasses Blah Ok Good Tasty Heavenly

Had my first Vegas Robaina. Lovely mild, but flavorful smoke. Honey, cream, cocoa with a nice spice in the first 10 puffs. Like a Monte 4 but more delicate. What a perfect coffee cigar! Construction was among the best of any Cuban I’ve smoked.

BBF - EPO DIC 23

H.Upmann Sir Winston - Circa 1997...

Juan López Selección No. 2 (BST ABR20). A wonderful weekend to you all.

Here you go! Cheers!

'20 Hoyo Epicure #2.

HC BRM ENE 24

Punch Short de Punch TRU OCT 19

Starting this Bears playoff day with 2021 N1 and Kona Coffee. Great start. Thanks again, @Nevrknow! Sir Winston in the dry box for tonight.

My first cigar of 2026. 2 hours of bliss. Hope all of them this year match this start!

M4

RG and Select Spritz.

Por Larrañaga Petit Corona (RAT ENE21).

NC

Happy Sunday FOH!

Aladino Cameroon Lancero

This cigar made me grow a second pelt of chest hair! Mode 5.

God of Fire Anniversario Serie B. Cream and baking spices.

Hoyo Epicure 2 while hitting range balls. Construction was tighter than my preference but coffee with cream came through with light toffee sweetness.

Montecristo C - Circa 2003...

This D4 felt like a rock, made me wonder how it will perform. Turned out it is one of the best rolled Habanos I have enjoyed in the past year or so. Effortless draw with loads of smoke. Hard to comprehend as even post lighting, the cigar was still rock hard. Happy weekend FOH!

Past few night's smokes. All from our gracious host.

Meanwhile....back at Havana Headquarters.

Short Churchill RLO JUN23 Good not great. I’ve always gravitated towards the Petit Churchill more anyways, feel there’s a lot more cherry flavor in those.

BCG from a legendary box ESO JUL 15. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

TUE Nov 2020 PSP Siglo VI. I think. His handwriting???? 😂 Anyway, still breaking in the new garage. Was going to my personal cigar lounge (ok the back porch but whatever) but the wind is kicking it to much. SOO I figured I would enjoy this gift in Le Garage' with an old friend that taught me how to play. Ended up in several cities together and no I was never dumb enough to play him for $$. 😂 And no cracks about " you look old now." KMA. 😁 This cigar is Exactly what I expect from a VI. It doesn't get any better than this. I'm giving it 100pts just because it was a gift from a BOTL and it's my first VI in my new house. To me, memories like that matter. A lot. Although, those robustos are dead on this cigars ass. Those brothers know who they are. 😉 Ooooops, I mean this cigar is horrible. Send me the rest to destroy. In small controlled burns. For the environment, ya know. 😂 Damnit my picture! @JohnS ? TYIA

Por Larrañaga Picadores (RAT OCT20).

A small Ramon Allones with Tapatio tequila before putting a steak on the grill. Very good but not a superb cigar.

BR Petit 109. This and the 109 are in daily rotation now. So consistent. So satisfying.