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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.

BBF - EPO DIC 23

H.Upmann Sir Winston - Circa 1997...

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.

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!!

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!

OBM ABR 17

ABO JUN 19 50 cab check-in. Absolutely spot on Lusi. This will be my last big dog before a steady diet of Sovereign Suns the next few weeks up in the mountains.

Happy Sunday FOH!

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

Trinidad La Trova LCDH (ARS SEP19).

2016 Siglo V from a tube. The best cigar I have smoked in a while.

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!

El Rey del Mundo Kon Tiki 1973 - Circa 2018...

TEB DIC 08

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

Sweet Quintero

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).

SLR PC - My favorite marca in one of my favorite vitolas. Unsure of the year, but incredibly smooth brown sugar. Absolutely 0 spice on the retrohale. I must find more of these.

Siglo VI - GES JUL 24

The chubby Rio Seco (TRU July 2019) very smooth with cedar and toast flavors.

C&C time. Last night's smoke JL No. 2 (2017) & now smoking Punch Punch (2016). Both from our gracious host.

Petite 109 while cleaning up the Hogan’s in the garage lounge. These seem to capture the Montecristo Soul for me. YMMV

ABO JUN '17 Exhibicion 4.

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

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

Punch SS2 cab, SUA MAY 01. Great roll, easy draw, no touch-ups required. Massive amounts of smoke, straight unadulterated tobacco flavor, and incredible aroma. Flavor intensified by midpoint, blossoming into a leathery/oaky mix that now rivaled the pungent aroma. Cigar finished medium-bodied, boldly defying it's age.

La Trova MUP MAY 19 is outstanding. This one made me stare at while smoking. 96 all day long. Wonderful cigar will be tough to beat.

2019 Siglo II from our host.

Yolanda Medina Cañonazo. First few puffs were a punch in the face. Mellowed out though, light notes of milk chocolate, leather, and some twang. Unfortunately I was impatient and didn’t let this one dry box long enough. I knew the risk and still took it though. I’ll have some more patience next time, haha!

BR Petit109. Rawai Beach, Phuket.

Last night's cigars 14' Ramon Allones Specially Selected Stewed fruit, Molasses, Raisin 24' Juan López Selección No.2 Cinnamon, Chocolate Orange, Cake 1/2 Blah Ok Good Tasty Heavenly

Folks, this one was a special one. When I was a kid my dad and grandfather used to smoke RyJ on special occasions. Today was a special occasion. Parents came over to have dinner for the first time in my first home. This was cigar was incredible. Subtle bready notes with a lot of Cuban funky notes of leather and woodiness. Just all around incredible. And put some burgers on the grill after 🍔

Padron 1964 Exclusivo. Woody and yet savory.

Mag 50.

Partagás Serie du Connaisseur No.1 - Circa 2007...