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Dip 2 '21

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).

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!

Esmeralda

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

Double Coronas...vintage VR are always impressive.

OBM ABR 17

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

Beautiful Cigar. Thanks @Gemini_Man

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.

'20 Lusi. Love the long format smokes.

H.Upmann Sir Winston - Circa 1997...

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

HC BRM ENE 24

Punch Short de Punch TRU OCT 19

Siglo VI - GOA SEP 15

MTS NOV 21 BSM MAY 21

That trusted Partagas flavor...

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.

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

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!!

Here you go! Cheers!

'20 Hoyo Epicure #2.

RG and Select Spritz.

Por Larrañaga Petit Corona (RAT ENE21).

NC

Sunday night cigars 21' Cohiba Siglo VI Vanilla, Citrus, Custard Blah Ok Good Tasty Heavenly

Monte 4 perfection. Cocoa powder and cream...watching my Bears get creamed.

BBF - EPO DIC 23

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

Aladino Cameroon Lancero

M4

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

Montecristo C - Circa 2003...

MOFOH Trinity Robusto. I have a few that I think are from different batches. Some lean sweet (almost too sweet for me) and some lean less sweet and are a ringer to an H Upmann Connossieur A. This one is truly spectacular.

Aladino Cameroon RGPE RASS

Some recents… Padrón 3000 Maduro. Speaks for itself… Toscano Master Aged Series 5. Wonderful. Smokey, peaty, woodsy, and strong. Don’t smoke if you’re looking for lollipops. Tatuaje Fausto FT153. Really good strong smoke. Supposedly, the strongest Tatuaje, but a solid medium strength coat for my palate. Diamond Crown Julius Caeser Et Tu Brute? This is just a well balanced smoke, but too much money IMO (~$28) because Fuente rolls it. Viaje Circa 25 No. 2. Yet another Aganorsa winner. Casa 1910 MexiGars HBA (corny name, yeah, but the Mexican tobacco it contains is really good). I have more Mexican cigars on the way, so I’m excited about that. 🙂

Last night's cigars Ramon Allones Absolutos Edicion Limitada Cocoa, Coffee, Berry 1/2 01' Saint Luis Rey Regios (50 Cab) Buttered Steak, Molasses, Baked Bread Blah Ok Good Tasty Heavenly

Partagás Short (ASR NOV18).

Partagás Serie D No.3 - Circa 2001...