FOH'ers Daily Smoke

[CampDelta369]

C&C Time @Raskol with Shorts and 5.

[Kaptain Karl]

Today is a surprisingly emotional day for me. It’s the 75th anniversary of my grandfathers liberation from Nazi concentration camps. He was a mischling, his father a Czech jew from the Sudetenland and mother an Austrian catholic. From 14-18 years old he was subjected to slave labor in coal mines and working on various other Nazi projects. He sabotaged a pipeline he was working on, and was sent to dachau. Luckily, the allies were advancing too rapidly, and he was sent back to a gestapo camp, from which the Gestapo took him on a train to the west with the rest of the prisoners who had western connections to escape the wrath of the soviets. He escaped his new camp, and when he woke up on the 5th of May, where he was staying was occupied by American soldiers. So this stick and so much else is for this great man who overcame so much to live and die a successful and proud American. 

[CampDelta369]

4 hours ago, Kaptain Karl said:

Today is a surprisingly emotional day for me. It’s the 75th anniversary of my grandfathers liberation from Nazi concentration camps. He was a mischling, his father a Czech jew from the Sudetenland and mother an Austrian catholic. From 14-18 years old he was subjected to slave labor in coal mines and working on various other Nazi projects. He sabotaged a pipeline he was working on, and was sent to dachau. Luckily, the allies were advancing too rapidly, and he was sent back to a gestapo camp, from which the Gestapo took him on a train to the west with the rest of the prisoners who had western connections to escape the wrath of the soviets. He escaped his new camp, and when he woke up on the 5th of May, where he was staying was occupied by American soldiers. So this stick and so much else is for this great man who overcame so much to live and die a successful and proud American.

God Bless your Grandfather. His story reminds me of our family surviving in occupied Holland and that Hunger Winter in 1944. It changes your perspective on life when you hear these accounts First hand. We can never forget any of it. My moms is last living family in the states that still recalls these stories vividly. 

[Markspring1978]

One of the all-time greats. Punch Super Selection #2 EAR AGO ‘02. 

 

[Çnote]

Good one today

[El Hoze]

Groundhog day, the only thing that changes is the cigars and, sometimes, the beer lineup. 

2008 Sig VI. Only one left from the box after this...it has been an amazing box, glad to have known her! I can’t tell you what I had for dinner two days ago but can tell you the last cigar I smoked from this box was in Havana about a year ago in the lobby bar at Hotel Saratoga. It seems like 10 years ago. 

 

2013 Sig II. One more quickie before dinner. I hardly ever smoke the same marca back to back but this are not normal times. 

[Shatner's Bassoon]

Montecristo #3

 

[StogieSteve23]

2 hours ago, Kaptain Karl said:

Today is a surprisingly emotional day for me. It’s the 75th anniversary of my grandfathers liberation from Nazi concentration camps. He was a mischling, his father a Czech jew from the Sudetenland and mother an Austrian catholic. From 14-18 years old he was subjected to slave labor in coal mines and working on various other Nazi projects. He sabotaged a pipeline he was working on, and was sent to dachau. Luckily, the allies were advancing too rapidly, and he was sent back to a gestapo camp, from which the Gestapo took him on a train to the west with the rest of the prisoners who had western connections to escape the wrath of the soviets. He escaped his new camp, and when he woke up on the 5th of May, where he was staying was occupied by American soldiers. So this stick and so much else is for this great man who overcame so much to live and die a successful and proud American. 

 

Thank you for sharing this incredible story! 

[Colt45]

3 hours ago, Kaptain Karl said:

Today is a surprisingly emotional day for me. It’s the 75th anniversary of my grandfathers liberation from Nazi concentration camps. So this stick and so much else is for this great man who overcame so much to live and die a successful and proud American.

 

2 hours ago, CampDelta369 said:

God Bless your Grandfather. His story reminds me of our family surviving in occupied Holland and that Hunger Winter in 1944.

Cheers Guys.

 

[lovethehaze]

UEB NOV 18. Thanks @VRATJV07 An absolute cracker ! 94/95 wonderful flavors !  buttery cream, earthy, nuts, sweet like sugar and I swear I was getting sweet chocolate from time to time, wonderful !

[yadegari6]

Mag 50, ESL Dec 2017

[Puro_Lover83]

Papo BHK 54 and some Zacapa

 

[JohnS]

4 hours ago, Kaptain Karl said:

Today is a surprisingly emotional day for me. It’s the 75th anniversary of my grandfathers liberation from Nazi concentration camps. He was a mischling, his father a Czech jew from the Sudetenland and mother an Austrian catholic. From 14-18 years old he was subjected to slave labor in coal mines and working on various other Nazi projects. He sabotaged a pipeline he was working on, and was sent to dachau. Luckily, the allies were advancing too rapidly, and he was sent back to a gestapo camp, from which the Gestapo took him on a train to the west with the rest of the prisoners who had western connections to escape the wrath of the soviets. He escaped his new camp, and when he woke up on the 5th of May, where he was staying was occupied by American soldiers. So this stick and so much else is for this great man who overcame so much to live and die a successful and proud American.

That was very moving Karl. Thank you for sharing! ?

[saintsmokealot]

[Puro_Lover83]

6 hours ago, Kaptain Karl said:

Today is a surprisingly emotional day for me. It’s the 75th anniversary of my grandfathers liberation from Nazi concentration camps. He was a mischling, his father a Czech jew from the Sudetenland and mother an Austrian catholic. From 14-18 years old he was subjected to slave labor in coal mines and working on various other Nazi projects. He sabotaged a pipeline he was working on, and was sent to dachau. Luckily, the allies were advancing too rapidly, and he was sent back to a gestapo camp, from which the Gestapo took him on a train to the west with the rest of the prisoners who had western connections to escape the wrath of the soviets. He escaped his new camp, and when he woke up on the 5th of May, where he was staying was occupied by American soldiers. So this stick and so much else is for this great man who overcame so much to live and die a successful and proud American.

What an inspiration and what courage and guts! God bless him! ? 

[teamrandr]

Had a little visitor as I smoked this super aged gem.  

1952 Muriel Senator

[BlueRidgeFly]

RG Petit Corona SOM MAY 17, FOH PSP. Earthiness. Could probably do with some more time down.

[Wookie]

BCG

[MigsG]

6 hours ago, Kaptain Karl said:

Today is a surprisingly emotional day for me. It’s the 75th anniversary of my grandfathers liberation from Nazi concentration camps. He was a mischling, his father a Czech jew from the Sudetenland and mother an Austrian catholic. From 14-18 years old he was subjected to slave labor in coal mines and working on various other Nazi projects. He sabotaged a pipeline he was working on, and was sent to dachau. Luckily, the allies were advancing too rapidly, and he was sent back to a gestapo camp, from which the Gestapo took him on a train to the west with the rest of the prisoners who had western connections to escape the wrath of the soviets. He escaped his new camp, and when he woke up on the 5th of May, where he was staying was occupied by American soldiers. So this stick and so much else is for this great man who overcame so much to live and die a successful and proud American.

Thanks for sharing. Remembering your grandfather and mine, who also became an American citizen.  My grandfather was a Filipino-Spaniard who became a spy for the Filipino guerrillas on the island of Panay, where he lived, in the city of Iloilo.  He was shuttling messages hidden in his bicycle when he was captured by the occupying Japanese forces.  He was tortured for weeks in a mountain hideout until the day the Allied forces landed in March, 1945, and his captors ran. He was one of the fortunate ones that wasn’t beaten to death.  America recognized his efforts and gave him citizenship and he lived many years in California enjoying the freedom of this country.  Cheers man.

[MigsG]

Huge thanks to @Thirds for this Punch Serie D’Oro No. 2 Edición Limitada, which he gifted to me last year.  Held on to it until yesterday, when I deemed it the perfect time to enjoy.  And it did not disappoint!

Had all the Punch typical flavor, coupled with an addicting sweetness that Cigar Afficionado described as black cherry.  It was an awesome cigar, I could literally smoke this every day for a month. 

[JohnS]

Romeo y Julieta Churchills BUP May 2019

Do you ever feel that for every marca, vitola or specific Habanos cigar you always seem to luck out on when it comes to smoking, on the flip side, there always seems to be one marca or specific cigar that keeps on delivering, no matter what. In the last 24 to 36 months the Romeo y Julieta Churchill has represented that cigar for me.

It's not like I'm a Romeo y Julieta apologist. Far from it, as there are other Habanos brands I'd gravitate to first, but the RyJ Churchill just seems to be batting 1000 lately, to borrow a well-known baseball saying.

So what is about recent Romeo y Julieta Churchills that have made their consistency so remarkable? I'd say it would have to be the fact that, for me, since 2016, across a number of box codes, the RyJ Churchill has delivered in construction and in flavour. In regards to construction, I can't recall one overly tight or loose in the draw or burning inconsistently. (Although I have had one or two requiring multiple re-lights!) In regards to flavour, they just seem to always be full of those fruit and cocoa/chocolate flavours. Whether you call it cherries, berries or so on, they just always seem 'fruity' and I need to mention their consistent delivery of sweet flavours too such as anise or licorice, rosewater and turkish delight.

This Romeo y Julieta Churchill was the seventh cigar I smoked from the 2019 Xmas Sampler and I must admit that thus far, it's been the best. This is saying something when one compares it to the Cohiba Esplendidos, H.Upmann Sir Winston and Trinidad Fundadores. (Please note, that at the time of writing, I haven't smoked the Cohiba Robustos, Bolivar Silver Jubilee, Ramon Allones Silver Jubilee, Punch 8-9-8 or El Rey del Mundo Tainos yet) I wonder if this will still be best when I finish smoking the Sampler series. I guess we'll see.

[Chucko8]

C&C today with this custom Monsdale by Jorge 

Glorious

[SigmundChurchill]

[BellevilleMXZ]

Loving these!!

[TNT009]

Shudda dry boxed but still tasty!