The Gurkha BEAST

I had one of the Gurkha "Beast"  cigars tonight after a long day of running around after visiting family after our honeymoon.

Here's the official rundown on the cigar...

The Gurkha Beast is a rare limited production blend with only 1,000 boxes produced annually.

Just as its name indicates, the Beast is a massive 6.5 x 58, allowing for several hours of smoking time with a large ring gauge to ensure the cigar never burns too hot. Medium to full-bodied and full-flavored, the Beast draws much of its flavor from the aged Costa Rican Maduro wrapper that covers the cigar. This wrapper is accentuated by a tri-country filler from the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Columbia.

What did I think of it, while it was a good cigar, it wasn't really a great cigar.  I liked it, but would I spend another 15 dollars on one, probably not.  Several hours smoking time, well no, not so much.  (I got an hour's worth.)

The burn on this cigar wasn't like I would typically expect out of a Gurkha product, towards the end of the cigar it started to even out, but I still had to keep fighting with it to get it to that point.

While I was slightly disappointed, I'm now looking forward to getting my limited edition Camacho Traveller's Bag on Tuesday even more.

Gurkha Shaggy XO Cigars

Last night my fiancee and I along with a buddy of mine went with a couple of other friends of mine out to Macaroon's bar to see a see our friend's band Blind Vision play.

While we were there, I picked up two Gurkha Shaggy XO cigars which were damn good.

Here's the link http://www.gurkhacigars.com/cigars.htm

Strength: Medium
Wrapper: Dominican
Binder: Dominican
Filler: Dom, Nic
Origin: Honduras

I found various sites which described the cigar and one of them had said that it has ligero in it. I had never really paid THAT much attention to cigars before, I knew where I liked cigars from and the wrappers that I like (in general), but never to the actual blend itself.

It was great cigar (as usual), the burn was was GREAT especially considering that we were outside smoking them. I wish that we could have been indoors so that I could have enjoyed the aroma.

It's not a cigar that I can (okay SHOULD) buy all that often, but it's rapidly becoming one of my favorites. This cigar has some kick to it so I'd suggest having some dinner before having one.

It's amazing that I almost missed out on this fine cigar line because I had always just dismissed it as being generally "too peppery". My friend Bob had suggested that I try them after he had one earlier last year. I took his word since we both know the types of cigars that we like and I'm glad that I did. :)