Cuban Crafters Cameroon Torpedo - Real Time Review

[Tristan]

So I'm going to steal Lance's excellent idea even though I have already started smoking this one. I looked forward to lighting this up for a while. It's had a couple weeks to chill in my coolerdor. It's 12PM central standard time here; basically on the weekends we revert to West coast time. So this is still what I consider my "morning smoke."

I toasted the foot with torch. Got a med bodies tobacco flavor that's a little sweet yet a little bitter. Harsh through the nose and starting to canoe. I'm trying to pace this. It's stronger than I thought it would be

This is decently constructed but that wrapper has a lot of "sunspots" on it. Not beetles I'm sure, for the imperfections lack the classic "bunker."

[Tristan]

This is my second correction, and this cigar continues to challenge me with slightly harsh tones without as much flavor as I would expect. When I first came out here it looked quite nice. Now the wind is starting to pick up and the sky is clouding over. I fear it's only a matter of time before rain starts to douche my smoking environment. I'm going in to grab my digital camera so I can take pictures of this thing.

[Baric]

Lets see pickies! I found the sae lack of flavour and a poor harsh taste with this cigar [i got mine from a sampler pack from CC]. It looked great but had issues ranging from burn to the predominantly harsh taste. then it built up an unpurgable ammonia/egg taste. I wonder if itll do the same for you?

[Tristan]

Approaching the 2nd third and it's smoothing out a tad. Getting a decent tobacco flavor with a raisony note. The room aroma of this cigar is not very compelling.

I am now in my garage! Correcting this a third time.

I am also getting little hints of blackberry brandy? Hmmmmmm

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[Tristan]

Originally Posted by Baric

Lets see pickies! I found the sae lack of flavour and a poor harsh taste with this cigar [i got mine from a sampler pack from CC]. It looked great but had issues ranging from burn to the predominantly harsh taste. then it built up an unpurgable ammonia/egg taste. I wonder if itll do the same for you?

Ammonia/Egg taste? Now I'm scared!

[Tristan]

Maybe it's just that this needs a year of age? I'm not sure. Another comment is that I saw a small piece of leaf all the sudden. It looked like a patch on the wrapper almost. I was too curious to leave it there so I picked it off. Too my relif there was nothing under it to hide. I'm thinking this just got stuck on by accident?

There are parts of the wrapper leaf that a tad greenish. Ouch.

[Tristan]

Still the same flavor!

Look at this:

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Nature calls; I will have to go inside.

Another note. My fiance and I are both out in the garage on our laptops which happen to be matching. Our neighbor pulled up. I'm thinking they think we're out totally weird.

[Tristan]

At least it's holding it's ash. As we aproach the end of 2/3 it is a tad less harsh; either that or my pallatte is being worn down!

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[Tristan]

Getting into the final third; fourth correction executed. I'm just not excited about finishing this, but we'll see. Flavor is sub par.

[Tristan]

Put out with an inch and 1/2 to go. The flavor was blah and still harsh smoke. Maybe these would mellow after 2 years, but I won't find out. I will re-aim my scope toward the other blends which I like right out of the box.

[Fumioso]

Just burned one of these myself and had a similar experience -- pretty average smoke. I didn't sense any harshness though -- bitterness, yeah. I put a full review (or as full as my reviews get) on my blog:

http://cigarfan.wordpress.com/2006/0...eroon-torpedo/

[donp]

I have had these too, and have a few left, and am in no hurry to smoke them for a while. I found the same things as you guys, and haven't figured out the deal with these. The flavor tends to be kind of bland, the burn had issues on 2 of the three I have smoked, and there was much less complexity. I have not had the ammonia taste at all though.

[Baric]

Damn it seems to be just me who gets the ammonia taste! mine had been aged for 6 months, not sure how that differs with all you guys, but im deff with you on the blandness/lack of taste/harshness thing.