Morning, all.
Beer recap... in the past four days or so I've had an Epic Brewing "Fermentation without Representation" Imperial Pumpkin porter. Wasn't very pumpkiny. Victory at Sea on draft at the brewery and it was far and away the best it's ever tasted. Grapefruit Sculpin at the brewery, also amazing. Calico Amber Ale with Peanuts and Cocoa Nibs, also at the brewery, and it wasn't the "Ballast Point Peanut Butter" I was hoping for. No real peanut OR chocolate taste. Finally, a Coronado Brewing "Punk'in Drublic... another pumpkin beer. This is the best locally available pumpkin beer, IMO. Similar to Pumking, just not quite as over the top.
Figured I'd get that out of the way.
Good mornin Joe!
Hey there, Shaun. Also smoked some cigars, maybe I should've started there and eased everyone in to the beer talk. Have had a bunch lately but the one that kinda stands out is the Room 101 Serie HN. Really tasty, seems like it kinda flies under the radar among everything else in the brand.
I was just talking with Andy and Mike the other day as Mike was smoking the Big Delish and we all concluded we have very limited Room 101 experience- just a brand I never really look to for cigars...but I have never been disappointed with their cigars...
I generally enjoy them, some not so much. Namakubi at the top of the food chain, followed by Master Collection 1 & 2 (1 getting hard to find). San Andres, HN and Daruma Gold all interesting smokes, followed by the Conjura then Big Payback. Only one I don't like is the Daruma. Papi Chulo is an interesting vitola for all (4x42) otherwise there are some fairly quirky vitolas for others.
I'm a big Namakubi fan also but it pisses me off you can never get a deal on them. The MCI and MCII's I've had were excellent, the star was the MCII Papi Chulo, they do that size very well across the board
