March OCCS Evening

Fried bluegill and french fries. Cole slaw, baked beans and apple pie with ice cream. NUB Habano cigar. One crazy movie about killing goats and another with a kung-fu island. Aweomse night gentlemen!

Thanks for letting us crash your house again Jeff. There isn't a better place in town. Thanks for bringing the frier and sides Adam.

The NUB Habano cigar is, as always, a treat. It was a 4 x 64 torpedo. I think most of us have had the NUB Habano before and it is fantastic everytime.

How many times did I tell you NOT to interupt my Fung-Fu?!?!

Until next month, take it easy-

Joe

Reminder-March OCCS This Friday Evening (The 26th)

Just a reminder that this upcoming Friday is our March OCCS evening. It will be at Jeff's house and we will be frying fish for dinner. I have plenty of bluegill and I'll bring some other stuff too.

Also, I finally picked up our cigar for the evening: NUB Habano 464T. This has to be my favorite NUB cigar. It is a 4x64 torpedo. Can't wait.

See you all soon. Take care-

Joe

Question of the week - with observations

Well, it is official: Time flies. I was looking at my calender making sure I have everything done for Friday. You see, I have Friday off as we have friends coming in from KC and hopefully, weather permitting, we are playing golf (the invite is still open Adam and Joe) on Friday. That being said, holy crap it is already March freaking 10th. You know what that means. One, Spring is just around the corner. And two, and more importantly Evelyn will be one on Sunday. I really can't believe that.

Which brings me to my question: What, if any, gems are you saving in your humidor for a "special occasion"? As you well know, I like to hoard my puros so I have quite a few to choose from. But I am leaning towards one of these for Evelyn's b-day (not for her but for me):

1. CAO Sopranos, aged 4 years in my humi.
2. Fuente Opus X, aged 1 year (more than likely this will be what I choose as this was the present Robin gave me to celebrate our daughters birth).
3. Gurkha Castle Hall, aged 1 year (this would also be appropriate as this is the last cigar from the box I got for Evelyn's birth to hand out).
4. Rocky Patel Old World, aged 4 years
5. Tatuaje Red tubo

What are your thoughts?

Matt

Question of the week

This may be a little more thought than any of us want to put into this but how do we (you) rate your cigars?

Part two: Should we come up with a Standard grading system?

How I do it honestly is more how I feel about it at the end. I give everything a 5 just because it is a cigar and then add or take away points on how much I enjoy it.

Some things to consider:
Draw
Burn
Flavor
Apparance
Construction
Aroma

What other type of variables should there be? Any input would be appreciated.

Matt

febuary meeting

Hello everyone, It was good to see everybody last night, I think a good time was by all,sorry John didn't make it though. Thank you for the chilli pizza Joe. It was awesome!! This months cigar was the ROOM 101 GORDO,6 BY 60.8/10 I really enjoyed this cigar,very smooth with a wonderful aroma. Great flavors and the burn was pretty even. Getting them in the mail the day of the meeting was cutting it close though. ...HAPPY SMOKING EVERYONE..........Jeffro

Food, OCCS Evenings and Lent

Hope everyone is doing great. Just want to throw a couple of things out there. We’ll have chili pizza this Friday at Jeff’s. The chili will contain no meat so you can still enjoy if you are observing Lent.

Jeff has been kind enough to let us meet at his place again for this March’s OCCS evening—couldn’t think of a better place—thanks again Jeff. Again, the date of the March OCCS evening is still March 26th. This will also be during Lent and I just so happen to have several bags of bluegill filets (maybe some crappie too—not sure) in my freezer. How does a fish-fry sound? I could bring some fries or tater-tots too. Does anyone have a turkey fryer?

Sound good?

(No, I do not have a cigar chosen for March yet.)

Take care-
Joe

Question of the week

We may have discussed this in the past but haven't really talked about it on the blog.

Do you find yourself smoking the same cigars time after time or are you more of a variety type of smoker?

Myself, I tend to smoke the same things over and over. I like to buy boxes to save $ so I find myself smoking say a Serie V or a Rocky Patel Edge until they are gone. I usually save the singles for times when I know I have a couple hours to spare so I can give it a proper evaluation.

Matt