CigarMonkel
Alpha Silverback
Well, let me start out by saying if your a newb and looking to get your pallet some new flavors, this is a good cigar. However if you are OCD about burn, ash and purging every 5 or 6 puffs... stay away! But in defense of this cigar, i may have just had a bad one of the litter.
Once again the cigarmonkel light, an uneven start to most cigars this man attempts to light!
The draw was perfect and the smoke was average and the tastes were new to me. I was picking up what i thought at the time was a coffee flavor... probably the coffee i had been drinking right before i fired her up though.
As you can see, the burn was quite uneven and it needed to be fixed. By now i was getting a flavor of toasted nuts.. maybe toast and nuts? Not a big toast fan so it would be hard for me to recognize the toast flavors, but i was definitely picking some sort of toast/toasted flavor along with what seemed to be nuts. The draw was perfect throughout the whole cigar.
The ash was the most ugly ash i've ever seen in a cigar and disgusted me. I was tempted to pitch it right then and there but the wonderful toasty flavor kept me in the game. Sadly the flavor as a whole seemed to dip in and out and at times i swear i was smoking a very mild stick as the flavors just weren't there. Some quick purges (when i say purgeS i mean maybe 10 throughout the whole smoke) seemed to always fix this though.
As ugly as the ash was it held up quite well. Another purge at about this point brought the flavor back. Maybe it didn't like me?
After it ashed itself i found myself purging this cigar every 5 puffs just to bring the flavor back and by now i had to fix the burn 3times with my lighter. When i realized i had to purge it for about what seemed like the 30th time i threw it away. I want a cigar that i don't have to fix every second to enjoy it . I want a cigar i can kick back with, relax and enjoy without having to worry about the purging and fixing burn problems. In my book, 2 purges is acceptable. Maybe 1 in the middle and 1 towards the finish... but 10 purges in a little more then half the stick? thats terrible.
Taste: 8.5/10 not including the fact i had to purge it so much
Burn: 3/10
Smoke: 7/10
construction: 8/10 minus the fact of how ugly the ash was... it held up pretty nicely and the stick felt fine with very little veins and a nice dark oily wrapper
appearance: 9/10
save your money
Once again the cigarmonkel light, an uneven start to most cigars this man attempts to light!
The draw was perfect and the smoke was average and the tastes were new to me. I was picking up what i thought at the time was a coffee flavor... probably the coffee i had been drinking right before i fired her up though.
As you can see, the burn was quite uneven and it needed to be fixed. By now i was getting a flavor of toasted nuts.. maybe toast and nuts? Not a big toast fan so it would be hard for me to recognize the toast flavors, but i was definitely picking some sort of toast/toasted flavor along with what seemed to be nuts. The draw was perfect throughout the whole cigar.
The ash was the most ugly ash i've ever seen in a cigar and disgusted me. I was tempted to pitch it right then and there but the wonderful toasty flavor kept me in the game. Sadly the flavor as a whole seemed to dip in and out and at times i swear i was smoking a very mild stick as the flavors just weren't there. Some quick purges (when i say purgeS i mean maybe 10 throughout the whole smoke) seemed to always fix this though.
As ugly as the ash was it held up quite well. Another purge at about this point brought the flavor back. Maybe it didn't like me?
After it ashed itself i found myself purging this cigar every 5 puffs just to bring the flavor back and by now i had to fix the burn 3times with my lighter. When i realized i had to purge it for about what seemed like the 30th time i threw it away. I want a cigar that i don't have to fix every second to enjoy it . I want a cigar i can kick back with, relax and enjoy without having to worry about the purging and fixing burn problems. In my book, 2 purges is acceptable. Maybe 1 in the middle and 1 towards the finish... but 10 purges in a little more then half the stick? thats terrible.
Taste: 8.5/10 not including the fact i had to purge it so much
Burn: 3/10
Smoke: 7/10
construction: 8/10 minus the fact of how ugly the ash was... it held up pretty nicely and the stick felt fine with very little veins and a nice dark oily wrapper
appearance: 9/10
save your money