Episode 004: Blind Ambition

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Half Ashed Episode 004 Summary It’s that time of week again, folks, when we gather around the proverbial fireplace of our computer screen (or headsets for you audiophiles) for a relaxing chat over a good smoke. This week on Half Ashed, we begin with our first unbanded cigar, selected by an unwitting chap who happened to be visiting a local tobacconist at an opportune time. Craig and I take our chances at showcasing our aptitude and ineptitude by giving our thoughts concerning an unknown cigar, which turns out to be the Romeo by Romeo y Julieta. We also cover several news items for the week, including some viewer emails, more proposed outlandish legislation in California, new cigar releases from EP Carrillo, L’Atelier, and Montecristo, and current price increases from Fuente and Alec Bradley. We also cover a few interesting cigars that we’ve been smoking this week and take a few minutes to breach the topic of pipesmoking and our enjoyment of it as well. I hope you’ll tune in and check out the show, and as always send us your comments, compliments, complaints and the like to either: [email protected] or [email protected]. I don’t know if we’ll have the answers you’re looking for, but we’ll certainly have an opinion. Lastly, don’t forget to enter our giveaway for this month, which we will be drawing next week before our Live show. To enter, simply send me an email and I’ll get your name into the mix. Craig has been kind enough to provide the Epilogue Review for this week’s unbanded cigar, which I’ll include below. As mentioned above, the first unbanded was revealed to be the Romeo, and I have to say I enjoyed the second of the samples I smoked much more so than the first, although admittedly my palate was likely compromised to some earlier congestion during the initial trial. It was an interesting experiment, and I look forward to future installments of unbanded cigars. If you have a suggestion or submission for an unbanded you’d like to see us try, you can send your email to [email protected], which is delivered to my wife – she will source the cigars and provide them to us blindly, or if you have cigars to submit she will provide an address for you to send them. As always, you can find the video of this week’s episode on our YouTube channel , or through the embed below. Audio is available either by downloading above (right-click “Download” and save link) or find us in the iTunes store to subscribe directly to an audio feed of the show as it publishes – be sure to leave us a good review! Don’t forget to tune in LIVE next week (March 8th, 2013) at 9:00pm EST. We will be broadcasting live, and you can join us in the Chatroom. I look forward to hearing from you, and thanks for tuning in! Craig’s Half Ashed Epilogue Review: Introduction into our process: The idea of an accompanying review is to point out that there is a difference between a cigar you smoke and one that you review. On the show we’ll be furiously trying our best to sound entertaining and its quite possible that the cigar itself will just be smoked. These epilogue submissions not only help paint a clearer picture of what the cigar brings to the table, but really (to me at least) are meant to emphasize that smoking one cigar alone does not constitute an adequate qualification for a review. To know what the cigar really means to convey, you must smoke multiple samples. Hopefully, you can smoke many of them, from multiple boxes and different releases.

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