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Originally Posted by afranco
Nice smokes dave, love them ligas. How was that skull breaker if you dont mind me askin ?
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The Skull Breakers were a bit of a disappointment but it's my fault. Well, let's just say it's my ignorance. Normally I love the Skull Breakers but to my surprise, they tasted metallic and a bit too much on the espresso bitter side of things from my recollection and I attribute that to them being too humid.
That's why I smoked a second one the next night to see if it was just due to following the Montecristo and my palate being saturated already but the cigar was the same on the second night. They were a bit tight on the draw so too humid. These seem to be a Nicaraguan that will do better around the 65% range so I'm going to dry box for a week another and see if it improves.
I expect it will as right out of the box I smoked about 6 in a row and they were amazing with a nice charred wood flavor that I love but they were "dry" out of the box. I now say they were the correct humidity hahahah. So I've screwed them up but easy to correct.
So that's my honest assessment. They are amazing but don't get them too humid. Also, and this was a first. The one on Thursday night had a beetle hole under the band. I had to smoke it like a piccolo. This was a factory problem as the band had no beetle hole and to my knowledge, a beetle will eat through a band as easy as it will eat through a cigar and no hole in the band. I double checked to be sure.
