Long Ash Blog

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah... i know it has been forever. Besides running the Art show, prepping for the Film Festival, Pastoring a Church, Cooking for some private chef events, being a daddy and a husband... i have been doing a crazy number of weddings in the last couple of months.

I know this has been my first posting in months, so please forgive me if you have been waiting for your cigar information, i promise i have have been enjoying a few of what Tampa has to offer, but finding the time to write about it is another thing all together.

Yesterday afternoon, i had the pleasure of having lunch with good friend and cigar buddy Peter. We frequented one of Ybor City coolest places which is home to one amazing Cuban sandwich; King Corona right off on 7th.

The conversation was deep, as per usual, the day was exquisit, and the cigar... Just what the doctor ordered.

Yesterday it was La FLor Dominicana Double Ligero in a torpedo. The wind was a little breezier than i prefer, which made it imposible to get a line of perfect smoke rings, and to be honest it was pretty difficult to keep this torpedo lit.

Even though it took a little effort to enjoy, it was well worth the work.

Here are my thought on yesterdays smoke.

So this is my first posting in what seems forever... Life has been a little nuts here in the Cigar City (Tampa Fl)... but today definitely needed a great finish.

List night happened to be perfect. My family and i are up here in the blue ridge mountains of North Carolina for a well deserved vacation ( finally). We spent the day detached from cell phone, eating may too much food, and hiking the beautiful trails scattered all through out this mountain.

Around 10pm last night the family went to sleep, bellies full from my herb crusted pork loin with Oktoberfest sauce, so i set out for out wrap-around porch. Picture this... no neighbors, beautiful pine trees, a chill 58 degrees, and more stars than you could hope to count.

I found the perfect rocking chair, opened my neglected humidor, and pulled out one of my favorites. the Rock Pattell Red Label Sun-grown. Just me and the intoxicating aromas of this perfectly crafted work of art.

Something about being here that just breeds relaxation... i know i have already reviewed this cigar is a past posting... but i could not recommend it enough.

I know i know it sounds like a mouth full... but as one of my favorite things to do when shopping for cigars, i like to try something new. To be honest i have not smoked much of Perdomo's line of cigars, but this beautiful lable, and delicious looking maduro wrapper seemed to be calling out to me.

It was last week, and a good friend of mine (Jeff) came over to talk about the new church we are starting, and of course what great conversation wouldn't be complete with out a really great cigar. A couple of weeks before Jeff had read this blog about one of my new favorites... Rocky Patel Sun grown... so he bought me a few...

So when he came over... it was only natural for him to to take the Rocky for a ride. While he was enjoying on of my favorites i tried a new stick the... Olivia Series O torpedo.

Now i have had all sorts of the Olivas before and for the most part had been completely satisfied... but maybe it was that Jeff was smoking a real winner of a cigar... or maybe i got bad egg... but i was not to impressed at all.

Here are my thoughts:

So i have a favorite cigar shop... or at least my favorite place to get those hard to find cigars... it just so happens to be in the most unlikely place of all... brandon fl.