DogWatch Cigar Radio Podcast Episode #326 - Craig and the Technicolor Dream Coat

This week Bob and Dale are joined by Craig Schneider, cigar passionado and regular contributor to CigarMedia.tv. The cigar featured on the "What's My Band?" blind smoke test is the Illusione H1 (also known as the Holy Lance).  The Illusione was suggested by Jeff Curtis and purchased from FullersPullers.us.   The Cigar of the Week is the Curivari Reserva Limitada (Red/Gold Label).  The Curivari Seleccion Privada and the Gloria de Leon  - two other brands from this cigar maker - were also smoked by the guys during the week.    Thanks goes out to Andreas Throuvalas of Curivari Cigars for his generosity in supplying sample cigars to smoke.  We also want to thank Jim Luftman of Blue Havana II in Georgia for putting us in contact with Andreas and helping us to obtain the samples.  

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Cigar of the Week  - Curivari Reserva Limitada (Red/Gold Label).

A dark oily wrapper, medium to full-bodied, this cigar offers toasty flavors with notes of coffee, leather and spices.  Authentic Cuban Seed Criollo and Corojo.

Filler: Nicaragua; Binder: Nicaragua; Wrapper: Nicaragua

Sizes:  Epicures: 4 ½ x 52; Imperiales: 6 ¼ x 54; Piramides: 6 ¼ x 52 

Dark Side - - No Dark Side this week.

What else have you been smokin' Craig?

Esencia Belicoso (early release)

Curivari Seleccion Privada

Gloria de Leon

What else have you been smokin' Dale?  

Curivari Seleccion Privada

Gloria de Leon

What else have you been smokin' Bob?

777 One

EPC 

Curivari Seleccion Privada

Gloria de Leon

What's My Band? - this week's Unbanded Cigar, the Illusione H1 (also known as the Holy Lance) was suggested by Jeff Curtis and purchased from FullersPullers.us.  

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Check out the show at http://www.cigarmedia.tv/live/ where the show is broadcast live most Friday evenings at 9 PM EST. 

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Origin of the term HERF: From Cigar Craig, http://cigarcraig.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/the-origin-of-the-word-herf/

Do you have a suggestion for the unbanded cigar of the week?  Every week Bob and Dale include an “unbanded cigar” segment in their show in which they smoke a cigar without any markings and give their honest opinions.  Bob then opens a sealed envelope and discovers the cigar’s name and manufacturer.  If you have suggestions for the "What's My Band?" segment, please send them to liz@cigarmedia.tv.

Thanks to Michael Howe for bumpers and special effects in this show.

Music provided by the Figurados from their new album, "Lesson Two," and The Surfonics. 

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