Two Guys Cigar Blog

Brickhouse toro

Well she’s a brick house she’s mighty mighty just letting it all hang out… sort of. This cigar has an oily sheen looking something like shamu when she pops out of the water at the end of the killer whale show at sea world. Construction is fantastic I mean in all honesty probably one of the best looking cigars I have smoked. So I cut the head and went a little pretentious on this one and lit it with wooden stick matches. Initial spice crushes the palette. Some sort of mix of cedar, cayenne peppers, and hazelnuts. A locomotive worth of smoke out of this thing, unfortunately burns like hell through the nose. A lot of ammonia to this young cigar but its only really noticeable through the nose. Lots of nondescript spice to this cigar, unfortunately like many Non-Cuban cigars there is very little build up. It pretty much a one note spice, that I’m really not able to put my finger on, through out the cigar. Got down to about 2 inches or so left and put the cigar down no real pizazz to this cigar and really it needed something more in the blend to keep me interested. They say “the Newman family worked hard to recreate the original blend from Cuba” i’d say they did a good job of making an affordable cigar(under $5.00 retail) but still don’t come close to the complexity coming out of the forbidden land of milk and honey. All in all its not a bad cigar but nothing id run and grab a few boxes of. I would pick up another one, if only to be able to smoke at a local smoke shop and not look like the douche that only smokes and never buys.