A little coffee with my cigar

I was lucky enough to be one of the people that S. Shilala greased with a few of his experimental sticks over the summer, wherein he took a few boxes of cigars, or at least a few handfuls, and plunged them into a large container of coffee beans.  They sat there for some length of time, I haven't any real details, but I can find some here in a bit.

I was given two smokes, one was a Por Larranaga Petit Corona and one was a Bolivar Petit Corona.  Both were just hideous from the perspective of the bands.  They had had a bit too much moisture and coffee.  The cigars themselves looked OK, but overall they showed the abuse they had been subjected to but were not really any worse than you might expect, save for one item, they are a little heavy.  Not sure if it is excess moisture or too much tobacco in the roll, but I let the PLPC sit awhile, way too heavy, and decided I had to smoke the Boli PC.

It lit right up, and was very strong and a little bitter.  But the coffee nuances were there in full-strength.  Now I don't have a sophisticated palate, but I did get a sense that this cigar had been infused with PEABERRY coffee and while it stole a bit of the BPC character, it was handily replaced with the strong essence of coffee.  As with most infused cigars, this is mostly an illusion.  You get a good whiff of coffee owing to the olfactory system in your head, but the cigars themselves are mostly tobacco.  The way your sense of smell works however, you do feel like you are smoking a cigar that tastes of coffee.

I am looking forward to the KONA infused PLPC.  The Bolivar was a bit stronger than most I have had, and I did not get to smoke the whole cigar.  It had a bad habit of just pouring smoke off of the lit end, and it was all going in my face.  So I smoked about half of the stick. 

I have to give the entire project a thumbs up, mostly because I talked to Shilala and he told me all of the things that went wrong on his first experiment and how he intended to correct that if he tried it again.  I am not one to waste cigars or coffee trying to raise up a hybrid, but I am glad that Shilala did.  This was a great little smoke for the most part.  I am happy he gave me a pair of them and lucky, too, I guess.  If you know Shilala and want to give these a try, ask him when he is going to try it once more.  You'll enjoy the flavor.

This works better, obviously, than the ACID cigars.  it also works better than the Maker's Mark smokes.  In fact, these were the best flavor-enhanced smokes I have had.  I'd really like to see him come up withe some vanilla bean enhanced Short Stories.