Finally the wet butt hole of Auckland shone some sun rays.
This required my lonesome self to take heed of a little cigar time and light up. It's been hit and miss over the few years of trying this San Cristobal but I thought out of all the choices available in my humidor, this would be the best choice for the Founders Fair Maiden Ale that I was keen to quaff to the blue sky bliss.
Not sure if it was the mood, the weather or the age of the cigar but this was delicious. The San Cristobal gave great warm and soft draws the whole way through, filling the mouth to blow out plumes of whitish grey smoke. First third was sweet light wood developing into its 2nd third of dry cocoa a lastly, a dominant chilli skin or capsicum skin which was strangely good. All of these flavours went really really good with the fine organic NZ craft beer. The beer kind of lined the mouth with a balanced bittersweet freshness for inviting the cigar to do its thing.
Here's a photo of my first attempt in growing tobacco and the pairing drink that served well for accompanying the cigar
nice one ... that tobacco leaf looks ready to be Fermented and Rolled. what else is growing in that garden, i wonder? ;-)
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