El Titan de Bronze Grand Reserva Cigar and Some Interesting Links

To end the week, as if weeks had beginnings and ends anymore, I smoked a few interesting cigars from deep in the humidor. A Rauchvergnügen #42, which is a “German engineered” cigar made in the Dominican Republic which had spent the last four years in my humidor. This was one of an initial production of 2000, and it held up well. I originally wrote about it here. I also dredged up a five year old La Aurora Untamed which had maintained much of its strength. I enjoyed this blend, although I can see where it wasn’t in line with what La Aurora is known for. I smoked this on my first granddaughters 9th birthday, I have a sentimental tradition of smoking a La Aurora cigar around milestones in my daughter’s life. This post explains a lot of that. I also sprinkled in some favorites in a La Sirena King Poseidon and a MUWAT Swamp Thang, the latter of which I. enjoy greatly as a change of pace cigar. Yesterday was beautiful, and after pressure washing the deck and doing some other stuff, I decided to check out something new.

 

When we were in Miami back in September, we m

et up with Kevin and Jess of CigarProp fame at El Titan de Bronze and Sandy gave us a great tour and spent a lot of time with us. I had bought their corona sampler, which consists of an El Titan De Bronze Gold Corona, MyWay Dark Habano Corona, Grand Reserve Maduro Corona, Redemption Maduro Corona and the Redemption Sun Grown Corona. I selected the Grand Reserve Maduro Corona, which measured 5-5/8″ x 48. When I say “measured” I literally mean I measured it because they don’t list the measurements on the website, might be something they could look into doing. I’m not generally a corona guy, but a Corona Gorda is great, and a chubby corona gorda is better! I dig the size of this “corona”. These cigars are rolled in the very small factory in the Little Havana neighborhood in Miami, and I highly recommend visiting if  you find yourself in the area. They also make Herrera Esteli Miami, some La Palina and Warped, and they made my favorite Cornelius and Anthony Cornelius. I’m guessing I picked out the strongest cigar of the lot, as

this sucker packed a punch! It. Was. Awesome! It has a Brazilian wrapper, Ecuador binder and Dominican, Nicaraguan and Honduran filers, much of which must be Ligero. It has a lot of dark, rich

espresso flavor, and loads of pepper. Something triggered my first migraine in months last night, and I hope it wasn’t that cigar, because it was really a great smoke. I’ve smoked the My Way in the sampler before and loved it, so I’m looking forward to trying the rest of the cigars in the line. I’m sure they will be stellar, I’ve always enjoyed the cigars from this factory, going back to Sean Williams’ Primer Mundos and their Hemingways from the ’90s!  

 

There has been talk in the mainstream media about how tobacco use relates to the COVID-19 pandemic, from its use in the development in a vaccine, to whether users have a lower rate of serious infection. Steve Saka provided this list of links to some articles on the subject in a Facebook post among some friends that I thought I’d share. 

 

https://thedispatch.com/p/what-we-knowand-still-need-to-learnabout

https://theweek.com/speedreads/911429/scientists-are-perplexed-by-low-rate-coronavirus-hospitalizations-among-smokers-nicotine-may-hold-answer

https://nypost.com/2020/04/22/french-researchers-to-test-nicotine-on-coronavirus-patients/

https://www.marketwat

ch.com/story/this-new-evidence-shows-nicotine-might-prevent-smokers-from-catching-coronavirus-2020-04-24

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/05/02/smokers-seem-less-likely-than-non-smokers-to-fall-ill-with-covid-19

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/scientists-must-discover-why-so-few-coronavirus-patients-are-smokers

 

I’m not saying that tobacco use makes us immune and we should do anything different to protect ourselves and others from possible infection. Let’s continue to follow whatever guidelines needed for social interaction and get through this nonsense without protests or armed insurrection, or whatever that may prolong the situation and make things worse! I want to get a job again some day for crying out loud! Enjoy some cigars knowing that if it’s not helping us get through this physiologically, it’s helping p

sychologically! And with that, until the next time, 

 

CigarCraig