This last Geek Critique of the year will be a blind review sponsored by me. It will be a Christmas special in the making, bomb style no doubt. The cigar will be well rested/aged and mailed out to you in the third week of October. So, if this schedule suits you, then throw your name in the hat here in this thread and I will do a random draw for the 5 reviewers. The cut off date for entering the draw will be Sunday October 13th, 11:59pm. All members in good standing are welcome to participate regardless of any previous Geek Critiques you may have done. Let me be the first to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas!
The Reviewers:
1. Beegerply (Byron)
2. nirab (Brian)
3. Silverstix (Tom)
4. arrow34 (Ed)
5. Deener27 (David)
Due Date: November 27th, 2019
Note: A reviewer who posts their review late will receive neutral feedback. A reviewer who does not post at all will receive negative feedback. There are always exceptions to the rule and a reasonable excuse for tardiness or a no show will be respected and thus not counted against the reviewer. Our sponsoring members and our administrators make the choice of who is to participate in any particular Geek Critique and can be better informed of their choices with this initiative in place.
Put me down Pete
no doubt this will be epic, unfortunately I have now done back-to-back so will step aside and let others enjoy.
Pete I will toss my name in there. :biggrin:
I am intrigued! :biggrin:
Well Merry Christmas Pete, I'd be a player!
Interested!
Interested for sure!
If you're starting a list for 2020 I'll sponsor January or February. Oops nvm Bruce is in charge now....
That's a fun idea! You can throw my hat
In plz
Sounds good, thanks Pete!
I would give this a shot.
Sounds like fun! Count me in.
Love to see what budget smoke you have for everyone~! :biggrin:
Count me in~! :smoker:
Thanks everyone for throwing your name in the hat. So far we are at about a dozen entries. I have changed the cut off date to an earlier one so there will be plenty of time to get the packages out.
Okay Gents, five reviewers have been chosen randomly.
Thanks for the selection.
Looking forward to it.
Thanks Pete looking forward to doing this review. :biggrin: :dancing:
Awesome, thanks for picking me!!! Can't wait to do this review, happy to be a part of it
Packages sent out. Tracking numbers to follow in next post.
Tracking:
NY - 9505 5163 1748 9299 2510 21
IL (Moline) - 9505 5163 1748 9299 2510 45
IL (Woodridge) - 9505 5163 1748 9299 2510 69
MI - 9505 5163 1748 9299 2510 38
TX - 9505 5163 1748 9299 2510 52
Mine landed today. Haven't opened the box yet, but it sure seems large for a Geek Critique...I am intrigued!! :biggrin:
Thanks Pete!!
Mine just landed and my mailbox will never be the same. For a Geek Critique... you said it was more a bomb style and it was! :) Thanks! As you mentioned the mystery cigar is the plain one, will put it away to rest after it's trip and will review soon!
I received it yesterday. It was so large that it didn't fit the mailbox so the mail guy put it on the porch, which I was not expecting for a Geek Critique.
Opened the box and what a line up.
Thanks for the generosity. Can't wait to review the cigar.
Pete sorry for the late update mine arrived Tuesday, I really don't get on the computer at home. Thank you for your generosity. Looking forward to smoking the cigar. :biggrin:
Received here too fellas - and as the others mentioned, wow what a geek critique! Pete thank you man, you went way way way above and beyond. I'm looking forward to reviewing the cigar and also trying some of that woodford reserve!
Submitted my review and made a guess as to what it was? I wasnt sure if i was supposed to do that ... but wouldnt let me submit it otherwise....
That's just fine, thanks for reviewing.
10 days left to the due date folks :-) Just a friendly reminder.
Pete my review is in thanks for sponsoring this GC :biggrin: I guessed an AJ Enclave :biggrin:
I am going to smoke this cigar tomorrow and I'll have my review up on Monday when I get back in front of a computer
Thanks Guys...three days left until the due date..
OK my review is in!
My bad on the due date gentlemen, you have until the 27th. Cheers.
Mine is in along with my guess as to what it is (a really big hunch on this one).
Thanks again for letting me review this one.
Just one more review to come in and then we're good to go.
I am in the process of doing mine now!!
My review is in, and this cigar was... :shades:
Thanks Pete!! :bigthumbs: :biggrin:
First off, thanks to everyone for smoking the cigar and getting their review in on time.
The cigar I chose has a little back story to it. I had 10 of these sticks kicking around for well over a year. They were purchased as a gift for a friend who liked them quite a lot. I did not care for them all that much, until, having not seen my friend for well over a year, I decided to dig in to the batch and smoked 5 of them. Some I thought were awesome, and some just mediocre. They were a bit of an enigma. I did not know if my taste was off kilter or if the cigar itself was different from one to another. I do think the aging definitely helped.
I thought your guesses were all pretty good ones!!
The cigar was the Romeo 505 Nicaragua. And even though it is an Altadis/General Cigars cigar, I thought it an interestingly mysterious stick for a blind review.
Cheers