Summary: Welcome back to Episode 027 of Half Ashed. This week, we're smoking our cigars shaken; not stirred. We take a look at Unbanded 007, submitted by Dan Crouch (Thanks, DC!). In another of DC's experiments with this segment, he submitted two vitolas from the same line - a corona and a robusto. We found marked differences between the two. Tune in to the show to get the grand reveal, and our thoughts on both cigars. A big thanks is due and given to those folks who submitted recommendations and submissions for the Unbanded segment this week (see final note below if you'd like to do the same). In news, we talk a bit about this year's release of the Alec Bradley Fine & Rare, Erez Cigars' "Unsmokeable" cigar, Avo Uvezian's car accident, the newest vitola released in the Cuenca 5 Anniversary series (hoowahh!), an upcoming release from Steve Ysidron's Epicurean Cigars, and the announcement of CFC2014. We also covered what we've been smoking, a couple of random thoughts from Kip - which will likely get him into some trouble, and went over the deep end of tobacco chemistry in our listener emails. Next week, we'll be smoking the Oliva Masterblends I, from 2003. I have great expectations for that cigar, and have lamented its going off the market ten years ago. If you would like to contact us in the meantime, you can reach us through the contact page or at the following email addresses: kip@thecigarmy.com or craig@thecigarmy.com. Please feel free to drop us a line if you have any questions you’d like answered, comments to make…or even compliments and complaints. We love to get your emails! Also, remember you can always go back and listen to previous episodes, which can be found in the Half Ashed Archive. You can download this week’s audio directly below (right-click “Download” and save), or find us on iTunes to subscribe. Video, as always, will be available at the CigFed Half Ashed Video Archive. P.S. – If you have unbanded suggestions or contributions, you can get those to us by sending an email to info@thecigarmy.com. This email address goes directly to my wife, so you can simply suggest an unbanded cigar for her to source, or send me an email to kip@thecigarmy.com if you have something you’d like to send in. I will provide an address to send them. Thanks!
