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8-5-8's: Good instructional cigar for the impact the wrapper makes?
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:29 pm
by romad119
I am looking to educate some of my Airmen just getting into cigars and using 8-5-8s to show how the wrapper impacts the cigar. I'm tracking that they come in:
Candela
Maduro
Natural
Rosado
Sungrown
Does anyone know if the binder/filler is changed between the variants or not at all, therefore making this a good candidate for my goal?
Re: 8-5-8's: Good instructional cigar for the impact the wrapper makes?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 12:01 am
by dubleuhb
As far as I know it is just a different wrapper.
Re: 8-5-8's: Good instructional cigar for the impact the wrapper makes?
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:37 am
by mk05
The Maduro, Natural, and SG should be enough. I would be impressed if you can smoke all of the candela. The Rosado takes quite a bit of time (years) for it to get rid of that "AF acrid rosado taste." (I just coined that myself :bla:)
The blends are the same save for the wrapper on these, but as Hamlet once stated, wrapper only imparts 20% difference in final taste.
Re: 8-5-8's: Good instructional cigar for the impact the wrapper makes?
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:34 am
by Deanedmond
^^^ +1. Good post mark. couldnt agree more.
Re: 8-5-8's: Good instructional cigar for the impact the wrapper makes?
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 3:33 am
by Fuente Fan
And then there is one super rare version. The 858 Sr Blend which is a completely different binder/filler.
Re: 8-5-8's: Good instructional cigar for the impact the wrapper makes?
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 7:07 am
by mk05
is that one of the private ones with the cuban tobacco?
Re: 8-5-8's: Good instructional cigar for the impact the wrapper makes?
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 5:53 pm
by Fuente Fan
It was the special rolled box someone won in a past CFCF auction. Like this year's Carlito's Table, the winner got to request what cigar and blend he wanted rolled. I was just lucky enough to have this man share one with me.