Bye, Bye Winter

March is finally here, and not a minute to soon. February is Nebraska pretty much sucks ass. The only nice thing about the month is how short it is. I've spent the last 8 weeks hoping for a nice day to smoke a cigar, but alas it was not in the cards.

So, Sunday night the guys ventured out to John's garage, fired up the space heater and endured sub 40 temps to get a cigar in to kick off March. I chose a Rocky Patel Sun Grown Torpedo and was not disappointed.

I smoked the torpedo, a 6 1/4" 52 ring gauge cigar. The cigar was very smooth in flavor, enhanced by a wrapper that was sweet tasting. The profile did not change much throughout the smoke. Like all Rocky's, this one produced a great cloud of smoke with each puff.

I'm going to have to give this another go around before I determine where it sits in the Rocky family, but for right now it's a step below the Edge. I'll rate it a 3.5 out of 5.

See how other rated it at top25cigar.com.

I paired the Sun Grown with a Sam Adams White Ale. This is Sam's spring seasonal beer, a white Belgian wheat. The beer is a little sweet, which I didn't like at first, but actually was great with the sweet tasting wrapper of the torpedo. I'd give this Sam Adams version a 3 out of 5.