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Episode 150 of Cigars Unbanded marks a major milestone as we light up cigar #4 from the October blind review pack! This oversized mystery cigar delivers notes of pepper, oak, leather, baking spice, toasted bread, and occasional sweetness. While some panelists find enjoyable moments, others struggle with muted flavors, harsh woodiness, and construction issues. The community ultimately awards it a C-tier rating, with plenty of mixed opinions across the panel. The conversation also explores the future of cigar content and the possibility of building a platform that combines YouTube and Discord, featuring live streaming, cigar ratings, and community interaction without the usual restrictions.

Episode 149 features cigar #3 from the October Cigars Unbanded x Small Batch Cigar pack. The panel puts another mystery cigar to the test, picking up notes of oak, mesquite, savory umami, and subtle graphite as they break down the cigar's flavor profile, construction, and overall smoking experience throughout the night. With Halloween right around the corner, the panel and community take part in the ultimate Halloween Candy Showdown! Forty popular Halloween candies go head-to-head as everyone votes to rank their favorites from S-tier all the way down to F-tier. From Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and M&M's to some of the most divisive Halloween treats, the debate gets heated, opinions clash, and the community helps determine which candies deserve a spot at the top. Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w   Click the links for more content from the Cigars Unbanded crew! Peter - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLLTz_s9keMBHi5EJepLnqg Roger - https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingManCigars Felipe - https://www.youtube.com/@UCHHfe_SB5fakpXVPVjS1GSQ Mike - https://www.youtube.com/@UChbfqdwJ0BOoMfaBVe1YNyw Matt - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarhounddog Michael - https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourAsh John - https://www.youtube.com/@cigar.alchemist Sean - https://www.youtube.com/@SeanicusSmokesCigars Mat - https://www.youtube.com/@SoberCigars   Cigars Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Episode 148 features cigar #2 from the October Cigars Unbanded x Small Batch Cigar pack. The cigar delivers an impressive mix of cedar, creamy vanilla, graham cracker, salted caramel, baking spices, citrus, floral notes, and natural tobacco sweetness. With excellent construction and a complex, evolving flavor profile, the cigar keeps the panel engaged throughout the night. The episode kicks off with a surprise appearance from Litto Gomez Jr., who joins the panel to discuss the highly anticipated LFD Andalusian Bull Maduro release, the overwhelming response from the cigar community, and the story behind its creation. The conversation continues with a look back at some of the most anticipated cigar releases in recent history, exploring which ones lived up to the hype and which left smokers disappointed. Reveal - 57:30 Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w  Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w Click the links for more content from the Cigars Unbanded crew! Peter - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLLTz_s9keMBHi5EJepLnqg Roger - https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingManCigars Felipe - https://www.youtube.com/@UCHHfe_SB5fakpXVPVjS1GSQ Mike - https://www.youtube.com/@UChbfqdwJ0BOoMfaBVe1YNyw Matt - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarhounddog Michael - https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourAsh John - https://www.youtube.com/@cigar.alchemist Sean - https://www.youtube.com/@SeanicusSmokesCigars Mat - https://www.youtube.com/@SoberCigars Cigars Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Episode 146 closes out the September Cigars Unbanded x Small Batch Cigar pack with the full panel taking on the fourth and final blind cigar of the month. After a September that already delivered two A tiers and a C tier, the guys are hoping to finish the pack on a high note. The cigar shows some promise early with cedar, white pepper, brown sugar, oak, coffee, Nutella, leather, and a mix of sweet and savory notes. As it progresses, though, the experience changes dramatically for several members of the panel, with increasing minerality, dryness, wood, florality, bitterness, and some unusual chemical notes creating plenty of disagreement around the table. For this week’s discussion, we turn things over to the community and ask which cigars and brands still deserve a shot on Cigars Unbanded after 146 episodes. The panel goes through viewer submissions, talks about brands we haven't featured enough, revisiting old-school favorites blind, and starts building a list of potential cigars for future episodes. Reveal - 58:00 Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w

Episode 145 brings the full panel together for cigar #3 from the September Cigars Unbanded x Small Batch Cigar pack, with Xavier jumping in as a guest panelist. The cigar starts strong with cedar, leather, sweet cream, salted butter, cinnamon, and a smooth retrohale, before developing more floral, earthy, chocolate, pepper, and savory notes as it progresses. For this week’s main topic, the guys put cigar companies through a completely random game of F*ck, Marry, Kill. Each panelist gets three randomly selected companies and has to decide which one they’re keeping around, which one they’re having a little fun with, and which one has to go. The chat gets in on the action too, voting on its own randomly selected brands.   Reveal - 1:04:00   Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w   Click the links for more content from the Cigars Unbanded crew! Peter - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLLTz_s9keMBHi5EJepLnqg Roger - https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingManCigars Felipe - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarsidechats Mike - https://www.youtube.com/@UChbfqdwJ0BOoMfaBVe1YNyw Matt - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarhounddog Michael - https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourAsh John - https://www.youtube.com/@cigar.alchemist Sean - https://www.youtube.com/@SeanicusSmokesCigars Mat - https://www.youtube.com/@SoberCigars   Cigars Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Episode 144 features cigar #2 from the September Cigars Unbanded x Small Batch Cigar pack. The cigar starts strong with a mix of cinnamon and baking spice, graham cracker, cedar, caramel sweetness, nuttiness, leather, floral notes, and touches of maple and brown sugar, with solid construction across the panel. The main conversation dives into cigars that completely changed the panel’s expectations of a brand, including standout cigars from brands they normally don’t gravitate toward and disappointing releases from brands they usually love. Peter also breaks in the brand-new Cigars Unbanded studio for the first time after finally retiring the smoking tent. By the end of the night, cigar #2 earns plenty of praise from the panel and lands at an overall A-tier rating. No bands. No bias. No agendas.

Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w Reveal - 01:08:00 Click the links for more content from the Cigars Unbanded crew! Peter - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLLTz_s9keMBHi5EJepLnqg Roger - https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingManCigars Felipe - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarsidechats Mike - https://www.youtube.com/@UChbfqdwJ0BOoMfaBVe1YNyw Matt - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarhounddog Michael - https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourAsh John - https://www.youtube.com/@cigar.alchemist Sean - https://www.youtube.com/@SeanicusSmokesCigars Mat - https://www.youtube.com/@SoberCigars Cigars Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w Reveal - 01:11:00 Click the links for more content from the Cigars Unbanded crew! Peter - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLLTz_s9keMBHi5EJepLnqg Roger - https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingManCigars Felipe - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarsidechats Mike - https://www.youtube.com/@UChbfqdwJ0BOoMfaBVe1YNyw Matt - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarhounddog Michael - https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourAsh John - https://www.youtube.com/@cigar.alchemist Sean - https://www.youtube.com/@SeanicusSmokesCigars Mat - https://www.youtube.com/@SoberCigars Cigars Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w Reveal - 01:06:00 Click the links for more content from the Cigars Unbanded crew! Peter - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLLTz_s9keMBHi5EJepLnqg Roger - https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingManCigars Felipe - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarsidechats Mike - https://www.youtube.com/@UChbfqdwJ0BOoMfaBVe1YNyw Matt - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarhounddog Michael - https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourAsh John - https://www.youtube.com/@cigar.alchemist Sean - https://www.youtube.com/@SeanicusSmokesCigars Mat - https://www.youtube.com/@SoberCigars Cigars Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Episode 140 features cigar #2 from the August Cigars Unbanded x Small Batch Cigar pack. The cigar delivers notes of vanilla cream, salted butter, shortbread, sweet hay, nuts, cedar, baking spice, and subtle fruit, with several panelists praising the flavor while others battle tight draws, tunneling, and other construction issues. The conversation also introduces the new Small Batch Sunday community pack, covers the recent move of partners and marketplace activity from Discord to the Cigars Unbanded forum, and dives into bucket-list cigars, rare releases, and whether those long-chased smokes actually live up to the hype. Despite the construction problems, the community lands on an overall A-tier rating. Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w Reveal - 54:00 Click the links for more content from the Cigars Unbanded crew! Peter - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLLTz_s9keMBHi5EJepLnqg Roger - https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingManCigars Felipe - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarsidechats Mike - https://www.youtube.com/@UChbfqdwJ0BOoMfaBVe1YNyw Matt - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarhounddog Michael - https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourAsh John - https://www.youtube.com/@cigar.alchemist Sean - https://www.youtube.com/@SeanicusSmokesCigars Mat - https://www.youtube.com/@SoberCigars Cigars Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Join us as we kick off the Tobacconist of Greenwich: Titans of Tobacco series with the incredible Eladio Diaz blend. We'll be joined by Eladio Diaz, Emmanuel Diaz, and Tobacconist of Greenwich owner Michael Cafagno as we discuss how this project came together and why it's so important to recognize the men and families who helped build the tobacco industry into what it is today. This is more than just a cigar. It's a celebration of the people, the history, and the legacy behind premium tobacco. Click the links for more content from the Cigars Unbanded crew! Peter - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLLTz_s9keMBHi5EJepLnqg Roger - https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingManCigars Felipe - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarsidechats Mike - https://www.youtube.com/@UChbfqdwJ0BOoMfaBVe1YNyw Matt - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarhounddog Michael - https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourAsh John - https://www.youtube.com/@cigar.alchemist Sean - https://www.youtube.com/@SeanicusSmokesCigars Mat - https://www.youtube.com/@SoberCigars Cigars Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Episode 139 kicks off a brand-new month of blind reviews as we light up Cigar #1 from the August Cigars Unbanded x Small Batch Cigar monthly pack. With a few of the regular panel members away, some familiar faces from the Cigars Unbanded community step in to smoke along and put the first cigar of August to the test. The cigar delivers a mix of wood, leather, cream, cacao, pepper, toasted bread, and sweetness as the profile develops throughout the night. The conversation also dives into the different stages of becoming a cigar collector, some of the best and worst advice you can give a newer cigar smoker, recent cigars that have impressed the group, and plenty of the usual Cigars Unbanded conversation along the way. Join the discord - https://tinyurl.com/ye7rnh3w Reveal - 01:08:00 Click the links for more content from the Cigars Unbanded crew! Peter - https://www.youtube.com/@UCLLTz_s9keMBHi5EJepLnqg Roger - https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingManCigars Felipe - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarsidechats Mike - https://www.youtube.com/@UChbfqdwJ0BOoMfaBVe1YNyw Matt - https://www.youtube.com/@cigarhounddog Michael - https://www.youtube.com/@MasterYourAsh John - https://www.youtube.com/@cigar.alchemist Sean - https://www.youtube.com/@SeanicusSmokesCigars Mat - https://www.youtube.com/@SoberCigars Cigars Unbanded Merch Shop https://cigarsunbanded.myshopify.com

Episode 138 wraps up the July Cigars Unbanded x Small Batch Cigar mystery sampler with the last cigar in the July pack. The panel finds an enjoyable start featuring espresso, oak, dark chocolate, walnut, stone fruit, baking spices, and subtle sweetness before the profile gradually becomes more earthy, bitter, and wood-forward in the final third. Along the way, the conversation shifts to a fun discussion about what each panelist would do if cigar content disappeared from YouTube, leading to ideas ranging from food, travel, barbecue, and restoration videos to conspiracy theories, plumbing, and 30-day skill challenges. The episode also explores the future of cigar content online, social media censorship, and the challenges creators face on today's platforms before revealing the cigar and discussing Drew Estate's place in the current premium cigar market. A solid B-tier performance closes out the July pack, with announcements for the upcoming Tobacconist of Greenwich Titans of Tobacco series, Small Batch Sunday community smokes, and the August mystery sampler.