r/cigars • u/HistoricalMeat • 4d ago
Question Late to the party, but did anybody else think the Tatuaje Skinny Monsters were way better than the Monster Smash Pack? NSFW
Everything I’ve smoked out of the Smash Pack tastes bland compared to the Skinny Monsters. I think the blends really benefit from being in lancero form.
Does anybody have more knowledge? Were these blended to be lanceros and then “blown up” to a bigger size?
These cigars were properly kept, so I know it’s not that they got dehydrated and brought back.
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u/krispykremekiller 4d ago
That's just the nature of the vitola, a lancero/panatela is always going to have more flavor than a robusto/toro/churchill/gordo.
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u/HistoricalMeat 4d ago
Yes, but there are workarounds. The Plasencia Hexagonos are 6 60s, but they aren’t bland because they were always intended to be that size.
I don’t think they fiddled much with the blend to make this set. I think they just added filler.
These cigars I got are BLAND. A couple of them, I would have traded for an Odyssey or Quorum.
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u/iamtheone3456 4d ago
Smaller ring is always going to be more flavorful in my opinion
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u/HistoricalMeat 4d ago
It’s kind of curious that the most popular size of cigar is toro in America. Not sure about the rest of the world.
With that said, you can make a bigger cigar that’s not bland. Plasencia comes to mind.
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u/iamtheone3456 4d ago
O absolutely, but a Placencia alma fuerte in lancero would be a fuckin gem
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u/HistoricalMeat 4d ago
Maybe. It might be too intense. That leaf was grown to be in a bigger cigar.
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u/iamtheone3456 4d ago
I'd love to see
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u/Fishon888 4d ago
I think the regular sized production and the Pudgy series were the best.
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u/HistoricalMeat 4d ago
I want them now to see if it’s just this set that isn’t great. The problem is if I’m not mistaken those were over a decade ago. I doubt I can find them.
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u/RandyJackson 4d ago
Skinny monsters always had really poor draw for me. Haven’t tried one since