[Cigar Mike]

Mine is burning significantly faster than Ed's and there's a marked difference in the ash. His is nice and clean light grey, mine's a darker, messier incoherent mass.

Right at the 50% mark I had a few minutes where the cigar turned a little "earthy." Then that got worse, and took a turn for the "dirty." Yup, I thought I was smoking a rolled up chunk of Bahraini sand for a minute, but that didn't last too long, thankfully. Can't explain what happened. Overall, this cigar's holding up pretty well, actually....

Now about to head down into the bottom half of this one...hope it holds true, because I'm kind of diggin' this one!