00:21  The cigar we are having. Herrera Esteli from Drew Estates Toro Especial 6×52. Contains a Ecuadorian Habano wrapper, Honduran binder, Nicaraguan filler.

00:31  George Dickle Barrell Select. Only 10 barrels are selected for this small-batch whiskey each year. Aged between 10 and 12 years. 84% Corn, 8% Rye, and 8% Malted Barley

02:48 Thoughts on the George Dickle chilled with the steel chilling cubes

03:51  Darrell working on discerning other flavors in the whiskey

05:17  Bill has a section of wrapper missing from the cigar. It was right next to the cap.

05:39  The peanut gallery suggests using Scotch Tape. Bad idea. J

05:49  Darrell has a split in the wrapper that goes all the way around

06:07  How Bill is overcoming the missing section of wrapper

06:47  Shout out to our good friend Al Roman from TheGoodCigar. Remembering something we talked about, I noticed the same thing in this cigar

07:37  Darrell talks about the cigar and thinks about what it is made of

08:02  Bill’s research prior to the show

08:34 Cigar Scanner App

08:51  CLM Cigar Journal – Coming up for sale very soon.

09:05  2020 Dallas Winter Whiskey Tasting Festival. 25 Jan 2020. There is an event hosted on the same day in other cities. St. Louis, Denver, Chicago, and Minneapolis. So a five city 2020 Winter Whiskey Tasting Festival. Get your tickets now. See our website for more details and how to pick up tickets. All money goes to charity. Single Regular Admission is $40. Group (4 or more) Regular Admission is $35. VIP tickets are $50 and Premium Tickets are $67.

13:43 How does the Herrera Esteli and the chilled George Dickle pair together.

15:17 Bill’s glass sponsored by Salas Home Team

15:33  Stainless Steel Chilling cubes work awesome

16:30  Discussing Char in a barrels. Char 1 – 7.   Hemicellulose, Lignin, Tannins, and Lactones. Dicuss the time that it takes to get to any given level of char of the wood.

24:20  Checking back on the Toro Especial and George Dickle Select

29:28  Flavor vs price.

30:25  Bill’s cigar has developed a crack in the wrapper and continue the discussion of flavor vs price

32:55  Discussion of Artificial Intelligence and will be become offended that we call their intelligence artificial.

36:05  The Speed of Bacteria

36:35  Angering the Overlords

37:18  Moving back to the George Dickle

37:24  Back to AI

40:36  The Language Wars

43:53  Burn around Bill’s split in the cigar

44:17  How Darrell’s split did

44:45  Renegade Cigars and shout out to Rob from CigarTalk

46:07  Renegade Cigars house cigars

49:55  Cassie Question: If you could trade points from one sense to another which sense would you reduce to make another sense higher? However, Cassie did not have an answer for this. Cassie needs to play along with them.

57:22  Bill is having an issue with the area of the cigar that did not have any wrapper by the cap

58:42  Bill can’t get any draw off the cigar now. Done with that one.

59:42  Check out the 2020 Winter Whiskey Tasting. See the links on our website. Dallas, St. Louis, Denver, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Despite what Darrell said, no event in Kansas City.

1:00:45 What we are having next week. Gurkha Special Edition Titan. Pairing with the Acre Two Minnie’s Gin.