With the warmer months finally approaching, and more hours of daylight, it's almost time to return to your patio deck with some good smoking friends and family to enjoy our selection of April Perfect Pairings. Now it's time to “Spring Ahead” with These fantastic brews in the hopes that you will enjoy our choices.
Sea Dog Brewing Sunfish & Deadwood Tobacco Co. Leather Rose
Sunfish Ale from the Sea Dog Brewing Co. in Maine is a unique light-bodied wheat beer with a fragrant peach essence and a clean refreshing grapefruit finish. Sunfish pairs well with salads, pork, and chicken, and if you are a beer and cigar connoisseur it’s the perfect companion for the Deadwood Tobacco Co. Leather Rose.
The Deadwood Tobacco Co. Leather Rose cigar is yet another handmade premium creation rolled by the highly skilled artisans at Drew Estate. This opulent 5x54 Pyramid features a blend of expertly aged Nicaraguan tobaccos covering a delicious, dark brown maduro wrapper each leaf has undergone Drew Estate’s proprietary and top-quality conditioning process.
After toasting the foot and then lighting this deftly rolled Robusto you take delight in a medium-full-bodied smoke that delivers rich, creamy notes of chocolate, dark roast coffee, earth, dried fruit, and hints of white pepper.
Stone Brewing Features & Benefits IPA & Montecristo Red Toro
Stone Brewing Features & Benefits IPA is a small-batch brewing company based out of California. There's this is an insanely flavorful, hop-forward IPA in true Stone fashion while keeping it under 100 calories, and just 2.9 carbs, gluten-reduced and 4% ABV! This beer brings all of the above together with the hop-. This beer brings out a hop-driven boldness you'd expect from a higher fat and filling Stone beer without the added carbs or calories— thus the name Features& Benefits.
Handmade at the famed Tabacalera de Garcia factory in, Dominican Republic, Montecristo Red Toro cigars ae flawlessly constructed with a perfectly aged blend of Dominican long-filler tobaccos, a beefy Dominican binder, and an attractive, medium-brown Connecticut wrapper.
It’s a slow-burning, mouthwatering smoke bursting with complex flavors of earth leather, cocoa, and spice, all backed by a pleasing aroma. The medium-full-bodied strength profile accentuates the hearty-tasting notes of Features & Benefits IPA in a most satisfying way and with zero calories!
18th Street Brewery Best Patio Pils & Oliva Serie V Double Robusto Box Pressed
18th Street Brewery Best Patio Pils is a German-style pilsner brewed in Indiana. The beer pours a hazy color with a nice frothy head, followed by pronounced flavors of malty hops and lemon zest. It’s a very refreshing citrusy beer that is best enjoyed in the warmer months with a fine premium cigar that displays a compatible flavor profile.
Our choice pairing for this zesty beer is the award-winning & Oliva Serie V Double Robusto Box Pressed cigar. This stunning 5 x 54 box-pressed specimen showcases a gorgeous, dark Sun-Grown Habano wrapper that conceals bold Nicaraguan ligero long-fillers that were expertly grown in the black volcanic soils of the country’s fertile Jalapa Valley region.
A rich full-bodied flavor profile of pepper, earth, coffee, leather, and hints of lemon zest, makes it what we feel is the perfect companion for a nice frosted glass of 18th Street Brewery Best Patio Pils.
Ommegang Brewery Idyll Days Pilsner & Macanudo Inspirado Palladium Churchill
Ommegang Brewery Idyll Days Pilsner is a classic rustic Belgian-style pilsner. Brewed with authentic floor-malted barley from the Czech Republic, fermented with Belgian lager yeast, and then patiently cellared until mature. Presented in its essential, unfiltered form, Idyll Days are glorious in its simplicity and delightful in taste, the beer pours a deep brown color and provides hearty notes of wheat, peppercorn, some soft chocolate tones, and subtle nuances of pepper.
Fitting the bill perfectly is the & Macanudo Inspirado Palladium Churchill. These decadent cigars are rolled in a popular (7 x 48) size using Brazilian, Nicaraguan, and Dominican long-fillers, covered by a beautiful dark brown Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper leaf. What set’s Inspirado Palladium apart from any other Macanudo blend is the fact that it employs an old Cuban technique that involves using tercios to age the tobacco.
With tercios, the tobaccos are aged in large palm bark-wrapped bales instead of traditional burlap. The bark forms a tighter seal, trapping in oil and bringing out the tobacco’s natural taste characteristics. The end result is a medium-bodied smoke with intensely delicious flavors of black pepper, oak, chocolate, earth, and black coffee, accented by some floral tones on the finish.
