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Acid 20 Robusto Safari style
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Acid 20 Robusto Safari style. We don’t review a lot of infused cigars. But when we do, we always spot one big issue that makes us dislike the cigar. That is the sweet cap, artificial sweetness. So for this ACID 20 Robusto review, we are doing something else. We will smoke this Safari style. That is something from the Drew Estate Cigar Safari, where you smoke a cigar from the wrong end. That should solve the issue with the sweet cap. To make it fair, we will also smoke one as the blenders intended and post that review as well.
The Acid 20 was released in 2019. And as the name suggests, it was to celebrate 20 years of the Acid brand. Acid is the best-selling premium cigar in the United States according to Drew Estate. The infused cigars are immensely popular, yet a lot of smokers of traditional cigars can’t stand the infusion. The Acid 20 is made at La Gran Fabrica Drew Estate with a Mexican San Andres wrapper. The wrapper has a sweet cap. The binder is Indonesian around Nicaraguan filler.
Name: Acid 20 Robusto Safari style
Country: Nicaragua
Factory: Gran Fabrica Drew Estate
Size: 5×52
Vitola: Robusto
Wrapper: Mexico (San Andres)
Binder: Indonesia
Filler: Nicaragua
Price: €10
Cutter: Xikar Xi1 Cutter
Lighter: Single Jet
Smoke conditions: Indoors with ventilator
Smoke time: two hours ten minutes
The review
The cigar is square. Not just box-pressed but square. The black and silver ring pops. The cap is flat and it makes the cigar look more squarish. The wrapper is dark and oily. The construction feels great. The cigar has a strong aroma, cloves, flowers like hibiscus, none of it smells like a traditional cigar.
Since we are smoking it safari style, there isn’t much of a cold draw due to the cap. The cold draw is slightly sweet and flowery, like rosewater. The first puffs are dark roast coffee with aspartame and floral sweetness. Slowly some spice shows up in the flavors as well. The floral flavor makes the mouth feel dry. A muddy clay flavor shows up, yet still with a bit of sweetness and floral flavors. There’s a hint of chili pepper as well.
At the beginning of the second third, the cigar turns more into a traditional cigar. Pepper and soil, with a tiny hint of floral flavors. But the floral sweetness doesn’t taste artificial anymore. Some citrus sourness shows up as well, but still with pepper and soil. These flavors remain, although for a while there was a very faint vanilla flavor on the background.
Even when you smoke a Drew Estate cigar safari style, the smoke is out of this world. The draw is good, and much to our surprise, the burn is good as well. We were afraid that smoking the cigar in the opposite direction would affect the burn negatively, but not at all. The ash is quite dark and frayed. The infusion isn’t that strong when you smoke the cigar safari style. But it still gives some artificial flavors that do not sit well with our palates. The cigar is medium in body, full in flavor. The smoke time is two hours and ten minutes.
Strength: Medium
Flavor: Full