In 2013, Room101 became the sixth manufacturer to release a cigar in Smoke Inn’s Microblend Series with the Room101 Big Delicious. The well-received release is receiving a follow-up, logically named, Room101 Little Big Delicious. The new cigar will measure 4 1/2 inches, two inches shorter than the original, but it will retain the same ring gauge: 42/54. It will also feature the same blend: an Ecuadorian habano 2000 wrapper, Honduran corojo seco binder and a filler blend with tobaccos from Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Nicaragua. In addition to the cigar, Room101 and Smoke Inn created a 16-episode comic, named the “Adventures of Big Delicious & Swanky White,” a reference to Room101’s Matt Booth and Abe Dababneh, the owner of Smoke Inn. The Microblend Series is the exclusive series for Smoke Inn, a chain of stores based in South Florida. To date, there have been 10 cigars released as part of the series, although the most recent one—the Pope of Greenwich Village by Drew Estate—has only been previewed and not formally sold. Dababneh provided the following comment to halfwheel: Matt Booth and I will both have given birth to sons this year. It only seemed righteous that in the spirit ...
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