In June 2012, the the second of what would eventually become four cigars for the Brother of the Leaf forum, BOTL.org, was released through Podman Cigars, an online retail store started by forum member Tim Podwika. Named the Drew Estate BOTL.org 2012, the inaugural release was a 7 x 38 lancero composed of a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper covering a Ecuadorian Connecticut shade binder and filler tobaccos from Nicaragua. Only 3,000 cigars were produced with an MSRP of $12.95, with boxes of 15 selling for $194.25. Tim Podwika explained the history behind the release on his website: The story of the BOTL 2012 begins over 2 years ago when I went to the Drew Estate Factory on a retailer Cigar Safari. During this trip I blended a lancero that I thought was pretty good. Knowing I would be back in a few months Jonathan graciously agreed to make a few more to keep at the factory to age until I returned. In the time between trips the BOTL Small Batch 2010 from PDR hit the shop. Jonathan happened to come in for an event and saw this project. He was immediately interested in having Drew Estate be a part of this. Time went by ...
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