Saturday, April 23rd saw the first Area 82 Herf here at Bagram Air Field. What is a Herf, you ask? To preempt the smart-asses among you, it has nothing to do with Herf Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. A Herf is nothing more than a bunch of guys (non-gender-specific BOTLs or Brothers of the Leaf) gathering together to smoke cigars. Herf etiquette is pretty broad, but a basic tenet is that everyone should bring at least one cigar to smoke, and another to share or trade.
So I talked to a few known cigar smokers, asked them to circulate the word, and we gathered last night outside our building. I was very pleased with the turn-out, we ended up with about a dozen people gather to fire one up. We started with 6-7 folks and, as others walked passed and saw what we were up to, they gleefully joined in. The weather was most accommodating, the winds were even still enough at the outset to allow me to light up with a match.
I’m sure the question on everyone’s lips is, “What did you smoke?” I fired up a Lor Flor Dominicana Cabinet Oscuro L400, 5 3/4" and a healthy 54 ring gauge. Big enough for a rich, complex flavor, but not so big as to leave stretch marks on my lips.
We generated a lot of enthusiasm over the Herf, and plan to keep this up every Saturday for the foreseeable future.
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