Oak & Smoke

La Aroma de Cuba

My first La Aroma de Cuba was given to me by a co-worker nearly a year ago and since that day, I’ve smoke quite a few more. As soon as I came up with the idea to launch Oak & Smoke, I was determined to make the La Aroma de Cuba my first official cigar [...]

Rocky Patel Sungrown

This review has been a long time coming, but I just hadn’t gotten around to smoking the Rocky Patel Sun Grown Torpedo sitting in my humidor for the past four months. Fortunately, the side effect of procrastination is one an appropriately aged cigar. As a self-described fan of Rocky Patel cigars, I was definitely looking [...]

Caribou Coffee Caribou Blend K-Cup

My wife and I first discovered Caribou Coffee on a recent trip to our local K-Cup distributor. Neither of us had ever heard of the brand or that they were in fact a chain of coffee shops. Regardless, we picked up a bunch of different flavors and quickly made them a regular staple in our [...]

The Dalmore Single Highland Malt 12y

The Dalmore Distillery was established in 1839 by a man named Alexander Matheson and is located in Alness, Scotland. The distillery is located in northern Scotland, thus the moniker “Single Highland Malt”. The packaging is quite simple with a 750ml bottle adorned by the signature 12 point buck on the bottle and traditional style label. [...]

Oban 14y

Oban was the first single malt scotch I ever tried and for this it will always occupy a special place in my heart. That first sip of single malt goodness was many years ago and since that fateful first sip I have made it a point to never buy the same scotch twice. I have [...]

The Balvenie DoubleWood 12y

This past Christmas, my wonderful wife bought me a bottle of Balvenie DoubleWood. DoubleWood is a 12 year old single malt Scotch whisky that is matured in two distinct casks throughout the life of its maturation process. It starts its journey from malt to whisky in a traditional American oak bourbon whisky cask and is [...]

Rocky Patel Decade

The Rocky Patel Decade is a special 10th anniversary release from Rocky and the torpedo earned a 95 rating from Cigar Afficionado. Rocky himself brought a whole bunch of these cigars to give away at the Aleppo Smoker I attended back in March and I forced myself to leave it alone for a while. This [...]