Room 101 Farce Connecticut Short Corona

Room 101 Farce Connecticut short corona is made with Nicaraguan and Dominican filler, an undisclosed binder (Booth must have had a conversation with Robert Caldwell) and covered in a blond toothy rough feeling Ecuador Connecticut wrapper with one prominent aorta sized vein. The primary band features the unmistakable Matt Booth lotus blossom Room 101 logo and a secondary band pronounce it a “Farce.” Both bands are red on white.

Oak, cedar, cashews, spice (nutmeg, cinnamon), honey, vanilla with hints of clove and a cream flavor something akin to a Milky Way candy bar. The flavors are fairly typical Connecticut/ They just don’t really balance as well as I would have liked. No transitions and little in the way of any complexity. It’s a basic mild-medium bodied, mild strength Connecticut shade stick.

The draw needed a toothpick poke to open up, the smoke output was on the light side, the burn line was erratic – fine for awhile, then off kilter. The wrapper cracked midway, but healed itself as the burn line caught up. A couple of touchups were required at that point to even up the burn line. The ash was flaky but held on well enough for a narrow-gauge short stick.

A friend discovered this parked on the 2 for 10 table at one of our favorite cigar lounges. This was a decent budget table discovery. I didn’t find it deserving of the 90-plus ratings it has received, but the Room 101 Farce Connecticut Short Corona was a better than average satisfactory smoke for that $5 price point – even with the construction issues. If you enjoy pairing the Room 101 Big Payback Connecticut with morning coffee, you’ll probably like this with the morning brew.

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