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July 2025

📸 It’s that time again: Our big mem­ber pho­to con­test for 2025 is start­ing! 🎉
Our trus­ted ven­dor, Stef­fen Brink­mann, has put tog­e­ther two ama­zing sur­pri­se packa­ges – and our “Mem­ber of the Month” for April 2025, Achim, has gene­rous­ly dona­ted them! 💪
Now it’s your turn: Grab your came­ra (or smart­phone) and take a fun, crea­ti­ve, or infor­ma­ti­ve pho­to. The­re are no limits to your ima­gi­na­ti­on – just one rule: Your patch has to be in the pic­tu­re!
📅 The dead­line for sub­mis­si­ons is July 31, 2025
📨 Send your pho­to to us via email (don’t post it befo­re!).
💥 The two pho­tos with the most likes will win!
We’ll post your sub­mis­si­ons on our Insta­gram account in the order we recei­ve them – so don’t wait too long! ⏱️
Let the came­ras roll – we can’t wait to see your ent­ries and wish all par­ti­ci­pan­ts the best of luck!

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2025/04/26 Pre­fer­red Shop

Our mem­ber Achim from Pir­ma­sens took the oppor­tu­ni­ty during his vaca­ti­on on the Bal­tic Sea to visit the beau­tiful his­to­ric city of Schwe­rin. Natu­ral­ly, a stop at the natio­nal­ly renow­ned Tob­ac­co­house, foun­ded by Stef­fen Brink­mann, was a must. Stef­fen Brink­mann estab­lished his Tob­ac­co­house back in 1998 on Schwerin’s main squa­re. Under the brand BRINK­MANN­fei­nest, he offers his own pre­mi­um cigar lines such as Don Zua­rin — which we had the plea­su­re of fea­turing at our Novem­ber 2023 tasting — as well as the out­stan­ding Ron Zua­rin rum. “Zua­rin” is the old Sla­vic name for a fort­ress that once stood whe­re Schwe­rin is loca­ted today.

Achim has visi­ted the Tob­ac­co­house seve­ral times befo­re and has always felt par­ti­cu­lar­ly wel­co­me and excel­lent­ly advi­sed as a proud mem­ber of the Ash Hole Cigar Club. This time, he had the spe­cial honor of pre­sen­ting Stef­fen Brink­mann and his Tob­ac­co­house with the “Pre­fer­red Shop” plaque on behalf of our club, reco­gni­zing them as one of our mem­bers’ favo­ri­te cigar retail­ers. A visit tha­t’s always worth it!

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2024/09/16 Indo­ne­si­an evening with Jim­my from Jakarta

Yes­ter­day at the Grand Hyatt in Ber­lin we met for a smo­ke. We had the plea­su­re and the gre­at honor of hos­ting Jim­my the Cig­ar­man @cigar.man from Jakar­ta, Indo­ne­sia. Jim­my is the vice pre­si­dent of the Indo­ne­si­an chap­ter and brought us a sel­ec­tion of new Indo­ne­si­an cigars. We were able to try them befo­re they are pre­sen­ted at the worl­d’s lar­gest tob­ac­co trade fair, Inter­Ta­bak in Dort­mund, start­ing on Sep­tem­ber 19th. Thank you Jim­my for this won­derful evening.

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July 2024 Our club cigar has arrived 

Our exclu­si­ve club cigar has seen the light of day!

We are proud to pre­sent our Robus­to 52 x 5 to you today. After many impon­der­a­bles and end­less tastings, it is rea­dy and will pro­ba­b­ly arri­ve at the end of Novem­ber. It is an excep­tio­nal­ly aro­ma­tic Nica­ra­gu­an Puro. The beau­tiful dark, slight­ly oily, shi­ny wrap­per comes from the famous fields around Este­li. The cap at the head end is artful­ly twis­ted into a “pig­tail”. The fil­ler was blen­ded from par­ti­cu­lar­ly aro­ma­tic, sun-ripen­ed Lige­ro lea­ves, i.e. from the upper part of the plant, and the rich Sec­co lea­ves from the midd­le part. The­se tob­ac­co lea­ves were allo­wed to matu­re for a full nine years and went through a mul­ti-stage, very com­plex fermentation.

Now we have tried the pro­to­ty­pes of the regu­lar pro­duc­tion of our exclu­si­ve club cigar. We put tog­e­ther the blend of our Robus­to 52x5 our­sel­ves and the­r­e­fo­re knew rough­ly what to expect.

It was a joy to hold this per­fect­ly craf­ted cigar with its sil­ky, shi­ny Madu­ro wrap­per in our hands. The cold cigar smells of cho­co­la­te, cof­fee and hay. It starts off a litt­le pep­pery with volu­mi­nous, cre­a­my smo­ke. After a few puffs, the pep­pery aro­mas dis­ap­peared com­ple­te­ly and made way for the typi­cal sweet and flo­ral Madu­ro aro­mas. From the second third onwards, aro­mas of espres­so and dark cho­co­la­te beca­me more pro­no­un­ced. In the last third, more and more sweet­ness was added. The burn and the draw resis­tance were per­fect. Very solid, light gray ash. A gre­at, typi­cal Madu­ro smo­ke of a good 45 minutes.It is expec­ted to arri­ve in Novem­ber this year and you can alre­a­dy reser­ve a box.

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2023/12/16  Spon­ta­neous pre-Christ­mas smoke

On Satur­day our mem­ber Tobi­as @papadorty orga­ni­zed a spon­ta­neous pre-Christ­mas club smo­ke at our fri­end Hem­my Gar­cia in Ber­lin-Fronau. We were able to try the Hemmy’s from the new deli­very that had just arrived.

We had an enter­tai­ning and enjoya­ble smo­ke. Thanks Tobias!

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2023/05/20  2nd Mem­bers Mee­ting in Berlin

 

The Ash Hole Cigar Club Ger­ma­ny visi­ted Hem­my Gar­cia in May 2023. The nati­ve Cuban and Ber­li­ner by choice enter­tai­ned us pro­fes­sio­nal­ly and amusin­gly with infor­ma­ti­on about his own cigar brand “Hem­my’s”. We were also allo­wed to tas­te his cigars and his rum, which was crea­ted accor­ding to his per­so­nal reci­pe. Hem­my is an enter­tai­ning and char­ming host, which we real­ly enjoyed.

Also pre­sent were Sven @der_lorenzi from Munich, who orga­ni­zed the mee­ting, and Rijol @cigarlifestyle_gent_bielefeld, who had tra­ve­led all the way from Bie­le­feld. Our Cap­tain Max, respon­si­ble for ever­y­thing to do with gas­tro­no­my, coo­king and enjoy­ment, was the­re for the first time and was able to talk about his inter­na­tio­nal career.

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2023/03/14

First Int’l Meeting

That was a big day for us in Ber­lin. We had a visit from Jim­my @cigar.man and his love­ly wife. Not only is Jim­my the Vice Pre­si­dent of the Indo­ne­si­an Chap­ter, but he also has a num­ber of his own cigar brands in Indo­ne­sia. And best of all, he brought us some from his pro­duc­tion. We were allo­wed to enjoy them in the exclu­si­ve smo­king lounge of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin.

In addi­ti­on to a cigar shop in Jakar­ta, Jim­my has a high-tech busi­ness that pro­ces­ses fiber optic dielec­tric cables. One of the­se cables has the desi­gna­ti­on “G655.C” and tha­t’s what he named his brand of cigars that he brought to us. We will try them in a lar­ger group today and of cour­se report to you.

Thanks Jim­my for this love­ly and infor­ma­ti­ve evening.

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2022/11/19

First club mee­ting of the Ger­man chap­ter in Düsseldorf

On Satur­day the time had final­ly come, the first mem­bers’ mee­ting of our Ger­man chap­ter. We met in Patri­cia and Marc Ben­den’s beau­tiful cigar lounge in Düs­sel­dorf. “Cigar­world” defi­ni­te­ly lives up to its name. We immer­sed our­sel­ves in the gre­at world of tob­ac­co in its most beau­tiful form. The pro­fes­sio­nal Cigar­world crew reser­ved a cozy and tas­teful­ly fur­nis­hed sepa­ra­te club room for our mee­ting. The Cigar­world humi­dor left not­hing to be desi­red and so we were able to try some­thing new and valued. We made ple­nty of use of the lavish offer and had a lot of fun doing it.

Some of the mem­bers came from far away. Many thanks to the mem­bers who tra­ve­led to Düs­sel­dorf from Bie­le­feld, Müns­ter, Frank­furt and Ber­lin and con­tri­bu­ted to the suc­cess of this spe­cial event. We had a gre­at after­noon with inte­res­t­ing con­ver­sa­ti­ons and of cour­se some excel­lent cigars. Our smo­kes drag­ged on until later in the evening. And we were also able to win a new mem­ber for our chapter.

If you want to plan such an event in your regi­on and know a nice loca­ti­on, you should cont­act us. We would be hap­py to plan a regio­nal mee­ting at your place and help with the implementation.

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