My Father Blue Cigar Review | What We Inherit From Our Fathers

SHOW #: 28 CIGAR: My Father Blue MAKER: My Father Cigars ORIGIN: Honduras FACTORY: My Father Cigars Honduras, El Paraíso, Honduras FILLER: Honduran Corojo and Criollo from Finca La Opulencia BINDER: Honduran WRAPPER: Connecticut Broadleaf Rosado VITOLA: Toro Gordo, 6 x 60, box pressed STRENGTH: Medium to Full RATING: Steven: 8.5 | Ryan: 8 | Patrick: 8 SHOW THEME / ARC: The García family’s first Honduran-made My Father cigar becomes the backdrop for a conversation about the fathers we were given, the things we inherit from them and what we deliberately choose to carry forward—or leave behind—when we become fathers ourselves. THE FOOT After a summer hiatus, Patrick, Ryan and Steven return to the garage with one of the most talked-about recent releases from My Father Cigars: the My Father Blue. The Blue marks the García family’s first Honduran-made cigar, using a Connecticut Broadleaf Rosado wrapper over Honduran binder and Corojo and Criollo filler grown at the family’s Finca La Opulencia. The guys smoke the box-pressed 6 x 60 Toro Gordo and talk through the cigar’s rapid rise, strong internet reaction and how different it feels from the more aggressive Nicaraguan profile often associated with My Father and Don Pepín García. The cold draw brings sweetness, barnyard earth and raisins, eventually producing the remarkably specific comparison of Raisin Bran. THE BODY The cigar settles into a smooth, creamy and buttery profile with sweet leather and a gentler spice that lands closer to cinnamon and nutmeg than black pepper. That quieter cigar opens the door to a much heavier conversation as Patrick, Ryan and Steven describe the fathers they grew up with. Patrick talks about his father’s difficult childhood, life as a pastor, emotional distance, infidelity, abuse, leaving the family when Patrick was 12 and their final contact when his father was dying in 2020. Ryan reflects on his parents’ divorce, the distance it created between him and his father during adolescence, the ways his perspective changed with age and the strong relationship they have today. Steven remembers his father, a Southwest oil-field roughneck who died at only 55, along with the faith, provision and love that were present even when affection was not always expressed in words. The conversation also turns toward faith and the ways each father’s beliefs, flaws and experiences shaped the next generation. THE HEAD The question eventually turns around: What are the guys handing to their own children? Ryan talks about intentionally breaking patterns created by divorce and building a marriage where divorce was never treated as the default escape hatch. Steven explains why telling his children “I love you” became an everyday practice and why provision is an important expression of love without being the only one. Patrick reflects on learning to parent without a healthy model, recognizing uncomfortable similarities between himself and his father as he gets older, and deliberately choosing loyalty and commitment as values he wants his own children to inherit. Meanwhile, the cigar develops a distinctive dry-wood character described as freshly cut particle board or OSB in a woodshop, alongside returning pepper, oak, coffee, cocoa and lingering sweetness. All three agree that the My Father Blue is remarkably smooth, consistent and easy to enjoy. Ryan gives it a bold 8, Patrick lands at 8 and Steven pushes his score to 8.5. The episode closes by raising a cigar to Jerry, Tommy and Al—the fathers whose stories shaped the night. EPISODE DESCRIPTION How much of our fathers do we carry with us—and what do we choose to leave behind? In Episode 28 of Burnt Offerings, we smoke the My Father Blue, the García family’s first Honduran-made cigar and one of the most talked-about My Father releases of the last year. The 6 x 60 Toro Gordo pairs a Connecticut Broadleaf Rosado wrapper with Honduran binder and Corojo and Criollo filler. The cold draw starts with sweet barnyard, raisins and an oddly accurate Raisin Bran comparison before the cigar settles into cream, butter, sweet leather and a softer cinnamon-and-nutmeg kind of spice. By the final third, pepper returns alongside dry oak, coffee, cocoa and one of the stranger tasting notes we’ve landed on: freshly cut particle board in a woodshop. It makes for a remarkably easygoing cigar alongside a conversation that gets considerably more personal. Patrick, Ryan and Steven talk about the fathers they were given, the complicated mix of good and bad that gets passed from one generation to another, divorce, loss, faith, emotional distance and what changes when you become a father yourself. Then the question turns around: What are we handing our own kids? We talk about deliberately breaking patterns, learning to say “I love you,” choosing loyalty, figuring out marriage and parenting without a perfect model, recognizing more of our fathers in ourselves as ...