Honey Bourbon Backwoods Cigars 5 Pack

Listed as a 5 pack, these Honey Bourbon Backwoods are tobacco cigars. In a report dated November 7, 2014, Convenience Store News said Commonwealth-Altadis was introducing Backwoods Honey Bourbon as the company’s first limited-edition variant. That report had the first Honey Bourbon singles and five-packs going out the same November.

Backwoods before Honey Bourbon

Long before the Honey Bourbon edition, Backwoods had gone national: ITG Brands, Imperial Brands’ US arm and the maker of the cigars, gives 1981 as the year Backwoods cigars went nationwide. On Cigar Aficionado, a report on the Tabacalera de Garcia factory at La Romana, in the Dominican Republic, next to the Casa de Campo resort, put its output above one billion mass-market cigars a year, with Backwoods making up most of it.

Frayed end first: opening a Honey Bourbon

ITG Brands calls the shape a roll-your-own style, pairing a frayed end and a tapered body with a head left unfinished. Many buyers, according to our Fronto vs Backwoods guide, unroll a Honey Bourbon, throw away the tobacco filler and load the leaf with cannabis, ready to roll a blunt. The guide’s first-step advice is to begin at the edge and peel the leaf back slowly, since it is delicate and a torn leaf is hard to roll.