Description

The West Tampa Tobacco Company Devil Crab cigar pays homage to Tampa’s iconic Ybor City street food—a spicy, football-shaped crab fritter born in the 1920s from Cuban, Italian, and Spanish influences. Handcrafted in Nicaragua at Garmendia Cigars Co., this limited-edition double perfecto (4½ x 60) sports a rustic, oily undisclosed dark maduro or Oscuro wrapper, binder, and filler, evoking a secretive family recipe, complete with a pigtail cap and simple crab-emblazoned band. Medium to medium-full in strength, it ignites with bold pepper, chocolate, salt, herbs, and smoke, evolving through caramel, earth, baking spices, nuts, mushrooms, and smoked meat in the second third, before a balanced finale of charred wood, butter, umami, and honeyed sweetness. Reviewers praise its complex nuance, creamy smoke output, firm ash, and flawless draw despite minor vitola-induced burn wobbles, delivering 75-90 minutes of refined power ideal for the discerning aficionado.