JSK Munchies Bananas Foster

Banana Foster

What do fine restaurant dessert menus and JSK have in common?

The latest instalment of the Munchies flavour-enhanced premium cigar line is based on the well-known dessert…the Bananas Foster.

This idea began as another test blend concept that was sent out to many cigar smokers to test drive it. It was received with race reviews, so much so that Fat Ash Cigar Lounge even requested it be added to their Munchies Breffus 5-pack. While the Breffus Bananas Foster was a Maduro blend, this offering is a Habano.

Typical of the actual dessert, flavour notes picked up were bananas , brown sugar, cinnamon, vanilla bean. As previously stated, the Habano wrapper adds a hint of spice, which showcases on the back end of the flavour profile. The Habano spice on the finish was noted by many, and one person in particular.

Someone provided a small rum distillery a Bananas Foster to sample, as they were looking for a quality flavour-enhanced cigar to pair with their rum. Based on that interaction, the distillery is now carrying the Bananas Foster Munchies, as it paired perfectly with rum. They went so far as to state that this cigar, hands down, was the best cigar they’ve ever smoked alongside a glass of rum.

Munchies Bananas Foster cigar.  Grab yours while you can.

The cigars, made at Tabacalera Aragon in Estelí, Nicaragua, are robusto size, 5 inches with a ring of 50. The wrapper is Habano while the binder and filler are undisclosed.

For a while, JSK thought about packaging the JSK Munchies Bananas Foster as a candy bars. The PCA disallowed Jas Sum Kral to display the Nuggs and Munchies, after which JSK decided to boycott the Convention & Trade Show.

When he mentioned a cigar packaged as a candy bar that was displayed at the 2022 show, Jay Davies from PCA reached out to JSK owner Riste Ristevski that “you should just have come and displayed your cigars, the board of PCA really doesn’t care anyway”. But the market is responding positively on the Munchies packaging, unlike cigar media and other cigar producers, and thus was decided to continue the current style of packaging in the fresh packs.