Sometime last week I was browsing the Club Stogie Forums, trying my best to keep up with it in the little time I have available. I came across a post in regards to a Youtube video on Cigar Anatomy. I checked out the video and began to get bored within the first minute or so […]
Quantifying the Lancero Effect
Please Note: This article is the opinion of the author and depicts a hypothetical situation. In the given situation, it is assumed that there is no difference, what-so-ever, between the composition of a thin ring gauge cigar and a large ring gauge cigar. In addition, the assumption is made that the vast majority of a […]
Ask the readers: Who impressed you most?
Last month Brian, Jerry, and I got to live the dream, so to speak, and attend the annual IPCPR trade show. While there I was finally able to put a face to a name in terms of manufacturers, Stogie Review readers, and other cigar blog writers. The majority of which were really nice people to […]
What and When: The Walt White Story
Earlier this month I received a private message on YouTube from a fellow named Zach. Zach wanted to know what my first premium, hand-rolled cigar was and when I smoked it. This is a story I have told before on an episode of Your Questions, My Answers, at one time or another, but I thought […]
The tale of the Camacho Scorpion
Have you ever gone into a cigar shop or browsed a retailers website and come across a cigar that just didn’t seem to fit. For example if you looked at the Camacho line of cigars and see the Corojo, Coyolar, SLR, Triple Maduro, and so on. If you just happened to walk into the right […]
When good cigars go bad
Ever since seeing Brian’s writeup of a Padron with a prize inside, I got to thinking about all of the good cigars that have turned bad on me. While none of them have had anything nearly as crazy as a piece of twine inside, I’ve run into a couple which had voids in the filler. […]
That Cigar Came With A Prize!
A few weeks ago, I was in the mood for a Padron. After a few minutes of of excavation, I successfully extracted a Padron 3000 without a dangerous avalanche of cigars. (Lately, my humidor has been so dangerously overfilled, I have wear a miner’s hat with the mounted light when I grab a cigar.) Pleased […]
Contest: Month of August 2008
For the month of August we will be running a pretty simple contest The grand prize is a small desktop humidor filled with cigars. Courtesy of Matt from our very own Fan Forums This month we have made the entering process a little more involved than last months contest. This time around we are asking […]
IPCPR 2008 – Day 4
This video wraps up the IPCPR 2008 convention in Las Vegas. Day 4 was fairly uneventful as most manufacturers were swamped with paperwork as the show came to a close. I had a good time and look forward to next years show. By then I promise to have the sound issue worked out. MP3 Version: […]
Quelling Cigar Misconceptions: Part 3
In a previous article entitled “Cigar Misconceptions: Which one would you do away with?”, we were all reintroduced to common cigar related myths and misconceptions that we have all heard one time or another. In fact, there was most likely a time in our past when we spread some of these fallacies ourselves. In each […]