If you’re like me, you have several Stinky Cigar ashtrays around your house. I love them. They are deep, can hold a lot of cigar butts and ash, and are well built. I bought one of the new more decorative versions last year that came out recently. I choose the antique hammered copper because, well, […]
Favorite Quick Smokes – TGT Edition (2014)
It has been sometime since I published a list like this. Three years is a long time in the cigar world. New cigars enter the market, old cigars leave the market and of course, what you like changes. So I decided to update my list of favorite quick smokes that I published back in 2011. […]
Perfect Pairing: A Guide to Cigars and Spirits
There is nothing like retiring after a hard day with a cigar, I will give you that. To sit and enjoy a good cigar while sloughing off the cares of the day is a beautiful thing. But sometimes…sometimes you want a little more punch with your Punch. A little more austerity with your Arturo Fuente. […]
The Art of the Raffle
Cigar event raffles is a topic that seems to keep coming up in conversation. Jerry, Walt, Mike and I shared our favorite and least favorite prizes in a YQMA episode a month or two ago, and I used the opportunity to complain about winning baseball caps. I’m sure it was good for a few chuckles, […]
Mike’s Look at Cutters
Welcome back once again my friends to another week of me battling this dang cold with a sore throat, cough and taste buds that seem to have been burnt off at the roots. I am going to talk just a little bit about different cuts on cigars this week. I know most of you will […]
Three Things Brian Knows About Cigars
Due to temporary schedule conflicts, don’t have a review for you this week, but I’m not going to leave you hanging. I considered posting another Brian’s The Week In Smoke, but I felt like doing something different. Since Jerry ripped off the Week In Smoke concept, I figure it’s only fair I hijack one of […]
How To Herf
I’m AWOL again this week, so no Tower of Burn. Yeah, I know, but it’s proven to be nearly impossible to do a cigar review on the road. Next week it will be back for sure. In the meantime, I thought it’d be a good time to discuss one of our cherished cigar institutions, the […]
You & Your 5 Senses
After my humidor tour I received a lot of questions about how I know if I’m properly taking care of my cigars since I don’t use a hygrometer. I thought the best way to to answer that question was to demonstrate how you and your 5 senses can be used to get a good feel […]
My Graycliff Tobacco Beetle Adventure
Recently, I had an unpleasant surprise. I have a small collection of Gracliff cigars I keep in one of the drawers in my humidor. It had been a while since I lit one up, and I reached for a blue label “Professionale” torpedo that had been aging for a while. When I lifted it out […]
Making a Cigar Box Clock
Instead of a Guest Review, today I wanted to mix it up a little bit. Last week Tom put together a video demonstrating how to turn a plain old cigar box into a wall mounted clock. Check out the video below to see the step by step process in building your own. Have you ever […]