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Ahhhh ... the quest for the elusive.... "Go-to." I think we all have our "go-to" for the moment. But, ya know, it's gonna change in a month or two ... as soon as we find something that tastes better ... different ... matches our changing tastes. What's your "Go-to" right now?

Who would have thunk it? Here I am in full head over heals tumble down the dark slide of the slope ... why am I posting this??? I do this sort of thing after a martini (really it's been 1 and a half) :r Visited Milo's today ... a really good little B&M in Edwardsville, Illinois... a mom...

Having a martini and thinking ... dangerous combination (wife just told me that I needed an "m" after the "o"). Damn martinis. Anyway, I was trying to remember the last box of NC's that I bought. Think it was a box of CAO Parhanas (sp?) ... (she didn't know how to spell that). What was your...

Wish I had a digital camera. Just pulled a CAO Brazilia from the humi. This stick had a 1/4 inch wide by 1 inch long ragged strip of wrapper leaf running down from the foot ... that was just gone ... just like it had been eaten away. The binder leaf was exposed. It also had a couple of...

Sometimes I see a shine spot just below the burn line of a cigar. I see it more often on NC maduros than anything else. Is this moisture or oil?

I read somewhere that you could improve a slightly tight draw by putting your palm across the foot of the cigar before you light it, sealing it, and then giving it several hard draws. I'm not talkiong about a plugged cigar ... just one that doesn't seem to draw as freely as you like. I've...

Just a normal Saturday night here, mixing a martini and lighting the Weber to cook some huge prok chops. A nice cigar just seems to go so well with the routine. However, something very un-routine was going on here. Something struck me tonight ... as I cut my cigar smoothly with the Palio, lit...

Maybe I'm brainwashed or just plain stupid ... I've been using Drymistat tubes for about a year ... perefect 70% rh. Except for a handful of cigars, everything has smoked great. Recently had a tight draw on a Party Short and Monte 4. It seemed and tasted like that they might be a little on...

I'v heard that reviewers like CA only rate cigars based on the first third. I'm one of those guys who smoke most of my cigars down to the nub. What are your favorite nub cigars? What cigars taste the best during the last 1/3rd?

I'm just an average guy. I love CS ... an addict really ... look apes ... I am having trouble dealing with 6 page of new posts per day. Ease up. I can't deal with the volume. Kind of feel guilty starting a new thread.

White, gray, flecked and brown. Curious about the ash. Did a search and found a thread about the soil. http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=12133&highlight=ash+color I read somewhere that the ash color had more to do with the combustion of the cigar. What's the answer?

I'm about to take that headfirst leap down the slope, credit card in hand. Before I do, it seemed to be a good time to try some of the NCs I have just never gotten around to smoking. We took a loooong Memorial Day weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks. They have a really good local B&M that...

Stopped by a B&M in Kansas City over the weekend. Love the LFD Double Ligero but had never smoked a Chisel. Pulled a couple out of the box and I was surprised to see that one was maybe 1/4 inch shorter than the other one. Peeked into the box and saw only a few sticks that were exactly the...

I really enjoy a nice cigar with coffee. It often seems that certain cigars can really complement the flavors of certain drinks. I'm looking for a new coffee cigar and I'm curious about what cigars you apes like with your coffee. The Dominican Por Larranaga has been my go-to coffee cigar for...

Was just reading a thread about Cigar Insider where El Gato called himself a "cigar information junkie." Yep, that's me too. I'm always surfing the net for cigar information, but his thread started me to wonder what all of you apes think about the cigar magazines ... CA, Smoke, Cigar Magazine...

I'm fishing for some ideas. I have about 100 bands from the different cigars I smoked during my first year of cigar smoking. I've pressed them fairly flat between the pages of a big book. I want to display them in a shadowbox or something and hang it on the wall in my den. I want it to...

I've been wandering around the jungle for about a month. I keep seeing everyone talk about their local cigar shop as a "B&M." What does the "B" and the "M' stand for? I'm kind of slow for my age.

The wife just told me that she loves short Beli's. Wish I was a Churchill.

I've been using Drymistat tubes in my humidor. Everyone seems to really like the Heartfelt beads. Other than the lower cost of the beads, do the beads have other advantages over the Drymistat tubes? Are they the same crystals in both? Do the beads control the rh better than Drymistat? This...

Sent a little welcome package from Illinois to a newbie in Texas. Mailed it first-class on March 14. I've been checking the tracking number and, now, 10 days later it has still not arrived. I called the customer service number to check on it. The little USPS bureaucrat told me that their...