Puff Lifestyle - How to Get the Most Out of Your Cigar

[joncaputo]

Ok so you’ve just gone out and spent a heap of money on your first fine hand-rolled cigars. Now, even though you may not realize it, you’re a...

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[Cigary]

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[gjcab09]

Didn't work for me either.

[tzaddi]

[edogg]

Works for me. thanks

[Cigary]

Works now,,thx!

[clampdown]

Yawn

[madurolover]

Originally Posted by clampdown

Yawn

Thanks for the insight!

[K Baz]

I read this article as the title intrigued me...

However, I quickly realized I was hoping for more then the article was willing to give. I was looking for how to pick up tasting notes or how to pair the best beverage with a cigar to bring out subtle nuances - sadly, I found none of these things.

It brings me to my question - Who are these articles targeted at? I know they are posted on the forum as that is where I find them but are these targeted to the forum base or are we just lucky collateral damage?

The reason I ask is I would have to assume (perhaps wrongly) the vast majority of the forum members are, I would like to think, far past the basics of humidor maintenance and when to clip your cigar. I know when I first joined I stumbled in here because I was looking for these kind of answers but it takes about a week of reading or a couple days of Noob questions on the froum to become more advanced then these articles therefore, for the vast majority of us I would assume these articles while a nice read are not informative and do not hold our attention long and are not propelling our knowledge of the hobby.

I think, if the forum is the target or the majority of the audience we could use articles that are slightly more advanced and perhaps speak out of experience that we can not or have not been able to get ourselves.

For example and off the top of my head. Try using a dickman cut on a couple of cigars and compare tasting notes, talk about freezing and discuss any changes in flavour pre-freeze, post-freeze, and after it has been able to rest a month after freezing. Discuss vintage cigar prices how they inflate where the markets are for them who are buying. Talk about ziplock storage over time and how it affects storage and flavour and the aging process. Talk about the history and what clear havanas are and how they seem to be becoming more popular and how great they smoke despite the years of age and unknown storage or how terrible they are because of taste changes or the poor storage. Discuss cigar collectables. Discuss different historic cigar lines. Heck one of the most intresting things I read is a member profile interview done by another great forum member. Take it to the next level and showcase there collection and ask them about how long they have been collecting favour cigars take pics of where they smoke and there humis. Of course the interviewee could supply the pics. I would love to see where tazzadi and Mr Moo smoke I would love to see there humis and learn about them - they are intresting folks and it makes a good read.

My point is there tonnes of topics that can be interesting to new and advance cigar smokers alike - however, it takes more then just taking the old standards of don't cut your cigar 10 days before lighting. Go past the wiki cut and paste take it to dry boxing cutting and testing draw or not cutting it prior to lighting (forget the name for it) take the story to the next level if you feel you have to provide the basics. Or do the basics then illustrate the different methods for each type of cutter - punch, sisscor, xikar, palio etc. Show me how to correctly cut a torp or how you could punch a torp. Show me how to punsh a 60 RG monster effectively. Tell me how that punched torp turned out.

Now I could be off base because your key market might love these articles but as a forum member, I find them to be almost as exciting as a cello on or off conversation especially when the world of cigars has so much more to offer and explore. Especially true since you have the time, audience and money to explore great topics.

Or do crazy stuff that I would never do because I don't like to waste. Smoke a cigar backwards and tell me why it shouldn't be done. Smoke a cigar after you remove the wrapper and compare it to with the wrapper on. Cut a cigar in 2 then smoke each have compare it then compare it to the cigar when smoked whole.

Sorry I am so wordy today but its friday and also please don't take any of my ideas to seriously


*** Also if there is a next button plus make sure there is more article on the next page. I think when I read this one it has 1 of 3 pages but the other 2 pages are all filler no article. I makes me think I am missing something and seems like a waste.

[K Baz]

So now that I complained here is me trying to be more helpful.

Interview Bob Standell (sorry about the spelling if its wrong) he is a member here we love his work but I would like to know more about him, does he smoke, when he started building humis, how his biz started and anything else he would like to share. Hell I would love to see his humi (if he has one). This goes for alot of our other vendor friends Mark at cigarmony is a great vendor and a hell of a guy and cigar smoker too. Love to learn about him and Mark at heartfelt. Point is there are key people in the cigar world that I know of that I would love to know about.

Interview "known" members picture their collections, their humis, their journey in cigars, first/favorite smokes, best smoking experience these stories might be out there but there are fractured i.e. pic in the humi thread, story here or there. Do a profile - makes a good read and helps the community get tighter. Hats off to the persons profiles I read that started the idea at least as far as I know. I would love to see the humis and hear the stories of Tazzdi, Mr Moo, and a tonne of others

Talk about the secondary vintage market what drives secondary cigar sales look the monte millemium jar in 10 years the price has steadily risen. Explore cigars as an investment and what controls price. Compare it to the 99-00 sales of recent why did SLR As tank but the monte jar rise (answer obvious on that comparison but go with me). Can cigars out preform your stocks? What to look for if looking to invest in cigars? Plus this might help those looking to buy in the secodary markets figure out whats fair in a market that has little transparancy.

The Crazy Files. Sure I know not to cut a cigar in half and smoke it but what would happen if I did. Do a weird experiment that the majority of us would never do just to see what would happen. Each month do a new one. Or do a whole bunch at once mythbust the cigar myths. Smoke a cigar backwards, put a cigar down for 3 days and try to smoke it again find out what it tastes like, etc.

Please - I know my humi shouldn't be over 75 F tell me something new and intresting. Leave your humi at 80 and tell me when beetles appear. Hell throw in some dog rockets in a humi and show me what beetles do in 1 week 1 month etc. Show me the progression of beetle damage. Take a beetle and freeze the bugger tell me how long it takes for the bugger to die. Talk to an insect since guy and get the real scope on freezing.

The opions are endless but please please don't continue with basic 101 we can all google or wiki, or read answers.com or search this forum for. You have the money resources and audience to put out a fab product - use it. Give us material we want to book mark, reread, print and subscribe to.

Hope this is better then yawn.

Or ask us to submit ideas. I am sure we know what we want to read. Collect submissions narrow it down to 200 sort those by what you can get done in a month what will take more research what requires a longer time line and get to it.

[clampdown]

Originally Posted by madurolover

Thanks for the insight!

I think yawning is insight enough. What's the next article going to be about, how cigars are made with tobacco and that tobacco is a plant that grows from the ground.

[epyon26]

Originally Posted by clampdown

I think yawning is insight enough. What's the next article going to be about, how cigars are made with tobacco and that tobacco is a plant that grows from the ground.

I'm with him on this.