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Ben’s Cigars of the Year 2011
This was a great year for cigar lovers. So many great new cigars were released as line extensions, new lines or limited releases. Every year it gets hard to try to come up with a list of the top cigars of the year. This year, I’m doing it a little different. I chose my cigar [...]
Win a trip to Austin, TX and a Limited Edition box of Cromagnon Cigars from Cromagnon Cigars
Editor’s Note – Skip Martin and Mike Rosales of Adrian’s Cigars are running a contest to celebrate the release of the Cromagnon cigar in is full cube box release. Below are the details of how to enter: CroMagnon Culture Contest CroMagnon Transcends Lifestyle. CroMagnon is Our Culture. Prize (1): 2 Days in Austin, Texas (The [...]
Upcoming C4 Cigar Club’s Atlanta Christmas Herf
The C4 Cigar Club is a cigar club based in Cobb County, GA, a Northern Atlanta suburb. We get our name from our location, Cobb County Cigar Club, or C4. We have various events throughout the year to support our local B&M’s and to get great brothers and sisters of the leaf together for [...]
First Responders Herf sponsored by General Cigar
As many of you know, I was invited to go to the Dominican Republic to visit General Cigar's Dominican operations. While there, I was talking to our coordinator, Victoria McKee Jaworski, about and idea I had about doing a herf for our first responders (police, firefighters, EMTs, nurses, etc) that give all they can to [...]
Sometimes I Just Want an El Cheapo
There are a handful of cigars that are priced between $10 and $20 that I would love to smoke everyday and even more in the $7-10 range that I would smoke just as much. Even though most of the cigars I smoke fall into the second category it’s a third category, the $3-5 cigar, that [...]
Proper way to roll a cigar
Thank you to the beautiful torcedor that tried to teach me how to roll a cigar. This is a video of her rolling a cigar the proper way.
Cigar rolling attempt, take 2!
Here is my second, but not any better, attempt at rolling a cigar at General Cigar with my own blend. Thanks to Barry Stein from A Cigar Smoker for helping me record this video.
Cigar rolling attempt 1
Here is my first attempt at rolling a cigar at General Cigar with my own blend. Thanks to David Jones from The Tiki Bar Online for helping me record this video.
Bad way to bunch and bind a cigar
My horrible attempt at bunching and binding a cigar at General Cigar using my own blend I developed on site.
Proper Bunching Technique for a cigar at General Cigar
One of General Cigar torcedors shows me how to proper bunch and bind a cigar before putting them in the press.