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  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome bro
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • 84CJ7
    84CJ7 Posts: 372 ✭✭✭✭
    Welcome, it is s great forum.  You will get a lot more than you will give from this bunch.

    Mark
  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,206 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome to the forum Brandon @Odinson
    A little dirt never hurt
  • TNBigfoot68
    TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome @Odinson
    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • johnnyB
    johnnyB Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    welcome @Odinson
    Non Crux sed lux
  • wardamneagle
    wardamneagle Posts: 6 ✭
    Hi, I'm Rick from Greenville, SC.." the dirty south!". Brand new to the art of enjoying a cigar and most excited! In the past I have enjoyed some with friends and find I enjoy the smoother milder sweeter tasting cigars (Acid Blondie and the kuba kuba) any suggestions on some similar cigars would be greatly appreciated!

    PS: plan on enjoying them with wine and or a nice glass of crown. So something to compliment that would be great.  Thank you

    Thanks!
    Rick



  • 90+_Irishman
    90+_Irishman Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome to all the new members :)
    "When walking in open territory bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."
  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    wardamneagle said:
    Hi, I'm Rick from Greenville, SC.." the dirty south!". Brand new to the art of enjoying a cigar and most excited! In the past I have enjoyed some with friends and find I enjoy the smoother milder sweeter tasting cigars (Acid Blondie and the kuba kuba) any suggestions on some similar cigars would be greatly appreciated!

    PS: plan on enjoying them with wine and or a nice glass of crown. So something to compliment that would be great.  Thank you

    Thanks!
    Rick



    Auburn fan in South Carolina.... interesting
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • wardamneagle
    wardamneagle Posts: 6 ✭
    I grew up in Opelika Alabama...a mere minutes from Jordan hare stadium....would move back in a heartbeat...but I'm afraid I have gotten my wife as far south as I can get her...lol
  • ElJimbo
    ElJimbo Posts: 657 ✭✭✭
    Bruce, Brandon, Check, Rick, anyone I may have missed... Welcome, yo.

    Roll Tide!
    ¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado! -General Zapata
  • Albinfk
    Albinfk Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome 
  • Emcee
    Emcee Posts: 132 ✭✭✭
    Welcome to all the new guys.  The cast of regulars are a great group, and have been really informative, as well as entertaining.
  • Check
    Check Posts: 10 ✭
    wardamneagle said:
    Hi, I'm Rick from Greenville, SC.." the dirty south!". Brand new to the art of enjoying a cigar and most excited! In the past I have enjoyed some with friends and find I enjoy the smoother milder sweeter tasting cigars (Acid Blondie and the kuba kuba) any suggestions on some similar cigars would be greatly appreciated!

    PS: plan on enjoying them with wine and or a nice glass of crown. So something to compliment that would be great.  Thank you

    Thanks!
    Rick




    Rick,

    I'm in the same boat with the milder/sweeter side.  You likely have already noticed this, but you can sort the searches but flavor as well.  I'm still in the process of getting the humidor fine-tuned so my brand experience is very narrow.  I'll let the others jump in on that.

    Funny--in Iowa now, but would love to end up where you're from or where you're at.  Went through Auburn playing the RTJ Trail and just a beautiful area down there around Grand National.

  • Check
    Check Posts: 10 ✭

    OK, wondering here; how much of a drop in humidity can one expect when they put stick in the humidor (post seasoning)?  I would assume it would take a day or two for everything to balance out with the sticks getting up to 70s that the humidor has.  Out of curiosity I opened it and it ready 62%.  It just got me wondering.

  • Sketch6995
    Sketch6995 Posts: 4,495 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Check

    You do have some boveda packs or a xikar puck in it right?
    You need some kind of humidification device in it
    The higher.......the fewer.  ( Alexander Rozhenko)

     What you can't forgive......you will become.
  • Check
    Check Posts: 10 ✭
    edited February 2017
     Sketch6995 said:
    @Check

    You do have some boveda packs or a xikar puck in it right?
    You need some kind of humidification device in it

    I have the cigar.com (brown-nosing) gel jar.  Curiosity killed the cat and I checked again, and it's inching back up; 65% now.
  • Sketch6995
    Sketch6995 Posts: 4,495 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Check said:
     Sketch6995 said:
    @Check

    You do have some boveda packs or a xikar puck in it right?
    You need some kind of humidification device in it

    I have the cigar.com (brown-nosing) gel jar.  Curiosity killed the cat and I checked again, and it's inching back up; 65% now.
    Try out the other options, most of the guys like boveda packs.
    I like the xikar pucks filled with distilled water.
    Except for my 150 qt cooler, I use hydras in that, with fans to push the air around.
    The higher.......the fewer.  ( Alexander Rozhenko)

     What you can't forgive......you will become.
  • 90+_Irishman
    90+_Irishman Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Check said:
     Sketch6995 said:
    @Check

    You do have some boveda packs or a xikar puck in it right?
    You need some kind of humidification device in it

    I have the cigar.com (brown-nosing) gel jar.  Curiosity killed the cat and I checked again, and it's inching back up; 65% now.
    Everyone has their preference and your region, relative humidity where you live, temp and altitude all have an impact here but I personally prefer to keep my humis between 62-65% rH as I find they smoke better. No harm so long as it is 60% or above!

    Brett
    "When walking in open territory bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."
  • Check
    Check Posts: 10 ✭
    90+_Irishman said:
    Check said:
     Sketch6995 said:
    @Check

    You do have some boveda packs or a xikar puck in it right?
    You need some kind of humidification device in it

    I have the cigar.com (brown-nosing) gel jar.  Curiosity killed the cat and I checked again, and it's inching back up; 65% now.
    Everyone has their preference and your region, relative humidity where you live, temp and altitude all have an impact here but I personally prefer to keep my humis between 62-65% rH as I find they smoke better. No harm so long as it is 60% or above!

    Brett

    OK, thanks.  Thought I had seen 70 was preferred, but 60s shouldn't be a problem.  Since I'm asking, what's the preferred temp in your (and anyone else's) opinion?
  • 90+_Irishman
    90+_Irishman Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would personally say anything between 60-70 degrees... I have a wineador that keeps it around 58 degrees which slows aging a slight bit but nothing serious.
    "When walking in open territory bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,213 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Greetings to anyone new. The folks here have a combined wealth of knowledge that could fill a library. I have learned much. Wish I had stopped in and read prior to my first humidor purchase. Once seasoned your humidor may drop a bit when you add cigars, but the fuller it is the steadier your RH will stay at your desired level.
    Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5
  • Stormseason
    Stormseason Posts: 2 ✭
    Hello All! Greetings from Virginia! Been a somewhat casual enthusiast for a few years now, and I've perused your forums a time or 5 to gain insight. Figured it was about time to join the community. Thanks for all the great info you post, it helps us noob's enjoy the leaf as we grow to become true BOTL    
  • Sketch6995
    Sketch6995 Posts: 4,495 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Stormseason
    Welcome to the nuthouse.
    Learn to enjoy nachos, and reinforce mailboxes.
    The higher.......the fewer.  ( Alexander Rozhenko)

     What you can't forgive......you will become.
  • Guitarded
    Guitarded Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome to the forum @Stormseason. Some great people and lots of good information here. 
    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,481 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome to the forum, @Stormseason.
    Join us on Zoom vHerf (Meeting # 2619860114 Password vHerf2020 )
  • arch72
    arch72 Posts: 772 ✭✭✭✭
    Welcome to all the new people
  • TNBigfoot68
    TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome @Stormseason
    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • deadman
    deadman Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome
  • ElJimbo
    ElJimbo Posts: 657 ✭✭✭
    edited February 2017
    Came across this, thought I'd share. According to this, I'm 'sensible, fair-minded'. 

    Welcome @Stormseason.
    ¡Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado! -General Zapata
  • 90+_Irishman
    90+_Irishman Posts: 12,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    welcome!
    "When walking in open territory bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask them to stop. If they do not stop, destroy them."

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