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GrouchoM
GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
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Hi guys,

I'm new to the cigar forum and wanted to say hi.  My name is GrouchoM and I'm from Texas. I've been smoking cigars for 3 mths and have a small tupidor of sticks.  As a new cigar smoker, I'm still figuring out what I like palate-wise.  I started wit Factory throwouts because they were inexpensive and have worked up recently to C&C toro maduro (which have a lot of flavor).  I'm an unemployed student who was introduce to cigars by a buddy, but only got serious recently after having one on New Year.  The brands I've smoked so far are nothing to write home about: Brioso, Bacarract, Sancho Panza, National, Cuban Seed, Casa de Bella and Punch.

Look forward to learning more about cigars and meeting more cigar lovers.

-G
The secret word is cigars! 
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  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    Cigars I've smoked so far
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • jlmarta
    jlmarta Posts: 7,880 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome to the forum, @GrouchoM. Hope you stick around and get to know a bunch of us. You'll learn a lot about cigars and generosity. Better start thinking about a larger humidor or a coolidor....  B)
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    thanks for the kind greeting. but, why would I need a large humidor or what was it coolidor?
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • WaterNerd
    WaterNerd Posts: 3,376 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome to the forum and make sure you search the forum. Lots and lots of info on here. Also make sure you subscribe to the newsletter that several of our members send out. Lots of great info on it there :)

    Welcome and enjoy!
    Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt
    — Abraham Lincoln


  • jarubla
    jarubla Posts: 2,329 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome @GrouchoM
    “There’ll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read ’em but all that’s gonna matter is that little dash between ’em.” -Kevin Welch
  • Guitarded
    Guitarded Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome to the forum groucho. Great group of people.  Stick around, ask questions, lots of good info here.
    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
  • kswildcat
    kswildcat Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome aboard... Great group of guys hang around this place. 
  • genareddog
    genareddog Posts: 4,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome and strap in
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    @genareddog the secret phrase is "bring it!" Ha ha!
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    @jlmarta Thanks for the warm greeting. I plan on being her a while and contributing to tbe mutual generosity, as well as being open-minded to learning more about cigars. Sadly, my humi is a tupidor so far (see photo) but from acorns mighty oaks grow...baby steps.
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    @WaterNerd
    Thanks, will do. Please keep the good advice comming.
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    Thanks guys @jarubla @Guitarded @kswildcat
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • bert873
    bert873 Posts: 2,561 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome! This place is a lot of fun and very informative. Many of us were in the same boat as you when we first got into cigars. With still being a student I would definitely research coolidors as they are the cheapest way to store more cigars. 
  • ChazMN
    ChazMN Posts: 53 ✭✭
    Welcome!  I also joined the forum when i got serious about cigars but didn't know squat. lol  The people here have been spot on with anything I needed or wanted to know. Great group of people, you won't find a nicer bunch!
  • Big''nBall''n
    Big''nBall''n Posts: 767 ✭✭✭✭
    Good morning! and welcome to a great place! 

    The Names Ball'n.... Big'nBall'n! 
  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome Tex. What cigar influenced you on new year's eve?  How much were you drinking? And describe what you liked about it. This might give us old newbies an idea of what to recommend you try next. 
  • johnnyB
    johnnyB Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome to the forum,stick around and glean all the great info from all the old timmers on here.lots of great people on this forum.
    Non Crux sed lux
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2016
    Thanks @Bob_Luken Great questions. Let me see, I had just been released from Folsom prison, dressed in all black and had my trusty guitar. I was naturally celebrating and was smoking a Factory Throwout #99 with Johnny Walker black label and ginger ale.

    I liked the size (a churchill I think) and that as a Connecticut it was a uncomplicated smoke (but very interested in maduros now). I had 3 glasses of JWB. Enjoyed the calmness, time to myself looking up at the stars (80% of my smoking done at night outside, w 50% having a adult beverage). I enjoyed the thick smoke plumes and the long filler not causing it to be a quick smoke. I enjoyed it paired ok w alcohol. I also enjoyed the price ($1.49 @ my B&M). The smell was uncomplicated and the flavors while nothing to write home about was good for a newbie palate. Can't say much else since it was just three mths ago, but I hope I answered your question.
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    @Wylaff @ChazMN @Big"nBall"n
    Happy to be aboard.
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    edited March 2016
    @Puff_Dougie @bert873

    Youre the 2nd & 3rd persons to mentioned the cooler thing. Someone sent my buddy a photo of a cooler that he picked up at Target on sale. My buddy replied all "I see is an empty cooler". Puzzled, he said I should look into it, but never explained. I'm confused since I'm rocking a sandwich sized tupidor currently. What gives?  Am I missing the joke or something? 
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • Wylaff
    Wylaff Posts: 5,483 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It doesn't take long for CAS to set it. 
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    CAS?
    The secret word is cigars! 
  • johnnyB
    johnnyB Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's the damndest thing 
    Non Crux sed lux
  • genareddog
    genareddog Posts: 4,440 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you don't have CAS now you will soon. Forget the humidor and just buy a cooler. Best and cheapest humi you will find. You might ask @puff_dougie to show some of his pictures of his coolidor?
  • Puff_Dougie
    Puff_Dougie Posts: 4,599 ✭✭✭✭✭
    genareddog said:
    If you don't have CAS now you will soon. Forget the humidor and just buy a cooler. Best and cheapest humi you will find. You might ask @puff_dougie to show some of his pictures of his coolidor?
    Funny man! Hahahaa!
    "When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm, refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  • danielzreyes
    danielzreyes Posts: 8,774 ✭✭✭✭✭
    GrouchoM said:
     but, why would I need a large humidor 
    It's called the Shizz effect. 
    "It's plume, bro. Nothing to worry about. Got any Opus?" The suppose to be DZR
  • GrouchoM
    GrouchoM Posts: 302 ✭✭✭
    @peter4jc
    Got it,  ha ha! I smoke about every other day, even with $2 and under smokes (no budget for $4 and under or $4 and above so far).

    Not married,  but understood. Say, can you possibly show me an example of what you mean? It appears the mob has gently requested I ask. 
    The secret word is cigars! 

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