Hoarding the art of the save

 

I accused my father of being a hoarder and I then realized I was one, but not so much of stuff but cigars. I am not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing to be, I do keep a rotating stock of cigars, but I have been known to stash a few away, in fact I had a handful of Padron 6000, smoked 3 and stashed the other 2 for over a year, I miss them, but I enjoyed smoking them. I had a friend give me 2 Sons of Anarchy cigars; I smoked one and hoarded the other, until this week that is.

I cannot be the only one out there are you a cigar hoarder or are you a smoke everything in the humidor and then resupply?

I was so bad at one point I bought extra humidors to separate stock so I would not smoke all my real expensive or favorite ones. I still have all the humidors and I still hoard cigars, but I am trying to encourage myself you smoke them, but it did train me to have very good humidor skills. The longest time I have stored a cigar has been 3 years, so it would seem I may need a 12 step program, but I know I will not be alone I know at least 3 Dead Ringers Cigar Club Members that may need to attend such as Cigar Boy, Ken and Whiskey Chris.

Hello my Name is Cigar Ash and I am a cigar hoarder . . . . Hello Cigar Ash

I think when it comes to cigars its ok to hoard, this is my official stance, so ladies and gents what do you have in your humidor? Let’s hear from you what did you hoard and for how long.

Happy Hoarding

~Cigar Ash~

It’s a Wrap (per)

The Not Ready for Premium Cigar smoking Players

Well CigarFest 2: Clash of the Stogies is a wrap. Hosted at the Smoking Troll Bar and Grill at a camp in the woods of Maine the Members of the Dead Ringers Cigar Club gathered for their annual cigar event, where they stuffed their faces and smoked many cigars, There was a cigar grab, and a cigar swap and a Whiskey tasting and a Longest ash competition, a grand time was had by all.

For me it started at 6:30 A.M. browning the chicken and getting the crackpots of food going, arranging tables and chairs, dusting off Chief Wooden head our Cigar Indian and mascot, gathering up the boxes of cigars for the swap and the bags for the grab bags. At Noon time the first person arrived and that is when it all started, the food, whiskey, wine and beer flowed like water and the ice tea was perfectly chilled. Instead of giving you a dull minute by minute rundown I will keep to the highlights.

The event was sponsored for the Dead Ringers Cigar Club By the following.

• The Smoking Troll Bar and Grill

• M&C Realist Consultants LLC

• The “IT” Department

• The B.B.E.

• The Sherburne & Sherburne Deck Construction Company

• Marchant Methane Corporation

• A. Looney Rescue Services

• The McLaughlin Snuggie Ninja Services

The menu was vast we had:

 Homemade hand cut French fries, chicken fingers, Chinese sausage, multiple cheese and cracker patters, cashews, Dips, Venison chili, Burritos, teriyaki wings, BBQ Chicken thighs, Rum Soaked Pineapple, 3 different salads and so many other things, too many to go on about

 The Cigar Roster for the swap was the following:

• Diesel Robusto 5.5 x 54

•  Gurkha Park Avenue Maduro

•  Arganese Maduro

•  Black Ops Maduro

•  Puros Indios Reserva Maxima 2003 - Maduro Toro

•  Carlos Torano Hogshead - Toro

•  5 Vegas Gold Robusto - Natural

•  Gurkha Master Selection Torpedo #2

•  Baccarat Rothschild Natural

•  5 Vegas Series 'A' Special Edition Animal

•  CAO Lx2 Robusto

•  Tabak Especial Cafe con Leche

• Bahia – Maduro - Toro

The Whiskey List was narrowed down to a small list, but in my mind perfect choices were made here.

• Crown Royal

• Crown Royal Black Label Reserve’

• Gentleman Jack by Jack Daniels

• Jameson Irish whiskey

• Jameson 12 year old Irish whiskey

• Cabin Fever

• Fireball Whisky

• Jameson Black Barrel Reserve’ Whiskey

The Winner of the Longest Ash contest was none other than the head of The B.B.E. Enterprises and Cigar Club member Paul “The Brain” Linscott Jr. He won hands down while smoking a 5 Vegas Series 'A' Special Edition Animal. All the other participants could not top his 3 and 1/8 inch long ash. Most dropped their ash due to laughing and eating and one lost it as he went to put it in the tray. Congratulations Paul!

Paul "The Brain" Linscott winner of the Longest Ash

The Longest Ash 3 1/8 inches

We doubled the number of attendees from last year from 8 people to 16, with 6 being women and gained two new members to the Cigar club. The event last year lasted 6 1/2 hours, this year is went 12 hours and 15 minutes from first guest arriving to the last two leaving at 12:15. There were over 40 cigars smoked in that period, 3 bottles of Whiskey emptied several others were almost emptied or half gone and we lost count of the number of beers consumed. There were also nine tongue scrapers and toothbrush sets given out that day as door prizes.

 The next morning several members got together and we used the leftovers to make a huge breakfast for whoever was hungry or interested in eating after the previous day’s events.

 We have got some great feedback from participants and some great ideas for next year’s event. I will have some reviews up in the next coming days/weeks on all the cigars we sampled at the event and I will try and get some of the members to give me their thought on them, but for now here are some of the highlights of CigarFest 2: Clash of the Stogies

 Thanks for reading and if you have questions or comments send them along to us here. See you next time ~Cigar Ash~

 
 

Thanks to all that made it a great time.

A Glossary on Cigar Construction

Because many have asked in the past and will in the future, here is a definitive look at Cigar construction.

Hand Made - Use long tobacco leaves as the filler which runs the length of the cigar. The Filler, binder and wrapper is combined manually.

Machine Made - Uses machinery to combine "short filler" with the binder and wrapper. Often Homogenized tobacco is use because of the tension caused from the machinery.

Hand Rolled - Machine combines the Long filler with the binder and then is hand rolled.

The Cigar Stop Team

The Cigar Stop Team consists of a group or regular guys that got the idea to help out other like minded fans of Cigars. We are not experts by any stretch of the imagination, but we have over 35 years of combined cigar experience and would like to pass that along to others and maybe learn a few more things ourselves.
On this Blog Page we will begin to introduce you to many of our team one blog at a time, at the moment we have 3 on the team and hope to get more of our team involved in one form or another.
Not everything on the site are going to technical stuff, some will reviews, what cigar is best when and there will be some top lists on Cigars and accessories, polls on a regular basis.
What we need from you is input in the form of comments, votes, questions to our team or content of your own if you would like to add your own cigar orientate blog to our site.
Remember be patient with us with us we are not experts, we only know what we like and what we would like to share, so that others do not makes some of the mistakes we have and that way it could save them a bad taste or an empty wallet.
Thank you for your time and enjoy your Cigars

The Cigar Stop Team