Recent content by Grinn

Good point. I personally couldn't say. I generally don't know the origin of the tobacco that I'm smoking... But I'm sure that they all don't. I posed this same question to a cigar shop owner yesterday and he pointed out that another factor to consider is the blender. If the company who makes...

You weren't unclear. I was just get nervous around boobies. You're saying that knowing the country in which a filler, wrapper, etc. was grown doesn't lend much to helping you determine if you'd like a cigar or not because it could be a different kind of tobacco, or a different % in the mix, or...

Yessir. Yesser it does. Almost as much as your original answer. Also, are you Charity Hodges? I always thought you were a chick.

That makes sense. So in your opinion, unless they're exactly the same combination, two cigars having a similar filler combination doesn't mean they will have a similar taste.

As an aspiring cigar afficionado, I was wondering about something. Oftentimes a single cigar will have a filler, binder and/or wrapper that comes from multiple countries. For example, the Don Lino Africa Kifaro's filler consists of tobacco from Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and...

Yes, that was precisely my thoughts. Although I smoke cigars daily, I wasn't sure what metrics to use for the search so thanks for that list. Can anyone suggest any other "absolutes" that we might want to add to that list? Also, I was considering letting the user optionally provide thumbs...

Wonderful input. Thank you. Pandora actually has teams of musicians, music students, and hard-core enthusiasts that record the attributes (that they confusingly call genres) of the music like instruments used, tempo, genres, vocal presence/types, etc. A lot of these are very formulaic (ex: a 3/4...

The idea actually is a site and/or mobile app where you can tell it what cigars you like and it will suggest similar cigars for you to try. As you try new cigars you "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" them and it learns what you do and don't like based on those votes... Much like how Pandora does with...

I ran into this forum post when I was looking to see if there was such an application. I'm actually a programmer and have the means to produce such a thing, but I'm not entirely sure if it's possible. See, although music (like cigar making) is an art-form, it does have certain absolute and...