Recent content by Ralph

My backyard oasis and my happy place. The patio, retaining wall and fire pit were all built with my own hands.

In CT, there is a price floor on all booze, so Costco price's are in line with the big box stores like Total Wine. Every now and then you find a unicorn like a few months ago they had Lagavulin Offerman Edition Caribbean Cask for $59. A friend who owns a liquor store in Jersey said he couldn't...

This is fantastic. I live just west of Hartford and will keep an eye open for future events. Thanks for sharing.

That’s a solid haul! Quality as well as quantity. I was looking at the haul from one of the other recent festivals on Reddit and was very underwhelmed. Looked like stuff manufacturers found on an old shelf. I gotta get up to this place.

I see what you did there.

Box arrived today. Pictured with my 1990 baseball jersey. Sometimes a cigar just has your name on it. 😂

You do someone a low effort solid and he comes back swinging from the heels! @Pugman1943 not only overpaid for the bottle of Scotch that I was able to procure for him, he loaded up a travel humidor chock full of some ridiculous smokes! I won’t even get into the “surprise” that was included...

Nice! I’ve had a Bones lightning finish on my radar for some time.

Tough spot indeed. I had a good friend get really pissed at me when I delicately questioned the authenticity of a couple boxes of cigars he was given by a vendor. I couldn't count how many things were wrong. The bands had the wrong fonts, wrong colors, no embossing where there should have...

I made it back to Peretti’s over Labor Day weekend. I was hoping to pick up a Dracula Spigot 701 or 150. They had three or four in the line but not those shapes so I picked up this Peretti House Brand pipe. My daughter spotted it and said it gave her “Darth Maul vibes” and that one me over. In...

LMAO! I was sweating bullets all week! Glad it made it! Enjoy brother!

Unfortunately, the imperial pilsner is long gone. I think 2008 was the last year.

Port and cigars are an amazing pairing. When you are ready to step up from Sandeman, try Warre's Otima 10 year-old Tawny. It's a little more expensive (about $25 for a 500 ML bottle) but it's a wonderful and widely available port.

The Sam Octoberfest in the early-to-mid '90s was one of my most favorite beers of all time. It was dumbed down not long after to appeal to the masses and hasn't appealed to me since. I'm wondering if the Flannel Fest Dunkel may be similar to that old recipe. I may have to give this a shot. I...

Ferio Tego Elegancia. Unbelievable smoke. Medium-full bodied and complex smoke with a Connecticut Wrapper. I didn't know "complex" and "Connecticut" could exist in the same sentence unless you were talking about taxes.