I'm guessing there are a number of fly fishermen on here that have been at it way longer than me...I'm only about a year in and haven't fished anyplace other than local lakes, rivers, and Missouri trout parks. We'll be up in Estes Park for a week in early June, so I'm planning at least one...

Got an email from a vendor advertising boxes of Velvet Rats for $99. I remember several years back when I got into sampling through as many "new to me" NC's as possible. The Liga Unico stuff from DE was just beyond crazy as far as popularity and mega-$ resale value. I figured that bubble had to...

Oh thank god for this! I remember that day in Chicago like it was yesterday...I was in some random cigar shop near the Vic, a new cigar smoker looking for these new Opus X people were raving about. CA said they tasted like blueberries, so I had to try one. The salesman broke the news that they...

I'm looking to purchase a box of smokes to commemorate my 50th bday next month. Nothing too insane since I'm also purchasing a custom chef knife, but something a little different. Upmanns and RyJ's seem to be heaviest in my rotation, with the Mag54's and Wide Churchills being the stars of my...

Disclaimer- I know I'm going to be too lazy to even take an Uber over to Corona Cigar Sand Lake, so with that said: Going to be at Disney Port Orleans Riverside for a week next month for our first ever WDW experience as a surprise for our six year old daughter. I know, a European vacation...

Got a fiver of these when @CigSid offered them up and hadn't tried one until my birthday today, along with some of my Ethiopian blend home roast. I'm not someone to make something sound better than it was even though it's a once in a lifetime smoke for me. That said, this was a phenomenal cigar...

The original Lethal Weapon...."Was Dixie Home?" asked the little kid. Yeah, Dixie was home. Today was just like when Riggs and Mertaugh knew they were up against some bad guys, but even they were shocked by the magnitude of the devastation triggered by special ops, mercury switch demolition...

I did not realize how seriously people were taking the eclipse until two groups of my parent's friends planned trips to KC for the event. My house is well within the path of totality, and St. Joseph, Missouri is about 30min north and is dead center for maximum total eclipse minutes. It's going...

PSD6: "Guys, this is wild, I'm tiny but look at the $$$ I bring in!" HU Mag54: "LOL!" Cohiba Medio Siglo: "Hold my beer..."

Two things that inspire that pre-puke mouth watering rolled into one cigar.... Drew Estate just announced......wait for it.....Acid Candelas.....that is my personal double whammy. To each their own, I'm sure there will be fanboys galore waiting for them. It just combines 2 things I do not, will...

I’m admittedly not a wiz at the search function other than looking up “safari”, so I didn’t find much info specific to people’s experiences with these. I’m planning on buying a spot for next year when they go on sale to the general public around Memorial Day, and just wanted to know if anyone...

My first experiences with Trinidads date back to the late 90’s when I’d buy Fundadores for $20 each (cash only) at a lower Manhattan cigar shop. The owner had an old school bank safe in the back where he housed about fifty or so boxes of Cubans, and the rule was…$20 apiece for whatever you...

BUT this is pretty cool... Last year I started doing reviews for the website Cigar Jedi. All reviews are blind, which is pretty humbling, but that's a whole different story. The webmaster is a really nice guy to work with, and at the beginning of the year he got the editor in chief position...

If I still drank, I like to think Stone Cold and I would have the exact same thoughts on these drinks........ Stone Cold Steve Austin trying fancy cocktails for the first time.....this made the internet for me this morning...

A good friend of mine got back from Cuba a couple of months ago; he's a distiller/bar owner/renowned "mixologist" from here in KC and went down for an in-depth tour of rum processing. He isn't a huge cigar guy, but also definitely isn't someone who would be taken in by glass top boxes of...

  I got a single Last Tsar (5 ½ x 52) in a sampler from Cigarpimp.com.  I’ve really enjoyed buying stuff from them, it’s a good place to get singles and samplers…this smoke was in a sampler that included all of the new offerings from Caldwell and they threw in a pre-release Blind Man’s Bluff...

Flying solo on my day off, so with a rare 70 degree July afternoon, I pulled out a Roma Craft Aquitaine Knuckle Dragger (4x52) from a recent box purchase. I've been running my yap about RC for weeks, so I can at least give some more detailed input as to why these have been so heavy in the...

She'll never know, but I have to share it somewhere that isn't as public as Facebook.....I trust many of you will relate to this.  She hates bugs, especially spiders. But she is beyond terrified of snakes...a plastic snake prank would be grounds for divorce, seriously.  We dropped the kid at...

I am not a Power Ranger before breakfast kind of smoker, but getting a point of reference for "strength" from a brand new smoker can be entertaining. I have a friend who is a popular and talented local bartender, and recently he's been getting into cigars while he does some consultation with a...

  A beautiful sunny 80 degree day here in Kansas City, with humidity at about 250 percent after major rainstorms and flash flooding across town last night.  Normally I would accept my wife’s offer to take off for a couple of hours and go up to Outlaw, but I’ve been meaning to give this good...