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I'm new. Here's some vitals:

Name: Michael Gipson

Location: Moreno Valley, CA

Occupation: HS Teacher / HS FB Coach

Age: 33

DOB: 07/11/1970

Status: Married (9 years) 4 sons (16, 14, 8, 4)

Hobbies: Golf (fighting to maintain a bogie handicap - consistantly shoot sub 95), Coaching HS FB (although I get paid it is still a hobby), enjoying a quiet evening with the wife, College Football games (live and TV), Spending time with my kids, and enjoying a good smoke either socially (2-3 times a month) or in private (2-3 times a week.

Smokes:
(premium bands)
La Gloria Cubana Wavell (Natural)
Cohiba (Red Dot) Robusto
Hamilton's H. Upmann George II
Just a few to start.........
(everyday smokes-bundles)
cigar.com - Blue (Honduran Blend - Connecticut Shade Wrapper)
cigar.com - Purple (Dominican Blend - Connecticut Shade Wrapper)
cigar.com - Robusto rejects - Natural
cigar.com - Red (Dominican Blend - Maduro Wrapper) mostly my hand-out smokes
cigar.com - Churchill rejects (other handout smokes)
(cigar.com's rejects are great smokes and are about $1 a stick!)

I have some Maduros that are beautiful to look at, but I just haven't come around yet. I'll put them in a tubo and 'marinate' them before I try to smoke 'em. they are a little easier on the palate this way. I do like the cameroon wrapper, but also have to marinate them. I've had a few real Cubans (Montecristo, Cohiba, Partagas Serie D #4, and Hoyo de Monterrey). These were supplied by my brother-in-law that has business in Toronto and Montreal all of the time. Good full-bodied smokes, but a little too much (flavor and $$) to be regulars for me.

I have a couple of desktop humidors, but the mother ship is a glass-fronted wine refrigerator that has the thermostat off. It could hold about 20 boxes, but I don't have that much in it. I have a couple unopened boxes of La Gloria Cubana-Wavell and Cohiba Red Dots-Robusto. I collect other wood boxes and have the rest of the cigar.com <color> and rejects in those. I even have a few flavored ones in tubos in there for my wife.

Well, maybe that's enough to get started.

Thanks for listening,

M. Gipson
 
Welcome aboard Michael :D

I think you might like it here. :thumbs:

Could you clarify
I'll put them in a tubo and 'marinate' them before I try to smoke 'em
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for me, I don't understand that part. ???
 
welcome, you'll love it here!!

also, you might want to be carfeul of keeping your "flavoreed" stogies in with your "normal" ones ;)

peace,
Mike
 
PuroBrat,

I've got a 'marinating' humidor that I rub down with a heavy dose of Gran Marnier every time I do it. It's got a cedar divider and on one side go the maduros and cameroons (and anything else for that matter) and on the other goes a secretary's finger tip blotter (basically a shallow plastic tub with a synthetic sponge in it) 1/2 full of gran marnier. They sit about 2 days, I refill the blotter about 1/4 full and then another 3-4 days they go into the original cellos and into one of the 'special' desktop humidors. They do not turn out too sweet, but the wrapper is smoothed out. I'm a mild to medium guy and anything stronger is a little out of my league. An old guy showed me this trick when I first started. He used Jim Beam, but the concept is consistant. Gran Marnier is about the 'thickest' I would go because of evaporation (anything thicker and you're left with a sticky smoke).

I know guys who roll them, dunk them, spray them, and whatever else, but I like the hint of Gran Marnier and my wife enjoys the experience that much more (and those rejects taste like a $10 smoke too!).

I went back and read my original post (the one you quoted), and I made a mistake. The marinating is not done in a tubo, it's done in an old humidor. Sorry for the type-o

M. Gipson :)
 
Cool!!

That actually sounds about the same as a discussion we once had here about "Infusing" cigars with spirits. I use that method from time to time to "marinate"cigars with Coffee!

makes an otherwise Smokeable cigar even more of a pleasure to smoke! :D
 
Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll try to keep the standard. The last thing anyone needs is the bar to be lowered any more than it already is!

M. Gipson :)
 
gawntrail said:
Thanks for the warm welcome. I'll try to keep the standard. The last thing anyone needs is the bar to be lowered any more than it already is!

M. Gipson :)
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Anyway... welcome.
 
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