3 Minute Deep Dive: How to Prep Your Cigar Humidor for Autumn
With the days growing shorter, and the nights become crisp, it finally starts to feel like prime stogie smoking season once more. But with the shift from summer to autumn...
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Deep Dive: 5 Best Late Summer Cigars
Now that the summer heat has started to wain, it's time to examine what smokes have rocked this smoking season. The five cigars listed (and linked) below all have scored...
Cigars & Arid Climates: How to Fight the Dry
Desert living ain't for everyone, cigars included. All that dry, arid atmosphere is the last thing that humidity-dependent products produced entirely out of organic matter leaves need. Which is precisely...
Deep Dive: 5 Stupid Cigar Storage Myths Exposed
May they have been taken out of context, been true at one point but are no longer deemed relevant, or just flat-out false, the cesspool of silly cigar suggestions swirling about...
Deep Dive: Which Travel Humidor is Best for Me and My Cigars?
So the time has come to head out for a weekend adventure, and you have decided to bring a few select stogies along for the ride. But before you get...
Cigar Humidors Explained: The Significance of Spanish Cedar
Walking around, bragging that you've "got that good, thick wood" probably won't win you any personality contests. Hell, in certain states it might even get you arrested. But as a...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Barrel-Aged Cigars Explained
Some may call it a gimmicky selling point, or complete overkill, but barrel-aged cigars are really "firkin" fantastic. So what if they only provide but a sliver of the flavors...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Summer Humidity and Your Cigars
Summertime offers an ideal opportunity for stogie smokers to get outside and set fire to a premium cigar blend. But all of that lazy warm weather can quickly turn a...
5 Affordable Cigar Gifts for Dad
Sports team allegiances, political preferences, and upbringings aside, there is one thing that almost every dad has in common: They love good gear. That's why giving your father a gift...
5 Fantastic Full-Bodied After-Dinner Cigars
There's nothing quite like sitting back with a glass of the good stuff and a stogie after a fulfilling meal. Being that this is oftentimes the grand finale to the...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Barnyard Cigar Stank Explained
Stinky stogies. As cigar smokers, this isn't just a stigma that we must live with every day, but a reality that we must both recognize and respect. For the reason...
How to Select the Right Cigar Box for Turning Into a Humidor
Using a cigar box as a form of stogie storage seems as straightforward as it gets. Yet all too often we see people slapping their top-tier smokes into used cigar...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Tips & Tricks to Pairing Cigars With Alcohol
Pairing alcohol with a cigar is kind of like pairing food with booze. Knowing what ingredients you are working with, and the flavor profiles contained within each side of the...
How to Light a Cigar With a Strip of Cedar
When it comes to lighting a cigar, few methods can compare to a classic strip of Spanish cedar. Commonly referred to as a "cedar spill," these wafer-like scraps from the...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Cutting vs Punching Cigars Explained
In order to get smoke to pass through a premium long-filler cigar, a hole of some sort must first be made on the end of the cigar that is placed...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Cigar Caps Explained
Cutting or punching a cigar cap is kind of like performing a hit on an adversary or informant in prison. Make a sloppy mess of things, and grave consequences will...
3 Minute Deep Dive: The Natural Cigar Explained
There's a lot of confusion over the word "natural" in the cigar world. It's time to set the record straight, explain why this style of cigar isn't always all that light...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Top 5 Cigar Lighting Options Explained
There are five common ways of lighting a cigar, and each of these incendiary devices has its own pros and cons. So which one is right for you and your stogie?...
Cigar Types Explained: Shade-Grown vs. Sun-Grown
Outside of receiving direct sunlight, what makes shade and sun-grown tobacco so different from one another? Let's find out...
Large Ring Gauge Cigars Explained: Is Fatter Really Better?
Are cigars with large ring gauges just a fad? Or is there some purpose behind these portly tobacco products?
Maduro Cigars Explained: Why Dark Doesn't Always Equal Strong
Contrary to common misconception, darker maduro cigars aren't always strong. In fact, some of the silkiest smoking experiences you can have with a cigar are found within a rich maduro.
Cigar Spring Cleaning Explained
For us cigar smoking enthusiasts, there's a bit more to getting a humidor ready for spring stogie smoking season than just throwing some humidor solution at the situation and calling...
Cigar Tobacco Growing Regions Explained
There are only a select few spots on the globe where premium, long-filler cigar tobacco is grown. But the reason for this goes well beyond ideal growing conditions...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Habano Cigars Explained
Habano tobacco is virtually everywhere in cigars nowadays. Yet few cigar smokers know the purpose behind this hybrid plant's popularity...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Cigar Review Accuracy Explained
Thanks to the internet and social media, everybody's a critic nowadays. So as stogie smokers, how can we tell if a cigar review is accurate or not?
3 Minute Deep Dive: 5 of the Best Mild Cigars for Spring
In search of something light, refreshing, and flavorful to go with all of that gorgeous spring weather? Here are five stellar mellow cigars that will not dissapopint...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Cedar Cigar Tubes Explained
Cedar cigar tubes not only help make a stogie look attractive, but they add a few other perks that people rarely consider...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Cigar Armor Explained
Cigar protection starts at the factory. Here are five ways cigar makers are shielding our stogies.
3 Minute Deep Dive: Should You Age Your Cigars?
How long should you age a cigar? Our 3-minute overview will teach you all you need to know...
3 Minute Deep Dive: Sumatra Cigars Explained
Cigar tobacco sporting the Sumatra name typically tends to be a bit on the robust side. But there's way more to this hearty tobacco varietal than just a vibrant cigar...