Comments on: Your Questions, My Answers (YQMA) Episode 25

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The Stogie Review » Top Shelf Signature Select - Red Label — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:41:12 +0000

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By: JB

JB — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:59:07 +0000

Let me first thank you for addressing my question, and things have been getting better, a few good cigar experiences have helped more than anything. Also thanks for the Arganese sampler, I expect it to arrive tomorrow.
I was just thinking about the question with the humidity fluctuations. I think more beads may help resolve any issues he is having, as you mentioned you really can’t have too many beads. Especially since he just moved to a larger humidor. This along with not overwatering the beads when the RH drops should help. For the winter I am keeping way more beads than I need in each of my boxes and things are going well. When I see a 2-5% drop I add water until the beads are 80% clear and 20% white to avoid any oversaturation. Everything has been going steady RH wise for the last few months without any major issues, except for a screwed up hygrometer.
-JB

By: degarbie

degarbie — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:25:12 +0000

Good job guys – the missing segments don’t disrupt the flow all that much IMO. Once again, a very solid YQMA!

By: brianhewitt

brianhewitt — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:41:06 +0000

Sorry about the messed up video guys. It just figures, once I get my audio problem resolved, my video gets snarled up. *Sigh* Next time for sure.

James, my thoughts exactly. If and when Jerry’s ready, he’s got a home here at the Stogie Review. I’d even give him my much coveted Wednesday review slot if he wanted it! LOL!

By: James

James — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:24:25 +0000

great episode guys. its good to have some new faces around. here’s a question im sure many of us are interested in, how’s jerry doing and when is he going to come back and do a guest appearance?

Come back jerry!

By: Dave hanifan

Dave hanifan — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:03:47 +0000

I agree with Tom. I thought it was a good video and I think the video curruption was handled nicely with a slide stating this area was not here. Fflowed well.

I would like to add some clarification to my Stogie Review Cigar Sampler challenge.

My thoughts on providing a sampler to a new smoker is to create one that has a breadth of cigars from Mild to Full since their palate would not be understood yet. Also, in that line, it doesn’t make sense to steer a new smoker to $15-$30 cigars since they may find them repulsive depending on the palate they have. On this note, defining 12 cigars for $30 fixes a price limit below $3 a cigar and find those that run Mild to Full selecting different wrappers in a family to provide some flavor changes. This then is the challenge I look at it as defining a sampler that provids flavor and variety in a well rolled cigar, not large lame cigars that burn hot and are packed with air like I found when I was new and bought a Thomson Sampler.

That being said, an intermediate smoker is now to the point where maybe a few subtler cigars are appreciated and they tend to be more expensive so 12 for $50.

Back to the challenge, it’s up to Stogie Review to find cigars that meet the challenge On that note, I loved the answers. Wow, there must have been 15 or so cigars I’ve not even heard of rattled off. Impressive!!!! Now I have to look them up and try them out.

Great video.

Dave

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:08:49 +0000

Despite Brian’s video/audio corruption later in the episode, I enjoyed episode 25. Keep em coming!