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Jerry

“A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.”

- George Sand, 1867

Hi and thank you for checking out the Stogie Review. My name is Jerry and I’m from Germantown MD where I live with my wonderful wife and petit corona. I’ve been a cigar enthusiast since 1996. Over the years my profile has gone back and forth the flavor and body spectrum.

You can see My Humidor but my go to cigars? (cigars that my humidor is never without) not in any particular order:

Walt

“The cigar is a great resource. It is necessary to have traveled for a long time on a ship to understand that at least the cigar affords you the pleasure of smoking. It raises your spirits. Are you troubled by something? The cigar dissolves it. Are you subject to aches and pains (or bad temper)? The cigar will change your disposition. Are you harassed by unpleasant thoughts? Smoking a cigar puts one in a frame of mind to dispense with these. Do you ever feel a little faint from hunger? A cigar satisfies the yearning. If you are obsessed by sad thoughts, a cigar will take your mind off of them. Finally, don’t you sometimes have some unpleasant remembrance or consoling thought? A cigar will reinforce this. Sometimes they die out, and happy are those who do not need to relight too quickly. I hardly need to say anything more about the cigar, to which I dedicate this little eulogy for past services rendered.”
The Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, 1794

Hello, and thank you for visiting our little spot on the web. My name is Walt and I live in the Reading area of Pennsylvania.

I’ve been enjoying cigars for only a short time, early 2005.

I started smoking cigars due to a friend. He inherited several hundred cigars from an enthusiast and was not sure what he was going to do with them all. He offered me some cigars to try, at which point I immediately took a liking to them.

I currently smoke a wide array of cigars trying to fulfill my quest to find that one cigar that is a perfect fit for me. Its been a very interesting journey so far and I am pleased to share my experiences with anyone reading this little blurb.

Some of my most memorable cigars include:

Brian

“I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.”

- Winston Churchill

“If a man is to be known by the quality of the words he steals from other people, I can think of nobody better to quote than Sir Winston Churchill.”

- Me, about 5 seconds ago.

Hi everyone, I’m the latest edition to the cigar review staff at The Stogie Review. I’m an Oregonian that’s been transplanted into the rich cigar culture of Atlanta, GA. I’ve been smoking cigars since a buddy and I used to drive out to the Oregon coast in the middle of the night during college. (Back in 1997, give or take a year). I started reviewing cigars on my own blog (Brian’s Random Thoughts) in early 2007 and it quickly became an obsession. After getting some compromising pictures of the Stogie Review founders, I was welcomed aboard as a permanent reviewer here.

I don’t have a preference when it comes to body in a cigar, so long as the flavors are interesting and enjoyable. That and as long as it has a good draw. I’ve been smoking all sorts of cigars (even ACID’s occasionally), and have found that whatever is up for review usually determines what I’m smoking.

My current favorite smokes (as of 9/23/09):

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