A cigar you say. What is that? (aka Newbie Introduction)

**ibarney5** · 06-17-2009, 09:29 PM

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I'm going to be getting into traditional cigars(hopefully getting in on a newbie sampler), but at the moment, I am looking for a high quality small 30 minute or less cigar. I've been looking at the "Romeo Y Julieta Habana Reserve Pequenos or Amores. Anybody have any experience with those? Other suggestions are welcome. I was about to buy some Swisher's earlier this week until I found this site. Apparently, I dodged a bullet there. Thanks everyone.

**badwhale** · 06-17-2009, 09:34 PM

Originally Posted by ibarney5

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone. I'm going to be getting into traditional cigars(hopefully getting in on a newbie sampler), but at the moment, I am looking for a high quality small 30 minute or less cigar. I've been looking at the "Romeo Y Julieta Habana Reserve Pequenos or Amores. Anybody have any experience with those? Other suggestions are welcome. I was about to buy some Swisher's earlier this week until I found this site. Apparently, I dodged a bullet there. Thanks everyone.

Try:
ARTURO FUENTE HEMINGWAY Short Story
Ramone Allones Reserve, Corona Minor

Will

**TheRichLife** · 06-17-2009, 09:41 PM

Welcome from Kansas City!

**big bill** · 06-17-2009, 09:45 PM

Welcome from North Carolina.

**denver24** · 06-17-2009, 11:51 PM

Welcome from CO

**ashauler** · 06-18-2009, 08:04 AM

Welcome to the board.

**Galvanicfish** · 06-18-2009, 09:22 AM

Welcome to the board.

I would second the suggestion for the Fuente Short Story. You may also wish to try the Oliva Serie G Special G.

**golfermd** · 06-18-2009, 09:36 AM

Welcome aboard from MD. I'm not quite sure what a "traditional" cigar is. Do you want to start to with a light to medium body cigar (highly recommended)? Or are you the daring type ready to leap into something that'll blow your socks off?

**ibarney5** · 06-30-2009, 06:40 PM

Oh boy. What have I done here. I've enjoyed a few of the cigars from my Newbie Sampler. Really giving me a great idea as to what I am looking for. At the moment though, I have Humidor on the mind. I'm not asking for help because this is pretty straight-forward. I thought about a coolidor, but at the moment, I am no where near being able to fill one up. Nope, I am looking at a nice desktop/showpiece humidor. This one:

Humidor

Seems like an awesome deal. I don't know if I should trust the site reviews(bias), but the humidor looks good and I have heard some good things here about it. Probably will pull the trigger tonight. Something I am not sure about is the Humidor Solution. Is it needed or will pure distilled water do just as good? Anyways, another problem I have had is cutting my cigars, I don't have a proper cutter so I have had to use a razor. Decent, but next week, I am going to pick up a Palio cutter hopefully. I'm using a Ronson JetLite Lighter, no problems.

After all of that is set, I will begin to sample more and guide myself to full box purchases and what not. Thanks again everyone.

**kevin7** · 06-30-2009, 06:57 PM

Cuban Crafters are great humidors and Palio are great cutters. Ronsons are my everyday lighter.

**Roger** · 06-30-2009, 08:18 PM

Welcome to the boards from John Day Oregon! enjoy!

**Roger** · 06-30-2009, 08:28 PM

First, nice humidor you are getting. And by the way, I am a noob too. I just set up my coolidor today, have it seasoning now and calibrating my hydrometer. All I have is a humi bag with maybe 5 sticks in it. In my short time on the boards here I have noticed one thing, the cigars are always moving with box splits, contests, samplers and so on. I decided, even having very few sticks to start, that when I start collecting them, I was going to run out of room really fast. I was looking at getting a 100 stick humi. But then I thought that I can get a better price buying more sticks. Samplers, bundles, whatever. And after thinking about that I knew that it was not going to take very long to get it filled up. The other thing is that, the money that you put into for a good sized humi pales in comparison to price to room ratio on a coolidor set up. Welcome again and I hope you find as much enjoyment as i do with this board and with smoking cigars. Roger.