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The Cigar Page
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| BACK to The Beer Journals |
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| Of course with a website dedicated to the greatest pleasures in life, we must include a page or more focused on cigars. My wife Magda and I both enjoy fine cigars, and like our beer adventures, we will travel a great distance to experience a great cigar. This page will be filled with information about the cigars that we enjoy.
We live in St Petersburg Florida, just across Tampa Bay from the famous Cigar City of Tampa. This gives us great exposure to the cigar industry and some great cigars.
Our local shop is St Pete Cigar
If you visit St Pete Cigar, tell Ed Nazarre that Dean Palmer sent you down!
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Tom's Cigars |
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A good friend of ours, Tom Adcock, has a great site where he reviews cigars in a frank and honest manner. He does this at times with the help of other local aficionados. Check it out! These reviews are both in text and video, and are very well produced.
Tom Adcock's Cigar Review Site
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| El Titan De Bronze |
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| One of Little Havana's True Treasures! |
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| On a recent trip to my favorite city and second home, Miami Florida, we stopped by a legendary cigar factory and store called El Titan De Bronze, located on Calle Ocho in Little Havana. It is owned and operated by Don Carlos and his family. The picture to the left is my wife Magda with Don Carlos in the cigar aging room. No cigar leaves the shop without proper aging, and each one is a unique handmade creation.
Don Carlos was a great host and took us through his entire shop from where the cigar rollers actually make each cigar in the front room, to the back rooms where they age each cigar, and the bulk tobacco stockroom. Temperature and humidity is of course under tight control in every part of the process. Don Carlos and his wife talked to us about the cigar styles they offer and the differences in each one. We could have spent hours there with them talking about cigars!
We could not have asked for a better experience on this trip to Miami as Don Carlos is a true treasure of the community!
Thanks Don Carlos! We will see you again many times!
www.ElTitanDeBronze.com
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| This is a picture of one of the racks in the bulk tobacco room. |
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Don Carlos shows us the various types of tobacco that is used at El Titan De Bronze |
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| We bought a variety of cigars from Don Carlos, and the first one that we enjoyed was the El Titan De Bronze Robusto with a Conneticut wrapper. It was a very firm cigar with a very nice appearance, and excellent construction. It burned very evenly throughout the entire smoke, and the flavor was consistent and light as expected from a premium hand-rolled cigar of this type. I would recommend this to anyone, and I will be ordering more in the future.
El Titan De Bronze offers excellent prices and sells their cigars without a box if you desire, and passes the savings along to you. They are truly dedicated to creating a great cigar, and have built a great reputation worldwide. Their cigar rollers are in demand for event and special ocassions, and are hired to roll cigars at private celebrity events. Pictures on the wall of the shop show the many celebrities that love their cigars.
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| www.ElTitanDeBronze.com |
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| El Titan De Bronze Gran Reserva Robusto |
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| La Herencia Cubana with a Maduro wrapper |
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Recent Smokes |
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Dean smoking a Cuban Cohiba in La Bodegita Del Medio, a Cuban bar in Guadalajara Mexico. It's about as close to being in a free Cuba as we can get!
Magda enjoying a Flavours by CAO "Eileen's Dream", sampling a fine cigar from El Titan De Bronze, and drinking an excellent homebrew. She is a great multi-tasker!
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| "WOW, this La Herencia Cubana is a really great cigar! And this homebrew isn't bad either!" |
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| St Pete Pipe & Cigar
Stogie Review
Tom Adcock's Cigar Review Site
El Rey de los Habanos (Don Pepin Garcia, Tatuaje)
Cigar Aficionado
Xikar (cutters and lighters)
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| This is our small humidor with the Cigar Oasis humidifier and redundant hygrometer to ensure that our stogies are kept at the proper humidity. |
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Here are both humidors together. The big one can hold ~150 sticks up top, and about 16 boxes in the cabinet below. It also has an electronic humidifier for the top section, and four passive humidifiers for the bottom
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