Cigar for a guest ?

[BHK54]

Whenever you have some pals or just guests coming over, what cigars do you offer them? Do you have some special brand you keep around for them or do you let them pick from whatever you have?

[Emjaysmash]

If they are normal cigar smokers I let them pick, if they are novices I usually grab whater nice mild cigar I have on hand.

[SteveH]

:tpd:

[T.G]

Guantanameras. That'll teach them to show up empty handed.

[LasciviousXXX]

I have an entire side of a drawer filled with unbanded NC's ranging from med quality to decent quality. There's probably about 30 or 40 in there. They are reserved for guests that either don't smoke cigars and want to try one or for the neophytes to the cigar world. Good enough quality that they will hopefully get them hooked, but not expensive enough that I will be sad when they pitch it after 10 mins :tu

For my friends, they are entitled to any cigar in my Cabinet granted its not being reserved for a special occasion.

[Bill86]

Guantanameras. That'll teach them to show up empty handed.

:r

Eh Usually a CC robusto. Maybe a PSD4, Boli RC or RyJ SC. They are only about $6-$7 a piece and I won't be too angry if they pitch them. Of course too angry is relative to the person in question :D

[Skywalker]

If they are normal cigar smokers I let them pick, if they are novices I usually grab whater nice mild cigar I have on hand.

:tpd:

[OLS]

Ha, who would ever visit me?? That's like saying, "Which Tyrannosaurus Rex repellent do you think works best"?

If I DID have cigar smoking friends coming over, like the rest said, there is nothing that is off limits to a true
aficionado. A person who says, "Ohh neat...cigars! I always wanted to try one of those.", they get either a
RyJ tubo or a Punch Royal Selection No.12. Maybe a Sancho Bachilleres or even a Los Statos Deluxe Delirios.

DAMMIT!! I went over 4000 posts and didn't notice it.

[N2 GOLD]

If they are normal cigar smokers I let them pick, if they are novices I usually grab whater nice mild cigar I have on hand.

Agree... :tu

[VACigarSmoker]

A true friend is welcome to anything i have.

[Polkaroo]

I gave a true friend a 40 dollar Montecristo for his new years celebration. He took a couple puffs and said he didn't like it. It's a good thing he's a good friend though cause when mine was done I clipped all signs of him of his and smoked that one too.

[massphatness]

My friends are welcome to anything in my humidor, but I make a distinction between friends and acquaintances.

[LasciviousXXX]

My friends are welcome to anything in my humidor, but I make a distinction between friends and acquaintances.

QFT

[icehog3]

If I like you, you can have the pick of the litter.

If not, you get a Gurkha.

[Volusianator]

Certain friends of mine are welcome to take ANY cigar they want out of my humidor, others, I select a handful they can choose from.

[maninblack]

All my friends are novice smokers at best but I usually let them try some good ones now and then.

[mariogolbee]

Nobody really gets near my humi just because I'm very select as to who comes by my home. Of those whom I smoke with that aren't regular smokers I usually pick a few pairs of cigars that I am willing to smoke myself, they probably won't take offense to, and won't break the bank. I let them pick from those pairs and we both can share the experience they choose. As for my BOTL, only a few have come by to smoke and they have brought their own sticks. When I am out I have let my brothers shuffle through my little 40ish count humi and they can pick what they want as long as it hasn't been gifted to me or is an intended gift for another that night. When my blood brother comes by I pick several pairs of strong cigars usually since he smokes a lot and the strong stuff works best for him.

[kelmac07]

All my friends are novice smokers at best but I usually let them try some good ones now and then.

I'm coming over to get one of those Man O War Maduros!!! :D

Friends...vinos are open!! Acquaintances...I have a "stash" for them as well.

[Louistogies]

If I like you, you can have the pick of the litter.

If not, you get a Gurkha.

ROLF!:r

[hotreds]

In fact, it does depend on who the guest is and his predilection for cigars.

[Aero95]

If they are good friends then anything I have. If not its usually some Cuesta Rey sungrowns that I have that I don't smoke anymore.

[nofeardiver]

A fumas...LOL, no just kidding, i do like that cigar though for being a cheapy... No i am with the others if they are a regular cigar smoker then i will show them what i have, no i have a top drawer that is only mine, i dont mean to be selfish but they are more collectibles, or limited or cc (which i have like 6 cc total so no lol)... if they are inexperienced then i will offer something mild...

[DBall]

It's pretty much open humidor at my house, although I'll steer it based on what they like and such. Most people who are newer to cigars are just stoked that they are smoking a cuban cigar so they usually don't care. :)

[Tyler]

I used to just let them have free reign but for some reason the inexperienced smokers know enough to take my nicest crap lol. I am thinking of turning my traveldor into a friendador when I am not actually traveling. I will just put a bunch of mid range smokes in it and they can choose from there. I am tired of them choosing $15-$20 smokes and only smoking a fourth.

[Aero95]

I used to just let them have free reign but for some reason the inexperienced smokers know enough to take my nicest crap lol. I am thinking of turning my traveldor into a friendador when I am not actually traveling. I will just put a bunch of mid range smokes in it and they can choose from there. I am tired of them choosing $15-$20 smokes and only smoking a fourth.

Yeah I had a friend grab a loose Cohiba Esplendido and 20 min into it he smashed it in the ash tray and said it was to much for him :mad:

[Bill86]

If I like you, you can have the pick of the litter.

If not, you get a Gurkha.

:r No in between eh?

Yeah I had a friend grab a loose Cohiba Esplendido and 20 min into it he smashed it in the ash tray and said it was to much for him :mad:

Brutal, IMO that's pretty disrespectful.

[Subvet642]

Guantanameras. That'll teach them to show up empty handed.

http://image1.masterfile.com/getImage/NjAwLTAwOTgzMDU0bi4wMDAwMDAwMA=AGnBKX/600-00983054n.jpg

:lr

[Subvet642]

Yeah I had a friend grab a loose Cohiba Esplendido and 20 min into it he smashed it in the ash tray and said it was to much for him :mad:

Next time give him a Backwoods Grape.

[Starscream]

A fumas...LOL, no just kidding, i do like that cigar though for being a cheapy... No i am with the others if they are a regular cigar smoker then i will show them what i have, no i have a top drawer that is only mine, i dont mean to be selfish but they are more collectibles, or limited or cc (which i have like 6 cc total so no lol)... if they are inexperienced then i will offer something mild...

Nothing selfish about that. Some sticks are for special occasions or can be a bit personal.

[hscmit]

I keep a 100 ct humidor for house guests so they can have free reign over their pick. Most of our friends arent regular smokers and its a novelty for them. However when any of my friend come over they can have whatever they want out of any humi

[nofeardiver]

Nothing selfish about that. Some sticks are for special occasions or can be a bit personal.

yeah for instance i have so that were hand rolled for me at events special blends and etc, and i have some that were given to me for my son's birth, i have some like the my father limited from 2010 that DG and JG rolled togeather, now way in heck someone will get those... Then i have some nice high dollar cc that i have been bombed with, i have a buddy who smokes with me a lot, he has had a couple cc but he tells me he cant tell a difference, so he cant have my cc....LOL

[VACigarSmoker]

Yeah I had a friend grab a loose Cohiba Esplendido and 20 min into it he smashed it in the ash tray and said it was to much for him :mad:

That should be a crime... :c

[OLS]

I keep a 100 ct humidor for house guests so they can have free reign over their pick.

That's really the best plan. If you are keeping track of 3 ice chests and 4 humidors, what's one more?
Just a small humi full of nice-but-not-too-nice sticks that will never raise so much as a tear in the eye
when they invariably, as one said before, get smashed out like they were a cigarette or something, lol.
If you do it right, they think that's your humidor. 'WOW, you're letting me dabble in your personal
stash, lol.' (No, my personal stash is inaccessible at the present time, hahahaha.)

[Mugen910]

The crappiest cigar you/I can find..

*this is prob why I have no friends.

[LasciviousXXX]

The crappiest cigar you/I can find..

*this is prob why I have no friends.

I'm not your friend............... anymore ;)
read this while looking at my avatar lol

[pektel]

Certain friends of mine are welcome to take ANY cigar they want out of my humidor, others, I select a handful they can choose from.

All my friends are novice smokers at best but I usually let them try some good ones now and then.

This. Or whould I say "these." 99% of my friends don't smoke cigars. A very good friend whom I am starting to reconnect with after a 6 year hiatus was up a couple weeks ago. We started with a new PSD4 to share. The next day, we had a couple LGC MdO3's from 2000. Later that night, I gave him a 98 Punch Corona. He did pretty well with all of them, and smoked at least 2/3's of the way and enjoyed what he did smoke.

I would feel worse if my friend hated a cigar and smoked the whole thing out of obligation, instead of just being honest and either getting rid of it or passing it back to me.

[themachine]

My friends can have there chose of any of my NC's in my humidor. Thats just how good of a friend I am. Hahaha

[hotreds]

If I like you, you can have the pick of the litter.

If not, you get a Gurkha.

:dr

[MurphysLaw]

If I welcome someone into my home, they're welcome to anything in my humidor, cigars are easily replaceable, friends aren't :2

[nofeardiver]

Actually all my friends i know now are cigar smokers, so they pretty much bring there own crap, and we either trade or they will come and i will give them something, and then vice versa next time i am over to there place...But i dont go anywhere now without my travel box, so i always have something on had, but honestly i wont give someone something that i would be glad to smoke myself... I would not go buy some piece of crap just to keep for guests, no way, first i dont have room for it, and second, i want to give them a good experience, i have two buddies that if not for me they would not have ever smoked cigars... but now one smokes a few a week and one smokes like 1-2 a month on special occasions, but what if i would have gave them crap, they prob would have been like yuck and never bought a cigar ever again... just my 2 cents...

[Mugen910]

I'm not your friend............... anymore ;)
read this while looking at my avatar lol

You sir have full access to my goodies....-(P

[DBall]

You sir have full access to my goodies....-(P

ewwwwww...

[TBone]

I never short end a friend anyone else get the more milder smokes...like everyone else I wouldn't be to happy if they tossed a Padron 64 after 5 mins.

[hammondc]

LFD Double Ligero Chisel for the noobs. I like to see em struggle! :lr

[dadof3illinois]

I open the coolers and let them choose what they want. Everything is fair game except for the box I keep gifted smokes in. With that said I do steer them into something that's smoking good or something I think they can enjoy.

[rebelknight]

I don't have a lot of cigars to go around but when I have friends over and we want to smoke a cigar I won't refuse any body a cigar. What they get on the other hand is up to me. That doesn't mean that they will get bad smokes either. I have pretty much 3 tiers of smokes that I will hand out. Cigars that I would smoke myself that are reserved for family and close friends. Good cigars that just really aren't what I'm in too which I will give to other friends that I'm not as close with and then some stuff that I would just never smoke or really mild smokes that I give to people I'm just meeting or people new to smoking. For example I gave my brother an Opus X when he wanted to smoke with me and some of my friends. Another example is how I give out the stuff that I don't like that has been gifted to me to people that I don't know or like enough to get my good stuff

[jwillm]

LFD Double Ligero Chisel for the noobs. I like to see em struggle! :lr
:r

Like a lot of you, I give free reign (mostly) to my cigar smoking friends. I do have an off limits area where cigars are aging, so they're off limits to me as well.
I'll usually pick a cigar for those that are uninitiated. That way they don't accidentally choose something they won't like. Sometimes they don't like it anyway, though...c'est la vie

[Pat1075]

I give people the same thing that I would smoke just based on their preference. I ask them strong medium or mild. A lot of the novices end up with ashtons or davidoffs. Meanwhile I tend to hand out more padrons, opus, and CC's to my closer friends or guys who have been smoking longer.

[Adriftpanda]

The crappiest cigar you/I can find..

*this is prob why I have no friends.

Typical cheap Viets....

[emopunker2004]

Typical cheap Viets....

http://images.tzaam.com/full/fd.gif

[jluck]

Doing a bit of thread archeology here but I didn't want to start a new thread on a similar topic.
At my Easter party I had a large tub of cigars out for so inclined guests and many took part. The one thing everyone said was they wanted something smaller that could be finished in a half hour or so. Now I would like to get something mild,smooth and small. I have looked at AF Breva and Hoyo Demitasse but would like some other suggestions in the 2 dollar price range. Less is good too.

[dvickery]

whatever they find in my stash is theirs to smoke...in fact i will use a guest to pick out a box for me when i feel its time for one more open(smoke now)box.i just steer them in the direction of my humi's top two shelves(were the older smokes are)).

true story:my nephew in his mid thirties and has been smoking cigars since college...was going through my open boxes one day...asked me if i had any dominican cigars...kind of flustered i said no...so he picked out a gold medal with a bit of a sour face on.

derrek

[jluck]

I'm hoping to get peoples recommended cigars for guests that are a short lasting (30 minute range) mild cigar.

[icehog3]

I'm hoping to get peoples recommended cigars for guests that are a short lasting (30 minute range) mild cigar.

How about Arturo Fuente Chateau Fuente?

http://tampasweetheart.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=17&category_id=5987963e724997ae68362b964af5da51&

[jluck]

I will consider those, I'm really looking for corona size cigars, that's what almost every guest went for. Something in the 38-42 RG would be ideal.

[icehog3]

I will consider those, I'm really looking for corona size cigars, that's what almost every guest went for. Something in the 38-42 RG would be ideal.

You prefer NC, Jared?

[icehog3]

Fuente Brevas Royale, under $100 for a box of 50.

http://www.pipesandcigars.com/afuentebrevas.html?cmp=googleproducts&kw=afuentebrevas

[jluck]

You prefer NC, Jared?

Only from a cost standpoint yes. I hope to learn the ropes and financially digest what spending I have already done on the hobby to be able to step up to offering all guests a nice CC. I just can't do it yet.

[jluck]

Fuente Brevas Royale, under $100 for a box of 50.

http://www.pipesandcigars.com/afuentebrevas.html?cmp=googleproducts&kw=afuentebrevas
These are top of the list right now.
Thanks Tom.

[icehog3]

My pleasure, Jared. :)

[Zeuceone]

Cant go wrong with a cuban ghurka

[gbum]

My humidor is not open to everybody,
those family or friends whos want to try a smoke or two,i'll ask them how long they wanna spend on smoking... then base on that i'll suggest what is suit for their time...

[jluck]

My humidor is not open to everybody,
those family or friends whos want to try a smoke or two,i'll ask them how long they wanna spend on smoking... then base on that i'll suggest what is suit for their time...
That's not the question.

[JarvisAmadio]

A true friend is welcome to anything i have.

right words...:tu

[jluck]

Doing a bit of thread archeology here but I didn't want to start a new thread on a similar topic.
At my Easter party I had a large tub of cigars out for so inclined guests and many took part. The one thing everyone said was they wanted something smaller that could be finished in a half hour or so. Now I would like to get something mild,smooth and small. I have looked at AF Breva and Hoyo Demitasse but would like some other suggestions in the 2 dollar price range. Less is good too.

I'm hoping to get peoples recommended cigars for guests that are a short lasting (30 minute range) mild cigar.

I will consider those, I'm really looking for corona size cigars, that's what almost every guest went for. Something in the 38-42 RG would be ideal.

:tu

[smitty81]

Cheap. The friends that I have will smoke but don't really enjoy it. They will go through about a half a stick and kill it. Makes me cry............

They sit there on my couch in my man cave and laugh at me for being able to sit down for 1.5-2 hours and smoke a cigar. I tell them its called relaxing.

My little brother can have whatever he wants though. While not a regular cigar smoker, he can appreciate a good cigar down to the nub.

[pektel]

I have never seen anyone dislike a Sig II or an 02 MdO 3. In fact, I've even gotten people into the hobby by starting them with one of those.

If they are a mooch, they get an Arganese. :)