Another Year Past...

I was surprised the other day when I looked at the "Previous Postings" sidebar and saw that the very first post on The Tiki Bar Online (v2.0...v1.0 was pretty bad, let's not talk about that) was June 22, 2008. Where does the time go? I won't spend much time ruminating and naval gazing about the past...just enough to say that this site has undergone a massive change since starting up: we started as a way for my old herf group (The Tiki Bar) to keep in touch after I moved from California, where most of them are still based. I ended up being the only writer for a year and a half, so it ended up being a catch-all place to talk about cigars and all the things that crossed my mind. Then Keith came on board in early 2010 and in the past year and a half, we've moved slowly to what amounts to an "all-cigar" format: cigar reviews, libation reviews, cigar  and libation pairings, cigar events, etc. And that's all I have to say about that.

In the coming weeks and months, we will be featuring many more cigar reviews...including some brand new sticks that aren't in wide circulation yet.

This is a good time to remind everyone again about the upcoming Chattanooga Tweet-Up, co-sponsored by Stogie Review and taking place at Burns Tobacconist. Click on the logo the right side of any page of this blog to find out more information than you really want to know.

I'm also finalizing plans to make my annual trip to Southern California again which means another "Tiki Bar Reunion Herf." And this year there will probably be more people than ever.

 

There are a couple new regular features in the works (still in the thought process, really) and we hope to be able to bring more coverage of events than we have in the past, as well.

Thank you to our faithful readers...the fact that so many people choose to check out this site every day is still a surprising and humbling thing.