Anyone smoke any good cigars lately?
Apr 25, 2011 | 05:57 PM
#522
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Well my friends...I caught the bug, literally.
Came home after work to grab a smoke, and its 82*+ outside. Of course, we left the windows opened last night...I open the humi and see 78* which I know is no good. I look down and see Mr. Rocky Patel with some serious meat chewed out of him, and through the cello as well. I grab it, shake it up and stared my friend in the eye. Keep your temps down to avoid the beetle! /PSA
Came home after work to grab a smoke, and its 82*+ outside. Of course, we left the windows opened last night...I open the humi and see 78* which I know is no good. I look down and see Mr. Rocky Patel with some serious meat chewed out of him, and through the cello as well. I grab it, shake it up and stared my friend in the eye. Keep your temps down to avoid the beetle! /PSA
Apr 25, 2011 | 06:33 PM
#523
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Laurence: Take all of your cigars and put them in big plastic freezer bags and then in the freezer immediately for 2-3 days. After that put them in the fridge for 24 hours. You might be seeing one bug now, but that little guy probably just laid 200 eggs in your Rocky Patel.
Apr 25, 2011 | 07:41 PM
#528
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I would guess that most cigars we smoke have some tobacco beetle eggs on them. Those little guys are pervasive in tobacco fields. Habanos SA says that they freeze all of their cigars before shipping outside Cuba to kill the eggs. But they are still there and some very small percentage probably survive the freezing.
