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Palama Offline
#5151 Posted: Fri, Nov 24 2023, 11:51 AM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Anyone think I need to freeze new cigars for longer than 3 days at 0F? Or, should I go 5 days?


I normally go 4 days but another day won’t hurt.
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#5152 Posted: Fri, Nov 24 2023, 12:30 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
I normally go 4 days but another day won’t hurt.


I don't recall ever doing it... maybe once. Think Think
rfenst Offline
#5153 Posted: Fri, Nov 24 2023, 4:32 PM EST
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Five it is.
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#5154 Posted: Sat, Nov 25 2023, 1:56 PM EST
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PLPC. ‘18
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#5155 Posted: Sat, Nov 25 2023, 5:20 PM EST
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RASS ‘19
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#5156 Posted: Wed, Nov 29 2023, 6:14 PM EST
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Vegeros Centrofinos '20 Just opened a new tin.
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#5157 Posted: Thu, Nov 30 2023, 11:14 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Vegeros Centrofinos '20 Just opened a new tin.


I had a V about 10 years ago and thought it was mild to medium, but bland is all I remember. It was small format cigar, maybe a Souane. It could be that it was past its prime. I think it was grassy...

New ones any good?
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#5158 Posted: Thu, Nov 30 2023, 6:48 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
I had a V about 10 years ago and thought it was mild to medium, but bland is all I remember. It was small format cigar, maybe a Souane. It could be that it was past its prime. I think it was grassy...

New ones any good?


The line was completely changed years ago. New vitolas and all hand rolled IIRC. Still on the mild+ or medium side but a pretty good deal until recent pricing. Used to get the 16 cans of robusto sized (Centrofino) for under $80.
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#5159 Posted: Fri, Dec 1 2023, 10:11 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
The line was completely changed years ago. New vitolas and all hand rolled IIRC. Still on the mild+ or medium side but a pretty good deal until recent pricing. Used to get the 16 cans of robusto sized (Centrofino) for under $80.

Check this out:

https://www.habanos.com/en/the-habanos-brands-academia/vegueros-brand/
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#5160 Posted: Fri, Dec 1 2023, 10:55 PM EST
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Interesting. I have only smoked a handful of Vs, but I like them (a lot) because I find them to be fuller and richer than most of the other coobans I've smoked. The link describes them as medium to full. I would agree with that. But cigars hit different people differently.

Now a can is more in the $160 range, which seems to be a good bit less than other cooban long fillers nowadays. I'm waiting for a monthly promotion to drop the entretiempos to $130 or $140, and I'll probably get another can.



Smoked a HdM Epicure # 1 today that needed a whole lot of help from the perfecdraw to smoke.
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#5161 Posted: Sat, Dec 2 2023, 7:35 AM EST
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Prolly been through 5-6 cans of Centrofonos and a few 16/packs of Topados in the recent years. I don't find them to be nearly as full as Bolivar or Partagas of a similar vitola. YMMV I suppose. Think
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#5162 Posted: Sat, Dec 2 2023, 5:56 PM EST
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PLPC earlier
JL 2 now.
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#5163 Posted: Mon, Dec 4 2023, 5:03 PM EST
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Vegueros Entretiempos

deadeyedick wrote:
Prolly been through 5-6 cans of Centrofonos and a few 16/packs of Topados in the recent years. I don't find them to be nearly as full as Bolivar or Partagas of a similar vitola. YMMV I suppose. Think


I see what you mean. Not as a full as a Party short. I agree. Don't have much experience with Bolivars.

Good though. Herfing
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#5164 Posted: Wed, Dec 6 2023, 5:33 AM EST
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Trinidad Coloniales 2019
rfenst Offline
#5165 Posted: Fri, Dec 8 2023, 11:36 AM EST
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SWIM advises prices are slowly deflating over the last 6 weeks.

SWIM is very intrigued by the way cigars from Canada are boxed in Cuba. Plain grey cardboard boxes with a warning sticker packaged solely for Canadian tobacco law compliance. Plain easily removing stickers covering the factory labels.

I would think Canadian cigars will age faster than those in traditional dress boxes and cabs- due to increases oxygen. That isn't ideal from long term aging, but will get them through the sick phase (ammonia smell) sooner.

SWIM thinks he is also getting "The Letter."
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#5166 Posted: Mon, Dec 11 2023, 8:09 AM EST
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Bolivar RC 2017 gonna be a sad day when this box is history
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#5167 Posted: Sun, Dec 17 2023, 8:15 AM EST
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PLPC 2019
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#5168 Posted: Sun, Dec 17 2023, 8:44 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Bolivar RC 2017 gonna be a sad day when this box is history


Havana has stopped making SO many of the cigars I loved. RC, QdO Corona, Boli CG... and now that the price is triple what it was, I just won't pay those prices for the ones they still make.

Been re-discovering NC's I still appreciate.
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#5169 Posted: Sun, Dec 24 2023, 1:15 PM EST
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Quai D’Orsay
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#5170 Posted: Sun, Dec 24 2023, 6:05 PM EST
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MC Edmundo. 17
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#5171 Posted: Mon, Dec 25 2023, 12:00 AM EST
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My petit 2 2020 I believe could’ve been anywhere from 18-20. Don’t recall box code. Got it from a split with Sean when I joined here. He did include the code I didn’t write it down
deadeyedick Offline
#5172 Posted: Mon, Dec 25 2023, 1:33 PM EST
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Trinidad Topes 2018
rfenst Offline
#5173 Posted: Tue, Dec 26 2023, 1:11 PM EST
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I received "the letter" in today's mail. ram27bat
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#5174 Posted: Tue, Dec 26 2023, 5:36 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
I received "the letter" in today's mail. ram27bat


Frame it. Usually happens when you buy multiple boxes and that draws more attention. Many vendors ship only one box per package even if ordered all at once.

Funny story: That caused me to get a BOGO on Cohiba Behike 52s many years ago.
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#5175 Posted: Tue, Dec 26 2023, 9:35 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
I received "the letter" in today's mail. ram27bat


Do you need a ticket for an airplane?

https://youtu.be/HIWY8UyW9bw?si=Ox4_U9IjA0AF66ZU
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#5176 Posted: Wed, Dec 27 2023, 7:40 PM EST
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Palama wrote:
Do you need a ticket for an airplane?

https://youtu.be/HIWY8UyW9bw?si=Ox4_U9IjA0AF66ZU

What about a fast train? Think
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#5177 Posted: Wed, Dec 27 2023, 8:35 PM EST
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dkeage wrote:
What about a fast train? Think


He ain’t got time.
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#5178 Posted: Thu, Dec 28 2023, 8:17 AM EST
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Palama wrote:
He ain’t got time.


Well, at least his lonely days are gone. Anxious
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#5179 Posted: Thu, Dec 28 2023, 11:16 AM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Funny story: That caused me to get a BOGO on Cohiba Behike 52s many years ago.

Me too, but they were Monte #2s.
rfenst Offline
#5180 Posted: Thu, Dec 28 2023, 11:21 AM EST
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Raphael Gonzalez Panatelas Extra FEB '23
Still way to young, but I had to try just one.
deadeyedick Offline
#5181 Posted: Sat, Dec 30 2023, 7:49 AM EST
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JL#2 2019 love these
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#5182 Posted: Sat, Dec 30 2023, 4:46 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
JL#2 2019 love these

Me too. 2017

Last one……seems I’m saying that for all my Cubans Brick wall
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#5183 Posted: Sun, Dec 31 2023, 2:03 PM EST
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dkeage wrote:
Me too. 2017

Last one……seems I’m saying that for all my Cubans Brick wall


ram27bat
PLPC. again, my last one…..
dkeage Offline
#5184 Posted: Sun, Dec 31 2023, 5:35 PM EST
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MC Edmundo.
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#5185 Posted: Sun, Dec 31 2023, 6:09 PM EST
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Bolivar RC 2020. Getting low.

Gots a Cohiba Behike 52 on tap for this new year's eve. It's one of the free ones so it outta taste even better. Angel

Edit: It did.
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#5186 Posted: Fri, Jan 5 2024, 8:13 AM EST
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PSD#4 2020
dkeage Offline
#5187 Posted: Sat, Jan 6 2024, 5:35 PM EST
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RASS. ‘19. Last one
Palama Offline
#5188 Posted: Mon, Jan 8 2024, 1:50 AM EST
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Saint Luis Rey Regios
ORG NOV 15

From an inventory thinning by Belue a few years ago.
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#5189 Posted: Tue, Jan 9 2024, 8:22 AM EST
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HU HC 2020
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#5190 Posted: Tue, Jan 9 2024, 10:45 AM EST
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dkeage wrote:
RASS. ‘19. Last one

Running low, Bro?
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#5191 Posted: Thu, Jan 11 2024, 9:29 AM EST
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dkeage wrote:
ram27bat
PLPC. again, my last one…..

9505506570314011893167 PM


(BTW, your CBID in box for PM's is full. Couldn't send you this by PM.)
deadeyedick Offline
#5192 Posted: Sat, Jan 13 2024, 12:47 PM EST
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ERDM Choix Supreme 2014

Thanks again to Homebrew for these!
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#5193 Posted: Sun, Jan 14 2024, 1:25 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
9505506570314011893167 PM


(BTW, your CBID in box for PM's is full. Couldn't send you this by PM.)


WHAT IN THE SAM HILL IS GOING ON HERE???

I don’t know who the bus driver was…ram27bat but did they know that we recently moved?! d'oh!

R&J Coronitas en Cedro ‘18
Palama Offline
#5194 Posted: Sun, Jan 14 2024, 2:45 PM EST
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dkeage wrote:
WHAT IN THE SAM HILL IS GOING ON HERE???

I don’t know who the bus driver was…ram27bat but did they know that we recently moved?! d'oh!

R&J Coronitas en Cedro ‘18




I can truthfully say it wasn’t me. Not talking

…not that I wouldn’t have.

dkeage wrote:
WHAT IN THE SAM HILL IS GOING ON HERE???

I don’t know who the bus driver was…ram27bat but did they know that we recently moved?! d'oh!

R&J Coronitas en Cedro ‘18




Robert is probably doing his best Snidely Whiplash and thinking, “Curses, foiled again!”

But Kipp, you surely registered a forwarding address, didn’t ya? Think
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#5195 Posted: Sun, Jan 14 2024, 10:19 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
ERDM Choix Supreme 2014

Thanks again to Homebrew for these!

Glad you are enjoying those. Smoke them in good health.
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)Beer
Palama Offline
#5196 Posted: Mon, Jan 15 2024, 1:53 AM EST
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PSD4
SEP 13

Packers win! From a 2014 trade with Gae9 / John.
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#5197 Posted: Mon, Jan 15 2024, 12:56 PM EST
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i cant afford a Cuban, so i need to come on here a read about you guys smoking them lol!!!
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#5198 Posted: Mon, Jan 15 2024, 2:10 PM EST
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anyone of you with the Cuban inventory, I will pay premium if interested ....mouth is watering for a cuban
deadeyedick Offline
#5199 Posted: Thu, Jan 18 2024, 8:04 AM EST
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H Upmann Connoisseur A '19
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#5200 Posted: Thu, Jan 18 2024, 10:25 AM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Running low, Bro?

Not so much anymore..Frying pan


Robert smacked me around with a nice 5er of PLPC, and an HUHC!! Drool

Two all time favorites. Applause

Thanks so much Robert, it’s truly appreciated



Kipp
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