This morning, the sender credited my account for the full cost of the box...

Soooo.... what to do with the other 8? They didn't show any signs of infestation, but I'm hesitant to mingle them with my other cigars....

Little beetle ain't going to kill you... smoke the 2 with the holes too 😃

They should be fine after thawing out.

There's your problem, right there!!!

DITTO!!!

I call BS..................it was AB wasn't it!

It was!!! One of the beat-the-fda cigars I've never heard of/never smoked...

oddly enough, when working at the shop, I only saw a beetle hole twice... once in a La Aroma de Cuba, and once in a Oliva V Melanio...

shame on you macs for believing I'd smoke a pirates gold...

I have a huge number of cigars and have been collecting them since forever, haven't frozen anything, and have never had a single problem.

24x7x365 climate-controlled room (between 60-67 degrees F) and 2-way humidity control, both permanently in effect.

I really think the temperature control is the key. If you cap temperatures where I do, it's lilkely that nothing will ever happen beetle-wise.

Some of you guys might burn me at the stake for saying this, but I have my doubts about whether or not freeezing really is as benign and harmless as its proponents claim. When you really think about it on a chemical and physics level, it's quite possible that it may reduce flavor or cause other problems, even if the magnitude of the damage is subtle, and thus hard to directly measure.

Just my two cents.

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We smoke cigars, our taste buds are wrekt.

To the noobs out there without a 60 degree dungeon... freeze, you won't be able to tell the difference, trust me.

Wrong.

Speak for yourself.

I personally am still able to detect the ****taking (sp?) mushroom flavor on a well aged Ron Mexico.

It does nothing. The key is getting them as cold as possible like a commercial freezer.