I have been smoking cigars for about 15 years yet I just invested into cigars with a big humidor. I went from a social smoker/one maybe two a month. Now I smoke two or three a week or more.

In the past, there was nothing defining me with cigars. Even though I have smoked Cubans and premium cigars, I was too young or uneducated/both to understand what I was smoking. I am learning to enjoy the smoke and make the premium ones count. It is more than a smoke; it is apart of my life now.

I have over 300 cigars and I just want more. Hoarder/OCD. I have issues….

lance4824 wrote:

What kind of humidor did you get? C Bid has allowed me the luxury of having extra smokes on hand and has thrusted my hobby into overdrive.

IronResin wrote:

What kind of humidor did you get? C Bid has allowed me the luxury of having extra smokes on hand and has thrusted my hobby into overdrive.

IronResin wrote:

When I first started out, I had a 20-25 ct humidor, quickly realized that I needed more storage so bought a 50 ct. Thought for sure I wasn’t gonna smoke 75 cigars in year...boy was I wrong!

Palama wrote:

Yea gonna try to keep it @ 500.

IronResin wrote:

Yea gonna try to keep it @ 500.

IronResin wrote:

Yea gonna try to keep it @ 500.

IronResin wrote:

What kind of humidor did you get? C Bid has allowed me the luxury of having extra smokes on hand and has thrusted my hobby into overdrive.

IronResin wrote:

Collecting is an inadvertent result of the buying curve extending beyond the smoking curve.

Either your buying ramps up faster than smoking or your smoking hits a peak and ramps down over time while your buying continues. Even those who try to match buying rate to smoking rate usually have built up a reserve that exceeds reasonable expectations for an emergency backup supply.

I think there is a mathematical formula lurking here. I think Stephen Hawking was working on it.

tamapatom wrote:

Correct, some don't improve with age.


Agree!


This is where I disagree.

I've been doing the cigar thing for a very long time and my collection is crazy big. I can't recall ever having a cigar get worse with age. As I said in another post, with age generally strength decreases and complexity/richness of flavor increases. If you define "quality" as only "strength", then yes they lose "quality". But if you define "quality" more broadly, as I believe you should, then they never lose quality.

They may not improve at all, or they may improve at varying rates, typically with diminishing returns leading to no further improvements after a while (usually a long while).

But I can't recall ever saying to myself, "man, this stick is over the hill and lost its quality". The most I'd say is, "this stick isn't as strong as it used to be" but usually in that case, the other components of flavor have gotten better.


I've never regretted aging a cigar, even when they're 15-20 years old.
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Pudding Mittens wrote:

I want a well rounded humidor that reflects my pallet.

IronResin wrote:

My current setup is small but sweet. I have a small Igloo marine cooler that I have managed to get 5 levels of trays. I think I have the perfect ratio of cedar to plastic in that one

A few cigars came to mind when I posted that some cigars get worse over time: The most striking example is the Las Calaveras 2014, a phenomenal cigar when it came out...one of my all time faves...by 2016, the few remaining lost some luster, and by last year it was no longer a great cigar.

delta1 wrote:

Another example is the Liga Privada #9 Feral Flying Pig, an explosion of cigar flavors when new...muted and dull a few years later....similar to LP T-52 line...

A cigar shop proprietor told me it was a glycerin based substance. At the time he said it was on all Drew Estate's cigars except Herrera Esteli.

I've found no other source for the information though. I looked at some point, but didn't find any information to confirm it.

bgz wrote:

A cigar shop proprietor told me it was a glycerin based substance. At the time he said it was on all Drew Estate's cigars except Herrera Esteli.

I've found no other source for the information though. I looked at some point, but didn't find any information to confirm it.

bgz wrote:

What kind of humidor did you get? C Bid has allowed me the luxury of having extra smokes on hand and has thrusted my hobby into overdrive.

IronResin wrote: