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I hear bad stories about cigar beetles and hope I never come across them. Knock on wood.

But it makes me wonder how often they are seen. I understand they can take out a whole collection.

I heard Cubans go through a better process of freezing now. Is that true for all Cuban cigars now? Anyone own a shop that can shed some light on how often they see these guys? Or maybe the owners have some information?

Based on the videos and threads I have seen, I feel much better ordering from here which I hope to do soon. Just curious if its something rarely seen or frequently seen? Once in a year type of thing or maybe once a month type of thing?

Is it good habit to freeze cigars upon arrival?

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I can only speak from my own experiences, but in 16 years of smoking cigars, I have only seen 1 beetle. This was when I first starting and I am sure it was my own fault as I let my temp. get too high.

Keep your temp. in the 60's and odds are good you wont see any either.

Now that I have posted this, I'm sure the next time I get in my coolers, I'll be infested! :lol:

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Thanks kcheek. Unfortunately, I don't keep mine in the 60's. It is usually 70's in my house. I have been trying to find a way to add some cooling to my existing end table humidor.

I was searching around online and could not find any statistics. I was just curious from a high level how often these are seen. 1 in 16 years seem pretty low. I would think it should even be lower with the new processes they have been implementing too.

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I don't know anyone personally who has experienced a beetle infestation, and knock on wood, but in the 2.5 years I've been smoking cigars, I've never experienced it either. I would imagine that in this day and age, if you are talking about recent production cigars, the liklihood of tobacco beetles is probably fairly remote. The older vintage stuff produced before freezing became a common practice, the probability would definitely be higher.

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I freeze everything that comes through my door and towards the humi and coolers <period>.

Why? Because my home gets up over 70 degrees in the summer. The Freezer is the last stop to my storage as I cannot be certain of conditions prior to the boxes arriving at my home. Even if they were frozen in Havana they can be re-exposed to bad stock somewhere else along the supply chain.

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I freeze everything that comes through my door and towards the humi and coolers <period>.

Why? Because my home gets up over 70 degrees in the summer. The Freezer is the last stop to my storage as I cannot be certain of conditions prior to the boxes arriving at my home. Even if they were frozen in Havana they can be re-exposed to bad stock somewhere else along the supply chain.

Excellent point - and the main reason why I do the same.

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I have done that with one box. I should do that with more. Really, does not take too much effort to decrease the risk. When thinking about it, kind of amazing it takes so long with cold to blast away those guys. We keep our freezer at 0 to -2 F. I saw on one site (do not remember the source) it takes 1 day to kill with 95% certainty. I left my one box in for 3 days. Thought it might get closer to 99% certainty. :) And of course, I place them in the fridge before and after for one day. Is this what most do as well?

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