it is almost time to Dry Box your New Years Eve Cigar/s

[El Presidente]

it is almost time to Dry Box your New Years Eve cigar/s!!!

Take us through what you will be doing New Years Eve and the cigar/s that you intend to take you into 2012

[Hemsworth]

Probably the Trinidad Reyes sitting in my humidor since I will be freezing my ass off smoking it on a friends patio.

[brazoseagle]

After Baylor Slaughters the Huskies in the Alamo Bowl, I am heading up to my cabin in the mountains of Arkansas for a week with good family, good friends and great drinks, food and cigars. One of my great friends, who is also a FOH BOTL, will be with us and we have a pretty extensive Herf planned. We will be sure to document the entire event. Plenty of beer, wine, whiskey, and other spirits are already packed. Menu items include Whole (uncut) prime beef tenderloin, Whole Side (uncut) Prime Ribeyes, 12lb. Brisket, 10 lb pork shoulder, a ham, a turkey, 6 chickens, homemade bratwurst and sausages, Ribs, and much much more.

Here is what I have packed in my travel humidor:

1 2006 Hamlet Custom Roll no.2 Piramid

2 2009 Behike 52's

2 Diplo 2's

4 PSP 2010 Monte 2's

2 HU Sir Winnies

2 Cohiba Genios Maduros

6 2009 PSP Partagas Shorts

2 Partagas P2's

1 HU Mag 50

2 Bolivar PC

1 Trinidad Robusto T

1 VR Famosa

1 VR Unicos

1 SLR Regios

[Marker]

2006 Bolivar French RA. I will dry box it when I get home tonight for smoking tomorrow night. 54x6.5

[Deemancpa]

Edmundo Dantes Conde 109....been waiting to smoke these since the summer.

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[anacostiakat]

New Year's eve is also my birthday.

So this year as it will be a marker year I have picked two cigars so far.

A Cohiba Sublime and an '04 Cohiba Esplendido. Havent really dug around for anything else but we will see.

[CigarCanuck]

Monte edmundo, and sublime are going to help me ring in the new year...

[mazolaman]

A night of Gypsy jazz, at Le Quecum, in 40's attire,

good food, music, and a little bit of dancing.

The czar czar will wait till after new years day's rib of beef.

[kmagurk]

hey brazoseagle , that sound's great ! Can I tag along ? I don't eat much or smoke much , Ok those last 2 things were lie's

[khomeinist]

After Baylor Slaughters the Huskies in the Alamo Bowl,

haha.

FOH has a member from the Huskies Championship squad. I think he might enjoy your comment Wacko from Waco

[tsolomon]

Since we are having the party, I'm looking at short smokes, RASSC, Sig I and Boli PC.

[nick17]

gpoing to be spending the night with my best friend his GF, my GF and our other friend we will be smoking a BHK 52 & RAE each the the plan is for the BHK to be smoked as the first cigar of 2012

[Habanakane21]

haha.

FOH has a member from the Huskies Championship squad. I think he might enjoy your comment Wacko from Waco

No worries I already jinx their Heisman Trophy winner. I made a vodoo doll with braids and bug eyes!! Stuck pins in his throwing are!!! Lol..They need to be worried about our RB. Chris Polk. Their defense is just as bad as ours. The game is going to be a high scoring one. BOW DOWN!!

[Lotusguy]

No need to dry-box anything since my humi is rock-steady at 65% so I can pick what calls to me

Probably a Hamlet Custom Robusto Extra - all depends on the weather and the company (winging it this year in terms of party plans).

A happy and prosperous new year to everybody!

[Colt45]

Godiva chocolate cigar.

[bbesner]

Ok, this is probably a newbie question here and it may even have been discussed before. If my humidor is at 70%, how long should I Dry Box a CC before smoking? Also, do you recommend using a desktop humidor that has no humidifier at all? What is the recommended RH of the dry box?

[Guest RobinFadal]

Small world. Go Bears!

I'm going with a BHK 54 (and it will be my first). Can't wait.

After Baylor Slaughters the Huskies in the Alamo Bowl, I am heading up to my cabin in the mountains of Arkansas for a week with good family, good friends and great drinks, food and cigars. One of my great friends, who is also a FOH BOTL, will be with us and we have a pretty extensive Herf planned. We will be sure to document the entire event. Plenty of beer, wine, whiskey, and other spirits are already packed. Menu items include Whole (uncut) prime beef tenderloin, Whole Side (uncut) Prime Ribeyes, 12lb. Brisket, 10 lb pork shoulder, a ham, a turkey, 6 chickens, homemade bratwurst and sausages, Ribs, and much much more.

Here is what I have packed in my travel humidor:

1 2006 Hamlet Custom Roll no.2 Piramid

2 2009 Behike 52's

2 Diplo 2's

4 PSP 2010 Monte 2's

2 HU Sir Winnies

2 Cohiba Genios Maduros

6 2009 PSP Partagas Shorts

2 Partagas P2's

1 HU Mag 50

2 Bolivar PC

1 Trinidad Robusto T

1 VR Famosa

1 VR Unicos

1 SLR Regios

[brazoseagle]

Ok, this is probably a newbie question here and it may even have been discussed before. If my humidor is at 70%, how long should I Dry Box a CC before smoking? Also, do you recommend using a desktop humidor that has no humidifier at all? What is the recommended RH of the dry box?

In my opinion, perfect humidor conditions are 63-65 rh. At those ideal levels I still will dry box for a day or half a day, but it's not usually needed. If you are keeping any cigar at 70 rh, the cigar will smoke and taste better at a lower rh, I would recommend 48 hrs dry boxing. Ideally you would just want to stop storing your sticks at 70.

I keep mine controlled at 65F and 63-65 rh.

I dry box in a desktop humidor with no humidification.

[jb2jb]

Probably the Trinidad Reyes sitting in my humidor since I will be freezing my ass off smoking it on a friends patio.

I suggest bringing a portable propane heater always helps me. But try to enjoy your smoke.

[PuffDaddie]

Going to a cuban pig roast,will be smoking a monte no.2 and a Bolivar royal corona.

[bbesner]

In my opinion, perfect humidor conditions are 63-65 rh. At those ideal levels I still will dry box for a day or half a day, but it's not usually needed. If you are keeping any cigar at 70 rh, the cigar will smoke and taste better at a lower rh, I would recommend 48 hrs dry boxing. Ideally you would just want to stop storing your sticks at 70.

I keep mine controlled at 65F and 63-65 rh.

I dry box in a desktop humidor with no humidification.

Thanks so much for the info. I will need to buy several pounds of 65% beads to get my humidor right. Thanks again!

[mbrody]

1966 for me and will give my pals BHK 54 while we sample some Utopia and DFH 120 of different years...no dry boxing. All sitting in 65/65.

[carnivalhobo]

Behike 52 or 54 or both

Probably a LGC MdO 1, 3 or 4 at some point

My buddies will likely bring a few tasty smokes as well

We have a sedate evening at a local private men's club planned, drinks, dinner, music, more drinks, and cigars all night long.

Looking forward to it.

[Guest robustog]

I think I will go for a 2003 Siglo VI. I'll crank up the wood stove and sit in my sunroom.

[sblevit]

Going to the Palm Springs area where it will be sunny and 80 degrees. NYE we'll be having steaks at Mortons and then headed to the hotel bar/nightculb where we reserved a table for our group. I hope to squeeze in a cigar in between, so it will have to be something on the smaller side. I'm thinking about a Hoyo Piramide 2003 LE. I sampled one of these from the few I have remaining a few months ago and it was outstanding. I'll likely pack a few more smokes as well in the travel humi and hopefully there will be the ability to smoke somewhere around the hotel pool.