GasGuy82 Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 So, on one of the recent 24:24's I ordered some smaller sticks for my old man at his request, a box of HUHC and Party Shorts. This evening I was at my parents for my dad's birthday and brought him his sticks. He lit up one of the Party Shorts, enjoyed it and proceeded to smoke an HUHC afterwards. He sat for a while on the patio and said, " they were good, but I like a bigger cigar, I'm retired, I have time to smoke longer". So I offered to trade him a box of RASS I have in my wineador and a few other sticks I know he likes and put the PS and HUHC away. A few minutes later my brother shows up, proceeds to light up a PS without asking and admires the sticks. Asks me if he can buy 4-5 (I'm just shaking my head). I told him I'll sell him 10 of each (if he had more tact, I'd prolly have just given him a few). Ultimately, I now have two half empty boxes of cigars and a rapidly filling wineador. Any reason I shouldn't put all of these sticks in an empty JL2 SLB I have and save some space? Is there any cross-flavoring from putting two different cigars in a SLB? I plan to to write the box codes on the SLB for future reference.
Habana Mike Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 No worries at all about that. I usually will marry a couple of half empty boxes of the same vitola and have never experienced any ill effects. Just stay away from the flavored/scented sticks and you'll be fine! 1
GasGuy82 Posted May 4, 2015 Author Posted May 4, 2015 No worries at all about that. I usually will marry a couple of half empty boxes of the same vitola and have never experienced any ill effects. Just stay away from the flavored/scented sticks and you'll be fine! Great to hear! I can guarantee I'll never own any flavored/scented sticks so it shouldn't be a problem.
PapaDisco Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 I think sticks age 'better' in cabs than dress boxes, but I've no scientific evidence it's just my conjecture (cabs have less opening to volume, more wood, less colored paper, etc.), and I also believe that a great big bunch of sticks do better than one or two rattling around in a box. So grouping your half boxes together would be a good thing. I am not convinced that there is no flavor transference though, you bunch two dozen of these things together and they are going to be sharing scents and flavors. Does it matter when you eventually light one of them? Hard to know . . . 1
canucks6024 Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 No worries. I take/put sticks wherever they go in order to fit my space confinements. No harsh results yet. 1
soutso Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 I think sticks age 'better' in cabs than dress boxes, but I've no scientific evidence it's just my conjecture (cabs have less opening to volume, more wood, less colored paper, etc.), and I also believe that a great big bunch of sticks do better than one or two rattling around in a box. So grouping your half boxes together would be a good thing. I am not convinced that there is no flavor transference though, you bunch two dozen of these things together and they are going to be sharing scents and flavors. Does it matter when you eventually light one of them? Hard to know . . . If that were the case you cold mix cheap sticks with great ones and potentially improve the cheapies! Just back to the thread topic, storing together is fine with the exception of adding Non Cubans into the mix. Cheers 1
JohnS Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 The only thing is...what do you do the next time your brother makes a request like that?
bbguardsp Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 Just use the wax paper that came with the boxes to separate them inside the humidor/ box or get some form of cedar divider if your worried. That's what I do out of personal preference.
canadianbeaver Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 My biggest problem when I do this is I forget what is where. 2
GasGuy82 Posted May 4, 2015 Author Posted May 4, 2015 The only thing is...what do you do the next time your brother makes a request like that? As my brother is handing me $ he has the audacity to question my vendor telling me he can get some through a guy blah blah. My Dad looks at him and says you are paying $4 a piece for a CC and you are concerned about what tier our vendor is, I bet you couldn't tell the difference between a real or fake if you tried.
nick2021 Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 You should be fine, I wouldn't mix regular CC/NC cigars with "infused" cigars like non-Cuban "ACIDS" though lol
PapaDisco Posted May 4, 2015 Posted May 4, 2015 If that were the case you cold mix cheap sticks with great ones and potentially improve the cheapies! Just back to the thread topic, storing together is fine with the exception of adding Non Cubans into the mix. Cheers Or ruin the great ones . . . . . . let me send you a cab of White Owls to spread around your humi . . . Scents and flavors absolutely will transfer from one absorbable material to the next. That's a certainty. Whether or not it happens enough to make a difference once the stick is lit is another question, and it's particularly questionable when the differences are very subtle (like mixing your Hoyos and Parti's versus mixing your Acids and Cohibas! ). I've no problem mixing my desktop humi will all of Rob's best at once. 1
GasGuy82 Posted May 4, 2015 Author Posted May 4, 2015 You should be fine, I wouldn't mix regular CC/NC cigars with "infused" cigars like non-Cuban "ACIDS" though lol Friends don't let friends smoke Acids... 1
Shikar Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 DANGER !!!! IF you mix the HUHC and the PS in a box and shake it, then leave it alone for a month......when you open it up the will be some mongrel tiny cigarillos amongst the HUHC and PS..... That is perfectly normal Regards.
nick2021 Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Friends don't let friends smoke Acids...better yet, friends don't let friends BUY Acids lol
GasGuy82 Posted May 5, 2015 Author Posted May 5, 2015 better yet, friends don't let friends BUY Acids lol Unfortunately I can't be a complete snob about it. My buddy was smoking Camel Crush cigarettes and I would try to get him to have a cigar instead. He bought some Acids to work his way into fine cigars. It's a slippery slope.
GasGuy82 Posted May 5, 2015 Author Posted May 5, 2015 DANGER !!!! IF you mix the HUHC and the PS in a box and shake it, then leave it alone for a month......when you open it up the will be some mongrel tiny cigarillos amongst the HUHC and PS..... That is perfectly normal Regards. Better yet, if I mix RASCC and RA Gigantes and shake the box will I get RA 8-9-8's?
JohnS Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Better yet, if I mix RASCC and RA Gigantes and shake the box will I get RA 8-9-8's? I could only wish that was possible!
atlharp Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Wait that's a thing? Wow. Cigars are surprisingly resilient.
PapaDisco Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 Better yet, if I mix RASCC and RA Gigantes and shake the box will I get RA 8-9-8's? No, shockingly you get this: 1
stunod Posted May 6, 2015 Posted May 6, 2015 I like to leave the cigars in the boxes they come in so I know the date. When I get down to 2 or 3 , I will move them to the humi draw or my desktop.
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