Gentlemen please check your tins

[tippexx]

I thought tins were relatively safe.

This this afternoon. Went into the Tup for a suitable smoke for a rain dodging afternoon, and was met by two holes I'm pretty sure weren't there last time. Each is about 1mm diameter and almost perfectly round. Fortunately it is a tin and I don't think anything can exit from it.

There were in fact three cigars in the tin and I smoked the one without a hole.

So what do I do now? I guess the tin has to be chucked, shame as I quite enjoyed the ones I did get to smoke.

[ElPuro]

Would recommend freezing all your cigars upon arrival. I have not noticed any ill effect.

[Fosgate]

I'd smoke that extra protein.

[PapaDisco]

The one time I had something similar (a tubo PSD4 from Germany with a single beetle hole), I dissected the cigar and found: 1 dead adult in the tubo, and 1 dead grub in the cigar. I'm sure I could've smoked that stick instead and it would have been fine, but I was curious.

Tobacco beetles need a male and a female to reproduce IIRC, so unless you really got lucky and had one of each, you don't have to worry about having a pile of grubs in there. Maybe cut one open for science and smoke the other?

[ralphie48]

Hopefully that never happens to me all of my smokes are stored at 65/65 but considering I'm outgrowing my wineador I'm considering starting a coolerdoor(s) and the thought of freezing first irks me guess I'm going to have to make a decision

[Fumadoro]

I just started freezing my older stock as a precaution after multiple people have told me that freezing has no ill effect on the cigar. All new cigars entering my house will be frozen upon arrival.