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[ComicBookFreak]

Originally Posted by winnie

1.Should you keep your cigars in the plastic wrap(tube) if it comes in one, or take it out of the plastic to store it?

Thanks!

If you are talking about the cellophane. Some leave it one, some take it off. I usually leave the cello on my cigars. Whatever your preference really.

If you are talking about Tubes or tubos, I leave cigars that come in tubes in tubes till I smoke them. Some say that tubos help in the aging of the cigar, also.

Hope this helps.

CBF

[MeNimbus]

Thank you all for your hard work and dedication. The wealth of knowledge and useful information is extremely helpful.


Since the weather is getting warmer, How do you bring down the temperature of your humidor/tupperdor/coolerdor? I don't have any problems maintaining proper RH (humi beads), but the temperature fluctuates from day to day to cause me concern. I thought about making distill water ice cubes, but the ecology of my humidor will melt it in minutes (global warming in my humi? ).

Does the Cigar Oasis/Plus/2 offer temperature control also?

Thanks

[RGD]

Originally Posted by winnie

1.Should you keep your cigars in the plastic wrap(tube) if it comes in one, or take it out of the plastic to store it?

As far as the cellophane goes - there is no right or wrong way. Keep it on if you wish or take it off - personal pref.

2. When should you remove the band?

Right before it catches on fire -

Seriously - couple trains of thought here. One is to wait until the heat has loosened the glue so as not to tear the wrapper. Another is the "no-snob" reason - you would remove the band of an expensive/rare cigar so as not to appear to be showing up your fellow BOTL's.

Ron

[Bobb]

Originally Posted by RGD

One is to wait until the heat has loosened the glue so as not to tear the wrapper. Another is the "no-snob" reason - you would remove the band of an expensive/rare cigar so as not to appear to be showing up your fellow BOTL's.

Ron

FWIW, that's what I do. I have ripped the wrapper of many cigars trying to remove the band before the heat softens the glue, so I usually wait 'till I reach the last third of the cigar. Only downside is that if you wait too long, you get that taste of burnt paper

[montecristo#2]

How do you remove the band without tearing it (the band not the wrapper)? This has plagued me for a while. I try to keep the bands in case I ever want to use them for something in the future, but at least half of them I have to rip to get off. I even wait until I am about halfway through as people say it loosens the glue, but this does not seem to be the case for me.

Some bands come off easily, others I start to remove and it starts to tear, before I know it I am removing the band in layers.

[TheDirector]

Originally Posted by Da Klugs

A question and actually get an answer thread.

[B]Rules:

Older Gorillas - Use search is not an answer. If you would like to help by answering a question... thank you. If you want to comment about the question having been asked before, that there was another thread etc., do it verbally facing a mirror and feel free to make constipated facial expressions, just leave this thread alone. Answering the question "and" providing a link to a good past dialog, if appropriate, might be a nice thing to do. Violations of this policy will get RG dinged by me and hopefully every one of my friends. (OK maybe 1 or 2 others)

The purpose of this thread is to create dialog and knowledge exchange between newer and older members and hopefully some of the FOG's will stop by to actually answer some of my questions.


Anybody got a question?

BIG Props for the thread and brotherly attitude.

Here are some recycled Linericks for St. Patty's day

Limerick 1

There once was a Bro' that called "SEARCH!"
To a noob, from his lofty perch
A B-O-T-L in need
Is a B-O-T-L in deed
So,don't leave a noob in the lurch

Limerick 2

There once was a Bro' that called "SEARCH!"
To a noob, from his lofty perch
All must recall
we are having a ball
and Club Stogie for sure isn't Church!

[pinoyman]

Originally Posted by montecristo#2

How do you remove the band without tearing it (the band not the wrapper)? This has plagued me for a while. I try to keep the bands in case I ever want to use them for something in the future, but at least half of them I have to rip to get off. I even wait until I am about halfway through as people say it loosens the glue, but this does not seem to be the case for me.

Some bands come off easily, others I start to remove and it starts to tear, before I know it I am removing the band in layers.

Like what you said, smoke it for a while to loosen the glue a bit, but before pulling it off I normaly give it a little twist just in case the band is glued to the wrapper so I won't tear the wrapper too much.

If this doesn't work, switch to torpedos

[montecristo#2]

Originally Posted by pinoyman

Like what you said, smoke it for a while to loosen the glue a bit, but before pulling it off I normaly give it a little twist just in case the band is glued to the wrapper so I won't tear the wrapper too much.

If this doesn't work, switch to torpedos

It's not the wrapper I am worried about tearing, it is the band itself. I think I have torn a wrapper once in the past 6-8 months, so that is not a problem.

Do you guys actually slide the band up over the head or do you remove it by unpealing it?

[Bobb]

Originally Posted by montecristo#2

How do you remove the band without tearing it (the band not the wrapper)? This has plagued me for a while. I try to keep the bands in case I ever want to use them for something in the future, but at least half of them I have to rip to get off. I even wait until I am about halfway through as people say it loosens the glue, but this does not seem to be the case for me.

Some bands come off easily, others I start to remove and it starts to tear, before I know it I am removing the band in layers.

I always try to slide the band off first, that way I can just cut it with a scissors instead of trying to unpeel it. But with ciga bands, it seems to be luck of the draw (no pun intended.) It takes a jack hammer and a pound of dynamite to get the lable off of a Lot 23, and others unpeel when you look at then funny. If you do not nub your cigars, you may want to try to hold them over boiling water (after it's put out) to steem it open.

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by Da Klugs

The best cigar I ever had was a HDM Excalibur # 1. It's the cigar I had after the complicated birth of our first child. No cigar will ever taste sweeter.

My question for everyone except Dave.....is that the coolest thing you've ever heard or what?

[Bigwaved]

Originally Posted by icehog3

My question for everyone except Dave.....is that the coolest thing you've ever heard or what?

Yup, it sure is. I don't need a link for that one.

[Bobb]

Originally Posted by icehog3

My question for everyone except Dave.....is that the coolest thing you've ever heard or what?

By far!!

[winnie]

Thanks all!

[billybarue]

This one could go on forever, and that's OK, but what IYO are the 3-5 most important factors that make ISOMs better than the rest. I would love to hear opinions that oppose the premise of this question as well. Any brief commentary on why you chose the factors would be enlightening

For example you might say:

1) climate/rain fall
2) inherent knowledge embedded in the ISOM cigar making business
3) soil/mineral content
4) quality control
5) Harvesting/ageing guiedlines

PS: This one will be short ----- varnished vs. non-varnished, what's the difference?

Cheers,

BillyBarue

[poker]

Originally Posted by Navydoc

I have a question for the FOGs....Can you guys really taste much of a difference between the Tubos and non-tubos? Enough to pick out in a blind tasting? A lot of vendors charge more for the tubed version and I wonder if the added price is just for the packaging or is there a different selection process for the cigars that get packaged in tubes in that forbidden place?

No.