Aging Q?
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This is pretty much it for me as well. If they still aren't 'ready' then I will check up on them 6 months later but generally 2 years from box date is what I shoot for.
Jfire
BoM 9/9' 9/11' 8/12'
I generally wait 2 yrs and if still a little off ill try again in a year from then. It use to be 6 months later but now I've changed to about a year or so. Most cigars if they were off or bland or had a bite, 6 months longer generally wasn't long enough.
SurpriseMVP
Mike
Some boxes I have purchased specifically to go 3 years until touched. Others are specifically 5 years.
Cohiba need to go 3 years before thinking of working through the box.
Other boxes go with the icehog school of thought. If it's good now then it's open game. The 2012 Reyes is a firecracker imo and I'll smoke them now. I have a box of 2011 JL #1 that need to be revisited in a year so the rest of that box will sit. The 2011 JL pc are fantastic now. Just have to dip into some of the boxes once in a while to see how things are progressing.
Cohiba need to go 3 years before thinking of working through the box.
Other boxes go with the icehog school of thought. If it's good now then it's open game. The 2012 Reyes is a firecracker imo and I'll smoke them now. I have a box of 2011 JL #1 that need to be revisited in a year so the rest of that box will sit. The 2011 JL pc are fantastic now. Just have to dip into some of the boxes once in a while to see how things are progressing.
Zedman05
Fiend4theLeaf
Hint: buy more NC's for random smoking and while your CC's age. I have this same problem too. I have managed to work up my CC's to a point now where I can stash away 10 at a time for 5 year aging periods, but in the mean-time, I still like NC's enough that I can pick those up more often for my regular smoking.
You will find that 2 years down the road will fly by, and you will be extremely happy you waited.
Patience young padawan
You will find that 2 years down the road will fly by, and you will be extremely happy you waited.
Patience young padawan
JDog
BoM Nov '12 & May '13
I try to age everything, CCs and NCs. Unless they're smoking really good and then I just smoke them. Sometimes it's really good but I think it might get even better and resist smoking them all... for aging. Fortunately for me, I smoke a lot of CC petit coronas which don't seem to need as much time as the larger cigars.
Most of my purchases are for smoke pretty much right away. I do not have the storage capacity at the moment for long term aging. But I buy a lot of NCs so my CCs do sit for awhile. But they are not set aside for aging. If I want 1, I smoke 1.
I try to buy aged cigars to smoke and fresh stuff to put down for the most part. The smaller cigars seem to smoke good ROTT so I usually plow through them before they go sick- meanwhile the larger format, fresh cigars that I picked up are aging. I made plenty of mistakes thinking that I didn't like a particular cigar only to learn that I was smoking them well before they were ready.
I like to try one about every six months or so after they hit the year or two mark to see how they are coming along. I am a big believer in smoking when they are hitting a stride. That may be 2, 3, 4, 5, or 10 years old. When they do hit that stride that I personally like I smoke through them.
I agree that nothing is sacred. Cigars are for smoking not fawning over, though I do love some good cigar porn...Smoking an 06 QDO Gran Corona now that is absolutely sensational.
I like to try one about every six months or so after they hit the year or two mark to see how they are coming along. I am a big believer in smoking when they are hitting a stride. That may be 2, 3, 4, 5, or 10 years old. When they do hit that stride that I personally like I smoke through them.
I agree that nothing is sacred. Cigars are for smoking not fawning over, though I do love some good cigar porn...Smoking an 06 QDO Gran Corona now that is absolutely sensational.
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Generally, I think it's a crime to smoke a CC with less than three years on the box date and they really start to hit their stride around year five as a general rule, although I have had some stuff that really did not start to shine until year seven.
Right now I never knew to age them so I'm cleaning out a cooler this weekend and the boxes I buy will be specifically to put some time on. I have plenty of great smokes for the meantime. Previously id just buy em and smoke em and even tho i enjoyed them I hate to think of how much more enjoyable they could've/might've been
Winner, winner....chicken dinner... Or in this case, Hog Wing Dinner.
I look in the humi's and coolers and see what jumps at me.... When I smoke that, if it moves me....it may come out again sooner than later...if not, that sticks in my mind. But I never just let something sit as a process before hand.... For whatever that is worth....which in reality, probably isn't much.
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