A wee experiment

[dvickery]

 

While smoking a cohiba club tonight I got to thinking ...

I have had difficulty over the years convincing people that cigars get stronger as they get older .

for those who don’t think strength increases with age ... 

buy a cube of 100 cohiba clubs the next time you visit Cuba ... does not affect yer duty free allotment as they are cigarillo’s and a different part of yer tax free allotment ... and cheap ... I think a100 box is still under 100$cuc .

5 cute little 20packs

now wait 2 years and then smoke a 20pack every two years .

get back to me in a decade and tell me if they are stronger as you are smoking the last ones or not .

thank you

derrek

[Rye]

I do agree that good ligero strengthens with age, but seco and volado tend to get a bit more mellowed out I have found. 

Now this is based on a mere iota of your experience

[Fatso]

Maybe it' s just that people get wussier as they age ?

 

😉😂

[Curiosity]

If I'm not mistaken, I recall reading that the clubs are a much stronger smoke as there is not much room for other filler leaves.. I'm guessing it all depends how many you smoke in 1 seating

[Guest]

As fun as these experiments are, they are incredibly time consuming. In the end you should wonder if the change in flavour is worth just that. In reality, we smoke cigars well within the total time it takes to conduct experiments like this. The market today is saturated with cigar manufacturers; the sky is the limit when it comes to flavour; chances are that the flavour achieved in years of aging with one brand, is already there straight out of box by a different brand. I believe that these experiments were of higher value back in the day when the choice was limited and therefore demand for a different experience greater.

Anyhow, this is purely how I feel about it with today's market in mind, wanting to enjoy the purchase sooner rather that later. However, for merely your own interest in the matter, it will of course be different and the information may be interesting for use in the fabrication process. Who knows?!

[Toolguy]

Just reread this thread and a comment on allowances.  When I checked on allowances, cigarillos count as cigars.

[dvickery]

@Toolguy

you are correct ... up until 5 minutes ago I had always assumed “cohiba clubs” were not to be declared with yer cigars and that’s the way I have done my declaration card (therefore not paying duties on cigars I should have) ... thank you 🤓

i wonder now if it has always been this way or if 25 years ago it was worded differently 🤪

derrek

[mcicvara]

From the website.

What is tobacco stick?

[Burtess]

On 3/17/2019 at 1:16 PM, mcicvara said:

From the website.

What is tobacco stick?

I think it is these things... smokeless tobacco sticks:

https://www.google.ca/search?q=smokeless+tobacconsticks&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-ca&client=safari

[Andy]

On 3/17/2019 at 12:16 PM, mcicvara said:

From the website.

What is tobacco stick?

I'm pretty sure tobacco sticks are these cigarettes that come in 2 packs, one is a pack of these rolled tobacco sticks, the other is a pack of paper tubes with a filter. You slide the stick into the tube.   It's one of those ridiculous tax loopholes like when ryo tobacco simply became named pipe tobacco so they could circumvent the tobacco tax on ryo cigarettes.   It was the exact same tobacco with a different name on the package, pipe tobacco.  And of course the one freaking time in my life my parents were kewl and brought me back pipe tobacco while they were in the US it was this shitty 4 aces RYO tobacco in a bag that said pipe tobacco on it because the store owner pointed to it when my parents asked if they sold pipe tobacco.   Luckily now I can honestly say don't get me any tobacco I have enough so I don't have to experience that again.   But they tried and I can't believe they brought me back tobacco so I'm still grateful they tried