Cigar Beetle Infestation

[PeeJay]

True, but given the lack of quality control that goes into the cigars, can you really trust them to do it properly?

Quality control in Cuba has improved vastly in the last decade and the NC companies are supplying the American market so they've always been good. The only thing I've frozen is the box I bought from the factory in the DR

[Shaun]

Quality control in Cuba has improved vastly in the last decade

Its true, but is it really enough? I found a beetle hole in a Trini Reyes this year so I decided to freeze everything after that, but im a bit of a worrier so it puts my mind at rest.

[PeeJay]

Its true, but is it really enough? I found a beetle hole in a Trini Reyes this year so I decided to freeze everything after that, but im a bit of a worrier so it puts my mind at rest.

Whatever helps you sleep at night

[brugen]

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Reading this and comments like 'usual routine', such outbreaks sound quite common I'd always understood that not to be so?...[/QUOTE

As a general rule of thumb you should only need to freeze cigars bought at source, everything that's exported is treated first.

I've been smoking for about ten years now and I've only had one previous sighting. That was in a single Honduran wrapped in cellophane which did not spread.

I suspect the culprit this time was a box of Monty No 2s which a friend brought back directly from the Workers Paradise. I thought all Cubans were now freeze treated and this one had just slipped through. I didn't realise that only exports were treated this way. I'll know what to do in future.

[grumpybaldy]

Is it a health issue or 'just' that you'd open your humidor one day to find a pile of expensive dust?

[PeeJay]

Is it a health issue or 'just' that you'd open your humidor one day to find a pile of expensive dust?

The latter, some have spoken of the satisfying pop that beetles make if you smoke them