Calling All Stockmen...

[Robusto]

My cigar stock is max 50 and always going down. I buy more when I have two or three sticks left.

I haven't ever set about stocking cigars, but the humi photos on the forum - especially Rok's - have made me start thinking seriously about making myself a store.

I'd love to know from the stockmen how long it took you to lay down so many cigars, and did you plan your purchases carefully?

[Gary]

Robusto, I wouldn't consider myself a "Stockmam" as in I haven't got a load of cigars aging, well not yet, I have handful's of different cigars that have some years of age on them. I have about 20 or so Montecristo Petit Edmundo's with about 2 years on them, same age on about 10 Opus X as well as a dozen or so Rocky Patels 1990/1992 and lesser numbers of other Cubans and some NC.

But I am also considering or have been considering for some time about aging, and as have said in other posts am hopefully getting a wine cooler soon to convert to a humidor that will be able to hold and age maybe 20 boxes or more if I get boxes of 10's.

With regards to your question about careful choice about your purchase of boxes to store/age, I think you've hit on an important point! Obviously each to their own, people will store and stock what they want to and so they should, but personally, when I start aging boxes I think I'm going to be focusing on Regional Editions and Limited Editions rather than just normal boxes of Cubans. Obviously I'll probably have the odd box or two of my favourites like Ramon Allones Specially Selected but I think with RE and LE cigars these MAY age better (although not every one produced) and because they are only made over the course of a 12 month period or so and then stopped with time they will be harder to get and hopefully your investment should increase in value, although buying for selling is obviously not my main objective, but on the other hand it can't hurt me either

[Stogiedog]

Laying down of Cigars

I have got my coolidor working fine stable at 68%RH. Collected my first box of R&J Short Churchills to put into the coolidor after seeing the large collections of cigars that forum members have I am sure that someone will have an answer to my simple question.

Do you leave the cigar box lid closed / sealed or do you open / take the lid off the box as if the cigars were in a table top humidor or does it not matter?

Thanks

The Dog

[Gary]

Dog,

I would definately leave the lid on the box, it will protect the cigars from possible damage at the very least! Personally, if i buy a box of cigars I always open them just to check that everything is ok inside.

But i would definately leave the lid box on, it doesn't really matter too much I don't think if it's sealed or not because the Spanish cedar that the boxes are made of can absorb moisture and keep the cigars in good condition and stop them from drying out.

Good choice of box by the way, R&J Short Churchills are good!

[TJCoro]

My cigar stock is max 50 and always going down. I buy more when I have two or three sticks left.

I haven't ever set about stocking cigars, but the humi photos on the forum - especially Rok's - have made me start thinking seriously about making myself a store.

I'd love to know from the stockmen how long it took you to lay down so many cigars, and did you plan your purchases carefully?

Robusto,

I've been aging puros since 2002, but it happened quite by accident, really. I think what started me on aging was getting a humidor big enough to store boxes, rather than just a few sticks.

My Plan? When I find a puro/cigar I like, I sometimes buy two boxes if I can get a good price. I will smoke from one box and saved the other. Before I finished the first box, I buy another so the original box can continue to age.

This can get quite expensive, as you can imagine. So another aging method I use is to save the last two cigars of each box, mark them with the factory code and date, and store them in a seperate box in my humidor. I currently have two boxes of pairs aging this way- the oldest with 7 years and the youngest with 2.

TJ

[spirit_of_will]

B/SOTL's - keeping with the recent spirit of resurrecting old threads, I've just found this one...

I'm keen to follow on from Robusto's question and wonder if and what strategy any of you had in trying to build up some stocks for aging purposes?

[bigbarneyhotdog]

buy more than you smoke, that's the only answer.

[TJCoro]

Aging on a Budget!

buy more than you smoke, that's the only answer.

Senor hoggrande is correct! But if you are trying to age a few sticks on a budget, I suggest you use the method suggested by the late, great don TJ, TJ Coro, and I quote:

"This can get quite expensive, as you can imagine. So another aging method I use is to save the last two cigars of each box, mark them with the factory code and date, and store them in a seperate box in my humidor. I currently have two boxes of pairs aging this way- the oldest with 7 years and the youngest with 2. "

Currently, the old bastard has over 3 boxes of two-fers going back to 2002, with a few singles from 1990!


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Walk away from don TJ's aging boxes BB, and think of England!

[whisky77]

I use a similar method to TJ with ageing and storing the smokes I really enjoy. I will sometimes leave 5 or 10 cigars in the box before moving onto the next box. Try stickng them at the back of the humi and forgetting about them.

[monkey66]

I have been buying to age for about 3 years now. I am still buying more that I smoke but am beginning to slow down my buying.

My goal is to have a rolling stock of 5-10 year aged sticks at which point I should only need to buy 50 or so sticks per year that I smoke to top up. This means a ageing stock of 250-500 sticks.

Such is the theory

[Mark3142]

THat is some investment to have up to 500 sticks in stock. Not sure I could justify that amount. I need to concentrate on smoking the 4 sticks I have first before I start stacking

[monkey66]

We all started with 4 sticks ...then the affliction gets hold

[TJCoro]

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I need to concentrate on smoking the 4 sticks I have first before I start stacking

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[Mark3142]

It's hard to know sticks to try. Everyone says the ones they smoke are the best. For a complete newbie like myself the choice is unbelievable. At the moment I feel like a 6 yr old in a sweetie shop with no one behind the counter

[cohibaIV]

B/SOTL's - keeping with the recent spirit of resurrecting old threads, I've just found this one...

I'm keen to follow on from Robusto's question and wonder if and what strategy any of you had in trying to build up some stocks for aging purposes?

Resurrect away mate.....Nothing wrong with bring up old threads...