Cigar Algebra and the Coolidor.........
KingoftheCove
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Some Sunday morning reading for you boys.....
Well I've been doing some mid-level cigar math - (I'm OK at algebra, always sucked in trig and calculus).....
So I'm looking at these variables:
1) Wanting to have cigars that have 1+ year of humi time
2) Burn rate of 12-15 cigars per month
3) Current purchase rate of 20-30 cigars/month
3) Currently at just under 200 sticks, most with less than 2 to 3 months on them
4) Two main humis, one at 80+% full, the other at 90+% full, and a back-up 40-50 stick capacity that's empty, and one small travel humi that doesn't count.
The writing is on the wall........more humis, a huge humi, or a coolidor is the only alternative, unless something above changes.
The problem is, if I want to have aged sticks at some point down the line, I need to at least sustain my 2 to 1, purchase to smoke ratio............iincreasing the ratio to 4 or 5 to 1 would be better......but create trouble on the home front.................I know some of you have been here.............i know some of you will be here..........
Have I bored all of you enough yet......................sorry about that........, but I'll continue anyways, for fellow noobs who will be at the same crossroads.
The whole coolidor issue isn't about stick storage for storage sakes.................it's about building up inventory so that you actually can 'age" some sticks, and depending on how many you smoke and purchase over time, this equation can get quite tricky.
There are easy/quick fixes, unfortunately none of them cheap.
-Buy 200 cigars, put them in a coolidor, and let it sit for a year while you happily continue to buy and smoke sticks, using your other storage unit(s), knowing that in a year you'll have aged sticks.
-Ramp up your purchase to smoke ratio to 5+ to 1.
-Find someone getting out of the hobby and buy up their sticks.
All this math makes me want a morning cigar.................gonna go pick one now......Cohiba Red Dot Robusto sounds about right
Well I've been doing some mid-level cigar math - (I'm OK at algebra, always sucked in trig and calculus).....
So I'm looking at these variables:
1) Wanting to have cigars that have 1+ year of humi time
2) Burn rate of 12-15 cigars per month
3) Current purchase rate of 20-30 cigars/month
3) Currently at just under 200 sticks, most with less than 2 to 3 months on them
4) Two main humis, one at 80+% full, the other at 90+% full, and a back-up 40-50 stick capacity that's empty, and one small travel humi that doesn't count.
The writing is on the wall........more humis, a huge humi, or a coolidor is the only alternative, unless something above changes.
The problem is, if I want to have aged sticks at some point down the line, I need to at least sustain my 2 to 1, purchase to smoke ratio............iincreasing the ratio to 4 or 5 to 1 would be better......but create trouble on the home front.................I know some of you have been here.............i know some of you will be here..........
Have I bored all of you enough yet......................sorry about that........, but I'll continue anyways, for fellow noobs who will be at the same crossroads.
The whole coolidor issue isn't about stick storage for storage sakes.................it's about building up inventory so that you actually can 'age" some sticks, and depending on how many you smoke and purchase over time, this equation can get quite tricky.
There are easy/quick fixes, unfortunately none of them cheap.
-Buy 200 cigars, put them in a coolidor, and let it sit for a year while you happily continue to buy and smoke sticks, using your other storage unit(s), knowing that in a year you'll have aged sticks.
-Ramp up your purchase to smoke ratio to 5+ to 1.
-Find someone getting out of the hobby and buy up their sticks.
All this math makes me want a morning cigar.................gonna go pick one now......Cohiba Red Dot Robusto sounds about right
Comments
If money wasn't the issue, I'd suggest purchasing aged sticks. LTD Editions from a couple years ago would be a good choice. Having a couple boxes like that lets you pick between your newer sticks and aged sticks. This will help to keep your newer sticks around a little longer to see how they age.
Having said that, I have sticks in my humi from:
and the list goes on. My most recent purchase was from this spring and I do smoke the cigars, but only 2 or 3 per week, especially in our cold Norther Ontario winters...Brrrrrrrrrrr.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that it is possible to age cigars and to buy cigars that are already aged. It makes for a good mix. If you keep buying cigars, you will find that some of them age just because you haven't gotten around to smoking them. I also suggest buying full boxes instead of singles. That way you can put a few from each box to age, and then smoke the rest.
Don't hurt anything with all that math.....cigars should be fun, not painfull, lol.
I have one humi dedicated for aging. The cigars in there are unwrapped and are what I believe are good candidates for aging (and which I've had so I know I like them). My other humi is for smoking out of and where all my singles finally end up. This is the one I root around in the most. My cooler is for bulk storage. Sometimes I smoke out of my cooler, which is fine, but all the cigars in there I have several of or boxes of.
It works for me and I've got way more than I smoke so they all end up with various amounts of age before they are smoked.