Thanks! and well.......I like playing with my cigars frequently. I stick my nose in each box, take a big whiff, search through, shuffle and rotate the stash (and inspect). This is a good thing because...
I had received a gifted cigar from a buddy here in L.A. and I just had a feelin'...the cigar was one I'd never heard of, rolled by a local store in OC (Orange County). I was very suspicious. Not to mention that my buddy who lives in OC doesn't keep a temperature controlled humidor and it gets hot here in L.A.
I was very appreciative of the gesture, however suspicious. I too hadn't had a temperature controlled anything for several months this year (before the Vino) and I presume the combination of the two hot environments and possibly not the best humidity control brought on the outbreak.
Fortunately, I kept the cigar in question isolated in the tupperdor. There were a few vulnerable soldiers in there as well, so I have kept them all isolated. We're talking about ten sticks.
I noticed holes in the questionable cigar and immediately froze it in the ziploc bag. Then I noticed upon a more frequent inspection cycle that there was a freaking beetle crawling on the foot of one of the Gurkha soldiers in the tupperdor. I flushed the bastard and added the Gurkha to the plastic bag in the freezer.
I normally don't freeze my cigars but I chose to freeze the entire tupperdor to nip the outbreak in the bud. And I've made certain to check the rest of the stash regularly just to make sure it didn't break out beyond the tupperdor. It did not, fortunately.
So my goal lately has been to smoke these other soldier Beetlegars as quickly as possible and get rid of the tupperdor completely so there's no question as to whether or not the damn beetles spread to the other sticks inside the tupperdor.
I have bombed a few BOTL on here and made it very clear to them that the bombed cigars were in no way near the outbreak, which again, was completely isolated.
