Trying to save dried Cubans
I met a friend of my daughters at her wedding. We got to talking and I told him about my youtube channel. He told me how he went to Cuba before the ban was put back in place and brought back a box if cigars and never opened it. It has spend the last 8 years sitting on a shelf.
He offered to send them to me, they arrived today. I don’t see a lot if damage except a crack on one, but they are dry as a brick.
I have placed them in a rubbermaid with a bunch of 69% boveda to try and resurrect them
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Hard to tell, but the bands look off. Can you take a photo of one of the cigar bands closer up?
I found out today you can buy bands on Alibaba.
As for bringing them back, do it very slowly. 69% may be a bit aggressive.
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I have no doubt they are real, guy sent them to me no cost and he owns a number of businesses and is very well off, if he said he brought them back from cuba I have no doubt he did.
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@whisky_sippers said:
I have no doubt they are real, guy sent them to me no cost and he owns a number of businesses and is very well off, if he said he brought them back from cuba I have no doubt he did.I agree…. The beetle hole tells me they are real.
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I guess regardless i gonna smoke one in 6 months and see how it tastes egen thoufh i am told they cant really be saved
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I would agree with @Yakster on this one. Even fakes are sold in Cuba, the problem is the fake bands are almost identical to the real ones. One way to tell for sure is by the barcode on the box. If the barcode matches the one on the Cohiba website, then you’re good. But I’ve never seen a Cohiba box with the barcode on top. It’s usually a holographic strip on the top and a barcode on the bottom of the box. On a real Cohiba band, the lettering of Cohiba is embossed deeply, and the checker boxes are perfectly aligned, none of them should be cut off or partial squares, they all have a perfect borderline, the bands on your cigars are not consistent and it looks like none of them are identical. Also, the dead giveaway is the Havana Cuba lettering should be centered on every band, on your bands none of them are centered.
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But that’s still one hell of a guy just giving you a box of Cohibas, that’s an awesome gift! Real or not, you have a special friend in your life and that’s priceless.
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Good point, Ross, I noticed the same thing with the Habana Cuba alignment and what looked like the white checkers on some of the bands touching the gold without a black border inbetween.
They could be Cuban cigars, but the bands are off so they're probably not Cohibas.
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But at least the chances are good that they're made from Cuban-seed tobaccos.
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I know that on siglos and esplendidos, there should be 9 rows of whole white checkered boxes. Not 8 1/2 haha
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Wrong thread!!!!
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@whisky_sippers please report back with your findings. I would love to know how it turned out. Maybe from your experience we can learn from it. Thank you for the post.
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Honestly if they were as dry as you said the oils are long gone and what’s left will be a harsh not very fun to smoke cigar.
It’s sad, let’s hope they’re fake so we don’t have to mourn their loss.
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Other Frank is right, but it doesn't hurt to try. Who knows. It's probably fine.
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I don’t know other Frank, even the cigar beetle said **** it, after it dug its way out 😂
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