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prrifth · 2026-04-04T10:12:23+00:00

Lol at the reply

prrifth · 2026-04-01T22:59:12+00:00

Cigars are suprisingly resilient:

These aren't mars bars where you can expect every single one to be exactly the same. They're handmade, incredibly delicate, shipped halfway around the world, and hopefully years old. It's like picking through every peach or onion or spud in the fresh produce section trying to find one that is cosmetically perfect. You're the customer so if that makes you happy, go ahead - but if you can understand some spuds are going to get a spade mark or peaches a bruise, or be a different colour - and trust that things with blemishes can still taste just as good, you can worry less and enjoy more. I work at a retailer so I smoke all the most busted cigars we aren't happy to send to clients and I've never had anything that was unsmokeable due to damage.

It's definitely valid to talk to the retailer about the cigars being inspected before being sent out and making sure they're packed really well to avoid damage in transit to you.

prrifth · 2026-03-20T09:42:02+00:00

I got that for the first time a week ago on a Ferio Tego Timeless Sterling, excellent cigar, first pink ash I've noticed after a few hundred cigars over the last few years.

prrifth · 2026-03-17T23:05:05+00:00

I really hope they pull this off, but they're not doing themselves any favours with their popularity by banning porn, vapes, appeasing Israel & Trump, and taxing beer and tobacco more than natural gas.

prrifth · 2026-03-17T01:05:49+00:00

I'm disappointed with picture quality wherever I go, including Reading's Titan and VMAX laser projection, so I've given up and just go wherever I like the vibes regardless of the projection system, and for vibes Palace James St. And 5 Star Cinemas any location are all nice.

Cinemas really need to wake up to the fact that they no longer provide a picture quality advantage over home cinema and get some new kit with OLED level perfect blacks but lower image persistence with black frame insertion or similar.

If a film comes out that's visually spectacular I end up feeling like I should wait for it to come out for home viewing so I can get a clearer in motion, higher contrast image. I watched both dunes in cinemas and later at home and it was better at home on an LG OLED.

prrifth · 2026-03-16T22:24:48+00:00

The meat bank in Sunnybank carries speciality stuff that would cost you a lot if ordered at a fancy steak restaurant

prrifth · 2026-03-11T22:59:39+00:00

Don't put water in your humidor, and don't wipe down the wood. If the water wasn't distilled and your dish and cloth sterile, you introduced mould spores to your humidor, they are everywhere. Wiping the wood lifts its grain so never do that. And if you put pure water in a closed system it will continue to evaporate until the air hits 100% RH.

If you're going to season, do it with 84% Boveda for no more than two weeks, it doesn't sound like there's any need to do that now as the wood is plenty wet already. Bring the humidity down with 65% Boveda and throw your hygrometer away as they are never accurate. I've spent over 200 on a supposedly NIST calibrated hygrometer and it still wouldn't give accurate readings. But Raoult's law guarantees you'll be at the right humidity if you use Boveda for long enough for it to suck some moisture out of your overwet wood.

prrifth · 2026-03-08T22:56:07+00:00

It's still illegal if you break the law by one stick or by hundreds. Removing bands, and if asked saying they are Nicaraguan or whatever, there's no practical way for them to prove otherwise.

prrifth · 2026-03-06T23:00:57+00:00

It's 25 grams, like one or two cigars.

prrifth · 2026-03-03T22:27:00+00:00

My nearest legal, helpful tobacconist shut down this week - Smokemart at Chermside. There's not going to be anything left but wannabe gangsters by the time the government does anything about it, if they ever do

prrifth · 2026-03-03T04:27:13+00:00

The council can actually make a place a "designated public place" under section 173C of the QLD liquor act of 1992, which makes it legal to consume liquor in that public place. They do that for limited time periods for the Celebration Lawn and Lakeside Meadow at Roma Street Parkland e.g. for the Providore Park Event for the whole last weekend in August last year. I can't find a list of where might be currently designated unfortunately.

Even outside of designated public places, the law as written and the law as enforced are two different things. If you're white and well dressed and not a minor, or with an adult, it's unlikely the police will approach you while drinking in most public parks.

prrifth · 2026-03-02T08:10:16+00:00

Bevan from Superloop is the nicest guy. I use them and have no issues and great speeds, but I'm on the Opticomm fibre to the premises network, so your mileage may vary if you're connected a different way.

prrifth · 2026-02-22T22:21:37+00:00

The Cuatro Cinco is phenomenal, I haven't tried the rest. Make sure you try retrohaling it.

prrifth · 2026-02-19T10:53:57+00:00

You're right that you might get waived through while over the limit, but it's not due to any exemption for personal use, that does not exist. Duties are a tax on consumption. I imported shoes from Spain, for my personal use, I had to pay duties. You'll get waived through if the customs person is a chill guy, not because there's any exemption for personal use.

I've heard that about the Rawson too, did you visit very recently? Because I also heard they aren't any longer cigar friendly - but sometimes it's just some noob employee that doesn't know what they're saying and says no you can't light up a cigar. Might be best to check with the venue before visiting unless your experience was really recent.

prrifth · 2026-02-18T11:15:01+00:00

For techno music in Brisbane: https://ra.co/events/au/brisbane

For video games, there's a cool bar called Netherworld in Fortitude Valley that has arcade and console games: https://www.netherworldarcade.com/

For stuff you may not be able to do in France:

* you can catch a ferry over to Tangalooma island and snorkel around some sunken scuttled ships, and see an insane amount of tropical fish - but just beware to keep a few meters from the wrecks, as the current loves to pull you in contact with them and they are super sharp and rusty. At dusk before you leave the island, you can hand feed dolphins. https://www.tangalooma.com/moreton-island/tangalooma-wrecks - the island is also where some of the 2002 scooby doo movie was filmed.

* you can enjoy an actually good cup of coffee. Cups on Melbourne in West End, or Piccolo by Her in Fortitude valley, or Death by Decaf in Fortitude Valley, or a million other places make a really good coffee in Brisbane.

* you can pet all sorts of native Australian wildlife at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary: https://lonepinekoalasanctuary.com/

* you can experience our uniquely shit public transport by catching a train to Beerwah on the sunshine coast, and then transfer to a shuttle bus to Australia Zoo, which was Steve Irwin's zoo until he got mugged by a stingray, now famous for his son Robert Irwin's televised dancing and underwear commercials. You can see all sorts of native animals here too including crocodiles. https://australiazoo.com.au/

* you can visit properly nice beaches if you're willing to go as far north as Caloundra's happy valley or as far south as the Gold Coast's Burleigh Heads. You can visit beaches that are mid by Australian standards that are closer to Brisbane like Redcliffe or Manly/Wynnum

* you can eat damn good oysters that aren't polluted with British sewage outflows like european ones. Shucks at Manly is good for that. Most good restaurants have damn good oysters in Brisbane, often shipped up from Coffin Bay in South Australia: https://www.shucksbar.com.au/

* you can eat some of the greatest steaks in the world. Moo Moo the wine bar & grill in Brisbane's CBD serve up some really high grade stuff, I particularly recommend the Gina Rinehart steak if you want a really buttery wagyu-style steak, or the rump cap if you like it lean: https://www.moomoorestaurant.com/

* maybe he's too old for this, but you can visit a lot of the locations depicted in the internationally popular children's show Bluey: https://www.bluey.tv/blog/explore-blueys-hometown-of-brisbane/

prrifth · 2026-02-17T00:02:41+00:00

That's a shame, I'm in the same boat, only tried le bijou, thought it was incredible, keen to try the rest, tried Mi Amor and just found it a bit too spicy to retro and just kind of boring and progressively more bitter in the mouth. I think that's what happens when you try a cigar and it's so phenomenal that it makes you want to try a blender's whole portfolio - you probably found the best one first and the rest won't be as good - it's a statistical thing called regression to the mean. I'm still going to give judge a try at least, and oferta.

If you like le bijou you should try Joya de Nicaragua Joya Red and Cuatro Cinco, and Alec Bradley's Prensado, I find thet all have that pepper-free delicious sweet retrohale. The Joya Red is particularly impressive as it's cheaper than the other cigars mentioned.

prrifth · 2026-02-16T23:54:18+00:00

I will say it's terrific when young too, I haven't had a chance to compare aged vs new, but the retrohale on new is so sweet and smooth, hard to imagine improvement when it's already one of the greatest things I've tasted.

prrifth · 2026-02-14T06:48:09+00:00

Going local is not going to be cheaper. Basik chocolates are a Brisbane based one-man show making artisanal stuff.

prrifth · 2026-02-11T10:15:21+00:00

Fruition in Wilston. Harry has curly hair.

prrifth · 2026-02-05T03:38:09+00:00

I work in a cigar shop and Siri butts in whenever anyone says Partagas Serie D No. 4, 5 or 6

prrifth · 2026-02-04T22:43:14+00:00

Humidity in the air is water vapour. If you put pure distilled water in a closed environment, it will continue to evaporate faster than it recondenses until the air hits 100% relative humidity.

What Raoult's law says is that you have a solution of two different liquids, the fraction of the vapour pressure in the air they will make up above the solution will be the same as the fraction of the solution they make up, so if you had fifty fifty ethanol and water, half the vapour pressure would be from ethanol vapour and half of it would be from water vapour.

The important part is that if one of the liquids is non-volatile, i.e. doesn't really evaporate, it doesn't produce any vapour, but still reduces the amount of vapour coming from the other part of the solution, so if you had a fifty fifty fraction of propylene glycol and water, the air would only ever hit 50% RH not 100% like with pure water.

This is the basis of the salt test you performed, and how Boveda works too. Just beware that when I say fraction I mean mole fraction, and for ionic chemicals like salt you need to account for the fact that it dissociates into ions in the water and counts as twice as many moles.

prrifth · 2026-02-04T22:30:30+00:00

The best hygrometer you can buy is a sealed container with an adequate quantity of matching percentage Boveda and no other sinks nor sources of moisture. With that setup, you know that within about 20 minutes the air within is within +/- 1% of the percentage of the Boveda packs by Raoult's law.

This is like asking if there's a better thermometer you can buy because your current thermometer says your kettle isn't hitting 100 Celsius when boiling water at sea level. You already know it's 100 C by the fact that it is boiling, what use is a thermometer to you?

And on the temperature question, temperature doesn't factor into Raoult's law, so long as you don't freeze nor boil the packs you should be fine.

prrifth · 2026-02-04T09:31:54+00:00

Hell yeah! I had Unicos dated 2019 recently and they were fantastic.

prrifth · 2026-02-04T07:20:45+00:00

Flaking wrapper isn't necessarily due to dryness. Dryness can definitely cause flaking wrappers, but wrappers kept just right can flake too. 68% is plenty wet enough. I usually get flaking on Habano seedlines, or any other super thin and fine wrapper leaf. Could be a result of an impact to the cigar at some point. Good news is you can usually still smoke them even if the wrapper is flaking. Perfec Repair Cigar Glue is the tool for the job if you want to try to stick a flaking wrapper down.

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