Greetings and happy new year fellow BOTL's and thank you for letting me join this wonderful forum of the leaf.
Please allow me to introduce myself.
I'm currently the principal second violinist of the Cyprus symphony after I had to change disciplines from business where I had been sales&marketing manager in a plastics factory which went out of business in the 2013 economic crisis.
Last August and while on tour with the orchestra, a fellow violinist who had been to Cuba that very summer, gave me a Cuban cigar to try and I was hooked. It wasn't a fake as he bought all his cigars from a high-class hotel. As he is not a cigar smoker, I ended up smoking all the cigars he brought wth him on the tour, since no one else in the group smoked cigars. Now I have a 100 count humidor with some really nice cigars (for me). I do like medium strength, but with complexity and creaminess and my local tobacconist is a big help with this. I love the Alec Bradley brand as well as the LFD and now I'm being introduced to the Rocky Patel cigars with the Olde World reserve.
I have seasoned my humidor with distilled water and it now keeps 70% humidity all the time. For humidity I use a 50-50 propylene glycol solution which I prepare myself with distilled water. It makes me think though, I might not be doing things right when other people use Bovida packs which are surely more expensive than this solution.
Perhaps you might care to advise me on this before it's too late. My last question is that in the summer we regularly see temperatures of about a 100 every day for a couple of months. I'm really worried how to keep my cigars at a temperature that will not harm them.
Please allow me to introduce myself.
I'm currently the principal second violinist of the Cyprus symphony after I had to change disciplines from business where I had been sales&marketing manager in a plastics factory which went out of business in the 2013 economic crisis.
Last August and while on tour with the orchestra, a fellow violinist who had been to Cuba that very summer, gave me a Cuban cigar to try and I was hooked. It wasn't a fake as he bought all his cigars from a high-class hotel. As he is not a cigar smoker, I ended up smoking all the cigars he brought wth him on the tour, since no one else in the group smoked cigars. Now I have a 100 count humidor with some really nice cigars (for me). I do like medium strength, but with complexity and creaminess and my local tobacconist is a big help with this. I love the Alec Bradley brand as well as the LFD and now I'm being introduced to the Rocky Patel cigars with the Olde World reserve.
I have seasoned my humidor with distilled water and it now keeps 70% humidity all the time. For humidity I use a 50-50 propylene glycol solution which I prepare myself with distilled water. It makes me think though, I might not be doing things right when other people use Bovida packs which are surely more expensive than this solution.
Perhaps you might care to advise me on this before it's too late. My last question is that in the summer we regularly see temperatures of about a 100 every day for a couple of months. I'm really worried how to keep my cigars at a temperature that will not harm them.
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