Humidity Effect Taste

[RaschNuts]

Does the humidity effect the taste or does it just effect the burn and draw type aspects?

 

[Treinenwj]

Yes and yes. A dry cigar will burn hotter, and that will definitely affect the taste, making it more harsh and bitter.

 

[GoingPostal]

Yes and yes. A dry cigar will burn hotter, and that will definitely affect the taste, making it more harsh and bitter.

+1 comes down to preference and how "trained" your pallet is.

 

[Patrick B]

Yep, 70 tastes like crap to me. 62-65 is yummy...

 

[PLUSH]

Very much so. Now the question you must figure out, it what rh do you like to smoke it at. As I mentioned in another thread once cigars have been stored for too long with extreme low humidity most if not all of their essentials oils are gone. With it, their flavor.

 

[sofc]

I prefer in in the low sixties also. Although I went downstairs and the humidor was at 18. Not good at all (Happy Daryl?)

 

[CWS]

Does the humidity effect the taste or does it just effect the burn and draw type aspects?

Excellent question. An over humidified cigar can close up making it tight and a slow smoke. A dry cigar as stated can burn hot. Different blends react to different humidity. A cuban cigar smokes better at a lower RH IMHO. I like Oliva V's at about 69 70% and an H Upan Sir Winston at 64%. I used to keep three different humidors for the purpose. Now After expereimenting different shelves in the cab yeild the same results. Trial and error is half the fun.