Tells us Pete, JD & any other cigar blenders

[njstone]

I prefer my humidors to be between 65 - 67 - this has alot to do with the type of cigars that I prefer to smoke... cigars with heavy material and robust wrappers imo always smoke better a touch on the drier side.

The issue that we have as a manufacturer who has to ship the product and for retailers who have to store the product this is NOT ideal because the cigars are more delicate when the RH is lower.

STS

Yep, and that's why when I buy Ligas they always arrive "wet." But it's all good, as I prefer to age mine anyway.

Many manufacturers seem to do this now, including Tatuaje (though I will say the Fausto and LCC both seemed as though they were drier than I'm used to receiving, and that's a good thing since I wanted to try them asap).

 

[njstone]

I believe Rob at FoH once mentioned he keeps his personal stuff at 62-63%, but that's Habanos.

 

[torin]

65-67% for me, I find that is best to age my stuff.

 

[neoflex]

How do you get to 67?

Put in 1/2 70 beads and 1/2 65 beads and let them duke it out?

An Oasis tends to work well at keeping a cabinet at odd ball numbers. I think if your looking to store sticks for long term storage, 70% is better for aging but for a cab you smoke out of I'm a firm believer that 70% is just too high.
I had some high falootin guy with more money than sense sit in the lounge with us one night. We were talking about humidor Rh and he spouts out "Sounds like a lot of work, that's why I pay a guy to make sure my humidors stay at 80." I looked at him and just shook my head thinking about how that guy should be fired for keeping the humidity so high.:hammersma

 

[Danilo]

I have never heard of 70% being better for aging... I actually heard on the lower end, 60-63% for aging long term

 

[acc]

What we try to do for our clients, is help them control their humidity differently for different cigars. In the case of our ACC branded cigars, (Don Cervantes, PROPIO and others) the Sumatra Maduro, Habano, CT wrapper etc, are all great around 70%.
Our Tres Maduro and a cigar called Nero are more sensitive to humidity and need to be lower, around 65%.

If the humidity is too high, it can take some time for the cigar to truly adjust. Simply lowering the humidity back to your preferred level is not always the entire solution. Sometimes it is best to remove the cigars, lay them out flat on trays, let the air get them from all sides. Sometimes cigars jammed in a humidor are often subject too too much humidity hitting one side of the cigar, then you get a slow burn on one side and the fire burns up only one side of your cigar. Unfortunately for us manufacturers, we usually get the blame for that one.
If you guys have a humidity problem try to give your cigars space to breathe, take time to let them adjust (days or weeks).

Max

 

[acc]

I have never heard of 70% being better for aging... I actually heard on the lower end, 60-63% for aging long term

Hey man, The reason you might have heard that is too high humidity over very long periods of time measured in decades, higher humidity levels can contribute to the degradation of the tobacco itself, and possibly the cigar falling apart. You might have seen or heard about some of those old Flor De Farachs being un-smokable after people bought them for hundreds of bucks. That was likely the reason.

We have a lot of old tobacco in our factory and we have this problem. We use it for special edition cigars and blending with newer cigars. The biggest problem we have is preventing the leaf from falling apart before we want to use it.

 

[acc]

I believe Rob at FoH once mentioned he keeps his personal stuff at 62-63%, but that's Habanos.

Personally I would keep Habanos at 70 because they are inherently un-fermented and young. They are in desperate need of more fermentation and aging, so anything you can do to speed that up is better.

 

[acc]

I am definitely dropping the RH in mine when my current batch of Boveda packs runs out. I'm at 69% right now and the cigars are just too wet to burn consistently.

Hey man, take them out of the humi, put them on trays, let them get even air circulation all around so they do not stay wet on one side. Let them evenly and smoothly adjust back to a better humidity (unless you have a lot of air flow and space in your humidor).

 

[tedp]

Hmmm.

I'm not telling. :blob::blob:

JD

Yer killin us here JD!:scratchhe

 

[WhiteWolfIndulgence]

Hey man, take them out of the humi, put them on trays, let them get even air circulation all around so they do not stay wet on one side. Let them evenly and smoothly adjust back to a better humidity (unless you have a lot of air flow and space in your humidor).

I need to get a bigger humidor one of these days. The 20 count keeps mine moist but I have NO room for a hygrometer in it. and I stock enough cigars for probably two or three boxes at a time right now. A 100 count would do nicely, I could keep probably 90 or so in it and keep my special smokes in the 20 count. Even my ten count doesn't have space anymore. So airflow is a problem along with having to rotate my sticks occassionally.

 

[neoflex]

I need to get a bigger humidor one of these days. The 20 count keeps mine moist but I have NO room for a hygrometer in it. and I stock enough cigars for probably two or three boxes at a time right now. A 100 count would do nicely, I could keep probably 90 or so in it and keep my special smokes in the 20 count. Even my ten count doesn't have space anymore. So airflow is a problem along with having to rotate my sticks occassionally.

If you think a 100 count will be plenty than buy a 200 or 300 count. I always tell guys to buy double what they think is plenty big especially if they participate on cigar boards as it's a slippery slope and eventually we always outgrow our current storage space.:grin: Now if I only followed my own advice I would just have one cabinet to look after.:rofl:

 

[hudaddy]

Definitely under 65, if you're aging habanos. I keep mine at 64.

 

[Moose]

I am right about 64% most days, if the air conditioning has been running in my house for a while I add more humidity and it usually will hold 66%.

 

[The EVP]

I typically keep mine at 67-68.

 

[gibbleguts]

I read a while back in an intrerview with one of the largest collectors of Habanos in Hong Kong that he stored at 65/65 half just because at the size of his collection it was just not possible to go through every box and check for storage issues. Like mold or beetles. Most of us are not in that league so we will all have different opions. I knmow some that live in drier climates tend to store drier just to stop the wrappersa from popping when you try to smoke them in the low humidity. Even the so called experts will have a different opinion.

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[Cyrann]

68% is what I find... and key word "I" ... like the best.

 

[CWS]

The accumonitor is set at 67. It stays pretty close to that. I move boxes around top to bottom until they smoke they way I like.

 

[itallushrt]

I don't even read my hygrometer any more... I have a crap ton of beads and I refresh them every so often. My cigars smoke well..... the end.

Yep! :gangfire: