Some Good News


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As many of you will remember, my primary home humidor, with over 250 cigars in it, suffered an apparently humidity fail while I was away on deployment, and was reading 47% upon my return in January.

After much advice from great FOH'ers and BOTLs, I started to bring the cigars slowly back in large tupper-dore-like containers, before stocking the lot of them into a good friend's active-humidification humidor here in Victoria to finish the return to smokability. There they have lain for 3 months.

Yesterday afternoon, I paid my friend a visit to pick up a box of cigars I had sent his way (Bolivar Corona Extras - LAG NOV 10, and they look awesome!) and thought I'd check out the dried out cigars to see how they are doing!

In a few words - Much better!

After months of active humidifcation at 70%, the cigars are no longer stiff and crackly, and they have the same "give" as before when you give them a slight squeeze. Wrapper cracking was minimal, which was really encouraging. The aroma off them is as it used to be before, so I thought I'd light one up to see how they smoke!

I decided to go for broke and picked out my oldest cigar box there, my few remaining '95 SLR PC's. I snagged the ugliest looking one and set 'er alight. Taste was great! I couldn't detect any of the taste-muting that happened with the cigars when dried out, and draw/burn was spot on. Very encouraging to see!

I picked out a few singles from other boxes to see how they fared (a couple of ERDM GDE's and one RA 898), but in the meantime I will leave the cigars in that humi for a while longer, let them settle out further before trying to move them home again.

In any case, great news! It's so relieving to find that they could be rescued! :thumbsup:

Thanks very much to all who helped with advice and recommendations!

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Good news! As has been said before, cigars are much hardier creatures than many give them credit for. I think there is a lot of myth out there regarding how quickly they may deteriorate in not so perfect conditions.

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Congrats. I have brought some back that were only "mostly dead" too, and they smoked very well. It took a long time, I couldn't tell that they had dried at all from the taste after bringing them back to life.

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Good news! As has been said before, cigars are much hardier creatures than many give them credit for. I think there is a lot of myth out there regarding how quickly they may deteriorate in not so perfect conditions.

Agreed

Congrats Chris!

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Great news Chris

Good to see you had a win

OZ

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