News — Humidor & Cigar Care

  There’s no joy like firing up a cigar every once in a while to enjoy in the comfort of your own home or on a night out on the town. To ensure that cigar is in top condition, preserved perfectly in any humidor, it’s important to use the right water. Of course, there are plenty of tips and tricks out there to beat the natural aging of cigars, but here’s a main one only the experts use. Purified water is the way to go for preserving any cigars in a humidor. In fact, the more highly purified the water is,...

There are a few useful and simple things one can do with their over-humidified cigars to assist in restoring them to their crisp and pristine original quality. However, before we get into all of that, let us first discuss how to properly tell when your cigars are over humidified. Now, obviously, if your cigars are nothing but mush and dripping huge globs of water, they’re clearly over humidified. However, over humidification is generally a bit more subtle than that. Over humidified cigars will tend to be much softer than they were originally, not only that but they will also begin to twist,...

One thing that’s important to know when you decide to become a cigar smoker is that something as simple as the weather can really affect your smoking experience, which is one reason smokers tend to carry and protect their cigars in humidors, but I’m not going to get into the depths of that. I want to explain exactly why and how hot weather and humidity can affect tur cigars and ruin your smoking experience. First things first, it’s vital to know that cigars already maintain a moisture level of about 12% -15%. This is so that the richness and taste...

There are a number of different ways in which a humidor might be broken. However, the most important and frequent problem is a malfunction in the humidor’s hygrometer. Below are two different methods you can use to troubleshoot your hygrometer based on the type you’re using, either analog or digital. ANALOG HYGROMETERS: To check analog hygrometers, simply soak a hand towel and wrap it around your hygrometer. Let it sit this way for 30 minutes and then check the reading. If the hygrometer should register anything other than 100% humidity, it’ll need to be re-calibrated. As a note, it’s important...