Hi all, I was hoping to get a bit of advice.
I live in the UK and I mainly smoke in the summer (not a fan of smoking in the cold and my wife won't let me smoke indoors which is fair enough)
Anyway I've come across a strange problem today that hopefully someone can shed some light on. I keep my cigars in a small wooden humidor with a well calibrated hygro. I smoke exclusively R&J's with a few new world but my humidor is a steady 65%. +- 2 degrees.
After taking out a stick today it felt perfect, no spongyness, firm when I rolled it in my fingers with no cracking but also no bounce. Prefect I thought. Anyway I left it out for say 15 -20 minutes to acclimatise before smoking, cut it lit it, and by the time I took my first puff the outer binding had cracked slightly and after 1 draw the cigar was really spongy like it had been over humidified and ended up smoking terribly with an awful uneven burn. I'm slightly perplexed, has anyone had this before? I don't think the cigars are over humidified as they all "feel" perfect and the hygro has been recalibrated and is correct. I'm hoping it's just 1 bad stick although I do always buy them from legit sellers so don't think it was a well made fake slipped in but being as it was only 19 degrees here and 60% humidity I don't think it was the environment that ruined it so quickly.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance
I live in the UK and I mainly smoke in the summer (not a fan of smoking in the cold and my wife won't let me smoke indoors which is fair enough)
Anyway I've come across a strange problem today that hopefully someone can shed some light on. I keep my cigars in a small wooden humidor with a well calibrated hygro. I smoke exclusively R&J's with a few new world but my humidor is a steady 65%. +- 2 degrees.
After taking out a stick today it felt perfect, no spongyness, firm when I rolled it in my fingers with no cracking but also no bounce. Prefect I thought. Anyway I left it out for say 15 -20 minutes to acclimatise before smoking, cut it lit it, and by the time I took my first puff the outer binding had cracked slightly and after 1 draw the cigar was really spongy like it had been over humidified and ended up smoking terribly with an awful uneven burn. I'm slightly perplexed, has anyone had this before? I don't think the cigars are over humidified as they all "feel" perfect and the hygro has been recalibrated and is correct. I'm hoping it's just 1 bad stick although I do always buy them from legit sellers so don't think it was a well made fake slipped in but being as it was only 19 degrees here and 60% humidity I don't think it was the environment that ruined it so quickly.
Any thoughts? Thanks in advance