ChanceSchmerr Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 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! Thanks very much to all who helped with advice and recommendations!
Ryan Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 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.
Rushman Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 Nice! --- I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=20.629950,-87.070076
rcarlson Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 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.
rp99pts Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 Most important thing is that YOU arrived back safely from deployment...Cigars can be replaced...
jacktarnold Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 Thats great news. My friend did the same thing to his and has enlisted me to help him at least there are the few success stories of bringing back dry cigars.
khomeinist Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 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!
CBL Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 Great news! Good to hear that amazing collection wasn't wasted, and it's also good to know that dry cigar can be saved!
nikesupremedunk Posted July 9, 2012 Posted July 9, 2012 Great to hear. I'm going through the opposite right now as I'm drying out my overhumidified stock. Yours will only get better from here but be careful not to overhumidify them! 70% is too high IMO.
DrunkenMonkey Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Congratulations, Chris! That is good news. Looks like the Lusi's will be ready for your Super Bowl cigar in Feb.!
mk05 Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Let us know how the rest of the collection compare to your original experiences. Glad you had success with the SLR.
ChanceSchmerr Posted July 10, 2012 Author Posted July 10, 2012 Thanks guys! im just really excited that the cigars taste as Good as they did before! Smoking one of the recovered ERDM Grandes De Espana.... excellent. Rich and flavorful, maybe even better than they were before!
mk05 Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Smoking one of the recovered ERDM Grandes De Espana... *shakes fist*
bassman Posted July 10, 2012 Posted July 10, 2012 Good news! I figured they'd make a comeback. If they had dried out for a year it would not have been an easy task.
CanuckSARTech Posted July 11, 2012 Posted July 11, 2012 Great to hear, Chris. I'll look forward to seeing what you bring with you to T.O. for the herf! Cheers bud! And good luck to you and best wishes as well for calm waters in the final run-up for the planning for your nuptuals!
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