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Old 03-22-2011, 08:48 PM   #30
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Default Re: Cigar Aging Article

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Originally Posted by bigdankcloud View Post
How many of you are of the opinion that if you have a humidor that is 90% full, that all of the smokes in there are going to suffer as it applies to aging? I'm not refuting or confirming it, I just would like to hear the opinions on this.

Personally, I'm in the middle of building a custom cabinet humidor, have had a couple of my desktops packed with good smokes for a while. I throught I was doing the right thing there so that humidity stays pretty stable and ages the smokes better, but part of that article seems to say that leaving little or no space means that I get little to no aging. I would like to disagree with that, based on opening and closing the humidor to get more fresh air in every so often while checking humidity/recharging beads.
I don't think "suffer" is the right word...they'll age, but at a different pace. If there's less room for air (and depending on just how airtight the container is), then the aging process would proceed much slower (and perhaps with different results) because of the lack of available oxygen inside the humi.
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