Did i just ruin 250+ Cubans?
Hello Everyone,
I was noticing that my cubans in one of my humidors were overhumidifed. Kept them at 21C/22c and 65%. I could smoke them but did get lots of burn issues and tight/plugged cigars. So a week ago i started to open my humidor to get the humidity down to 62%. I did it a couple of times for half an hour. Last wednesday and thursday however i kept the humidor open about 3 hours on each day (room is at 50%).
Now the last 10 cigars (all different) i picked from this humidor (top/bottom/even tubes) tasted horrible. They taste dried out, are light, just disgusting every single one of them. They taste exactly like when i dry box a cigar for to long. They dont burn hot or fast, they dont feel hard or have cracked wrappers so they do have humidity but i guess the oils just have evaporated. They were fine, although a bit overhumidified, a week ago so its definitely due to the fact i opened the humidor for to long.
I live in a high humidity climate (up to 85%) so my setup is a dedicated room for my cigars with air conditioning at 22C and a dehumidifier to keep the room exactly at 50%.
So my big question is..... did i just ruin a humidor full of cubans or will they recover fully? And with recover i mean 100%. I know you can bring a to dried out cigar back but it will never be the same. Not interested in that.
For now i keep them at 22C/62% and maybe raise 1% every week. What do you guys think?