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Heavysetrapier
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anyone have tips on searching the forum? When I use the search function I usually get a whole bunch of results that have little to do with what looking for. For example I'm looking for topics on aging. I'm assuming that there are entire discussions on this but all I get is some random posts tha contain the word aging and none of them have to do with actually aging cigars.
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Click on that and then you can search on threads with aging in the title for a more targeted search. There's lots more options to search on than shown below. Searching on an author is also popular and handy.
How about this, we could turn this thread about searching the forum into a thread about aging. Y'all weigh in, I've already said my piece.
Although I have noticed lately I'm digging deeper into my coolers and finding some pleasant surprises in some of my cigars from 3-5 years ago,.. and some disappointments too. Not all cigars deserve to grow old. LOL
Any area of interest or hobby can be geeked out on; you wouldn't believe the infinitesimal aspects of coffee people discuss and argue about. My question always comes down to, "Can you taste the difference?"
Some people age cigars at this or that humidity, saying they like this or that percentage better for Cuban, and this or that percentage for non-Cubans. I call BS. There are way too many variables in cigars, smoking conditions, your palate to say definitively one way or the other.
Some would argue that even if we are persuading ourselves we can taste what our inflated egos and finely-calibrated palates are imagining, we should still strive for "best practices". I would agree, since we are going to regulate our stored cigars anyway, we may as well store them as best we know how. But, the question still remains, and should be answered...
CAN YOU TASTE THE EFF'ING DIFFERENCE?
Is right, you can age an @$$ rocket, but, it will still stink in 5 yrs lol.
What you can't forgive......you will become.
On another note. How long do boveda packs last?
While you're at that, make sure to check out the links that Kuzi set up. You'll find them at the bottom of his comment box. Well worth the time for your cigar education.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I tend to agree with what the fellows above already said. I especially like the comment about "buy more cigars than you can smoke and aging will take care of itself!" Most of the guys here on these forums tend to encounter auto-aging because of C.A.S.
I tend to keep my humidity a bit higher than most, between 72-75, so I don't typically try to elevate my humidity for aging. I do have a couple little experiments going on with it right now, just for fun and to see what happens. I've read here on these forums previously that some keep their humidity for separate "aging humidors" as high as 80% and open it once or twice a month to let some fresh air circulate.
Sounds to me like you're on the right track...if there is a right track. If nothing else, you're on a well-trodden path.