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The Humidor Hack

If you are cigar smoker, people who offering you cigars are often playing with your emotions… Especially in hospitality [in those countries, where smoking is still allowed to a certain extend] cigars are often in a horrible state. Too dry, too inconsistently stored, even sometimes too humid. At home, you have a different problem - you have to replenish the water in the sponges quite regularly. And if you are regularly going through a time, which is more demanding on work, and you lack the time to take care of your humidor, your sticks become dry and unsmokeable. Anyway - I have developed a hack, which would keep your cigars perfectly conditioned and very little work is involved. Buy an external laptop fan, which fits into your humidor! Make sure, that it is not battery powered. Honestly - I have seen years ago a incredible expensive humidor, which had a battery powered system. Incidentally I have also seen, that the batteries ruined the whole system, as batteries tend t...

Cigar Training

Today we have had a cigar training [which I held] and I have used the official habanos videos - showing all steps of making Cuban premium cigars. As I had some issues to find those information before in the world wide web, I am posting the videos here, for your convenience. Please do not hesitate to comment! It would not be me, if I wouldn't mention, that there are also fantastic other tobacco producing countries. Amazing wrappers are coming not only from Cuba, but also from Connecticut [the famed Connecticut Cut wrapper, or the even better Connecticut Broadleaf], Cameroon [very dark and rich leaves], or the very limited but amazing Dominican wrappers. Good filler and binder tobacco is produced in Mexico, Nicaragua [the always extremely well rated Padrón cigars], Dominican Republic, Brazil [which have a completely different, strong and kinda funky tasting tobacco], Honduras, Ecuador and Sumatra [Indonesia]. Yes, Cuba is the cradle of cigars as well as a very good produ...