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Originally Posted by bigdankcloud
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'm going to leave any possible benefits from active humidification devices and the "ammonia scavenging" of Shilala beads out of this.
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Although it's a good article, and an informative one, I would like to know something of the author's background and expertise. He sounds very knowledgable, but like you, I disagree with some of his assertions. Even though I have a Monte that currently has a good amount of empty space in it, I like to keep similar cigars packed together. It definitely aides in keeping the moistness of the cigars stable and I think they age fine. Again, I'm qualifying this by saying it is only MY experience and as they say on the web, ymmv.
