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The Unraveling Wrapper

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As a cigar smoker, you’ll likely experience an unraveling wrapper from time to time. The unraveling wrapper is a situation whereby your cigar wrapper gets loose and starts to break. This may be an unpleasant experience and therefore, each cigar smoker needs to learn how to avoid it. However, in order to do so, it’s paramount that one learns the causes first. Over Drying or Over Humidification of Cigars Wrapper unraveling may happen if the cigar is stored in a very high humidity. The high humidity causes the wrappers to rapidly expand. In case the same humidity cannot be maintained,...

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Your Cigars Shouldn’t Always Smell Like Ammonia

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Smoking a cigar should be an enjoyable event, but what if you run across a cigar or two that can taste and smell like ammonia? No worries, there are ways that you can combat those ammonia smelling “friends” without having to get rid of them. If you’re a cigar smoker, there are certain things you should particularly pay attention to. Being aware of the quality of a cigar is most important. A favorable cigar worth smoking undergoes a special procedure. It depends on the tobacco used all the way to the wrap that’s used to make the cigar. It’ll have...

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Removing a Cigar Cap with a Cigar Cutter

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So you’ve bought a cigar cutter and plan to remove the cap from your cigar. This is one of the first things you’ll ever need to start perfecting before you start smoking cigars. The better you are at it, the more of your cigar you’ll have left. The best thing you can do is to remove just enough of the cap that you reach the point where the line meets the body of the cigar and no more. This’ll ensure that you get the most out of your cigar and are able to get a good smoke out of it....

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Distilled or Purified Water for Humidors

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  There’s no joy like firing up a cigar every once in a while to enjoy in the comfort of your own home or on a night out on the town. To ensure that cigar is in top condition, preserved perfectly in any humidor, it’s important to use the right water. Of course, there are plenty of tips and tricks out there to beat the natural aging of cigars, but here’s a main one only the experts use. Purified water is the way to go for preserving any cigars in a humidor. In fact, the more highly purified the water is,...

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How To Avoid Overheating A Humidor

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Keeping the temperature and humidity in your humidor at an even keel will keep your cigars fresh and tasting great for as long as you desire to keep them. However, this requires a bit of skill and knowledge. Thankfully, keeping your humidor from overheating is a fairly easy task to achieve – the first thing to do is to make sure you have a room which is out of direct sunlight and that is well sealed off from the outside world. Also, make sure that your humidor’s placed away from any in-house heating elements such as stoves, heaters, fireplaces and...

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