I Goofed, I Didn’t Use My CigarMedics HumidiMeter!

Sunday my wife and I went into Philly and saw the Philly Pops presentation of the Beatles Abbey Road with a Beatles tribute group called Classical Mystery Tour. I can do without the Beatles tribute part, it would have been fine with the Pops orchestra and a band a good singers playing the material. It was still an entertaining show, I’ve seen a lot of Beatles tribute bands and always have trouble with ones where the Paul character can’t be bothered to

Too High!

learn to play lefty. Anyway, traffic sucked coming home, as per normal, and I was quite ready for a cigar, and grabbed a recently acquired RoMaCraft Aquitaine Knuckle Dragger. Here’s where I made a critical error. One of my pet peeves is when I light up a cigar that ends up being over-humidified and it doesn’t burn right, it smolders instead of burns and doesn’t give you a great experience. It’s so hard to tell when you light a cigar what it’s going to smoke like. This particular cigar I had hoped would be a sure thing, and it turned out that it just wasn’t ready, it hadn’t been in my humidor long enough, and the shop I bough it from was new to me and their humidor is obviously a little high. Here’s where the Cigarmedics HumidiMeter tool comes in! I’ve been using this for the last month. You might remember my video with Steve Saka from the 2017 trade show when I encountered him after the show floor closed for the day checking the next day’ sample stock with an industrial version of this sort of device. 

Just Right!

Steve’s device costs thousands of dollars, and reads absolute humidity, the Cigarmedics HumidiMeter converts the results to numbers which we, as regular cigar smokers, understand, relative humidity numbers. I went back and check the other Knuckle Dragger I bought at the same time and my suspicions were confirmed, the readings were higher than what I like to see, which have been in the low 60s at the foot, and the mid 60s at the head. I’ve been checking every cigar, and if the numbers are higher than the mid 60s at the head of the cigar I’m putting it back and picking another cigar. Cigars are funny, different tobacco’s hold moisture differently, Broadleaf holds a lot more moisture than Connecticut shade, and all of the filler tobaccos have different properties too. My larger humidor has variations from top to bottom too, so there are a lot of variables. With this device, I can save myself from not only wasting cigars, but wasting my time and pleasure! 

I can tell you that many of my friends and colleagues have reviewed this device. Most recently I would recommend the inaugural episode of the I’d Tap That Cigar Show from just this past week where they have discussed the device in detail. I tossed the idea of doing a video review of this, but it’s been done to death. I do agree with what everyone says about this, it’s one of the better new cigar tools I’ve gotten, and I’ll be honest, I was moments away from buying one of these when the folks at Cigarmedics reached out to me, it was in my shopping cart. Thank you to Tom at Cigarmedics for the information and support. 

That’s all for today, until the next time, 

CigarCraig