How To Awake & Aging Your Cigar:

A Comprehensive Guide

1. Why we want to awake a cigar

The direct purpose of awaking a cigar is to get a better burning state. Better burn is the foundation for the cigar to provide its whole aroma. So the fundamental objective of awaking a cigar is to let the cigar reach its best performance ever after lighted, and provide the smoker with the best smoking experience.

2. How to awake your cigar

In simple terms, awaking a cigar is to adjust the humidity of its filler, binder and wrapper to a certain value that’s suitable for your self.

You must have heard or tried different ways to adjust the humidity of your cigar. Whether using the drying agent, 2-way humidity control pack, drying oven or even microwave oven, all these ways have their own disadvantages and may cause irreversible consequences.

Now with the Cigar Awakener developed by Cigarlife Collection®, users may have a safe, gentle, precise and relatively fast way to awake their cigars. This product has solved many problems that occurs during normal humidity adjusting process, for example, flavour loss, unevenly distributed humidity and breaking wrappers. With this Cigar Awakener, cigar smokers from all over the world, no matter experiencing any kind of climate, could enjoy cigars at their maximum performance.

3.Humidity recommended officially

According to the experiments done by Cigarlife Collection® officials, we provide users with the reference data below when setting humidity.

First, we recommend different relative humidity under different temperatures:

Caution: Please place the machine under the same temperature that you smoke, otherwise may influenced by condensate water.

4. Can the product please all?

The answer is YES! Cigarlife Collection® official did a number of experiments under normal indoor temperature at about 77℉. The flavour of cigars with different humidity are valued from 0 to 10, which higher value represents more obvious expression.

First, we give the data on two that are normally realized as bad tastes, bitter taste and spicy taste. However, some smokers may love the bitterness and piquancy. So that smokers can set the machine according to the charts below:

Secondly, we provide the chart of different aromas’ expression from cigars of different humidity. Users are able to set the humidity according to their own preference.

According to the charts above, we are able to see that the recommended humidity by Cigarlife Collection® official is somehow trying to find a balance among the aromas and meanwhile prevent the bad tastes from being sensed.

5. How long would it take to awake my cigar

Cigarlife Collection® official suggests 24 hours for a regular Robusto sized cigar.

Considering cigars’ different length, ring guage, tightness and humidity before putting in machine, the time for awaking a cigar varies with these parameters. More time requires when cigar is longer, thicker, tighter, too wet or too dry.

We provide two types of cigar shelves which are designed especially for fast and evenly adjust cigar’s humidity.

6. What cigar sizes could the product carry

According to the content above, the Cigar Awakener provide by Cigarlife Collection® contains two types of cigar shelves which are able to carry cigar sizes from Petit Corona to Gran Corona.

We recommend any size from Petit Corona to Double Corona when using type A shelf, and any size from Petit Corona to Gran Corona when using type B.

7. What cigar sizes could the product carry

It is because the no-wind design of this product, that allows naked aging for cigars. But still, you need to pay attention to the three basic requirements for naked aging:

1) Constant temperature (61℉~71℉);

2) Constant humidity (65%RH~72%RH);

3) No wind environment

This product only carries the function of ‘constant humidity’ and ‘no wind environment’. You still need a stable exterior environment to control the temperature inside.

So:

Please place the product in a thermostatic room for aging!!!

Please place the product in a thermostatic room for aging!!!

Please place the product in a thermostatic room for aging!!!

Important matter goes three times!