How to Use Your Boveda Humidor Bag

Boveda Humidor bags
The Boveda Humidor Bag is not your ordinary food bag. It’s an affordable airtight humidor that you can use for long-term and short-term cigar storage. It’s preloaded with Boveda 69% RH, which will protect your cigars for a year.

Ready to learn how and when to use your new favorite cigar accessory?

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How to Open A Boveda Humidor Bag

The first time you open a new Boveda Humidor Bag can be tricky because of its protective interior heat seal.

If you have a medium or large humidor bag:

  1. Unzip the bag using the plastic zipper, which will reveal a heat seal.
  2. Apply firm pressure to pull the opening of the bag apart to break the heat seal.  (It might feel like you’ll rip the bag, but you won’t. Just give it a really good tug.)
  3. Run your finger up and down to separate the rest of the opening. Add cigars.

If you have a small Boveda Humidor Bag:

  1. Look for a notch on either side of the top of the bag. Starting at a notch, tear off the top of the bag.
  2. Pull the opposing top edges apart.
  3. Open the bag. Insert cigars.

WHERE SHOULD YOU STORE A HUMIDOR BAG?

After you fill your Boveda Humidor Bag with sticks, store it wherever you usually store cigars. Because the bags are streamlined, you can take them with you on the go. Slip them into a carry-on, golf bag, breast pocket or ski boot bag—places a traditional humidor won’t easily fit.

CAN YOU REUSE A BOVEDA HUMIDOR BAG?

Yes. Reuse your Boveda Humidor Bag by replacing the pack it came with with new Boveda 69% RH.

WHEN TO REPLACE BOVEDA

Your Boveda Humidor Bag arrives preloaded with Boveda 69% RH. When it’s new the Boveda will be soft. It should last a year, depending on its environment and how often you open and close the bag.

When you start to feel hard spots on the Boveda, it’s time to order replacements. DON’T WAIT until Boveda is completely solid before you replace the packs. To make sure you always have fresh Boveda on hand, set up your next order as an subscription to have replacements automatically sent to you when need them.

USE BOVEDA 69% RH TO RELOAD A HUMIDOR BAG

69% Size 60 Pack

Refill the medium or large humidor bag with one Boveda Size 60. You can order a single pack. Or buy a 4 pack, 12 pack or 20 pack to use in other humidors.

69% Size 8 Pack

Refill the small humidor bag with one Boveda Size 8, which is sold in a 10 pack. Use the extras in any 5-count travel humidor or cigar case.

MORE CIGAR FAQS

What Boveda RH do I need for tobacco?
B65 65% RH FOR A DRIER CIGAR PROFILE For those who prefer a drier cigar profile and/or easier burn; good for long-term aging
B69 69% RH FOR ALL CIGAR STORAGE For wood and acrylic humidors, tupperdors, coolerdors, and humidor bags; good for long-term aging
B72 FOR DRAFTY HUMIDORS AND DRY ENVIRONMENTS For those who prefer a higher moisture profile and/or have trouble maintaining the desired RH in their humidor
B84 84% RH SEASONING WOOD HUMIDORS ONLY For seasoning a new wood humidor you add cigars or re-seasoning an empty wood humidor
65% CUBAN CIGARS
Tightly bound and tend to mold at a higher RH level
69% AIRTIGHT HUMIDORS
Most popular
72% MOST HUMIDORS
Such as wood, glass top, or travel
75% DRAFTY HUMIDORS
Recommended for very dry climates-use at your descretion
84% HUMIDOR SEASONING
Only use to pre-condition a wooden humidor WITHOUT cigars in it

SHOP BOVEDA FOR CIGARS

B65 maintains 65% RH—For those who prefer a drier cigar profile and/or easier burn; good for long-term aging. B69 maintains 69% RH (Most prefered RH for premium cigars)—For wood and acrylic humidors, tupperdors, coolerdors, and humidor bags; good for long-term aging. B72 maintains 72% RH—For those who prefer a higher moisture profile and/or have trouble maintaining the desired RH in their humidor because of the environment they’re in and/or a drafty humidor B84 seasons/preconditions empty wood humidors. For seasoning a new wood humidor before you add cigars or re-seasoning an empty wood humidor GOOD TO KNOW:
  • DO NOT mix different RH (Relative Humidity) levels within the same humidor.
  • DO NOT use Boveda in the same humidor with other humidification products because they’ll counteract each other, and reduce the efficiency of the Boveda.

SHOP BOVEDA FOR CIGARS

What do I need to know to protect my premium cigars?
We’ve consolidated some of the basics for protecting your cigars in this video complication – #AskBoveda Tobacco 101
What’s in Boveda?

If you’re new to using Boveda, you might be surprised when you feel one for the first time. A brand-new Boveda is pliable. Because the pack feels “squishy” new customers sometimes wonder if it “melted” in transit. Not so.

Not everyone is willing to share their secret recipe, but sharing is caring. Inside Boveda you’ll find purified water, natural salts and odorless food grade thickener, commonly used in salad dressing. Yes, salad dressing.

Then it’s all sealed in a leakproof membrane. Hardening of the corners is normal. 

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See, the purified water-vapor flows in-and-out from the Boveda to either absorb or add moisture depending on the needs for 2-way humidity control.

As you use Boveda, the pack will begin to harden. A simple touch test will tell you when it’s time to replace your Boveda—there will be fewer “squishy” spots and more hard ones.

Watch the video to learn more!