[QUOTE=Emperor Zurg;205671]I always ended up with a bitter, nasty smoke when I kept my rh at ~70. Also had constant issues with cigars going out. You draw harder than I do, I'm sure of that since my cadence is primarily tailored to pipes so I wouldn't expect you to have the same burn issues. However, my cigars (and pipe tobacco too for that matter) all taste much better to me when smoked more toward the drier side. Long winded way of saying 'try dropping your rh to ~ 62 to 65 and see if that helps'.[/QUOTE @Emperor Zurg

70 is right where the tupperdore is sitting, as has set for...probably as long as I had it. The Xikar travel case I was using as my humidor prior to trying the tupperdore was also at 70. Both sat solidly at 70 with a Xikar puck . I'll take the puck out, and throw in a Boveda that matches your RH, let them sit for a couple weeks, then see how they fare. In the mean time, I'm sticking to B&M daily buys, because I just smoked a Tatuaje Havana IV from the tupperdore, and ran into the same thing...bitterness around the 1/2 mark, and was dumbfounded. I was writing a review during, but had to scrap it due to another confidence hit. Thanks for your info, help, reading the review, and letting me know of your similar problems and your fix.