Posted: 1/3/2007 10:12:10 PM EDT
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Ok Cigar fiends....I have a realllly dumb question. Assume you have a cigar od medium to mediocre quality and you wanna make it taste better. Can you soak it in rum, cola, easy cheese, whatever and then let it "dry" a bit to make it taste a bit better? Can re-humidfying a cigar alone make it taste better? Thanks for your time. |
don't like flavored cigars. in my experience re-humidifying works only to a point. i've been able to re-supplefy(ok, not a word) a cigar that's been sitting out for about a week. i think on a cellular level a stick gets just too dry to reconstitute. i'm sure a connoiseur here will know better. |
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I like some of the coffee-dipped cigars. Not as a regular smoke, but every now and again, can't hurt to have a quality flavored cigar. Just don't keep them in the same humidor with your other cigars! As for re-supplefying (it should be a real word!) dried cigars, I would guess that you need to leave them in the humidor for a pretty long time at ideal humidity to thoroughly, uhm, re-suppleficate them. Certainly more than just a few weeks, I imagine. |
Plenty of info at JR Cigars 'Cigar University'. |
Thank you, sir!!! Outstanding!!! |
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No buy better cigars. And sometimes even that doesn't work. you get a bad one or you don't like the taste or something. Give it to a friend.  or save it for a poker party when you are blitzed. Buy a Arturo Fuente Magnum Opus XX that's a great cigar  Then, you can judge. |
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Ya know, I have been learning a bit here and there about cigars and one thing I have noticed.....HUMIDITY IS EVERYTHING. The cigars I was bitching about, I gently wetted with a bit of Brandy and Dr. Pepper. I simply wetted the wrapper with a cooking brush soaked in the mix and then I made a tupperadore per the directions posted in Tomislav's posted link. I let them soak up some moisture for a few days and when I want one I take it out of the tupperador and let it dry out just a little bit before lighting. A COMPLETELY different and much more mellow taste now that they are properly supplefied. A friend gave me a Flor de Olivia the other day that was BONE DRY. Nearly fossilized, I swear, and I gave it that DP and Brandy treatment and let it stew in the wrapper for the better part of a week. NICE. Gonna move up a bit in the world and try some better ones too, though, as all of you have suggested. Thanks for the suggestions, guys!!!! |
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I get Honduran cigars from JRs at $65 per bundle of 50...8"x52, keep them in a tupperware container and every now and then leave it open in the bathroom for 30 min. with the shower running on hot, plug in the drain with door closed so it gets pretty steamy.....keeps them fresh but I guess you could over do it and have the wrapper separate....haven't had a problem so far. To me a flavored cigar is like flavored coffee...not for me but I guess I'm a purist. A dry cigar is a harsh smoke, no matter how good it is. |
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proper humidification is key. Stable 70/70 is just right. Prevent swings in temp and humidity. You can bring back a cigar to a decent state, however some of the oils may have evaporated when the cigar dryed out. If you want to cognac infuse a cigar. get a tupperware dish, put the cigars on one side of the dish and put a small dish with about a shot of cognac in it. Place the dish next to the cigars. Put the lid on and let them sit together for about a month. The cigar will SLOWLY absorb the cognac flavor. Dont just pour some cognac on the cigar for a quick fix. |
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Well, so far, I have had good luck with my wrappers, no seperation and they only got ever so slightly wrinkled. Still a pretty even burn, too....but so much mroe mellow. I am coming to the understanding that a lot of the "good" cigars I hated weren't because they were bad but because they were DRY. There is an amazing difference between a dry cigar and one that is at the proper humidity. |
I was wondering if you could slow infuse that way. Sounds GREAT!!!! I did try a "soak" on couple cigars as an experiment. It failed. Miserably.  I'll try the slow infusion. I must say that a light paint of flavor and then a visit to the humidor can do a world's worth of good in just a few days....and they get better with time. |