Made Major Smoking Error Last night...

[Open Channel D]

I was in the mood for a AF Anejo #50. It's not like I have a couple hundred floating around and every one is an experience.

A few months ago, I had a couple that had developed what I thought was mold (turned out it was probably plume), so I wiped 'em down and put them in the freezer for a couple of days. Afterwords, I put them in a separate baggie in the humidor to make sure the mold didn't reappear.

Took one out and lit it up, tasted like smoking a dry up bar towel. took a couple of puffs and decided to slice off the end, rehydrate and get back to it in a couple of months.

Had a AF Hemingway Short Story Maduro to sooth my feelings...

 

[ChazHollywood]

Anejo do seem to be prone to mold. In general you just want to wipe that off as soon as you spot it, unless it's gotten into the foot or the wrapper is particularly far gone. Freezing is more useful against beetles, but that's a whole other topic.

-Charles

 

[fuente~fuente]

Mistake I made last night... Trying to taste a cigar when there are 75 citronella candles lit around you. Had to put that shid out!

 

[Tobacco Giant]

I'm not exactly sure why you froze it, but I'm also not exactly sure why freezing it would make it taste like a bar towel? That sucks, man. I'm thinking maybe the one you smoked (as long as it was devoid of mold) may have just been a dud. Here's hoping you have better luck with the Anejo's going forward.

 

[z6joker9]

You didn't put a cigar that had been lit, snipped and saved in with the rest, right?!

 

[Mickeymorris626]

Really, you cut the end off and plan on smoking it later, that's the first time I have hear someone doing that.

 

[Ecks]

I've heard of it, tried it a few times, and the stick was just never the same. Even with the end cut off it still tasted ashy to me. So not something I generally practice

 

[z6joker9]

You hear horror stories of the brother in law that drops by when you're out of town, lights up one of your cigars, snubs it out halfway and sticks it back in the humidor. The burnt smell a previously lit cigar has will ruin your humidor and any sticks unlucky enough to be in there.

 

[Treinenwj]

Did you wipe it down with a dirty bar towel?

 

[Ecks]

You hear horror stories of the brother in law that drops by when you're out of town, lights up one of your cigars, snubs it out halfway and sticks it back in the humidor. The burnt smell a previously lit cigar has will ruin your humidor and any sticks unlucky enough to be in there.

Exactly.

 

[iergeni]

You didn't put a cigar that had been lit, snipped and saved in with the rest, right?!

that is THE major smoking error in this thread, imho

 

[Vicster]

I had a couple that had developed what I thought was mold (turned out it was probably plume)

I'm willing to bet it was not plume and in fact it was mold.

 

[Open Channel D]

Yeah, my thoughts.

No, I didn't put it back in one of my humidors; I took an empty cigar coffin and put a Water Pillow in it, along with the clipped smoke, hoping I can salvage an expensive stick.
My guess is I kept it in the baggie too long and it got super dried out.

 

[gentimmy]

Yeah, my thoughts.

No, I didn't put it back in one of my humidors; I took an empty cigar coffin and put a Water Pillow in it, along with the clipped smoke, hoping I can salvage an expensive stick.
My guess is I kept it in the baggie too long and it got super dried out.

phew! I literally said out loud "oh nononono" thinking you put it back in a humidor

Really, you cut the end off and plan on smoking it later, that's the first time I have hear someone doing that.

I've heard you can wait for it to go out, knock the ash out, hold your lighter to the end and blow out...you can save it for a couple of hours.

You hear horror stories of the brother in law that drops by when you're out of town, lights up one of your cigars, snubs it out halfway and sticks it back in the humidor. The burnt smell a previously lit cigar has will ruin your humidor and any sticks unlucky enough to be in there.

Who the hell does this!?

 

[ChazHollywood]

Yeah, my thoughts.
No, I didn't put it back in one of my humidors; I took an empty cigar coffin and put a Water Pillow in it, along with the clipped smoke, hoping I can salvage an expensive stick.

I won't claim I've never clipped a cigar and saved it (Protip: after you clip the cherry off, blow the smoke out!), but that cigar will be a shadow of its former self at best when you light it back up.

My guess is I kept it in the baggie too long and it got super dried out.

Unlikely if the bag was in the humi. Did it seem dry when you were smoking it? Giant could be right, maybe you got a dud.

-Charles

 

[z6joker9]

I'll occassionally wake up after a night of drinking and herfing to find a cigar my wife didn't finish still resting on the ashtray. Sometimes I'll purge and smoke it... The humidity here keeps them ok and my taste buds are still wrecked from the night before anyway. I won't save a cigar otherwise.