Having one of these cigarillos today. Holy smoking freight trains Batman. WOW. I am not sure I have had a big cigar put off this much smoke. This one doesn’t have the overwhelming long lasting sweetness on the tip.
Planning on having this if I can find a sunny non windy spot to park myself. The west side was the sunniest but too breezy I migrated to the south side of the house, not nearly as breezy.
The wrapper is going to hell on this one, the binder it holding things together & it’s smoking fine. It has very good flavor.
After seeing the condition of the wrapper in the first pic, I was thinking to tell you to turn up your humidity in your humidor..... I'm sure you stated already, but at what % do you store cigars? Well. it was a good one for you at any rate.
My 48qt cooler has 65% heart felt beads as does the Clevelander. The wood humidors are usually around 68%
Overall burn & flavor was great, the sweetened tip didn’t last very long & wasn’t overpowering but it started unraveling just below 1/2 way, it still smoked fine; I just had to try & hold the wrapper and be cautious. My 18qt cooler that I keep my infused stuff in is usually right around 70% humidity.
I had a Deadwood Tobacco Company Baby Jane on the way home. Same as above nice flavor & burn but no wrapper issues. The sweetened tip wasn’t overpowering or long lasting. Jane is a heavy smoker also.
JimBear I hate to harp, but it sure looks like you have humidity issues in your humidors. It's a shame to let those $$$ unravel on you like that.
I don’t consider it harping at all, just voice of experience. I calibrated all my hygrometers with Boveda calibration bags. I have had two in a row crap out in now, both from different humidors. Non of my other DE have had sketchy wrappers, the Ave Maria Crusader I had the wrapper was ok on. These are the only 2 that have been really chit the bed. I had one nub 2nd with a cracked wrapper but I think it hadn’t set long enough after being shipped in. I have had 3 wrappers chit out on over 25 cigars. I look at the Clevelanders humidity readings daily & the others every 2-3 days. I was just chalking them up to bad construction but I very well be mistaken. I will start keeping a log of such incidents. Addendum: I am also curious as to the temperature change possibly causing this. My brothers house is around 58* -60*now because his furnace is down & maybe not letting them acclimate/warm up a bit before smoking is causing some wrapper problems. Seems like I read that somewhere. Maybe 58*-60* isn’t cold enough to cause a problem. I will try to find that article again.
Had another La Flor Dominicanas Mojito this morning, I am really liking them. I am going to give the R & J a try. It’s pretty damm hard around the band point, draw is a bit tough.
No wrapper troubles today. That R&J was a nice smoke, hopefully the next one I have has better draw than the last one. Just waiting on Mama to get off of work so we can go pick up vacuum cleaner bags, some groceries & some chainsaw parts. I will give these CAO Bella Vanilla’s another try while waiting. Hopefully some humidor time helped them out.
Opened an Alec Bradley like that today. Unfortunately it was a loss. Looked like the end had been smashed and split the wrap and binder about 1 1/2” down.
