Cigar "expert" Al Remp: "Look at all of the plume!"

[CbusDave]

I'm sure we've all heard this speech in a in a shady B&M at one time or another...:eyepoke:

The ammount of misinformation here is astonishing...

[YOUTUBE][ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqzjnIJWic"]YouTube - What is that powdery white substance "plume" on my cigars?[/ame][/YOUTUBE]

 

[JGD]

Wow....

 

[Holy Cigar]

Hi, I understand that there is a lot of information out there about cigars and one can find themselves over burdened or may had been burned by a "shady" B&M. However, the white Plume on a cigar is exactly as the man says. IF your cigar is covered in a bright green, blue, or a dark brown/black then you have a moldy cigar and it is time to bury it and pay proper respects. Please do a little more research on the subject before blasting it as "misinformation"

puffingcigars.com/cigar-faq/bloom-plume-and-mold/70/

I'm sure we've all heard this speech in a in a shady B&M at one time or another...:eyepoke:

The ammount of misinformation here is astonishing...

 

[CbusDave]

Hi, I understand that there is a lot of information out there about cigars and one can find themselves over burdened or may had been burned by a "shady" B&M. However, the white Plume on a cigar is exactly as the man says. IF your cigar is covered in a bright green, blue, or a dark brown/black then you have a moldy cigar and it is time to bury it and pay proper respects. Please do a little more research on the subject before blasting it as "misinformation"

puffingcigars.com/cigar-faq/bloom-plume-and-mold/70/

Not going to start the plume vs. mold debate here, plenty of other threads out there on the topic (and, for the record, those sticks are moldy as hell). However, I can assure you that plume is not "sugar coming out of the wrapper."

Welcome to BOTL...

 

[darkman]

You can have all those "sugar" sticks. Plume is result of oils when properly humidified. This guy says "over humidified" produces "sugars". Kinda scary.

 

[Jfire]

Plume NEVER is spotty like the MOLD in those Pics which happen to be 3 year old MOLDY Sapranos. Very bad info.

 

[JGD]

Hi, I understand that there is a lot of information out there about cigars and one can find themselves over burdened or may had been burned by a "shady" B&M. However, the white Plume on a cigar is exactly as the man says. IF your cigar is covered in a bright green, blue, or a dark brown/black then you have a moldy cigar and it is time to bury it and pay proper respects. Please do a little more research on the subject before blasting it as "misinformation"

puffingcigars.com/cigar-faq/bloom-plume-and-mold/70/

There was a brief part of the video where you could see what the guy was referring to. It was NOT plume, it was mold.

 

[vivalanation734]

epic fail.....

*wipes off mold* "I love that stuff"

 

[Holy Cigar]

I'm on a laptop so I'll admit I cant make out what he is pointing but, most of what he was saying was correct. So, Mold is what he is showing and Plume is what he's trying to pass it off as. Got it. Never liked that company anyway :cjump:

 

[SkinsFanLarry]

In my opinion after watching that video even a fairly new smoker would know better than to buy any of those cigars!

 

[AlohaStyle]

Wow, major mold clumps and he tries to pass it off as perfect plume!?! LOL

 

[D Quintero]

Al looked abit overmedicated
saying whatever off the cuff
then went off track
seeing how cao sopranos (box and all) are so great!

plume my ass.
that crap was all clumped up.

pricey but decent smoke though.

thanks bro!:smile:

 

[mwlabel]

Alright, I'm still a fairly new smoker AND I'm watching this on a laptop... and I can still tell you that is mold on those sticks.

 

[Holy Cigar]

I can only admit to my foot being so far in my mouth and so...yeah, my bad. on my old laptop with no vid card I couldnt make out the mold.

 

[Clint]

Plume is usally evenly distributed ...Those spots and clumps screamed mold!

I agree...Scary stuff.

Wished he had smoked one on camera...Ha!

 

[smelvis]

Is he a big name in the biz?

 

[AlohaStyle]

Is he a big name in the biz?

Reading his bio, looks like he did work his way up and then probably got fired from good jobs and is now a trainer at Thompson Cigar. From what I read, he was last working as Director of Sales at Davidoff before Thompson.

Edit that... he did retire before going to Thompson:
After retirement, Al joined Thompson Cigar as a product specialist and trainer.

http://cigarblog101.blogspot.com/2006/01/ask-al-remp-cigar-expert.html

 

[smelvis]

Thanks pretty prestigious being at Thompson!

 

[Wasch_24]

:rofl:

Nice video of moldy cigars.

It would be interesting to look that guy straight in the eye and ask him if he really does truly believe that what he just wiped off is plume.

 

[barryowens]

That cigar had enough mold on it to make penicillin.