I have been having troubles for years with cigars. I used to have a 75-100ct humi and I struggled with all kinds of humidification. I figured the humi was leaky so I bought a few tubes of heartfelt beads. They helped with the humidity, but it was never consistently "in the zone". Eventually the beads turned yelllow and I assumed they were imparting bad flavor into my cigars. Last year I threw in the towel. I was tired of spending tons of money on cigars and only having the first few weeks as a positive experience before the rest went to rubbish.
Fast forward to this year, three weeks ago I bought 50+ cigars on cigarbid (joya 1970 and some ave marias). I also bought one of those "humi jars" with the expanding blue beads and I have them all stored in two tupperware containers - one with the heartfelt and one with the blue stuff. Both boxes have settled at 68 degrees, and I have switched the digital hygro's between boxes to verify.
The first few I smoked were magic. 1970s are my favorite, I know how they should taste and smell. One week later and I can't get a single one to not taste like bitter shit, smell like burnt trash, canoe like hell, and when I put them out black charcoal comes out. I also notice the end gets almost "calcified", it's hard a stone. I thought maybe they were too wet, due to a spike in humi when I put them in the tupperware, but they have been at a perfect 68 for almost two weeks. I thought I was burning them with my quad torch, so I backed down to single torch. Still bad. Then to a soft flame. Still bad.
I'm at a total loss. When I say they taste bad, I mean bad. I gag on the charcoal taste and everyone around me agrees they smell terrible.
What the hell?
Fast forward to this year, three weeks ago I bought 50+ cigars on cigarbid (joya 1970 and some ave marias). I also bought one of those "humi jars" with the expanding blue beads and I have them all stored in two tupperware containers - one with the heartfelt and one with the blue stuff. Both boxes have settled at 68 degrees, and I have switched the digital hygro's between boxes to verify.
The first few I smoked were magic. 1970s are my favorite, I know how they should taste and smell. One week later and I can't get a single one to not taste like bitter shit, smell like burnt trash, canoe like hell, and when I put them out black charcoal comes out. I also notice the end gets almost "calcified", it's hard a stone. I thought maybe they were too wet, due to a spike in humi when I put them in the tupperware, but they have been at a perfect 68 for almost two weeks. I thought I was burning them with my quad torch, so I backed down to single torch. Still bad. Then to a soft flame. Still bad.
I'm at a total loss. When I say they taste bad, I mean bad. I gag on the charcoal taste and everyone around me agrees they smell terrible.
What the hell?
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