Excellent post!
Refining Your Pallette
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Fantastic thread. Lots of great advice and different techniques. I love the fact that you emphasize taking your time with a smoke. Would you go to a five star restaurant and wolf down every course as quickly as you can? Of course not so why burn one up in 20 minutes especially if it's a choice smoke? Savor the stick and the experience will be that much more rewarding.
For you sushi lovers pickled ginger really does work for cigars as well. I've enjoyed sushi and had a good amount of ginger after my meal and lit one up. I felt I picked up great flavors from my smoke after having the ginger and rinsing my mouth out with water.
I smoke one or two sticks every few weeks and I find that it helps me not get burned out on the taste of tobacco. If I treat cigars as just that, a treat I tend to get a lot more out of them.
For you sushi lovers pickled ginger really does work for cigars as well. I've enjoyed sushi and had a good amount of ginger after my meal and lit one up. I felt I picked up great flavors from my smoke after having the ginger and rinsing my mouth out with water.
I smoke one or two sticks every few weeks and I find that it helps me not get burned out on the taste of tobacco. If I treat cigars as just that, a treat I tend to get a lot more out of them.
More tips I may have overlooked or not thought of before...the retrohale has always been a mystery to me. may start trying it.
For someone that really enjoys cigar smoking, this is great advice. Great post!
Cigary43
Just Another Ashhole
Excellent post. Having smoked cigars for nearly 40 years doesn't make me professional but it does give me experience as long as I take what you posted on here. Even the novice can be more proficient at this hobby if he does these things....much like a sommelier who goes through an educational process to know how to distinguish flavors. Our hobby becomes even better when we're able to taste something that for too long may have been hidden as there are ways to enhance techniques so we can distinguish flavors better.
Very informative! I can't wait to smoke my next cigar and see how different it tastes by following these simple rules.
For me it was slowing down, but this took awhile to learn at first I was thinking waiting between puffs was slowing down but if you actually slow down the inhale to lets say 6 seconds instead of 2 seconds the sudel flavors start to appear for me. This is a new toy for my toy box in smoking cigars. The only problem is that an hour smoke takes 1.5 hours to smoke so I try to use both slow puffs and fast puffs they both give slightly different profiles. I assume this is from a large draw is over powering the flavors and a small slow draw lets you taste some flavors that might have been covered up with large amounts of smoke.