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or any one else that might have an answer. i suspect you probably don't think it's a good idea to constantly relight a cigar, but i do. i currently have hot pants for the bohemian revolutions, both the predator and the hawkeye. it is the only cigar i have had the when it goes out, usually when i forget to post, charcoals and hardens at the end. i either have to cut the end off or light it behind the hardened end to get it going again.

Yo Rick: What do you expect for 23 cents a stick..Opus X quality. LOL JonR

I relight as often as I need to...so long as I am still enjoying the cigar. Revolutions are very good smokes. However, I try to store them on the drier side...since they have two wrappers, they seem to hold a lot of moisture.

I do notice a difference and it really doesn't seem to matter what cigar it is. I can usually plan on relighting for about the third time, but after that, the taste changes drastically, to me. I use a cigar savor and that helps some, but still doesn't carry me over for a relight after the third time. I have read about the process of "purging" a cigar on the board. This evidently involves blowing smoke out of the cigar before it is allowed to go out. I've tried this procedure and it doesn't seem to help either. As a result, I usually only light one of my "top-of-the-line" (to me) cigars when I am reasonably sure I am going to be able to finish it. Just my 2 cents worth.

There are a couple of things at work with these cigars that causes hardening of the ash. They are advertised as doble envuelto or doble tapa, with two wrappers. Why they aren't advertised as having two binders, and just one wrapper is just the maker's choice of words. My experience is limited to just 2- five packs, so consider the source. Both 5-packs arrived very damp. I thought, foolishly, to smoke one before aging/drying them, and it was bitter with a very firm draw, quite routine for a wet cigar that needs to stabilize. My experience was that the tobacco in the wrapper/binder was in serious need of aging or hadn't been thoroughly processed. As Rickamaven wrote, the ash hardened. This is frequently a function of the unprocessed sugars in the tobacco leaf hardening during combustion. It's basically a carmelization process. Frankly, without several months of aging, I wouldn't smoke one. With appropriate age, they are a fine value cigar.