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Robby Offline
#1 Posted: Fri, Apr 25 2003, 3:53 PM EST
Joined: 10-30-2002
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Question for those who may know. Some cigars, when you light them, they burn very quickly. Easy diagnosis, dry. Others continually go out. Either very oily, or perhaps young or over humidified. But, occasionally, you smoke a cigar (as I am tonight) which burns perfectly, does not canoe, and you can set it down for several minutes, maybe even 4 or 5? pick it back up, puff puff, and it's going just fine. How do they do that? btw, it's an Opus X double corona. Is it the tobacco? The roll? The age? Or all of the above?
BMW Offline
#2 Posted: Fri, Apr 25 2003, 4:16 PM EST
Joined: 10-21-2000
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Robby, I'd have to go with "all of the above". It's the combination of the quality of all the little things that culminates in the final performance.

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efm Offline
#3 Posted: Fri, Apr 25 2003, 10:41 PM EST
Joined: 01-23-2001
Posts: 499
Opus X? Damme. And I was forced to make do with a mere El Rey Del Mundo Robusto Larga. Damn this depression.

Incidentally, it also burned perfectly but it was sitting against the wall of the humidor pickup up a little too much of that Spanish cedar. Does that ever happen to you or is my humidor a lemon?
Robby Offline
#4 Posted: Sat, Apr 26 2003, 8:37 AM EST
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I love that smell and taste! You may want to pull your sticks and with a very lightly damp paper towel, wash cloth, wipe it down good. Some folks frown on this, but if you've never done it, you'll see a nice golden hue on the cloth when you're done. This is a light powder of cedar sawdust.

xrundog Offline
#5 Posted: Sat, Apr 26 2003, 8:42 AM EST
Joined: 01-17-2002
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I think a light wipedown is ok. Some cedar is imparted to certain cigars from their box. A new humidor might impart some cedar to certain cigars too. As the cedar ages, the odor will diminish to almost nothing. In my older humidor, I smell tobacco. In the newer one, I still smell cedar. With 2 cedar trays, that's a lot of cedar.
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