Hank_The_Tank
9 years ago
Looking for ideas to refine my palate even further. Any thoughts? I generally feel like I can taste all sorts of flavors in my cigars and beers, but you can never have too refined of a palate in my opinion.

I had a guy tell me once to grab every spice in the cupboard and taste small amounts of each, then blindly test yourself.
ZRX1200
9 years ago
Are you retrohaling?
dstieger
9 years ago
One word...Retrohale
dstieger
9 years ago
great minds.....
Hank_The_Tank
9 years ago
Is retrohale when you draw, hold the smoke in your mouth and lick the roof of your mouth, blow out and lick the roof of your mouth to get the flavors? If so, yes. If not, what is that? haha
ZRX1200
9 years ago
Blow a little out your nose.

80 or 90% of your taste is olfactory.
jjanecka
9 years ago
Retrohale is when you hold it in your lungs for a long time and then let it out through your nose.
Hank_The_Tank
9 years ago
Ugh...that burns! Sounds like a terrible idea. haha I will try it though.
dstieger
9 years ago

Retrohale is when you hold it in your lungs for a long time and then let it out through your nose.

jjanecka wrote:


Negative! You shouldn't be inhaling cigars at all, IMO. Exhale the smoke through your nose....I do most of it...some do just a little or every other (or 3rd) draw....but not in your lungs
ZRX1200
9 years ago
Unless it's a Fausto.
KingoftheCove
9 years ago
Do not inhale. Retrohale get is NOT the same as French inhaling.
Learn how to do it properly, and you will discern more flavors.
Hank_The_Tank
9 years ago
I never draw into my lungs either...I thought that was a weird comment..haha. The only thing I inhale into my lungs is hookah.
jjanecka
9 years ago
Lmao.... no don't inhale. But somehow you're supposed to push the aire up into the nose. I can't do it without inhaling ao I don't do it.
dstieger
9 years ago
http://www.cigarbid.com/Forum/c/posts/648624/Retrohaling-is-it-worth-learning 

See Delta's post (#37):

#21 Yep ... to start, let about half of the mouthful of smoke out through the lips...clench your teeth and tighten your lips, close your throat (that involuntary gag-like reflex that happens when you dip your head underwater) and slowly exhale through your nose...

To me, this technique is the way I sense most of the flavors, definitely the most subtle, that a cigar's smoke has. I don't taste anything on the tongue, in the mouth, except tobacco, charred wood, saltiness and occasionally burnt sugar

delta1 wrote:


Hank_The_Tank
9 years ago
Just in my mouth I get a lot of different peppers, leather, earthy/dirt/grass, different nuts, coffee bean, cocoa, cinnamon, grape vine among some others I can't think of right now.
Buckwheat
9 years ago
Buy and smoke as many different cigars as you can. Don't worry about Retrohale BS. It doesn't have to be that complicated. I came up with a simple and effective method to evaluate cigars that I've smoked.

Here is a concise version;

Check this box if you liked it.
Check the other box if you didn't like it.

End of evaluation. 🌫

DrafterX
9 years ago
I used to save the bands of the ones I liked.. then my wife wanted to do art stuff with the bands so I have to save them all and now I'm confused.. 😞
Hank_The_Tank
9 years ago

I used to save the bands of the ones I liked.. then my wife wanted to do art stuff with the bands so I have to save them all and now I'm confused.. 😞

DrafterX wrote:



bahahaha
jjanecka
9 years ago
So seriously every time I've tried to retrohale something happens where the back of my throat gets scorched and then I involuntarily breath in real hard and start coughing uncontrollably for about 5 minutes. I think I'm just not built to do it. 😞
Hank_The_Tank
9 years ago

So seriously every time I've tried to retrohale something happens where the back of my throat gets scorched and then I involuntarily breath in real hard and start coughing uncontrollably for about 5 minutes. I think I'm just not built to do it. :(

jjanecka wrote:



I feel your pain on this. The few times that I tried to exhale through my nose did not go too well. haha
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