Looking for ideas to refine my palate even further. Any thoughts?

Hank_The_Tank 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

dstieger wrote:

Is retrohale when you draw, hold it in your mouth and lick the roof of your mouth, blow out and lick some more to get the flavors? If so, yes. If not, what is that? haha

Hank_The_Tank wrote:

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:

It took my BIL 6 months to learn how to do it, but he is a bit slow......heh!
I wrote a pretty detailed cheat sheet on how to do it, but can't remember if I posted it here, or on another site.
Basically it's like this:
1- Take a deep breath, and while holding it, take a small to medium sized puff on your cigar

2- Blow a little smoke out of your mouth, stop blowing the smoke.......close your mouth tight while pushing your tongue up flat against the roof of your mouth.

3- With your mouth still closed tight, exhale through your nose.......BUT NOT ALL of your air!! You want to save at least 1/4 of your air to end the process by exhaling the last bit of your air, and any smoke left, out through your mouth, so that when you inhale again, there is NO residual smoke left in your mouth.

It's like riding s bike.......once you get it, you got it.
Practice, and soon you'll be able to do full draw retrohales, alternating between retro and normal exhales on the same puff. Light retro smoking, etc. It really does open up a whole new level of flavor experiences.

KingoftheCove wrote:

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.

Hank_The_Tank wrote:

Keep hanging around some of these guys and you'll get a lot more than that in your mouth, I'm sorry to report.

cameroon wrote:

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. 🌫

Buckwheat wrote:

Keep hanging around some of these guys and you'll get a lot more than that in your mouth, I'm sorry to report.

cameroon wrote:

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

Hank_The_Tank wrote:

LFD isn't a cigar one tries to retro hale theor first time....Jesus.

Do it with a medium cigar like an Illusione, or a DC Maximus.

ZRX1200 wrote:

Use a very fine sandpaper on the roof of your mouth and tongue. Like 220 garnet paper then wipe with lettuce, iceberg preferably. Rinse with distilled water and fire up.

sd72 wrote: