Bitter Cigars

phisherman

phisherman

Joined Oct 2005
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Has anyone had an issue where there cigars have become a little bitter? Some, not all of my cigas have a little bit of a bitter taste to them after sitting in my tuperidor for a while. This is not all of my cigars but a few. I was wondering if you know that if the RH jumped up or went too low that it would cause the cigars to turn bitter. It may have also been the beer I was having but I am not quite sure. Anyone have something like this happen to them?
 
Some cigars taste bitter if you smoke them to hard, from my experience
 
I've gotten the occasional bitterness, but not till 1/2 or 3/4s into the cigar. I blow thru the cigar hard (a full breath) and the bitterness seems to go away. If you are getting a bitter cigar from the get go, might just be a storage problem for the store maybe.
 
I'm going to have to do some more experimentation. :lol:

My RH levels in my 20 count humi and my tuperidor have been going up and down but have been for the most part been between 60-70 with it sometimes going as low as 58 and no higher that 75. They have been jumping though.
 
I only get bitter cigars if they get too hot. That's why I like to smoke 'em slooooow. It takes me three hours to smoke an exquisito.














(that last part was a joke.)
 
Man - I wrote a bunch of jokes for this one, but they came off as off-color. Just know, that I wanted to take the material and run with it.
 
BP, PM me. I like off color stuff, infact I encourage it. :twisted:
 
Some cigars will turn bitter for no reason on me, I'll just clip off the end and hope the fresh foot will taste better, sometimes the tar build up is a lot.

Also, If you use a hole punch on a big ring cigar, tar tends to build up through the narrow passage way....

What was the situation that it turned bitter?
 
cigarsmoka said:
What was the situation that it turned bitter?
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Well before I had my hygrometer; I just used my tuperidor with a passive humidification round. About 3 weeks ago I had two cigars in a row that had a bitter taste on the finish. Otherwise the cigars tasted fine. I noticed that this happened when I was drinking a nice octoberfest beer that I had bought from the package store a week earlier. It only happened when I had that beer. Well, the cigar I had last night had some bite to it on the first couple of pulls but it was not bitter. I was just getting worried that if my cigars in my humidor were going through some rh swings that would affect the flavour. Maybe I'm just paranoid but I would hate to be sending out cigar to friends and find out that they were bitter.
 
Maybe it was just the beer that didn't agree with the cigars....

Send one to someone, or give one to a friend and ask them if it tastes bitter, maybe a thrid person point of view help you out....

I'm sure there will be lots of volunteers!!
 
Many cigars will turn bitter if your humidity is too high. 70 percent is definitely too high, try dropping your humidity to the low 60's.

If you are not cutting enough of the head then the passage will be too small and the cigar will turn bitter.
 
As I prefer my cigars in the lower to mid 60's,

70% should still be fine in terms of taste...

I know lots of people who prefer some cigars, like ones with thin wrapper leaves, at higher humidty, while keeping the thick wrappers at lower RH levels. Humidity is just a preference, I would question the bitterness if it was in the high seventies or eighties....
 
It could have been since I did not have a hygometer in there at the time. My tuperidor has been know to get high very quick.
 
phish, I bet its the beer. If you dring a light amber color beer, it isnt too bad. I find if I drink a darker beer, like Guiness(my favorite) I find the cigar tastes bitter as I smoke it. If you drink coffee try this. Fix yourself a cup, get it just the way you like it, fire up the same cigar that was bitter and smoke it while drinking the coffee. Or if no coffee try Dr. Pepper and the cigar. If its still bitter that It may be the cigar and your pallet. hope this helps
 
I'm thinking its the beer. I had a couple of Smithwicks with my rocky patel one time and it was great. I had a Sarnac pumkin with another Rocky and that was great. I had a savinelli liga especial torpedo (a really good stick, ask Alex for one; they are only 5 dollars for one heck of a well made cigar) with a beer (I think it was a sammy october) and then was really good. It may have been just that beer.
 
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, you had a Saranac Pumpkin????????? How was it? I couldn't find any here. Ever had the Saranac Carmel Porter?/ It Is AWSOME!!!!! And yes I'd bet the farm that it was the Sam Oktoberfest that killed the cigar.
 
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