Ok, i think i know what happened to this cigar, but i want to ask first...
I usually keep smokes im aging in my fridgeador, and right now (this winter), its easy to keep it at exactly 70/70. When I want to move something into play, i remove it from my fridgeador, and place in one of several desktop humis i have, some small, and a couple large, but these are where i let cigars rest at least a week or so b4 i smoke them. The reason i do this, is i keep my humis at about 65/65, so i get a better burn, and a friendlier draw. Tonight, i wanted to pull something right from my aging smokes, as a treat of sorts. So after a few moments i pulled out a Rocky Patel OSG with years of aging on it, and plucked from the "perfect" 70/70 bed it laid in. This smoke was in my top 10 of the year, so i knew i was going to enjoy it. And i did...The smoke actually burned fantastic, very round, very straight, so i knew it had been in there long enough to become well balanced throught the whole stick. As about the halfway point, the cigar began swell ever sooooo slightly, and a little noise came from my cigar. It was dark, so i thought maybe a little seed or something was burning off, and i heard it again, bah humbugg, ill go back to smoking my wonderful OSG. Eventually i began to feel tiny imperfections on the wrapper as i move it around in my hand, or grabbing it from my mouth. What i was hearing was the wrapper being gently submissive to the swelling, and tearing ever sooo slightly. By the time i got down to last 1/3 of it, i was still able to smoke it, and enjoy it, but the wrapper was in much worst shape, and the binder was now starting to come undone, and the finale was dismissed...but i did get down to like the last 1 or 2 inches of the smoke, so i was satisfied that.....wow.....i just realized im sitting here really late at night working on Jack's novel in the Overlook hotel....im a babbling zombie right now...
What happened to my perfect 70/70 cigar as it did time elapsed slow motion bursting?
I usually keep smokes im aging in my fridgeador, and right now (this winter), its easy to keep it at exactly 70/70. When I want to move something into play, i remove it from my fridgeador, and place in one of several desktop humis i have, some small, and a couple large, but these are where i let cigars rest at least a week or so b4 i smoke them. The reason i do this, is i keep my humis at about 65/65, so i get a better burn, and a friendlier draw. Tonight, i wanted to pull something right from my aging smokes, as a treat of sorts. So after a few moments i pulled out a Rocky Patel OSG with years of aging on it, and plucked from the "perfect" 70/70 bed it laid in. This smoke was in my top 10 of the year, so i knew i was going to enjoy it. And i did...The smoke actually burned fantastic, very round, very straight, so i knew it had been in there long enough to become well balanced throught the whole stick. As about the halfway point, the cigar began swell ever sooooo slightly, and a little noise came from my cigar. It was dark, so i thought maybe a little seed or something was burning off, and i heard it again, bah humbugg, ill go back to smoking my wonderful OSG. Eventually i began to feel tiny imperfections on the wrapper as i move it around in my hand, or grabbing it from my mouth. What i was hearing was the wrapper being gently submissive to the swelling, and tearing ever sooo slightly. By the time i got down to last 1/3 of it, i was still able to smoke it, and enjoy it, but the wrapper was in much worst shape, and the binder was now starting to come undone, and the finale was dismissed...but i did get down to like the last 1 or 2 inches of the smoke, so i was satisfied that.....wow.....i just realized im sitting here really late at night working on Jack's novel in the Overlook hotel....im a babbling zombie right now...
What happened to my perfect 70/70 cigar as it did time elapsed slow motion bursting?
