KingoftheCove wrote:Ha! You're prolly right.
I low bid and won a fiver of Kyotos Nov, 2016. Waited several months, smoked one, pitched after less than an inch.
Thought I'd given the rest to the BIL mooch.....but didn't....forgot I put them in an empty Jericho Four sampler box, with a small Boveda. (I didn't even bother entering them into my computer list.) Was moving some stuff around yesterday, saw the Jericho box.....what's this??
Ha! So I opened the box, and, to be honest, the smell wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. So apparently it dissipates over time. However, when I pulled one out of the cello.....well....that smokey odor came back pretty good.
Smoked one on da porch late last night. Interesting.....not anything I would buy, but MUCH better than the first one I tried to smoke. Maybe larger ring gauge, with a long nap, might be even better? I'm thinking that 34RG on the Kyoto might not be ideal for this cigar.
RG definitely impacts the flavor.
I like the Kyoto/corona size. Definitely taste the fire cured leaf.
The larger rg it's much more subtle. There's not enough in the rest of the cigar to carry it IMO, so I much prefer for the fire cured to be a dominant flavor.
Had a nub sized one sit for over a year. It wasn't bad, but wasn't good either. The smokey pipe baccy flavor was more muted, and the rest was just plain mid level tobacco flavors all muddled together.
opelmanta1900 wrote:In Rons defense, I think the fire cure stuff is kind of like rosemary... if you like it, you barely notice when it's used... if you hate it, even a sprig can ruin a whole dish...
When I used to get them in samplers, they were always packaged between the muwat and the nica puro and those 2 would soak up Just enough of the flavor to bother me when I smoked them...
That's a really good analogy.
I like rosemary. Wife hates it. I made a cabbage last week, put about a tsp of dry rosemary and a tsp of fennel seeds in there along with salt n pepper. She complained the whole house smelled like rosemary. I barely noticed it.