A sour taste

**logan37** · 11-01-2008, 04:05 PM

Buy online or from a trusted shop and get a travel humidor to bring with you in your truck(otterbox, herf-a-dor, whatever). I wouldn't buy cigars from that shop again. It sounds like they are not properly storing them.

The sour taste and the splitting wrapper probably means that the cigars were too moist. The moisture in a cigar will expands as you smoke it. The more moisture there is the more it will expand, causing the delicate wrapper to split.

And I believe that an overly moist cigar can cause a sour taste, caused by the wet dense smoke produced.(I'm not sure about this, but I remember reading that somewhere).

**scarecrow0104** · 11-01-2008, 10:57 PM

I had an unexpected layover. I thought I would be back last weekend, but I had to make a run to Utah.
For the most part I order from Famous Smoke or JR Cigar. I don't go to a shop unless I have to. I'll have to try a CX2 again without the sour taste.
If I find that sour taste again, how would I cure it?

**prophetic_joe** · 11-01-2008, 11:03 PM

From what you describe it sounds quite a bit like an over humidification problem. To much humidity would cause a sour taste and would also cause the wrapper to split and pop due to swelling when the heat and humidity mix. The only cure is to take the cigar home and leave it in your humi for about a week or even 2 before smoking it. When you buy a cigar right out of the shops humidor this can happen because not all shops are so great at keeping their smokes proper stored.

**scarecrow0104** · 11-01-2008, 11:48 PM

The store had 5' of counter space for the cigars. They had about 10 different kinds. I don't like to buy from the shops in Washington. You'll pay almost twice as much as online. But when you run out and don't want to smoke the crap they sell at the gas station, you pay the price.