What causes salty or sour off-tastes?

[cigarsarge]

Gotta be the humidity problem. Cigars that are too moist taste like crap and burn badly.

[Bkcloud114]

Humidity could definitely be a problem, I now keep my ciagrs at 60-65%... I seem to like it much better.

Something else I wanted to point out about bad tasting smokes..... I was on the beach last week and was smoking a Sherpa Mystic- Dos Capas. Usually a great tasting cigar (I like em so much I bought a bundle). That day the cigar was very bitter and tasted horrible. Then my wife looked at me and said, "damn, you smoked that quick". I realized that it was kinda windy that day at the beach and it was fueling the burn of the cigar causing the cigar to burn very hot. I then turned my back to the wind and let the cigar "cool off". What a difference in the flavor..... Just thought I would share that.

Sorry for the Thread-jack