fuel type taste?

[planenut]

Relative newbie but...

I lit a vegas gold churchill while in VA at a hotel outside near the swimming pool. The first inch or so was normal tasting but then I started to get a tingle and rubbing alcohol or fuel type of taste and burn on my lips? Also the draw was significantly harder.
I was having some Jack Daniels over ice with it and it happened about the time I had a sip of that. Maybe that was the problem or maybe some of the 50/50 mix came got on the cigar from the herfador I transported it in. Or maybe from the dry mistat tube in the humidor at home. Or maybe from sitting it across the edge of the glass table by the pool. I ditched the Jack but the taste was still coming from the cigar.
Any ideas on what is the most likely cause so that I can avoid it in the futre?
It is interesting that it was fine when I lit it and enjoyed it for the first 10-15 minutes, so I tend to think the 50/50 or the dry mistat did not cause it...
Thanks

[Cigar Penguin]

Hi and welcome....maybe make a thread and say hi...introduce yourself and all...well,if you intend to hang out more.


You most likely got a taste of a stick fermenting...or in "sick period"...smells like ammonia comeing off the lit end or taste(if really bad) but I have never experianced this with vegas gars',although I only smoke the series a maduros.

[SuperChuck]

What did you use to light it? Could be a lighter fluid taste...

[Cigar Penguin]

What did you use to light it? Could be a lighter fluid taste...

Good call,didnt think of that.
He may have had no bic (j/k) and had to use that kerosene tiki torch......it happens.
I do remember getting a fueld tasted with a zippo once.....oh,and a truly uneven burn.

[tampacigargirl]

I do remember one jerk.... no name... told me a fuente 8-5-8 tasted like kerosene.... got him a free cigar the first go around... (edit: there are legit reason that this happens) What did you light it with?

[Cigar Penguin]

Oh no...either I should never have checked this thread while getting up to pee or cigargirl is drunk and I am jealous!!

Night night...back to bed I go.

[tampacigargirl]

Oh no...either I should never have checked this thread while getting up to pee or cigargirl is drunk and I am jealous!!

Night night...back to bed I go.

Actually I was sober when I pieced that together.. Now I'm drunk.. lol. Chalk it up to a long day... and just plain bad typing. :) What's worse I don't even have a legit excuse. :)

Night, Night, Don't let the bed bugs bite... :P

[planenut]

I lit it with the same colbri butane that I have been using. It came with the herf a dor and 5 perdoma champagne's as a kit.

[planenut]

If it was fermenting, would it have been good for the first 10 minutes?

I'm leaning toward either some Jack on my lips activated with the tobacco at the head or some mistat leaked on it. If the Mistat leaked on it, It still seems like it would have been bad from the start...

I will have to try another at home but hope it wasn't a leaky mistat tube.