Check the Ashtray: Using Ashes to Determine the Superior of Your Cigar

posted on 03 Feb 2009 21:57 by aeoliscusstrigatus

How to acquaint if your cigar is of the accomplished quality? Analysis the ashtray—the ashes larboard abaft can allege volumes about the superior of your cigar. Here a few simple tips to free the superior of your cigar.

First, agenda how fast your cigar burns. A cigar that seems to bake too bound or disposes ashes that breach afar calmly is apparently a lower superior cigar. If the ashes assume too messy, and don't breach afar together, this may aswell announce a lower superior cigar. Also, analysis the blush of the ashes. If the ash blush seems to change, the tobacco blade mix may be of poorer quality.

The accomplished superior cigars, those that are able-bodied packed, will bake actual boring and bake annealed ash. The 'stiff ash' can abide complete up to two to three inches long, and abide on the cigar after breaking apart. A top superior cigar can be austere down to the nub. Even top superior cigars may alter in taste, abnormally if they are smoked down to the nub. Many times, you can usually get 'burn past' these absinthian spots by absolution the cigar bake on its own for a few minutes.