I recieved A Box of Hoyo Short Coronas April 04
about 45 days ago. At first they were very flavorful and a nice winter smoke as far as size goes. In the last 2 weeks they have become rather bitter and a little acidic, I assume that they have gone into a sick period and was wondering if there was any vague rule of thumb as to how long this could last and does the size of the cigar play a roll in the duration of the sick period. Thanks

Kind of depends on how many cigars you have to rotate between and how eager you are to get into these ones. When that happens to me I won't touch them again for 6 months, maybe a year. I figure, why smoke a poor or passable cigar now when you could save it for a year and have be good again... or, better yet, put it away for five years and see how they are then.

I have others to rotate, the problem is they are mostly all Robustos or larger, and as I said earlier, it's winter here and I don't have the time to always smoke larger Cigars at this time of year. I have a box of Monte #4's on the way. hopefully they will do the trick. I won't waste the hoyo's by smoking them when they are not right.

That's a nice way for saying you're ingested bongwater, either intentionally or inadvertantly, and describes the feeling of the thing you then want to do, or the actual act of leaning over the toilet bowl. Sick period.

They should leave tagging English names of phenomena to people who actually have a command of the English language...

While many people object to the term as if it were ISOM or herf, few among them do not have a story about perfectly good cigars one day being a waste of a good smoke the next. I think what Delamont said is pretty close to right on, and it does hinge on a steady supply of something else to get you by. Whether we like it or not, our cigars are in a steady, slow process of deterioration and chemical change. While I wouldn't discout the possibility of the cigars simply being differently humidified from when they were tasty, it could be that in 6 months to a year, you will be greatly rewarded. Call it what you will. I say smoke one every 3-4 months and you will know how it goes.

What I've done in the past when some older LGC's started to taste a little bitter was to put them in my oldest and largest humidor with a thin piece of cedar, like what comes in the top of a Cohiba or Montecristo box, covering them and leave them there for several months. They may never get back to that perfectness that you once experience, but the additional aging near the wood will help the flavor.

Like your quote NoLa..one of my favorite Allman Brothers Songs...Crazy love..Duane did some great slide playing on that one

Mike

haha, with a name like Bluesky, you'd almost have to be an ABB fan. I reckon Duane was already dead by the time that song was recorded. Likely Dickey Betts was the guitarist. Not sure. On a similar note, have you ever heard or seen the Derek Trucks Band?
A nephew of Butch Trucks, one of the ABB's drummers? Unbelievable. I saw him when he was 14 playing at Tipitina's in NO, with shorts on and ant bites on his legs, just like a regular kid. It was surreal to hear this unbelievable sound coming out of this kid. UNCANNY shades of Duane Allman.

Yep, I grew up listening to the Allmans, on a local level. My dad used to drive me to Jacksonville and Daytona when I was a younger when Duane and Greg were then known as the Allman Joys, even sat on the stage and talked to them quite a few times. And Duane was the slide player on that song.

I've met Derek and his wife, she's also a very well known guitarist, and they have a home here in Florida a little in between here and Gainesville. He's played a local club here (Freebird Cafe, owned by the wife of a Lynnyrd Skynnyrd member) several times. He's quite a player for one so young, and reminds me a lot of Duane when Duane was first starting to play slide a lot.

Mike

Mike, send me your addy. I take dive classes down to the Devils Den several times a year,that's just out of Gainsville.Maybe we could hook up and do some trading.

Tel,

Email sent with Addy...and for anyone interested..the address of the Freebird Cafe..now changed to Freebird live is www.freebirdcafe.com

Mike

"Sick Period" is also a sensation that you experience shortly after injesting muchas cervecas, and then gripping a bottle of "Canadian Hunter", and putting a power guzzle slam on the whole half gallon. The effect isn't usually acute, but it's promising. If not, wait 25 minutes, and slam a fifth of Mad Dog 20/20. YOU GO BOY....WHICHO BAD SELF!!!

gawd....does anybody still drink MD20/20. I tried that once in college and swore that someone refine NY sewer water and put in a bottle..

Mike

When I started college in 1970, Mad Dog was not sold in Pennsylvania. We actually drove to Maryland to get it. Talk about a sick period!

If you run out of paint thinner, you can use that stuf to clean your brushes.

Sorry Blue, Dead men can't play guitars, even though they may be buried with them. Duane died in 1971, and Enlightened Rogues was not released until 1979. After some further research, he is also not listed in the players on that album, relieving me of any nagging doubt that Crazy Love may have just been released 8 years late.
Damn good song though, and I am glad I finally dug that platter out...time to convert to mp3 and make a CD.. PS, not trying to pick a fight.