"Flavoring" Humidors?

[e-man]

Originally Posted by Jim2903

I put a few mild cheapies (Manolo Seconds from CI) in a glass jar with a test tube half-filled with JW Black. That was two or three months agto. I tried one of them at eight weeks -- no discernable JW flavor (plus the draw was so tight, I ditched it less than halfway through). I'll try another after another month or so to see if the flavor gets stronger.

Alcohol evaporates at a lower temp than water, If you put a cigar in a jar with a test tube of water, you would expect the rH to be WAY too high. I'm sure that's why it wouldn't draw. Not sure if a hygrometer can read alcohol content in the air.


About a year ago, I took an old tubo and wiped a few drops of Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit on the OUTSIDE of the cedar...not enough to soak in. Then I put the cedar back into the tubo, placed a Gloria inside, and sealed it up. Even that small amount was enough to swell the stick up quite a bit. I haven't gotten around to smoking it yet.

[old4x4]

I'm gonna do it with some of the blackest, oiliest fine ground coffee I can get. The good stuff. I like the Isla Del Sol's for working around the house. Maybe I can improve on 'em or infuse a different brand.

[jfserama]

So I smoked the stick I had with the cinnamon, but the draw was hopelessly tight (like sucking marbles through a straw) so I tossed it after a few cheek caving minutes. I didn't really detect any cinnamon flavor, but I barely got any smoke out of the stick, so that is probably why.

Anyways, might try this again sometime, but would definitely let them sit for 3 or more months, and probably use more than one cigar for the test.

[eyesack]

Yeah, I think it's going to take much more than a few days; for faster results, try smaller smokes with smaller ring-gauges, like a few cigarillos, or petite coronas! I recently put a few cigarettes in a cedar cigar box, and there was noticeable cedar taste within 2 days. +1 to you guys for being brave!

[e-man]

Originally Posted by eyesack

Yeah, I think it's going to take much more than a few days; for faster results, try smaller smokes with smaller ring-gauges, like a few cigarillos, or petite coronas! I recently put a few cigarettes in a cedar cigar box, and there was noticeable cedar taste within 2 days. +1 to you guys for being brave!

As I understand it, Drew Estates uses a lot of oils to infuse flavors. So, maybe treating your humidor with Coffee Oil would be more effective.

http://www.americanspice.com/catalog...d7e7a66e36de40


It doesn't list ingredients, so who knows how concentrated it is. Not sure what else is in it.

Another thought. If your cigars get dry , the oils start to evaporate. Would more coffee oil fill the air if you run a lower rH?

[jfserama]

Originally Posted by e-man

As I understand it, Drew Estates uses a lot of oils to infuse flavors. So, maybe treating your humidor with Coffee Oil would be more effective.

Coffee Oil from AmericanSpice.com


It doesn't list ingredients, so who knows how concentrated it is. Not sure what else is in it.

Another thought. If your cigars get dry , the oils start to evaporate. Would more coffee oil fill the air if you run a lower rH?

That's an interesting thought. I think the regular coffee should work, but maybe oil would be faster? Im sure that ordinary coffee beans would impart some flavor to a stick (much like the cedar in a humidor) but I wonder how much would come through in the taste profile. For example, when I smoked the cigar I had with the cinnamon stick, the thing smelled strongly of cinnamon, but I didn't get a cinnamon taste from it.

The more I think about this the more complicated it get! Seemed like such a simple idea at first... That said, I am planning on trying this again on a larger scale. Anyone else going to try this too?