Plume Bloom or Horse Feathers?
Dropped by the B&M and examined an Esteban Carreras Habano Robusto Maduro the other day just cause it had been demoted to the four buck section and looked yummy. Using my android pocket puter, I researched before buying. Guys spoke well of it, so I bought.
But one of these reviews remarked that he'd stored his stick some time before smoking, and that "you can see plume in the picture, so it's ready to smoke." Naturally, I had to research plume at that point. I find that it's a white excretion from aging oils. No where do I see that it indicates the stick is "ready".
Question: Does plume indicate that your sotweed cylinder is succulent, that it has set too long, or neither? Is it good, bad, or indifferent?
But one of these reviews remarked that he'd stored his stick some time before smoking, and that "you can see plume in the picture, so it's ready to smoke." Naturally, I had to research plume at that point. I find that it's a white excretion from aging oils. No where do I see that it indicates the stick is "ready".
Question: Does plume indicate that your sotweed cylinder is succulent, that it has set too long, or neither? Is it good, bad, or indifferent?
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As far as I'm concerned, it is a matter of opinion on what you think is ready. Just my opinion.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.
i handle my cigars too much.
cigars with plume have been aged but aged cigars wont always have plume.
im over it. you should be too.
I've heard the same thing, guess it makes sense. However I have a 2 yr old son...so my smoking time for over 2 yrs now has been like 1 cigar a week, and because of this I have 2 full humis that NEVER get handled or moved, they literally sit and age. Not sure, maybe I have a few cigars in there with plume, could be hiding down in the bottom or inside their original boxes. I just don't rotate very often since I have a small circulation fan in 2 of them. But I've heard the same thing, so I handle or move my smokes as little as possible, which is always good advice because I don't want anything contaminating them.
Agreed. I've never seen/smoked plume and I sleep just fine at night.
Who'd a thunk cigars were so much more than smoke?
What's life without curiosity?
I've never seen it up close, like real life, just pictures, but yes. ANY time you see those little round circles of white, growing in clumps, and most of all growing vertically out from the surface of the wrapper you KNOW its mold. Think of it like if you spilled a glass of sugar-water, and it evaporated leaving behind a crystalline sparkly snail track looking surface. Thats my way of imagining it.
Also I just LOL'd. If you search "plume cigar pics" on the "images" tab in google and see that guy holding an Arturo Fuente I'm guessing 858 by the window, saying about how wonderfully they are aging because they have plume. And you look at the pic and its a serious OUTBREAK of mold, like I would NOT smoke that cigar. Just makes you laugh people are that blind to mold sometimes. ANd I'm sorry if that pic belongs to someone on here, and I just broke their bubble about their "plumey" Arturo Fuente green bands.
Plume...look at Issac's cigars, not going to comment on the others really.
http://www.cigar.com/cs/forums/3/131180/ShowThread.aspx
http://www.cigargeeks.com/community/boxx/knowledgebase.asp?iid=51&Cat=1
I have seen some newer cigars have it, recently Curivari and Oktoberfest, but it is very slight. I did find some smokes at a little hole in the wall that had plume, and you could tell as it was crystal like and dusty. Really....if you want to know 100%, grab a magnifying glass, and if it is growing off the cigar and not a crystal...then there you go.
I've only seen it a couple times and how mold gets confused with it, I'm not certain. Mold is very "hairy" and clumpy. The ones I have seen were like someone dusted it with small crystals. The entire cigar sparkled in the sunlight. With a magnifying glass, the crystals became quite evident, while mold under a magnifying glass clearly shows the "hairy" configuration of it.
All I can go by is what I have personally seen and explained by folks I would consider knowledgeable, as they were in the industry.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars and that's close enough.