What is a "fumas"?

roland_7707

Brickhouse fumas, Padilla fumas.....
they are in the new Cigar.com magazine. 
Just wondering

Wylaff

http://forum.cigar.com/discussion/8564/what-is-a-fumas-cigar

i believe it is like a house blend.

kswildcat

They use scraps from making the top line blend and roll cigars up in sandwich style.

Don't ask me what sandwich style is lol 

jarubla

Mayo, mustard, tomato, lettuce and cheese

roland_7707

Thanks. 

danielzreyes

kswildcat said:

They use scraps from making the top line blend and roll cigars up in sandwich style.

Don't ask me what sandwich style is lol 

You mean like Yellow Cake and Funfetti?

jarubla

@roland_7707 all joking aside, I enjoy sandwich style in the smaller vitolas.

Here is a good video illustrating sandwich style. No mayo to be found!

http://youtu.be/snwk5O5zvgQ

MikeTodd

Is the term interchangable with "short filler"?

Wylaff

The video looked like short filler scraps sandwiched with long binder. So not quite short filler, but close.

griehund

So are we to conclude that fumas use scraps and puros do not? 

peter4jc

Puros simply means that all the tobacco used in a given cigar came from the same country.

Amos_Umwhat

I believe "fumas" is Spanish for "smokes", as in "I'm going for a smoke."

Gray4lines

Yes, fumar I believe is the Spanish verb for " to smoke" and fumas is exactly that.  

Just a fun name they have tagged onto some yard gar blends. 

Wylaff

http://forum.cigar.com/discussion/8564/what-is-a-fumas-cigar

TNBigfoot68

I thought "fumas" is what I pass after eating beans, lol  

DTTSteveSaka

The term "Fumas" general denotes an inexpensive, more crudely constructed handmade cigar.

Typically they are constructed with less attractive capa and contain either short or mixed filler. Another common trait is they are often finish with a simple twist at the head rather than a cap and are afforded less time in the presses. Plus these are usually sold in bundles only. Also, traditionally these were made in a lonsdale format.

As for a "Sandwich":  A mixed filler cigar made from the combined trimmings resulting from the production of multiple handmade long filler blends. Like a "Dagwood Sandwich" will have many varying ingredients depending what is in the fridge, so does a sandwich cigar tobacco wise. Typically the blend varies on these as it depends on what the current long fill ligas the factory is currently making from which the table trimmings are being accumulated. Also called a "Cuban Sandwich." 

Often Fumas are also Sandwich cigars.

I have no knowledge of the particular brands being discussed, so these are general answers as to what the terms mean.

Hope this helps,

STS

webmost

Fumas literally means "smokes". 

Basically, if a cigar maker is looking to test out new blends, he will roll up some quickie smokes, like "let's see what a one of this and a half of that and two of the other tastes like when I wrap it in this." Appearance is irrelevant. Aging is out of the question. These are fumas.

For example, I was rooting round my aging cooler the other day when I bumped into a box of quickies where I was trying out different blends of leaves from a guy named Jorge down in Florida, I think the name of his biz is Roller's Choice. Big ol perfecto fatties. Never went in a mold. I gave up on his leaf cause I thought it was too rank for me. So I never did get a keeper blend out of it. You might go thru a whole series of fumas and get nowhere. How you learn. Lately, I read someone say as how Jorge's leaf improves if you let it set six months. So I might try these fumas again, here when the weather gets mild enough to smoke outside (cause they stink strong).

Which puts me in mind of another example: Here, I actually started backwards. I had some Dominican Olor seco and Corojo seco, viso, and ligero. I got to thinking I should combine these and call them Olorojo. You take that work apart in Spanish, and you get StinkEye. So I made me some stinkeye bands, then I started in on fumas, to decide how to blend a Stinkeye. I tried corojo viso and ligero with the olor, habano wrapped. It was OK, but not stash-worthy. I tried various binders. No go. I finally settled on corojo seco with the olor seco as a binder and a silver river wrapper. Now, that's stash-worthy. So here's where I moved off the fumas quickies and into molded robustos. From these quickie fumas:



to these stash-worthy Stinkeyes :



That's the Silver River right there.

Course, someone somewhere is gonna say "Let's sell some quickie test sticks cheap." Not real careful construction. Unrefined blend. No age. Now you have fumas for sale. Just for the fun of it. Nothing wrong with that. Some of my faves were sold as seconds.

Here's another shot of the Stinkeye band:



Fumas are a big part of the fun. Like a mock-up, proto-type, or sketch.