Meaty Taste/Cooling Sensation

[kern47]

For reference, I'm currently smoking a H.Upmann Half Corona.

I've noticed this several times with all different sorts of cigars. For the life of me I can't find a way to describe it... Just what I would call a 'meaty' taste, with not a lot else besides, followed by a sort of cool almost menthol type effect in my mouth and back of throat when I breathe in.

I never hear it come up in reviews for the same cigar when I check either. So is it just me? I can get the taste from licking my lips after a draw too, so is this the 'rich tobacco' flavour that I'm just failing to identify as such? Or maybe salty? Or bitterness?

In case you can't tell... My palate isn't the most developed

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[Hookmaker]

There’s a lot of “BS” words in the cigar tasting world, don’t take notice, just describe your own. But could you be tasting barnyard? I tend to assimilate barnyard with meat or bacon taste/smell at least in northern Rh?ne wines (as you can tell my palate is kinda underdeveloped too )

[kern47]

Hmm... possibly. I cant really pin it to any sort of meat flavour in particular, it's just a very savoury taste. Think it's probably more common in the last half or so of a cigar

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[Vitola]

Meaty Taste/Cooling Sensation

I think I know the flavour you describe Kern - it?s like a savoury burnt/charred meat flavour like barbecue smoke and can be very fleeting in a cigar, yet very pronounced when it appears. And I have tasted it in both Cuban and non Cuban cigars


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[PeeJay]

Try a Kentucky Fire Cured for a real bbq flavour

[kern47]

I think I know the flavour you describe Kern - it?s like a savoury burnt/charred meat flavour like barbecue smoke and can be very fleeting in a cigar, yet very pronounced when it appears. And I have tasted it in both Cuban and non Cuban cigars


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That might well be it, sometimes I'll get it once, and then the next few puffs it'll have gone, before coming back again.

I used to think it was because I was smoking too quickly, but that doesnt seem to play too much of a part in it. Tends to be the more full body smokes I get it on, but cant work out whether it's a desirable taste or not... I don't mind it too much, but sometimes it can overpower the other flavours a bit.

But charred meat may be a good shout... As I said though, it never seems to come up in reviews as much as I seem to experience it. So maybe it's more widely interpreted as something else?

Next time I get it, I'll think really hard of a grilled steak and see if it matches up [emoji39]

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[puff o'wind]

I think you need to check the band...does it say Walls???

Seriously, I dont think I've ever experienced a meaty taste to a smoke. I suppose it's possible that it's the result of a reaction between you and tobacco smoke. That could.make it genetic and rare. I didnt know till this week that the scent one gets in urine from eating asparagus is genetic...in my family my son, alone amongst us, doesn't have this postprandial joy. Could your meaty taste be similar?

[kern47]

I think you need to check the band...does it say Walls???

Seriously, I dont think I've ever experienced a meaty taste to a smoke. I suppose it's possible that it's the result of a reaction between you and tobacco smoke. That could.make it genetic and rare. I didnt know till this week that the scent one gets in urine from eating asparagus is genetic...in my family my son, alone amongst us, doesn't have this postprandial joy. Could your meaty taste be similar?

Well I hope thats not the case! Although I dont get it all the time. Not with every cigar, and not with every puff of the same cigar. The H.Upmann was about half way down before it started there. My main theory is that it's not actually a 'meaty' taste, but it's something that I'm completely misidentifying. It sometimes almost tastes 'chemically', ammonia perhaps?

As for the cooling sensation, I've heard of an oily coating of the mouth, so perhaps that's what I'm feeling there.

You've raised an interesting point there though, although I do hope you're wrong... Potentially could be a psychological thing as well. Like they say you can change the taste of a mango by thinking of something else, maybe I'm looking for a certain taste and I'm telling myself it's this weird meaty flavour.

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[PeeJay]

Could be worse, could be fishy!

[kern47]

Could be worse, could be fishy!

Exactly! [emoji14] like I said, it's not overly unpleasant, just quite a strong taste

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[Moley]

Could be worse, could be fishy!

I thought that was just Scotch lol

[RobBooth]

Try a Kentucky Fire Cured for a real bbq flavour

100% agree with [MENTION=13402615]PeeJay[/MENTION]. Not a cigar I'd smoke too often but they definitely are BBQ in a cigar.