Good Mouth/Bad Mouth

[68TriShield]

I smoke five or more a day and have found,if you cleanse the palate between cigars they are more likely to be enjoyable.
Be it water,mouthwash or a bite to eat.

I rarely have a "go to" cigar taste off.Unless of course the box is going into a sick period.That's rare because I prefer fresh over aged cigars and tend to smoke through them

[whisky77]

Body clock.

Seriously Rokkit, I remember reading some of those weird facts which was actually in an article relating to jet lag and your body clock.

One of the things which was mentioned was that your response to taste was most receptive at around 10 am in the morning.

Now this could be complete bollocks, but i know that some of my best smokes are in the morning, and to be honest this is my personal favourite time for indulging in a smoke.

I know everyone tastes small differences in the same cigars we all smoke, and that is what makes cigars so interesting for me.
I have smoked the same cigar from the same box, both in the morning and the evening.For me the morning smoke will be the winner 9 times out of 10.

Hope this helps you out mate.

[G-man]

I couldn't agree more

Couldn't it be related to the length of break you leave between the treats just as for the sex?

The great thing after a hard day is that once I light up a big ole' stogie
the world and everyone in it go away till i'm done. Nothing worse then wifie calling down to the man cave a telling me theres a phone call.
Can't people just F things up when were in our own zone? LOL

[MaledettoToscano]

One of the things which was mentioned was that your response to taste was most receptive at around 10 am in the morning.

Now this could be complete bollocks, but i know that some of my best smokes are in the morning, and to be honest this is my personal favourite time for indulging in a smoke.

The 10 AM thing is actually a recognised phenomenon that professional tasters take quite seriously.

Quite a while back, unsure of what to do with my accademic qualification, I trained for about three years as a wine taster in persuit of a different career. Part of the training involved understanding how your taste is affected by your body's perception.

Excluding illnesses tht affect your taste (colds and the like), the things that are commonly considered as factors that alter your taste are:

- how clean your mouth is from strong flavours, i.e. stuff like mints, spicy foods, anise, acids that affect how you taste.

- how much food you have eaten and how long ago. If you are full, you taste less, while if you are very hungry any strong taste will be overpowering. The ideal is to feel slightly hungry but have something in your belly.

- how rested you are. When rested you can detect flavours a lot better.

10 AM is seen as the ideal time because you have had a light mildly flavoured meal (unless you go for as nice fry up ) about 2 hours or so back, you're still rested after a night sleep .

I think that it is a bit more complex with cigars as some on the full bodied end of the spectrum need something a bit more solid than breakfast.. at least for some of us.

[Boss Hog]

you have to earn a cigar

Thats brilliant.
I'm voting that for quote of the year.