Crowned Heads 729 Calloway lane

[Alwayslit]

I'm sure your cigar is stored in a warm room of about 70 degrees and at around 65% humidity. If you take that cigar outside where it's 55 degrees colder and 25% lower humidity that wrapper is going to crack and start to unravel. The inside of the cigar once it is lit the filler is still holding a 65+% humidity level. When the cigar is being smoked, the moisture in the burning filler is being released as steam and drawn through the body of the much colder cigar. The colder cigar filler fills with condensation and can't hold all the humidity and the filler starts to get nasty. This also makes the cigar swell more making the wrapper even more prone to cracking. I would say that by the halfway mark that cigar is going to taste like garbage. This is why I wouldn't waste a cigar out in the cold unless it was a cheap yard gar and even then it's not worth the time or effort unless I'm shoveling snow.

I'd like to know if anyone else here smokes outside in zero-degree temps.

[jrfoxx]

I'm sure your cigar is stored in a warm room of about 70 degrees and at around 65% humidity. If you take that cigar outside where it's 55 degrees colder and 25% lower humidity that wrapper is going to crack and start to unravel. The inside of the cigar once it is lit the filler is still holding a 65+% humidity level. When the cigar is being smoked, the moisture in the burning filler is being released as steam and drawn through the body of the much colder cigar. The colder cigar filler fills with condensation and can't hold all the humidity and the filler starts to get nasty. This also makes the cigar swell more making the wrapper even more prone to cracking. I would say that by the halfway mark that cigar is going to taste like garbage. This is why I wouldn't waste a cigar out in the cold unless it was a cheap yard gar and even then it's not worth the time or effort unless I'm shoveling snow.

I haven't had any more wrapper or other problems at colder temperatures than I have at higher temperatures honestly.

Have had cracking and/or peeling wrappers with pretty much every maker on occasion, regardless of temperature or humidity. Sometimes it just happens with one.

Have smoked plenty of cigars to the point I couldn't hold them anymore in summer and winter temperatures, so never had any issues with taste based on smoking environment.

Everyone's palate is very different though, so you may have taste issues with winter temperatures while I don't.

You can never know with everyone's palates being so different

I friggin' LOVE cigars