So, I was intrigued at how an 858 sungrown would taste, and upon a crack pot idea from my near psycho-creative genius, I decided to switch some wrappers around. I bought an 858 natural and a Double Chateau Fuente Sungrown from a local for this experiment. Instead of pectin, I used royal jelly/cactus honey as adhesive. I chose honey because of it's resistance to spoiling, it has a decent shelf life, and never needs refrigeration as far as I can tell.
I first slobbered all over the cigar. Bottled water works as well, I used this in performing the same stunt on another pair of cigars to give to two certain taste testers. Hopefully they will give a review and some pictures. Well, the main idea is to get the wrapper moist, and to loosen the adhesive under the cap. There should be no adhesive under the wrapper connecting it to the binder, but who knows how well these rollers make these cigars.
The cigar is always wrapped starting from the foot and ending at the head, so I had to start at the head first, removing the cap, and slowly gently taking off the wrapper being careful about not ripping it. I always go with a larger donor cigar because more wrapper is better, more material to work with. Once both cigars are naked, I start applying the sun grown wrapper to the 858 naked natural, foot first, and ending with the cap with some honey as adhesive.
I left the cigar alone for about an hour to dry out the wrapper, and hope it shrinks a bit during the waiting time, so it can naturally cling to the filler and binder. I clip the cigar at the foot, and smoke away. Not a bad cigar. Definitely not the greatest, but a lot better than the natural 858s. Scott was looking at me like I was crazy while I was doing this...
I might do this again at a certain Queens herf, and maybe at the Quad state as well. Definitely an interesting twist if you get bored of smoking the same old cigar with ideas of "I wonder how this AVO will taste with this Ashton aged maduro wrapper..." or something along those lines.
I first slobbered all over the cigar. Bottled water works as well, I used this in performing the same stunt on another pair of cigars to give to two certain taste testers. Hopefully they will give a review and some pictures. Well, the main idea is to get the wrapper moist, and to loosen the adhesive under the cap. There should be no adhesive under the wrapper connecting it to the binder, but who knows how well these rollers make these cigars.
The cigar is always wrapped starting from the foot and ending at the head, so I had to start at the head first, removing the cap, and slowly gently taking off the wrapper being careful about not ripping it. I always go with a larger donor cigar because more wrapper is better, more material to work with. Once both cigars are naked, I start applying the sun grown wrapper to the 858 naked natural, foot first, and ending with the cap with some honey as adhesive.
I left the cigar alone for about an hour to dry out the wrapper, and hope it shrinks a bit during the waiting time, so it can naturally cling to the filler and binder. I clip the cigar at the foot, and smoke away. Not a bad cigar. Definitely not the greatest, but a lot better than the natural 858s. Scott was looking at me like I was crazy while I was doing this...
I might do this again at a certain Queens herf, and maybe at the Quad state as well. Definitely an interesting twist if you get bored of smoking the same old cigar with ideas of "I wonder how this AVO will taste with this Ashton aged maduro wrapper..." or something along those lines.
