CIGARS 101 - How to Infuse your own Cigars
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- Beginner Cigar Guide - How to Infuse your own Cigars // In this episode of Mondays with Mardo’s we are going to try and infuse are own cigars with coffee beans! Subscribe to our CZcams channel where you’ll find more great cigar videos from cigar reviews, cigar beginners guides and cigar 101 videos, to a look into the cigar industry we got something for beginners to the cigar aficionados!
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Thanks for watching, let us know in the comments if you have had your own experience infusing your own cigars and what tips you have to share!
I infused a not so mild Corojo cigar with vanilla, and it was actually pretty good. It was a very enjoyable Sweet and spicy stick.
Looking forward to trying to infuse my own sticks. First attempt started today, and I do want to try coffee.
Thank you for letting me know BTW to invert my sticks, they were originally open end down, so I fixed this on your advice!
I received info while at my favorite cigar lounge (small business supporter!) here in AZ. I was given the following advice; use either a "travel type" cylinder humidor or a glass jar with a sealable lid. Add a shot glass of your favorite alcohol (be careful, I needed my wife who has smaller hands than I, to place the 3/4 full glass into the jar. I then placed my low cost sticks (I purchase the "no ring" 2nds which are a name brand) I am using Connecticut size, a mild smoke. The new infusion experiment is out of direct sunlight (hidden in my liquor cabinet) and I was advised to allow 3-4 weeks of infusing time. But this may not occur, as I feel 2 weeks should be good for me and my cigar mooch buddies taste.. Lets do this!! Thanks for the 4-1-1, subscribed!
Sounds great Gary! Thanks for watching hope it's delicious as it sounds!
I tried Pipe tobacco black cavendish, once on some CAO MX2’s
Very interesting how did turn ou and how long did you let it infuse for? Thanks for watching!
I used a cigar with a low flavor profile and it picked up the coffee very well. I used a 829 cigar
Great idea to pick something that won't over power the coffee flavor. Thanks for watching!
I just received some 829's myself. And, I'm also wanting to try coffee
I have infused with coffee beans and brandy
Im with you bro..I know you didnt say it, but yea lol. To me, if you have to infuse a cigar, the cigar isnt worth it.. The natural tobacco chosen by the blender needs to speak for itself. Cheers brother.. always looking forward to the next
Thanks for watching and there is nothing better than a great cigar and when they are great your absolutely right it needs nothing but maybe something to nice to pair it with! But still a fun experiment!
I did this with some cheap cigars (on the lighter side), ground dark roast, and a large acrylic case. No boveda pack; left them in there for about 6 months.
Turned out ok (a better smoke than the un-infused original); worth experimenting further. Boveda packs next time!
Very cool to experiment and see how you can boost something that may just start to be just okay!
Next time actually bree the coffee and combine with kaliula then put it in a humidor box or Tupperware
Can you use ground coffee if you don’t have whole beans?
It may even work better although it may leave a coffee ground layer on the cigar which maybe bad or good try it out let us know! Thanks for watching!
Interesting I don’t know if I’d do it but I do have a 5 pack of some real cheep cigars I might try it with
Never done this either seem like a fun experiment and you never know it may be good. Cheep cigars are perfect to use for it as long as they are something you already do like the flavor of because if you already don't like it infusing it won't really fix that. Thanks for watching!
@@MardoCigars I got some cheep knock off Joya de Nicaraguan sitting around here i might use.
did this with bourbon, except I didn't use boveda backs.
Very nice in deed! Thanks for watching!
why not a glass jar? What about using a vanilla bean too?
Common sense tells me that if you ground up the coffee beans it would be better. Yes with the whole coffee beans you can still smell the coffee but grounding up the coffee would release a lot more potent smell and with the humidor pack the grounds can soak up a lot more moisture releasing more of those coffee oils to collect on the cigar wrap.
I would get your favorite coffee and freshly grind it yourself right before placing the cigars in and I would also leave it in direct sunlight or under a heat lamp or source to open up the fibers in the wrap allowing more of that flavor to soak into the wrap and possibly into the tobacco as well.
Really good idea to try ground coffee, not sure about the heat lamp or sunlight you may hatch a few beetles. Thanks for watching.
True, that would be more effective way to infuse the flavor but it also means you can't control as easily how much there is the taste, if you want just a hint of the taste, your way doesn't work with that goal. If you want strong / full coffee taste, well, then i would go with this idea. Also heat isn't needed, cigars are sponges what comes to them to take on taste. Naturally if you are in a horry, heat is good catalyst for pretty much everything.
@@MardoCigars you can try it on a day to day basis who knows after only a day or two you might get the same hint as you would in your normal time period. I would think grinding the beans would dramatically decrease the infusion time.
That was the first thing I thought, if ground coffee wouldn't be better.
After watching several videos on infusing cigars, I have come to the conclusion, my way is the BEST way to enjoy infused cigars.
I go to my local cigar shop, pick up the amount of cigars I want, I choose JAVA, square pressed, dark brown, vanilla, coco and coffee infused, then simply pay and enjoy with a cup of Cuban coffee
😂
Are you still answering questions and home infusion on this video?
Hey there!, I'm here to help
feel free to ask
Food saver vacuum jars
Here is how i do it with coffee: 1. Make super strong coffee with the coffee you want 2. Let the grounds coold down a bit, but let them be as hot as you can handle 3. blaster all that ground in to your wooden humidor's insides and leave them grounds in it to cool off completely. Repeat this couple of times for all the coffee oils etc. goes straight in to your humidor which from it releases the odors, tastes and all that. 3. Clean your humidor from all the grounds and stick in your Cigars. Let them be there until you are happy with the result, i would let them be 1 year in minimum as over time the cedar and coffee will mellow down which your Cigars will do too with the coffee taste and then it doesn't overhelm other tastes but becomes subtle hint of taste instead, this is time consuming but it does give you premium results. Works with cocoa beans too. PAY ATTENTION: Coffee oils also insulates wood so do notice that your humidor won't leak as much air after this so it might affect your humidity a bit.
Now that i think about it, if you want to go with the grounds and don't want to spend so much time, you could throw away the sponge from the humifider and fill it with that coffee ground instead. I guess it would give the taste quite fast as them grounds are moist after all. Guess i have to try it 😊
Oh and forgot: You adjust the level of strength of the coffee taste with this way by either sticking the cigars in right away (stronger result) or by letting the humidor be open for couple of days so the initial moist goes away completely or anything between or longer, depending what you want :)
Great way to explore what you can achieve with flavor profiles in your cigars... love the 1 year minimum... but so hard to wait! Thanks for sharing this great strategy!
@@MardoCigars There is easy solution for this, put a lot of Cigars in to humidor so you can "test taste" them as often as you want 😁 Let us call it... quality control? 😄 Because for sure it is not us being impatient 😂