Cigar Reviewed: ACID Cold Infusion

Smoked at: Minnesota

I'm not sure what to make of these Acid cigars, but I'm a dabbler and will usually try anything once or twice. The last one I took a stab at was a Deep Dish that unfortunately fell apart the whole time I was trying to smoke it, like a loose meat sandwich in a monsoon. I've come to the conclusion that it had arrived to me a lot drier than I'd noticed and I didn't give it enough time to rest. My bad.

After getting my hands on this one, I gave it a good month plus in the humidor, and it certainly burns and draws much better than the last Acid I tried. Even so, it began to burn pretty wonky, but caught up before too long. The char line remained wavy and uneven throughout, and the ash flowered out and broke off in misshapen, flaky chunks, but I was happy that it didn't continually unravel in my hand like a moth-eaten sweater.

As with all Acid cigars I've encountered, the taste is dominated by the aromatic/herbal/botanical infusions central to the brand, that mostly negate any punch from the Nicaraguan tobaccos until the last third. The honey-sweet cap is sometimes pleasant, but generally intrusive, and hangs on for must of the burn time. Beneath these flavors lies the black tea notes promoted in this line, though the suggested "fresh pine" is hard to find, except maybe in retrohale. The flavor profile is somewhere between sweet biscuit and urinal cake.

I guess I just don't think this brand of cigars is for me. It's an interesting rarity to treat yourself to, like a weird drink at a tiki bar you're curious about, even though you usually just find yourself looking at the menu trying to pick out something completely different for the next round.