My infused experiment...

In a few weeks, I plan to light up the fruits of my infusion labor.

I've been letting some sticks sit in an extra humidor that I seasoned with bourbon. About once a month I put a shot glass of bourbon in and let it sit for a few days. seems to be almost all of the humidification that it needs. If I need to bump the humidity up, I throw in a some distilled water every once and a while.

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Originally Posted by bluenoser

I've wondered about this, I seem to be really drawn to anything coffee flavored so I might have to give this a try too. Thanks.

Wonder if throwing in some cocoa would give a mocha flavor...

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I question about the cocoa because the powder won't have much in the way of oils to transmit the flavor. I imagine the reason coffee works well is because of the oils. If you wanted to try this I would think a shotglass with a chocolate liquor would be a better bet. Just theorizing though.

Wife has a bottle of chocolat rouge (red wine with chocolate liquor) Might have to steal a shot glass...

Probably doesn't hurt the coffee either. I'd not be ashamed to dump it out and brew it up. Can't be any worse than Folgers.

Scott, I have a small single 62 boveda in there just in case and is all I have at the moment.

I asked my wife to smell one of the cigar before I smoked it and she said that it was delicious and if I had bought more cigars...I'm really happy with the way they turn out and it is worth a try.

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Originally Posted by Bowtech4ever

@MataFina , thanks for that! Have extra Arganese Maduros myself & plenty of extra Cuban coffee. Gonna do same this weekend. I'd like to know what to do about humidification too.

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@Emperor Zurg , Cigar infused coffee. now that would be interesting.

I'm sure if I had patience to wait a couple of months they would be even better. Now that I know that it actually works, I'll keep a few stocked up to "age" them a little more.

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Originally Posted by BryGuySC

I was thinking about doing this before winter, so they could soak in the flavors for a couple months... but I forgot.

No time like the present, though!

I'll try to actually make it happen this time. Did you guys do anything for humidity, of not worry about it, since it was a sealed jar?

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@Upstatemax , please, post how they turn out once you get to them...I've been thinking about doing one batch with some sort of alcohol.

I threw this together this afternoon:

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/DSC04301.jpg

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/DSC04302.jpg

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/DSC04304.jpg

I'll give it a few weeks and report back.

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Originally Posted by Tobias Lutz

I threw this together this afternoon:

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/DSC04301.jpg

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/DSC04302.jpg

http://i495.photobucket.com/albums/r...b/DSC04304.jpg

I'll give it a few weeks and report back.

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I will duplicate. I have same components available, but those bean of yours sure look good & oily. What type / profile did you use?

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Originally Posted by Bowtech4ever

I will duplicate. I have same components available, but those bean of yours sure look good & oily. What type / profile did you use?

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Those are Guatemalan beans with a pretty floral profile- still robust though. I just grabbed the sticks I had in the bottom of the humi that had lost their bands at some point- I have no clue what they are :)

@Tobias Lutz , for once, I wasn't interested in the cigars lol, but as a serious coffee lover too, you really had me with those beautiful greeeezy beans. I agree with @Emperor Zurg ....ya better let us know how that cigar infused coffee turns out as well.