Tatuaje dud

[Cool Breeze]

Well I've been smoking cigars for a couple of years now and have never gotten a stick so plugged that it was unsmokeable. Until today.

I've had a 10th Anniversary Tat in the humidor for a while and have been really looking forward to it. I had planned to smoke it on my 13th wedding anniversary but didn't get around to it.

Tonight I needed a good smoke after a shitty week at work. Well it just got shittier (if that's a word).
The cigar is a smaller ring gauge so I give it a straight cut and fire it up. The draw is so tight I can't hardly get anything out of it. It's like getting a thick milkshake and trying to get a drink of it.

The foot is pouring off smoke like crazy but I could hardly get anything out of it.

I tried and tried to roll it around but it didn't seem to have any plugs that I could feel. I took my pipe tool and tried to clear anything out near the head, to no avail.

Finally, less than an inch in, I got pissed and threw it against the wall. Then I picked it up and cut it open. I couldn't find any plugs. It was just rolled so tightly it wouldn't allow any air through.

It sucks. I know Tatuaje is a good company. Anyone who makes a handmade product will have some bad ones every now and then.
The flavors I got were great.

Sorry, I had to rant. This is an anniversary edition that the B&M is out of so getting another is out of the question. Dammit.

[TreySC]

Happened to me once but it was a nica libre so I wasn't to upset.

[herman]

I've had 7 Tats and 5 of them have been bad. I gave up on the brand for now. Too many cigars that have not let me down that often. I'm not saying they're a bad brand, the 2 I enjoyed were great, but my track record has been far short of impressive.

[allusred]

Well I've been smoking cigars for a couple of years now and have never gotten a stick so plugged that it was unsmokeable. Until today.

I've had a 10th Anniversary Tat in the humidor for a while and have been really looking forward to it. I had planned to smoke it on my 13th wedding anniversary but didn't get around to it.

Tonight I needed a good smoke after a shitty week at work. Well it just got shittier (if that's a word).
The cigar is a smaller ring gauge so I give it a straight cut and fire it up. The draw is so tight I can't hardly get anything out of it. It's like getting a thick milkshake and trying to get a drink of it.

The foot is pouring off smoke like crazy but I could hardly get anything out of it.

I tried and tried to roll it around but it didn't seem to have any plugs that I could feel. I took my pipe tool and tried to clear anything out near the head, to no avail.

Finally, less than an inch in, I got pissed and threw it against the wall. Then I picked it up and cut it open. I couldn't find any plugs. It was just rolled so tightly it wouldn't allow any air through.

It sucks. I know Tatuaje is a good company. Anyone who makes a handmade product will have some bad ones every now and then.
The flavors I got were great.

Sorry, I had to rant. This is an anniversary edition that the B&M is out of so getting another is out of the question. Dammit.

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"Tonight I needed a good smoke after a shitty week at work. Well it just got shittier (if that's a word)"
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Shittier may or may not be a word but it sure as hell is a state of being.That time when no matter how totally screwed up everything is, it somehow just keeps getting worse no matter what you do. Nothing, no how, no kind of way can or will put an end to it. Leastways that's the way those sort of days or weeks always seem to be...worse and worser no matter what you do.
Seems as if the good gets put on hold until the bad has had its run.
Onliest thing to do, once things brighten up ...is to realize that that bloody state of Shitty and then shittier is the state some live their entire lives in.
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Here's to better times better smokes.

[Cool Breeze]

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"Tonight I needed a good smoke after a shitty week at work. Well it just got shittier (if that's a word)"
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Onliest thing to do, once things brighten up ...is to realize that that bloody state of Shitty and then shittier is the state some live their entire lives in.
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Here's to better times better smokes.

Oh yeah man.
I've got it good. I get a little whiney sometimes but I'm under no illusions. I've never really had it bad.

And there are plenty of good cigars in the humidor and pipe tobacco in the cellar. Life is good.

[Yarddog]

Yepper. It happens.

[thechasm442]

that sucks dude. I actually had a similar experience today with my now nemesis cigar, gran habano 2002. I couldn't even get a draw past the first 1/2 inch and the cherry was rock solid. Not the best experience at all.

[Billb1960]

I've had that happen with more than a few CC as well. But even Tatuaje has a dud now & then. I had a Tat Black CG that was virtually unsmokeable a while back as well as the only Tramp Stamp I've ever tried.

[Shemp Jizzle]

its only a cigar. Duds will and do happen.

[droy1958]

I'm going to go with shittier being a word. I've seen it...