Tobacco beetles or something else?

[Bijan]

42 minutes ago, jenda445 said:

Thanks alot for all the info. I will try to smoke a bit more consistently and maybe deeply. It's interesting because I neveer had to deal with this up until that one box of Trinidad Media Luna. They were perfectly rolled with not a single dud in the box of 12 and they were from '18 I think. Really good flavor wise, but as I said, pnly up to some point and then I noticed the burnt, peppery flavor. Maybe I just smoked differently before? Didn't pay as much attention to it as now? I really don't know.

Could be the cigars being overhumidifed from the vendor. I had this problem with two boxes of RyJ Petit Royale it was so bad it lasted months, and I just gave up on those cigars for the short and medium term.

Again if it was cigars from one vendor, obviously the most likely issue is overhumidification from the vendor. If it is cigars from your storage then overhumidification in your storage (as I had with my father's tupperdor). If it is cigars smoked at home, then high humidity where you are smoking, as I will have the same sort of issue in summer on rainy days. But if it happens even on vacation then either you were unlucky and those cigars were overhumidifed too or the ambient humidity was also quite humid where you were vacationing or your smoking had some part to play.

I went from smoking too fast and puffing too frequently and getting coning where the wrapper burns faster than the filler, to smoking much slower and tending towards tunneling, the opposite problem. Other than that cigars too dry will tend to coning, and those too humid will tend to tunneling. And also smoking in very humid conditions will lead to tunneling too.