Boxes of Cigars

[frenchy12]

Usually I buy my sticks indivudually from the local store, but the store owner in the college town I live in is quite an ass, so I made the executive decision to buy a box of cigars. How long will those last in the box themselves? I don't have a humidor per-say, it's what I call a "cool-idor" it's a water cooler, like the ones football players dump on the coaches but smaller, and I have humidification beads, and cedar in it. I'm going to put a few in there (it could fit about a dozen). As for the rest, should I leave them in the box, or should I invest in a larger cooler, like one you would use to keep your beer cold tailgating?

[DaReallyPoGigolo]

As long as it's air tight, it should work just fine. There are lots of people around here who store cigars in bulk in cooli-dors.

[veteranvmb]

I keep two boxes of my daily smokes(I smoke one of each a day), in the cedar box that they come in. I put a drymistat in each one, but with a light soak of d.w. It keept the smokes just fine for the 20 days or so. I keep a digital hygrometer in each box, and I have no problem with them. In fact I think they smoke better that way, then putting into humidor. Of course they are not aging at all, and I do plan on rectifying this situation with a very large humidor in the near future.

Good luck, Jerry

[e-man]

For you overflow, you can use a ziplock bag or rubbermaid container. Throw in some beads or a boveda pack and your're good indefinitely.

The boxes aren't built to tolerance and don't make a very good humidors. Although, you could probably fit it into a gallon freezer bag with some humidification and be very happy.

[frenchy12]

now, another thing ive been wondering is when cigars "age." what does that mean exactly?

[InvokeMe]

I thought this explanation on aging was pretty informative.

Cigars International - Cigar 101

[frenchy12]

invoke, that was very informative thank you