Humidors, General Storage and Aging

chrislolds

chrislolds

Also, any general guidelines for cigars? Should they be quarantined? Should I only quarantine specific times like during hot shipping months? Do I not need to worry about quarantine from online like CCOM, or from my B&M? Does anyone ever have major problems with bugs or anything? Should I freeze or does that ruin cigars?

Rhamlin

IMHO long term aging is done best in a humidor. That being said any of the methods you mentioned is very acceptable and cheaper. It's mostly a personal preference. As far as quaranteing that's mainly for mold or beetles. And of course any infused sticks need to be kept separately.

Darktower007

Rhamlin:

IMHO long term aging is done best in a humidor. That being said any of the methods you mentioned is very acceptable and cheaper. It's mostly a personal preference. As far as quaranteing that's mainly for mold or beetles. And of course any infused sticks need to be kept separately.

Agreed. I age only in humidors. I have them labeled and dated as well as a saparate book on them. I also rotate them and do a visual inspection every so often...

Bob Luken

catfishbluezz

Cedar is also there to reject tobacco beetles, you don't need cedar to age at all. However, if you are concerned and want to age in a cooler, use boxes, problem solved. If you want to age in bags, put a cedar divider in, problem solved. Cigars do help stabilize themselves, the more the merrier. Cheap cigars do not age into gems either. It's all about the tobacco.

rsherman24

kuzi16

chrislolds

Lee.mcglynn

Beetles don't like the taste of cedar...if you have them sealed in a cedar container they will not spread out as much...they will stay in the box but will eat what ever is in there! Personally I keep most of my long term stuff sealed in ziplock freezer bags with boveda in them. If the box can fit in the bag even better! But I also store the bags in a cooler to prevent big temp swings and also keep some beads in it as well. Really there is no right or wrong way for long term it's all in opinion once again

chrislolds

Lee.mcglynn:

Beetles don't like the taste of cedar...if you have them sealed in a cedar container they will not spread out as much...they will stay in the box but will eat what ever is in there! Personally I keep most of my long term stuff sealed in ziplock freezer bags with boveda in them. If the box can fit in the bag even better! But I also store the bags in a cooler to prevent big temp swings and also keep some beads in it as well. Really there is no right or wrong way for long term it's all in opinion once again

So in your case, the beads in the cooler don't affect the cigars in the bags right, the only humidity for those would be the bovedas? are the beads for other loose cigars in the cooler? And how often do you need to replace the bovedas when they are in a ziploc like that? Also, do you need to monitor the RH in each bag or does the boveda act pretty stable on that?

Lee.mcglynn

chrislolds:

Lee.mcglynn:

Beetles don't like the taste of cedar...if you have them sealed in a cedar container they will not spread out as much...they will stay in the box but will eat what ever is in there! Personally I keep most of my long term stuff sealed in ziplock freezer bags with boveda in them. If the box can fit in the bag even better! But I also store the bags in a cooler to prevent big temp swings and also keep some beads in it as well. Really there is no right or wrong way for long term it's all in opinion once again

So in your case, the beads in the cooler don't affect the cigars in the bags right, the only humidity for those would be the bovedas? are the beads for other loose cigars in the cooler? And how often do you need to replace the bovedas when they are in a ziploc like that? Also, do you need to monitor the RH in each bag or does the boveda act pretty stable on that?

not even the ziplock freezer bags are air tight so humidity can come and go very slowly. This is why I keep the cooler humidity around 65 rh and the boveda packs I use are 62rh. This way the boveda will last a very long time and keep everything as stable as possible.

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