Thinking outside the box

BlueRings

Cello vs non cello is always a discussion within the forums. Uncello'd is my choice. So I have moved on and now I am interested in boxed vs unboxed. I started to unbox last year half of a box when I receive them and keeping the others boxed in my cabinet. I wanted to revisit these cigars at three, six, and one year to see how the aging progresses changes the cigar. I will be reporting back on My Father 2010 limited. I just updated my last review from back in Feb on the unboxed version. You can see it under the review section. I will also update it with the boxed version for comparison. What are your experiencespreferences?

xmacro

Well, the main purpose of spanish cedar is to deter beetles, and act as a secondary humidifier/stabilizer (cigars themselves are your main source of humidity stabilization, from what I've read). I'd say that so long as you have some spanish cedar inside to help regulate RH, there's no real reason to keep the boxes; though for coolers I can see why keeping the boxes would be prefereable

Ken Light

I've got a small cabinet with a small top part that's compartmentalized and a bottom that's just shelves. Singles go on top, obviously, and I put boxes in the bottom, in the boxes. Out of the boxes they'd just become one big mess of a pile, that's my only reasoning for it. Never thought about aging differences, though clearly the ones buried in the box are kept a bit differently from singles and the ones on the top of the box. Definitely interested to see what you find, I like that you're looking at it so empirically!

Bob Luken

PAtoNH

Bob Luken

I did find a review by BlueRings on a My Father Limited Edition (My Father Limited Edition Toro **Update 6 Months) but I noticed no mention of the comparison of the aging differences between boxed vs singles.

New Boots

perkinke

Whenever I put a new box or coffin in my coolidor I always crack the lid for at least a week to allow the humidity to circulate into it, and then i close them as stacking needs dictate. I do kinda the same with the ziplock baggies (I keep some in them if I want to know who sent it to me) I keep them open as far as I can without them spilling out when I move them around.

jd50ae