Cigar Storage in Coolidor?

[ricmac25]

I've been keeping my cigars in baggies in the cooler. I was considering moving them over to boxes. Has anyone had a bad experience with storing different brands in the same box (ex. Cohiba and Bolivar). Does this do anything to their flavor? I don't really have enough of any one brand to have different boxes per brand. I mostly have a bunch of different singles.

Comments?

 

[Monte]

If it's for the long term.... I would keep any flavored cigars away from the others. For the rest of them, I keep my ISOM's away from other cigars. Maduro I put in plastic individual bags with the top cut off about an inch from the end or together in a bundle of the same cigars. It's not that I've had any problems with cigars "marrying" but I do like each once unique flavors.

~Monte

 

[AVB]

If it's short term and they have cello on them then following what Monte said is good advice. My daily smokes I stick in one box so I don't have to dig. 3 or 4 of 4-6 different brands last just a few weeks and they aren't anything great to begin with. The better/good stuff I do keep seperate.

 

[ricmac25]

Let me add a little more info: I only keep my Habanos in the cooler. I have a humidor for my domestics. I was basically curious if there are any negative effects to having my Habanos sitting together.

 

[Monte]

I've never had a negative affect from keeping different ISOM's together. I keep them apart so they keep their taste identities.

~Monte

 

[ricmac25]

Monte, you confuse me. You say you've never had negative effects from keeping them together, yet you keep them separate.

Why keep them apart unless there's a negative affect?

 

[Lumberg]

I bet if you had really discriminating tastes that you could tell the difference between a RASS that had been kept next to a bunch of RyJ Churchills for years and a RASS from the same box that had been kept next to only RASSes. I mean just be able to notice a difference.

But if you had no prior knowledge, I bet it would still taste and smell like a RASS maybe just from a different box.

Not worth worrying about.

 

[lucasbuck]

I always try and keep a Cohiba or two in with any of my Havanas hoping it might improve their inferior flavor

Seriously though I doubt it makes any difference. My on deck humi has been bursting with a great variety of Havanas for a long time and I can't tell any difference from those or the ones I take straight from their boxes. I wouldn't worry about it.