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Post by cigrmaster on Jun 8, 2022 14:40:47 GMT -5
I would guess 70% are tins and the rest are bulks, how about you guys?
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Post by just ol ed on Jun 8, 2022 14:57:02 GMT -5
good topic, thx for the "starter"
at my creaky age, 6 lbs total, 50/50 each. Only keep about a weeks worth upstairs in smoking room
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Post by rastewart on Jun 8, 2022 15:05:51 GMT -5
I don't have a huge cellar, but what I have is probably 70 to 75% bulks. It would probably have been closer to 50-50 several years ago, but lately I've taken to favoring bulk orders of my favorites in my (not very frequent) online purchases; saves me money in the long run and I'm assured of having a good supply of what I like best.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 8, 2022 15:51:02 GMT -5
90% tins.
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Post by william on Jun 8, 2022 15:59:47 GMT -5
Aside from a couple of Watch City and Wilke blends, I purchase tinned tobacco--primarily Virginia flake. So about 98% tins....
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Post by addamsruspipe on Jun 8, 2022 17:30:11 GMT -5
Was originally mostly tins, but am up 80% bulk now. Just cheaper and for some good blends. 😀
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Post by Ronv69 on Jun 8, 2022 17:33:35 GMT -5
If I was trying to build a 400 pound cellar I would buy bulk, but the 60 or so pounds I have will last longer than I will. Purchased a few at a time over the past 13 years.
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Post by Zach on Jun 8, 2022 17:34:38 GMT -5
Not sure percentage wise other than in weight, bulk definitely has the lead. Couple that with many tin blends are jarred up in mason jars. I'd venture a guess that about 70% is bulk or in mason jars.
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Post by username on Jun 8, 2022 17:41:42 GMT -5
It’s mostly tins I only have like about a pound and half of bulk.
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Post by Darin on Jun 8, 2022 17:42:31 GMT -5
Roughly 50% jars, 40% tins and 10% whole-leaf. Of course, some of the jars used to be tins. Lol
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Post by Rattlesnake Daddy on Jun 8, 2022 19:18:21 GMT -5
I'm probably close to 50/50. I currently have about 40 8oz ball jars of different blends from tins, and another 20 or 30 unopened tins of blends I have yet to try. For bulk, I've got about 10 16oz jars, and another 10 or so 8oz jars from samples.
I really should finish a few blends before trying new ones.
RSD
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Post by msokeefe on Jun 8, 2022 19:38:29 GMT -5
I don’t have a big cellar but most of my favs are tin only, like Presbyterian a pound in tins, Black house a pound in tins, Balkan Sassieni 1lb tins, Palmetto Balkan 2 lbs in tins, Westminster, Chelsea Morning, Maltese Falcon 1lb tins. Father Dempsey a pound in Bulk, 4th Gen Evening flake a pound in bulk, Mac Barren Navy Flake a pound in bulk, Haunted Bookshop a pound in bulk. Folklore a pound in bulk, Wilke Crystal Palace 1 lb bulk. The rest are 8 ounces or less. I want to pick up a lb of Irish Flake in tins.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Jun 8, 2022 20:45:25 GMT -5
Probably about 85% of my cellar is tins.
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Post by exbenedict on Jun 8, 2022 21:04:58 GMT -5
Per my spreadsheet 42.84% Tins and 57.16% Bulk.
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Post by william on Jun 8, 2022 21:30:26 GMT -5
I mentioned this in another thread. But I decided to jar some of my tins. I went through them all, and selected the tins that had suffered some damage in shipping, and transferred the contents of those to pint Ball jars (which will hold about 4 tins of flake tobacco). Also popped some recent Samuel Gawaith (Skiff and Squadron Leader) and jarred that. So if the tins fail (which I doubt), I will have some jarred; and if the jars fail, I will have plenty in tins. Best of both worlds. And lets this obsessive-compulsive sleep better at night....
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Post by trailboss on Jun 8, 2022 21:34:09 GMT -5
I couldn’t hazard a guess. I would have to do some digging… guessing 50/50?
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Post by turbocat on Jun 8, 2022 23:14:42 GMT -5
I have been meaning to do a spreadsheet of my tobacco for a while now, but it hasn't happened yet so it is only a rough guess and then the question, by weight or blends? Seeing that I have nearly the entire GH line in bulk and quite a bit of WC blends, along with odds and ends there is probably 40 pounds of bulk to about 400-500 tins.
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Post by don on Jun 9, 2022 1:32:56 GMT -5
50/50
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Post by Spartacus on Jun 9, 2022 14:00:10 GMT -5
I'm 48% tins & 52% bulk.
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Post by msokeefe on Jun 9, 2022 14:33:40 GMT -5
Going off track, when I jar tobacco, I pack it loosely and leave air space. Is this correct?
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Post by johnlawitzke on Jun 9, 2022 16:38:39 GMT -5
Going off track, when I jar tobacco, I pack it loosely and leave air space. Is this correct? Yes. Oxygen is needed for aerobic stage of fermentation.
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Post by daveinlax on Jun 9, 2022 16:46:41 GMT -5
Going off track, when I jar tobacco, I pack it loosely and leave air space. Is this correct? Not sure but I know guys have done studies but I don’t remember what the results were. I pack my jars as tight and full as I can. I don’t need any more flats of jars than I already have. If I had to start over I’d probably go with Mylar bags stored in totes. I’ll take a guess that I have 70/30 bulk/tins. I smoke my bulk tobacco almost exclusively .
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2022 17:57:07 GMT -5
Mostly, tins. I don't have a lot jarred, maybe 4 or 5 lbs.
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Post by Zach on Jun 9, 2022 18:38:24 GMT -5
Going off track, when I jar tobacco, I pack it loosely and leave air space. Is this correct? It's a loaded question, and so I've aged tobaccos 4-5 years unopened in both ways. Some with an inch of airspace in the head, and some packed entirely full. Honest opinion is I think the entirely packed tight jars seem to age better and more slowly, while Virginia based mixtures with an entire inch of air left at the top tend to get a lot more fermented and sour and rotten fruit-ish.
It's a loaded question because you have aerobic and anaerobic aging processes and the aging is going to end up slightly different doing it various ways. I've also been able to somewhat stop the flavor changing in my long aged experiments by drying down tobaccos nearly crispy before jarring them. One example, I did with the first year 2016 release of C&D Small Batch Carolina Red Flake. I've got some that still tastes nearly fresh because I dried it before jarring to prevent molding issues, and then I have some moist jarred for the same amount of time that tastes entirely different, darker, and not nearly as good by any means. Muddied in many ways, vs what you expect from a red and bready high sugar VA when somewhat fresh. I wanted to capture that flavor and unfortunately I may be disappointed with the many tins left in tins if they did not convert anaerobic quickly within the first year inside the tins. Fingers are crossed, though.
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Post by kxg on Jun 9, 2022 18:43:17 GMT -5
I have a bit over 97 pounds in the cellar and it is 28% tins/72% bulk, split approx. 1/3 in Mylar 2/3 in jars.
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Post by msokeefe on Jun 9, 2022 19:12:23 GMT -5
Going off track, when I jar tobacco, I pack it loosely and leave air space. Is this correct? It's a loaded question, and so I've aged tobaccos 4-5 years unopened in both ways. Some with an inch of airspace in the head, and some packed entirely full. Honest opinion is I think the entirely packed tight jars seem to age better and more slowly, while Virginia based mixtures with an entire inch of air left at the top tend to get a lot more fermented and sour and rotten fruit-ish.
It's a loaded question because you have aerobic and anaerobic aging processes and the aging is going to end up slightly different doing it various ways. I've also been able to somewhat stop the flavor changing in my long aged experiments by drying down tobaccos nearly crispy before jarring them. One example, I did with the first year 2016 release of C&D Small Batch Carolina Red Flake. I've got some that still tastes nearly fresh because I dried it before jarring to prevent molding issues, and then I have some moist jarred for the same amount of time that tastes entirely different, darker, and not nearly as good by any means. Muddied in many ways, vs what you expect from a red and bready high sugar VA when somewhat fresh. I wanted to capture that flavor and unfortunately I may be disappointed with the many tins left in tins if they did not convert anaerobic quickly within the first year inside the tins. Fingers are crossed, though.
Now my head is spinning! I jar to keep the tobacco fresh, I don’t have that much where I foresee aging tobacco for 5+ years. I notice C&D tobaccos are very moist. The Palmetto Balkan that I have been smoking lately seems to be very oily. Running a pipe cleaner through a pipe during and after smoking leaves the cleaner filthy and brown. I haven’t seen this with any English/Balkan blends.
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Post by Zach on Jun 9, 2022 21:43:07 GMT -5
Oh, you're already buying plenty enough that you'll have a lot of it in 5+ years, lol. I see how much you smoke, and how much you're buying. Keep that buying up the next few years and measure how many pounds you can smoke in a year. You're buying more than you smoke. And this is how it alllll starts...
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Post by msokeefe on Jun 9, 2022 21:59:00 GMT -5
Oh, you're already buying plenty enough that you'll have a lot of it in 5+ years, lol. I see how much you smoke, and how much you're buying. Keep that buying up the next few years and measure how many pounds you can smoke in a year. You're buying more than you smoke. And this is how it alllll starts...
Lies! Lies! All lies!
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Post by Zach on Jun 9, 2022 22:00:27 GMT -5
Oh, you're already buying plenty enough that you'll have a lot of it in 5+ years, lol. I see how much you smoke, and how much you're buying. Keep that buying up the next few years and measure how many pounds you can smoke in a year. You're buying more than you smoke. And this is how it alllll starts...
Lies! Lies! All lies! You just received a hair under 2 pounds in tins yesterday, you're talking about ordering a stack of Irish Flake tins for Christ's sake. You are barely smoking a pound a year at this rate. This is how it starts.
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Post by msokeefe on Jun 9, 2022 22:04:47 GMT -5
I just saw now I am a silver member at smokingdollars.
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