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Hermit
Number of posts: 3435
Age: 60
Location: Ascension Parish
Tobacco: Exhausted Rooster
Pipe: Rad Davis Golden Blast Apple
Registration date: 2008-04-22
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:21 am | |
| | bruins wrote: | | that's gorgeous and awe-inspiring duke! here's a newbie question. so if i dump a tin of union square in a mason jar and seal it up, but in a couple weeks i get another tin of union square, can i just add it to the mason jar until it's full? |
Leave it in the sealed tin.
Jar up stuff that is open.
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bruins
Number of posts: 1293
Age: 43
Location: the heartland
Tobacco: still lookin'...i mean smokin'
Pipe: Binsbergen poker, Sasieni
Registration date: 2010-08-25
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:29 am | |
| | Hermit wrote: |
Leave it in the sealed tin.
Jar up stuff that is open.
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thanks hermit. |
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Dukeofbluz
Number of posts: 55
Age: 49
Location: Rockford IL
Registration date: 2009-12-31
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:13 pm | |
| | Hermit wrote: | | bruins wrote: | | that's gorgeous and awe-inspiring duke! here's a newbie question. so if i dump a tin of union square in a mason jar and seal it up, but in a couple weeks i get another tin of union square, can i just add it to the mason jar until it's full? |
Leave it in the sealed tin.
Jar up stuff that is open.
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Yes, I only open a tin if I need too. |
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Dukeofbluz
Number of posts: 55
Age: 49
Location: Rockford IL
Registration date: 2009-12-31
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:15 pm | |
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Hermit
Number of posts: 3435
Age: 60
Location: Ascension Parish
Tobacco: Exhausted Rooster
Pipe: Rad Davis Golden Blast Apple
Registration date: 2008-04-22
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Wed Oct 06, 2010 3:20 pm | |
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Cody V
Number of posts: 312
Age: 26
Location: Memphis, TN
Tobacco: GLP Fillmore, SG Squadron Leader, McC Wilderness, 2015, PS LuxTwistFlake
Pipe: Cavicchi, Savinelli, Stanwell, Kaywoodie Collection
Registration date: 2010-09-12
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:56 pm | |
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LAEarl
Number of posts: 106
Tobacco: C&D Opening Night, C&D Star of the East Flake, C&D Bayou Morning, C&D Good Morning, C&D Exhausted Rooster, English Aromatic, Dunhill 965, PS Navy Flake, Golden Sliced, Club Blend
Pipe: Dunhill Bruyere, Stanwell Sandblasted Bent, 50's Comoy rusticated, Briar Yello-Bole Billiard, Ballister Billiard, Dunhill Tanshell.
Registration date: 2010-07-23
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:06 am | |
| Great idea!!  |
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velveteagle
Number of posts: 1576
Age: 59
Location: Allegan Michigan
Tobacco: SG's Chocolate Flake - FVF -Dan's Blue Note- Esoterica Margate- Balkan Sasieni - Lancer's Slices - Erinmore Pipe Mixture
Pipe: Favorite Savinelli Autograph # 5-Brebbia Ascot-CAO Big Head Meer - Great Dane Spool-Wally Frank LTD Rhodesian
Registration date: 2010-07-13
| | Subject: Best storage/cellaring tips Thu Oct 07, 2010 6:41 am | |
| Great post and very helpful to us newbies.. I shall collect many mason jars for the future.. People sell them cheap around here when moving or getting to old to can any more.. Looks exciting ...  Chuck.. |
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Eric
Number of posts: 161
Tobacco: Mostly Virginia Flake
Registration date: 2009-11-03
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:41 am | |
| I've been using the very small 4 oz. mason jars. I get 'em by the box and make a slit in the plastic covering of the box just big enough to pull the jars out, fill 'em, and put 'em back. This leaves the jars in the box with most of the plastic covering in tact giving it some added stability and making the box units quite compact and stackable in a closet. The 4 oz. (or smallest) size is also particularly good because when you open a jar the aging basically stops, so I open one and smoke the tobacco until its gone. It would be tough to do that with a larger size before the tobacco gets dry. Its also handy to have the smaller jars around to house half the contents of a tin, when I open a tin, to prevent it all from getting dry before I finish it (if I'm enjoying a number of different blends rather than 'focusing' on one). |
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Guest
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| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Thu Oct 21, 2010 3:07 am | |
| | Natch wrote: | Over the years, I've morphed from storing mostly in quart Mason jars to pints and even half-pint jars. Now, when I buy a pound, I generally put into two pint jars and perhaps one 8 ounce jar (depending on the cut of the tobacco and how tight I pack it). One pint jar gets packed into a box with other blends, sealed, and labeled, "do not open until ten year from the date I seal it, so I know almost half of what I buy is in long term aging. The second pint jar I usually keep around, but may not open it for a couple of years. The smaller half-pint jar is for sampling over the next few months.
I now have several good sized boxes labeled, "Do Not Open Until 2011, or 2012, or 2013 (up to 2019). So at least 8 to 10 pounds of 10 year old tobacco can be opened each January first for a while to come. That's the primary reason that I never post pix of my cellar, it's not all neatly stashed and arranged by brand or blend, but packed into sealed boxes and stashed all over the place.
But to answer your question with my experience, store in several, smaller jars rather than fewer larger jars, they you can open some and leave others to age.
Natch |
AMEN NATCH!!!
Agreed, and if you have had the opportunity to smoke some of his 12 year old stash, Natch is the aging legend!!
I too of late try to store in smaller jars to leave the rest in cellar!!
Pay attention to the man here, trust me!
3 cheers Natch! |
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innovador
Number of posts: 89
Location: Ecuador
Tobacco: Samuel Gawith FV, RM Red Virginia, Dunhill Aperitif and Nightcap, Penzace, Rattray Accountant s Mixture
Pipe: Mastro di Paja, Dunhill, Jura
Registration date: 2011-01-21
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Fri Feb 04, 2011 1:15 pm | |
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atwageman
Number of posts: 235
Location: North Carolina
Registration date: 2010-05-18
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:49 am | |
| For tobacco that only comes in bulk I use half pint mason jars. I just recently ramped up on my bulk cellaring efforts. At the rate im going on bulk I should be up to around 100 pounds by years end. If its a blend I like I usually buy it by the 5lb bag. |
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Patrick
Number of posts: 87
Age: 24
Location: Alaska
Tobacco: Not sure yet. Still experimenting with different ones. So far I've had a few English tobaccos I like and a few aromatics.
Pipe: New to pipe smoking! I haven't figured out what my favorite pipe is yet.
Registration date: 2010-11-24
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Thu Feb 10, 2011 1:58 pm | |
| So, as a newbie, I have a few questions on this topic:
1. If you want to store the tobacco for years, what do you have to do to prepare the mason jars (or can you just screw the lid on tight and call it good)?
2. When you open a jar to smoke, how long will the tobacco keep if you close the lid tightly after each time? |
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pipe dreamer
Number of posts: 94
Age: 66
Location: fla.
Tobacco: red cake and boswells no bite are two favorites. I like most good tobaccos.
Pipe: former,winsllow,dunnhill ,jensen,.Viprati ,nording,boswell,ascorti,etc.
Registration date: 2010-04-18
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:13 pm | |
| all you guys are smart to be cellaring tobacco.I have always used mason jars of all sizes.Never fails me.Too many problems on the horizon and I love my pipes too much to deny them tobacco.Small jars are great especially when you cant stay out of the stash.I smoke a lot of burley and buy 10 to 15lbs at a time,so I like the large jars.Leaving all in original cartons helps a lot,stacking and keeping records.Keeping good records is a must.How much is the problem,especially when you like many types and blends.I have over 400lbs and still buy a lot.WHY?Cause there is a lot of good stuff out there.Keep the faith and keep stacking. |
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nate560
Number of posts: 320
Location: land beyond the stars
Tobacco: Dunhill Royal Yacht
Pipe: Castello Hawkbill
Registration date: 2008-11-18
| | Subject: Re: Best storage/cellaring tips Fri Feb 11, 2011 6:57 am | |
| I use the half pint mason jars and put 2oz in each jar put them back in the card board case and number the boxes. I have a list box 1 box 2 thru box 14 and what is in each box. I have been doing this for about 15yrs and it works for me. |
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