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Favorite blends - how much is "enough"?
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<blockquote data-quote="lestrout" data-source="post: 279191" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>I started back into pipes several years ago and adopted 2 objectives once I realized I was serious about pipes: first to establish the top candidates for cellaring, and second to stow/hoard at least a pound or equivalent of each. Well, the profusion of available blends shifted my original target of 20 Top blends, to 50 then to 100. I need to re-evaluate things since my Excel seems to show 160 items on the TopWhatever Cellar sheet, and I have another several hundred candidates strewn around the house, each potentially a future candidate. To date, I've only demoted a handful of blends. This is strange since I know my tastes have been changing from only Lats and now I'm really getting into VAs and VA/Pers. </p><p></p><p>My rate of puffing is 3 bowls a day, and since I prefer smallish bowls I go through 6-7 lbs per year. I'm planning for another 40 years of puffing, even if supply dries up. I am starting to worry about the heavier Latakias not ageing well by the time a few decades roll by, but if I rebalance the cellar with more VAs and VA/Pers, at least I won't be running out of stuff to smoke. So as I toil my way through the several hundred candidate tins yet to be opened, I am hopeful all the planets will line up as I stock up on the new found Cellar items. Sometime this winter I will do the math and adjust accordingly.</p><p></p><p>hp</p><p>les</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lestrout, post: 279191, member: 282"] I started back into pipes several years ago and adopted 2 objectives once I realized I was serious about pipes: first to establish the top candidates for cellaring, and second to stow/hoard at least a pound or equivalent of each. Well, the profusion of available blends shifted my original target of 20 Top blends, to 50 then to 100. I need to re-evaluate things since my Excel seems to show 160 items on the TopWhatever Cellar sheet, and I have another several hundred candidates strewn around the house, each potentially a future candidate. To date, I've only demoted a handful of blends. This is strange since I know my tastes have been changing from only Lats and now I'm really getting into VAs and VA/Pers. My rate of puffing is 3 bowls a day, and since I prefer smallish bowls I go through 6-7 lbs per year. I'm planning for another 40 years of puffing, even if supply dries up. I am starting to worry about the heavier Latakias not ageing well by the time a few decades roll by, but if I rebalance the cellar with more VAs and VA/Pers, at least I won't be running out of stuff to smoke. So as I toil my way through the several hundred candidate tins yet to be opened, I am hopeful all the planets will line up as I stock up on the new found Cellar items. Sometime this winter I will do the math and adjust accordingly. hp les [/QUOTE]
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