I have read a lot of opinion regarding this question but nothing definitive. So, what is the consensus? Does pressing tobacco blends as you jar for aging improve the "melding" and thereby the flavor? No additions, just the blend as delivered.
So, it is aerobic respiration, is there anaerobic respiration as well? Is it fermentation? I guess not.In the presence of oxygen, you get cellular respiration.
Fair enough, but folks weren't cellaring 250lbs for their personal use, neither. Maybe they had more than one or two pipes, and maybe they had a bit of rope or two that would suffice for a few months. Cellaring? Who would bother with that? Aging tobacco for years before smoking? What kind of idiotic nonsense is that? Anyone here remember back a few years when an email from Robert Germain was posted in which he wrote that his products were ready for consumption upon release and to stop "fapping about" with all this aging nonsense?Hell, for hundreds of years, NO ONE USED JARS!!! They just let it lay out on the ground and flipped it with shovels every now and then. General stores just wrapped the twists in paper. Now, grown men are all hand wringing and sweating over how to put it in the jars. Ha ha, sorry, I am just finding it amusing.
+1.... it's simply down to economics on my part. The more baccy I can cram into a jar, the less jars I will need ...