Specifically, how long can I age tobacco safely if the blend comes in the foil bags like Penzance, Stonehaven, etc.
How Long Can you store tobacco in Foil Bags?
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Carter Hall and PA, will last a very very long time, even if dumped out in the yard. Last Spring, I found a pouch of Carter Hall in my tractor from the previous year, and it smoked great. But, the pouches described in the OP are very different. The foil packets used by Esoterica are designed to be very air tight. That said, I still always jar up my Esoterica products, because I don't wan't to ever open half a pound of anything that has been aged. In my experience with aged blends, they turn to crap very soon after exposed to air. So, I would have to chain smoke an aged pouch of Stonehaven, shortly after opening it. So, screw that. I put them in the small half-pint jars in 2-3oz ratios. That is the amount that I can enjoy, before getting tired of the blend and wanting something else in my rotation. But, the foil was designed for aging, if you want to ever quickly smoke half a pound of an esoterica. I also never buy the 100gram tins for the same reason.
Also, don't expect any significant aging with Pa or CH. They are loaded with persevatives to prevent that.
I acquired some 8 oz containers of Penzance, some 20 years old, before the foil; a double wrap of plastics. Moisture content was over 80% (RH) and it smokes great. YMMV. I'd guess the tightly sealed foil bags are good to Mars and back....
I have seen a couple of people complain that the bags had a tiny pin prick in them. When you get a bag, examine it. If you find no hole (which could happen in shipping, I suppose) and smell no tobacco, you're very likely safe. The Esoterica bags have been known to last more than a decade, keeping the tobacco inside moist.
Oh no, Andy, You must be confusing me with Nate. I do appreciate the shout out though, but I've only ever gotten fresh Esotericas in bags. I have had quite a few old "tins" of Tilbury and Penzance from the Briary though, and a few tins of several Germain's products. But, bags have always been fresh. Nate is the lucky dog scooping up the wonderful aged bags around my neck of the woods.
This is what I have done. It's always good to get some verification as I'd been pondering it lately.
I don't think it was nate either, perhaps it was a former forum member, I remember it was peacehaven I believe, the member had picked a bag out of a bunch of estorica at thebriary that had been sitting there along time, and then showed it was a nice really dark flake, whereas the fresh stuff was a light brown.
Dang, that was me. My first Peacehaven. Ha ha, this is why Lora doesn't let me walk the dog by myself. I still refuse to wear the Silver Alert bracelet.
I keep my Stonehaven bags as is. I examine them and have never seen a pinhole. The bags will be worth so much more money if I die without smoking them all, my kids can fight over them. lol
Harris, my kids are legally instructed to pile my pipes and tobacco on my pyre when this ghost leaves the machine and light that baby up. They can squabble over everything else, but my hobby goes with me. :
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Cos, I told my kids to contact pipestud to sell all my stuff for top dollar. They could easily buy a house with the proceeds.
Sorry to sidetrack us from death (how inevitable! how boring!) but I think the foil bags are pretty good now. Then again, they're B+... A+ is a jar with a nice sealing lid. Why the heck not?
That's my rationale anyway.
That's my rationale anyway.
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