how many different blends do you have?

tarheel1 · Jan 21, 2015

I am working on building my cellar. Unfortunately many of the tins i have i only have one and not tried them as of yet. I dont get to smoke that often and the 6lbs i have will probably last 10 years. It will take forever to try all these blends. I have starting stocking up on tobacco i truly love such as Penzance and escudo. There are a couple more blends i plan on having more than one tin of like the Frogmortons. I guess my question is do you have a lot of tins of a few blends, or a few tins of a lot of blends? I think many of us have more tobacco than we will ever smoke, so why do we stock up?

escioe · Jan 21, 2015

I consider myself mostly a depth smoker. I find a blend I like and order lots of it. There might be thirty different blends represented in my cellar, and I could get away with ten if I had to, and probably a half-dozen if I had a gun to my head. Sampling every blend, especially when so many of them are just bad iterations of blends I already have and like, just isn't for me.

easterntraveler · Jan 21, 2015

About 30

tarheel1 · Jan 21, 2015

Easterntraveler yo have 30 different blends? How many of each do you have? I think i am at around 30 different blends, but mostly one tin or jar of each.

easterntraveler · Jan 21, 2015

I have 1 or 2 tins of a couple however at lease half a pound of each if not more. Dunhill Royal Yacht 30 tins along with escudo. Most tinned tobacco consist of about 10 tins. I also have 4 pounds of a single blend. My cellar has 36 pounds as of last week.

easterntraveler · Jan 21, 2015

I have 1 or 2 tins of a couple however at lease half a pound of each if not more. Dunhill Royal Yacht 30 tins along with escudo. Most tinned tobacco consist of about 10 tins. I also have 4 pounds of a single blend. Most if my tobacco is jarred. My cellar has 36 pounds as of last week.
Old picture but this will give you an idea. This is about 25 pounds.

tarheel1 · Jan 21, 2015

Hereis my cellar currently. You can see how not a lot is repeated.i think i would like to try most of the blends that i have not, and either decide to buy more or get it out of my cellar. I think i would like fewer blends but more tins. I know positively that Penzance, Quiet Nights, Escudo, all the Frogmortons, Germains Special Latakia Flake, Bowlegged Bear,and most likely three nuns will be in my cellar in quantity.

Chasing Embers · Jan 21, 2015

Twelve different blends at 3 to 4 pounds of each. Have multiple tins not yet considered cellar material as I have as of yet not decided if I like them well enough to stock up on. Right now, MacB Plumcake is ranking very high, so very likely to be my next to bulk up on.

iamn8 · Jan 21, 2015

One of the first good lessons I figured out on the forum, I never order less than 3.... it's kinda of a mild OCD thing. One to smoke, an even number to store and if I like the tin I opened I'll order three more so ill have five to store and again same ratio of smoke to store. This sounds more OCD than it is

currently I have around a dozen to try and and a bunch of single tin aged to try where duplicates are unlikely. This is all quite fun n interesting. I was once a wine buff but there your talking many hundreds of $ and lots of bottles. Here you can crack a tin and store. No need to "finish the bottle".

Chasing Embers · Jan 21, 2015

I always order more than one tin of a new blend. :mrgreen: Probably far more normal than you think. Try it out, and if you like it, the beginnings of a cellar for that blend. :wink:

huntertrw · Jan 21, 2015

"how many different blends do you have?"
Since variety is truly the spice of life, I find that I will never have nearly enough!

mcitinner1 · Jan 21, 2015

Currently my tobacco cellar has 166 blends in it. :roll:

jfox520 · Jan 21, 2015

I have about 40 different blends.

cosmicfolklore · Jan 21, 2015

I have a lot of blends, but mostly stuff I bought to try. I only have about twelve that I have actually stocked up on. Stuff that I am certain will really improve with age. But, I still keep buying two to three tins of this and that to try latter.
I am constantly trying to balance between smoking more, so that I can try out all of the backstocked tins that I want to try, and smoking less, so that I don't have a heart attack, ha ha. I would like to buy more of what turns out to be great, but I can only smoke so many pipes in a day. : puffy

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huntertrw · Jan 21, 2015

"I think many of us have more tobacco than we will ever smoke, so why do we stock up?"
This reminds me of a question which someone once asked of W.C. Fields upon seeing his vast cache of liquor. The question was along the line of: "Gee, Bill, why all this liquor? Prohibition ended years ago." His response was sweet and succinct: "It might come back!"
For many of us the answer to the OP's question would be that of Mr. Fields, but reversed: "It might be prohibited!"

freakiefrog · Jan 21, 2015

Oh Id say I have about 20-30 blends that I mosey through right now I'm in a big Va and VaPer mode so my Orlick, Escudo, Saloni 633 and Frog Morton stuff is getting a real work out. I go in a circle this summer I'll be dabbling in some new English stuff like the HH Latakia Flake or the Old Dark fired with some standbys like My Mix 965, Early Morning Pipe, The Aperitif ect ect. Aromatics are something that my collection is lacking I have a few that just sit there for guest to try when they come over. Oh one that every English tobacco smoker should get is C&D Star of the East, Now that's a tasty English.

forest7 · Jan 21, 2015

Only got 6 blends but luckly do have PS LBF and Dunhill nightcap among them.

phred · Jan 21, 2015

I'm still in the process of learning what I like, so I'm trying to limit both breadth and depth. I've been sampling blends in the different major types (Aromatics, Latakia-forward blends, Va/Pers, Burleys), and I'm just about ready to start in on straight Virginias. As I find the exemplars in each "family", I'll stock up - Burleys turned out to be my first cellaring blends as the ones I liked best turned out to be available in 14 oz tubs (Sugar Barrel and Prince Albert). I stocked up on some Escudo last year, and will get more this year.
All told, I've got about 5 blends that I'd consider "cellared", with an eye on at least two more. I've got open tins or jars of 4 of those (I stashed 8 oz. of Russ Ouelette's 2014 Holiday blend on a whim), plus about a dozen more samples or single tins that I have jarred for consumption. And there are at least a half-dozen unopened tins for future sampling and consumption sitting on my shelf, mocking me... :D

sablebrush52 · Jan 21, 2015

How many blends? Too many. I have no idea how much I have stashed away, though I would guess it's in the range of 40lbs. More than I will likely ever smoke at the rate that I'm smoking. If I buy anything new it will be one tin to try.

mso489 · Jan 21, 2015

Only about three dozen, many unopened, and including dribs and dregs, and baggies and pouches, and jars,

and a third of a can of Granger and an unopened Half&Half. And my much doted upon Tabac Manil Semois

in its paper wrapper in a large mason jar.

how many different blends do you have?

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