How Quickly Does Burley Age?

I've always had pipes a couple tins around, but I recently retired from chain-smoking Reds to take up pipe-smoking full time, and I'm new to "serious" pipe-smoking. Two months later, all is good, got the basics down and enough pipes to make it work. Now I'm quickly accumulating a very haphazard cellar as I search for a rotation interesting enough to carry me through 7-15 bowls/day (without burning my tongue off). Pardon my preamble - just a caveat and an excuse for a noob question.
Uhle's 00 got me through the first stretch (still love it, but it gets a little boring), and then I tried C&D Billy Budd (tin), OJK and Haunted Bookshop and loved all three, especially the nutty-sweet note, so I figured that maybe C&D burley is my jam and ordered a bunch more bulk: re-upped on the HB and added Big n Burley, Morley's Best, Mountain Camp. I got in this second batch (same online retailer), and it all tastes like hell. It's just bitter and metallic as could be (I don't mind "cigarette-y" - give it to me!). I can't smoke any of it; well, I can, but it's no fun. I noticed that this second batch of bulk HB has a lot more big chunks of flake, less fine shake, and is more springy and moist overall. It seems to be from the top of a new tub/bin/bag/whatever. That got me to thinking: Maybe the fairly short period of time it takes for the store to go through a bin of bulk stuff is enough for the burley to age a bit and lose that bitter edge. So, I jarred it all up and socked it away. To finally get to my question: Would it be stupid to think that this stuff might get smokeable in a few months or so? I know there's only one way to find out, and that's to try it again in a while, but it would help to know in advance if I was totally barking up the wrong burley tree with this C&D stuff and should broaden the search further (I've already ordered some Gawith, Hoggarth burley blends). Thanks in advance for your collective wisdom, from which I've already benefited greatly while lurking on this forum the last couple months!

Thank you very much, kind people, for sharing your knowledge and experience! No hope for "quick aging," then. It sounds like the solution, more than anything, is to put _me_ in a jar, so to speak, and let me age for a bit. My palate is certainly undergoing rapid and interesting changes, that's for sure! Many thanks also for the reminders to dry my blends and smoke em slow. One learns the smoking basics rather quickly when bringing a big need for nicotine to pipe-smoking, alas, but I still need the reminders - if I'm not paying attention and consciously slowing myself down, I start chugging away in search of nicotine. Luckily, drying is not a problem at our house, where the ambient relative humidity hovers around 20% in the winter.
In any case, thanks again! The quest continues! (Smoking my first Lakeland as I write, brown flake scented - puzzling, but delightful, and it's got some N juice to it for sure.) It's just mind-boggling how much pipe tobacco adventure there is to be had out there. I feel like I'm standing on the shore of a newly discovered continent, a really big one. I should've made the switch from ciggies years ago - this is so much more interesting!

Wow, quite a forum you all have here! I've read hundreds of the last two posters' reviews on TR (thank you for that!) and really enjoy some blends I just realized were probably created by an earlier poster. No doubt other posters are equally deserving of admiration - and will forgive me for being too much of a noob to know their work yet. Man, I'm totally pipe-star-struck!