Sutliff and H&H Mid-Town Tubs.

Thanks for posting. I was wondering about this too. I have a tub of Chestnut and I have been thinking about adding other blends that come in tubs to my cellar. I also make sure to tighten the lid (which at least on Mid-Town is the screw type) down very hard.

The safest thing is to jar everything, but I've had acceptable storage in unopened Sutliff "tins," which are cardboard overlaid with foil, and various tubs. Granger stays moist in its open tub forever, whether that is good or bad. Sutliff blends, if you use them regularly, keep pretty well in their opened "tins." I have an open tub of Chestnut, and because it is solid molded plastic and has a substantial screw-on top, I feel like it might do a good job over time, but I'm guessing. On the other hand, Semois Tobac-Manil comes in a foil wrapped paper package, and I jar that whole, even though the tobacco is quite dry already, to maintain it as is. What I can get in a jar, I do, although sometimes I put the whole baggie inside the jar rather than transfer it, or I've put a bunch of samples in bags inside a jar together. It's wishful thinking, but it seems pipe tobacco containers could be made inexpensively but still maintain the leaf in storage; I mean, this doesn't seem like a profound problem unsolvable by humans. But I don't want to pay a lot more for a tin either, so I work with it. If you have a modest rotation, four or five tobaccos, and move right through a tin, or even a baggie, you might get away without a jar in many cases.