I enjoy this tobacco and bought 10 bricks to cellar. However, the bricks come in what appears to be a flimsy cellophane package? Does anyone cellar this stuff and if so how do you do that? One idea I had is to be the massive canning jars and just drop the bricks (with cellophane on) in and seal them up. I am just nervous about the integrity of the cellophane.
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Wessex Gold Brick
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Posted 4 months ago #
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I find that I "trust" sealed bags like that for a month or two, but that's about it. There may be a crack or a pin hole and I don't want to find out much later, when I finally do pull that bag out of the cellar, that the tobacco is ruined.
I assume here that your plan is to protect the tobacco for long term storage.
IIRC, that Wessex Gold Brick is just that -- a brick. You can choose one of the following:
* Take the brick out of the bag and cut it into flakes using a sharp knife, then put the flakes in a canning jar, or cube cut those flakes -- either way, they'll "fit" more easily in the screw-top canning jar and the tobacco will likely age better cut that way as well.
* The brick, while still in the sealed package, or taken out of the package, can also be placed directly in a screw-top canning jar -- this will protect the tobacco quite well too.
This is interesting, since I have some Wessex Gold Brick coming with my next order -- it should be here tomorrow.
I still have to examine it to decide, but I'll definitely be taking mine out of the package and I am leaning toward cutting it into flakes and jarring it that way -- but we'll see
Posted 4 months ago # -
Check out the jars I have on the first shelf, they are bail top with silicone gaskets. I buy them at walmart and store all my bulks in them. The ones showing there will hold ten of the bricks, or 2 pounds of flake. They have even larger ones that will hold 5 pounds of my St James Flake. The ones that are a bit shorter will hold 1.5 pounds.
Just ordered another 5 bricks tonight, I cannot wait to see what age does to it. I like it fresh but I know it is going to age very well.
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It's all about whatever floats your Cheerios, for sure.
But over the years, I've preferred the smaller screw-top jars. Specifically, the 8 ounce Ball/Mason canning jars. Mine are all the "standard" jars, but Ball does offer a squatter, wide-mouth jar, also 8 ounce, that, for someone just starting out jarring pipe tobacco, would probably work better -- those wide-mouth jars look better and they can be stacked; plus, it's easier to fill a bowl from them when opened.
I use the 8 ounce jars because, properly filled with tobacco, they hold about 3 ounces, depending on the blend and cut. Since I jar tobacco mostly to age it, it's worked out very well in the 8 ounce jars since I can open an aged jar of that size and it's contents is about the same amount of tobacco we get in a tin.
It's important to remember that, once you open a jar, the aging process stops. Which is no problem if you plan to smoke the contents up in a month or so, or if you don't care about continued aging, but if, like me, you like to ensure what you're not going to smoke right away is sealed away to age longer, that size jar is the way to go.
So ya, big-ass jars that hold 2-3 pounds are kewl, but not for me.
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I'd take the brick out of the cellophane and cellar it in a mason jar - one brick per jar.
I would also consider cutting it in half and going by 50 g increments for the same reason that roth notes above. If I could find smaller jars, I'd prefer that route.
I'd rather have many small jars than a few large ones so that they could age without interruption.
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BTW, Ball does sell smaller jars, they call them "jelly gift jars," and they hold about an ounce of tobacco -- or, as Simenon says, about the right size for a Gold Brick.
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As far as I've seen, that cellophane is unique to the Gold Brick, I've never seen any other tobacco packed exactly like that.
You can easily fit 5 bricks in a "normal" sized mason jar. I remove the cellophane, but I don't think it's going to make a difference.
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All my big jars are for long term aging. I have one jar that I keep some of my aged SG bulks that I smoke out of. then the rest get closed and do not see the light of day for years. I have smaller glass jars that have bale tops and rubber gaskets that only hold 4-5 ounces that I also use to smoke out of. I cannot imagine storing 35 pounds in jars that only hold a few ounces, that is just too many jars and I don't have the space. Everyone has their methods of storing and aging and what ever works is all that counts.
I have one of my bricks in a glass jar, the rest are put away. When I get my next order in,I will take one more brick to smoke and store the rest for long term.
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