Need some help. Is this mold or sugar?

[downeck]

I opened my big jar of 5 year old Sam Gawith and saw this:

 

[ashdigger]

Looks like crystals and not fuzzy

I’m going with sugar

 

[DesertDan]

Looks like bloom.

 

[downeck]

Looks like crystals and not fuzzy

I’m going with sugar

Thanks.

 

[downeck]

Thank you for the response.

 

[woodsroad]

Not sugar, although it may be crystals of some other sort.

 

[woodsroad]

Help Appreciated: Is it Mold or Bloom? :: Pipe Tobacco Discussion

Question; For those who say this is “plume” or “bloom”. Define it. Apparently, calcium malate. Big tobacco did the research: Industry Documents Library - https://www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=xmjj0224

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[peteguy]

Its sugarmold.

If I tossed every tin of FVF I have smoked that looked like this I would be one sorry sob. I guess cleaning your hands with dirt as a kid and drinking out of the hose toughened us up. To clarify, I look for tins like this.