Beginner Storage Question

[Sam_Gamgee]

Hi everyone,

I just purchased my first tin of tobacco. I popped the vacuum seal yesterday. Should I remove it and store it in a Ball jar? I don’t plan to get through it all for a couple months.
Thank you,

sam

 

[elvishrunes]

Never hurts to stuff it in a jar, Samwise, if you have one... But if it was decently moist upon opening, I’m sure it would be fine 3-6 months in a tin. But Jar it if you have one, because you never know how long you might want to keep it.

Judging by this forum, lots have started smoking pipes because of LOTR, amazing. Me too, but I previously smoked cigars.

 

[Lawyer66]

Hi everyone,

I just purchased my first tin of tobacco. I popped the vacuum seal yesterday. Should I remove it and store it in a Ball jar? I don’t plan to get through it all for a couple months.
Thank you,

sam

If it's an aromatic, I try to reseal as soon as possible (just me). I dont have much English blends but they are all sealed as well. I need to buy more ball jars now tbh. Just got 8oz of Sutliff Creme Brulee that I need to seal up. I doubt it will lose all flavor in the course of a week in a Ziploc though ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

If it's an aromatic, I try to reseal as soon as possible (just me). I dont have much English blends but they are all sealed as well. I need to buy more ball jars now tbh. Just got 8oz of Sutliff Creme Brulee that I need to seal up. I doubt it will lose all flavor in the course of a week in a Ziploc though ?

I've got Altadis(Sutliff) Chocolate Truffle from 2010 jarred. Still tastes like the new stuff.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Hi everyone,

I just purchased my first tin of tobacco. I popped the vacuum seal yesterday. Should I remove it and store it in a Ball jar? I don’t plan to get through it all for a couple months.
Thank you,

sam

As soon as I open tobacco it goes into a jar.

 

[shanez]

A good quality ziploc bag will keep it in good shape for a week or two but any longer and I put it in a jar. Keep in mind the humidity where I live is often around 10%. Someplace like the border of North & South Carolina, where friend lives, the humidity is often over 90% so he can get away without jarring much longer than I can.

 

[jpmcwjr]

No need! Where you live it should be no problem at all with drying out in two months.

Enjoy!

 

[Lawyer66]

I've got Altadis(Sutliff) Chocolate Truffle from 2010 jarred. Still tastes like the new stuff.

Nice, I always thought that aromatics in general aged poorly. This is welcomed news as I am hoping Creme Brulee will replace Molto Dolce (since I can buy it in bulk).

 

[Chasing Embers]

Nice, I always thought that aromatics in general aged poorly. This is welcomed news as I am hoping Creme Brulee will replace Molto Dolce (since I can buy it in bulk).

When they say they age poorly, they just mean that like burley, they don't change much.

 

[DonutLuvr]

Congrats on your first tin! Next thing you know, you will have several tins opened. It’s a slippery slope now?

I would most definitely jar if you think you will take months. When I first started, a had a Gurka and Peterson blend go dry within weeks. But I was also leaving them in my car, etc. stupid me!

I have around 12 opened tins I am smoking through that I keep in a humidor shaped like this.

For me, I believe it does help preserve freshness of my tins as I work my way sampling through them. They fit perfectly in it. Since I’m sampling a whole lot, deciding what is cellar worthy, I just don’t want to jar everything I open as I have a lot of jars in my cellar already. Also, maybe it’s just the organizational aesthetics of it.. but I generally work my way through a tin within a few weeks to month. If I really enjoy the blend, it could just be a few days to a week.

 

[mingc]

Hi everyone,

I just purchased my first tin of tobacco. I popped the vacuum seal yesterday. Should I remove it and store it in a Ball jar? I don’t plan to get through it all for a couple months.
Thank you,

sam

I'm in Stumptown too. If you're going to take a couple of months, you should jar it. If you can't find a jar, you can try keeping it outside under a covered area!

 

[Sam_Gamgee]

Never hurts to stuff it in a jar, Samwise, if you have one... But if it was decently moist upon opening, I’m sure it would be fine 3-6 months in a tin. But Jar it if you have one, because you never know how long you might want to keep it.

Judging by this forum, lots have started smoking pipes because of LOTR, amazing. Me too, but I previously smoked cigars.

Thanks elvishrunes. I just put it in a jar. Can’t wait to try it this week. I haven’t read LOTR in over a decade but my wife and I began reading it aloud this fall, which coincided with my deepening interest in pipe smoking. My name is Sam so it was low hanging fruit! Tolkien even more so CS Lewis are among my favorite authors/thinkers.

 

[Sam_Gamgee]

Congrats on your first tin! Next thing you know, you will have several tins opened. It’s a slippery slope now?

I would most definitely jar if you think you will take months. When I first started, a had a Gurka and Peterson blend go dry within weeks. But I was also leaving them in my car, etc. stupid me!

I have around 12 opened tins I am smoking through that I keep in a humidor shaped like this. View attachment 55470

For me, I believe it does help preserve freshness of my tins as I work my way sampling through them. They fit perfectly in it. Since I’m sampling a whole lot, deciding what is cellar worthy, I just don’t want to jar everything I open as I have a lot of jars in my cellar already. Also, maybe it’s just the organizational aesthetics of it.. but I generally work my way through a tin within a few weeks to month. If I really enjoy the blend, it could just be a few days to a week.

Thanks DonutLuvr! It’s been such a pleasure so far. With this tin (Peterson’s My Mixture 965) and the several bulk tobaccos I’ve purchased I think I have to stop myself from buying more until I get through all I have now, haha. I’m excited to continue sampling other tobaccos though.

 

[indoeuro]

I wouldn't worry about it, given your location. That said, jarring it will give you an excuse to buy more pipe and tobacco related stuff, thus further entwining you in the sweet, sweet embrace of our mother hobby.

 

[seanv]

several bulk tobaccos I’ve purchased I think I have to stop myself from buying more until I get through all I have now, haha. I’m excited to continue sampling other tobaccos though.

And TAD begins. Good luck and have fun

 

[jaytex1969]

I store all of my beginners in the garage. They make a mess if I let them in the house.

Welcome to the forum!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Smoke more... faster.

I've never had tobacco dry out in the Alabama climate. I've actually had a tin of MacB's Mixture Flake setting open for a week, and it's still not any drier. Usually I have to force it dry by putting the tin on a coffee mug warmer or the dashboard of my truck for a few days.

I did pop a 4 year old jar of Super Balkan a few weeks ago that was dry as bone in the jar, so I left it out and open, and now it's almost too wet to smoke.

There is no one size fits all. It really depends more on your environmental conditions.

 

[stokesdale]

Hi everyone,

I just purchased my first tin of tobacco. I popped the vacuum seal yesterday. Should I remove it and store it in a Ball jar? I don’t plan to get through it all for a couple months.
Thank you,

sam

Don't worry about it, I keep everything in their original opened tins, sometimes for up to 6 or 8 months, have never used jars and never noticed any drop in quality. I would imagine that if you are going to store some for periods of a few years then jars are a good thing...I don't cellar any of my tobacco though so I wouldn't know.