Big Troubles Keeping Tobbacco in Good Condition - Help!

[jorico]

@Cosmic So true, had my tongue burnt from smoking too moist blends more times than I can remember. Specially problematic with aromatics, some bite starting from the first drag. I can't recall a blend which truely benefits from being very moist, in fact.
About aged blends, I can't give any well-founded opinion. Why do you think an aged blend can turn to crap so easily? Cause its already more dry? Or maybe because of the chemical reactions going on inside the tin, that are interrputed when you open it and fresh air comes in? It is an interesting matter. And furthermore, if you buy bulk tobbacco... how can you possibly know how old is that blend? They can sell it to you fresh, mature or even rancid... unless you already know how is it supposed to taste. The good about cans is that you have all the info, where did they blend it, which worker, which date. On the downside, its too much weight for international shipments :?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

It really doesn't matter how old a bulk is before you jar it. Aerobic aging begins with the jarring or tinning. I am not an expert on what is happening when something ages in a jar. I wonder sometimes if the experts even truly know. But, the experts are better than just throwing chicken bones and reading tea leaves to figure out what to do.
What I have noticed is that upon just opening a freshly aged jar, the smell is wonderful right away, but the actual taste from a freshly opened jar is not that fantastic. Two weeks later, it is much better, the leaf turns almost black, and about as good as it is going to get, then about four weeks latter, I just dump the rest of the shit out.
People can hem and haw about what they do, they open jars all the time while aging them for years and they never notice anything going wrong. This is just what I have noticed from my own experiences. And, this is five to twenty (to way more) year old tobacco. If someone is opening jars while it is aging, the tobacco is not "aging" to begin with. I have never heard (nor read about) an expert recommend opening a sealed jar and closing it, calling it a continuation of the aging process, so I guess it just depends on whether you want to use the logic of "so called" experts, or just make crap up as you go along. Ha ha, I'll take the "so called" experts. ::