Bulk Tobacco Conservation. How Do Retailers Do It?

[JPh]

There is a number of discussion here on how to keep bulk tobacco fresh -- I'm mostly interested in Sutliff moist aromatics.
How to retailers do it I wonder.

 

[Waning Embers]

Thick plastic bags.

 

[JPh]

Is that what they get from the manufacturer?

 

[Waning Embers]

Is that what they get from the manufacturer?

Sure is.

 

[warren]

Mine doesn't overstock and keeps the five pound bags in a walk-in humidor.

 

[JPh]

Mine doesn't overstock and keeps the five pound bags in a walk-in humidor.

Right. But once the bag is open they must have the same problem we do.

 

[Waning Embers]

Right. But once the bag is open they must have the same problem we do.

Those bags have an airtight zip lock.

 

[Magpiety]

I would guess they just keep one 1lb bag of each blend open at a time. Many bulks are very dry when I get them, but I like them dry anyways.

 

[mingc]

No B&M I know go beyond plastic storage bins for keeping loose tobacco around. Nothing airtight. This is why bulk tastes different from tinned tobacco.

The one blender I knew who kept and aged a stash of tobacco for blending kept his in 5 gallon plastic pails with lids, the kind you get at Lowes or Home Depot. Again, nothing airtight.

 

[canucklehead]

A B&M that i will never go back to for numerous reasons had a spray bottle of vape juice (pg, glycerin, and water) that they used to humidify the bulk jars. 25 grams of bulk BCA from there barely half filled a little jam jar and left an oily sticky residue on my fingers.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

A B&M that i will never go back to for numerous reasons had a spray bottle of vape juice (pg, glycerin, and water) that they used to humidify the bulk jars. 25 grams of bulk BCA from there barely half filled a little jam jar and left an oily sticky residue on my fingers.

Yuck.

 

[mso489]

My local independent pipe shop stores the bulk tobacco in large plastic bags under the shelves in the humidor below the cigars, but has most of them for sale in the big "candy jars" with soft cork gaskets on the tobacco display shelves. I presume the blends can sit in the candy jars for some time. But most tobacco can sustain a lot of drying and remain good to optimal. I often remember than the crew on the old square rigger sailing ships, at sea for months or years at a time, kept their personal tobacco in their sea chests in cloth bags with drawstrings, with a little hydration from the sea air below decks.

 

[JPh]

a spray bottle of vape juice (pg, glycerin, and water) that they used to humidify the bulk jars

@canucklehead Do you know what ratios they used? Or can someone guess what it should be?

I heat up tobacco in order to release aroma. Such a spray might prove to be beneficial for this purpose.

 

[canucklehead]

@canucklehead Do you know what ratios they used? Or can someone guess what it should be?

I heat up tobacco in order to release aroma. Such a spray might prove to be beneficial for this purpose.

No idea man. I just saw her fill it from a big jug of generic "e-liquid" which is generally diluted PG/vegetable glycerin, don't know anything past that.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Thick plastic bags.

That's how my bulk Mixture 79 came.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Sure is.

I was thinking maybe P&c repackaged this stuff, like they do with Best of the Rest.

 

[warren]

But once the bag is open they must have the same problem we do

Humidor is the key difference. You probably do not have one nor, the room to build one. So, no they do not have the same problem as they also reseal the bag.