This week I ordered extra tobacco for the first time ever. I am starting to believe that this may be necessary to guarantee I can enjoy this hobby in ten or fifteen years. I don't smoke that much a year, so it has never been a concern. Never thought I would ever do this. On the upside. Having aged tobacco will be a bonus, so why not? Old dogs learning new tricks. Speaking of old, Old Dark Fired might be hard to find for a while.
Cellaring for the First Time.
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It's a slippery slope my friend. One minute you got a couple jars kicking around, the next your hiding totes and carboard boxes full of jars and tins from your wife.
I did the same within the past year. It's a good move, no matter where on the spectrum your tastes are. Now that the Ball jars are back in respectable amounts again (there was a little issue here in California for a couple months), I fully endorse snagging a bunch of those too. I got about two dozen of the 8 oz. variety, and a dozen of the 4 oz. ones for my lower stock blends. Also got a couple dozen of the 7 mil mylar bags per the advice of @hoosierpipeguy and I feel I'm all set and ready for whatever else the tobacco-hating fascists have up their collective sleeve.
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All the information you will need to calculate how much pipe tobacco you will need to stock your tobacco cellar including how much it will cost.
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It’s simple math.
Tobacco will never be cheaper to buy than it is right now.
Tobacco may never be as available as it is right now.
I can't find any downsides other than having to spend more money in the short term for tobacco you'll smoke down the road.
I agree. This is a good point. Cellar now.Pipe Tobacco By The Numbers - Briar Report Magazine
All the information you will need to calculate how much pipe tobacco you will need to stock your tobacco cellar including how much it will cost.www.briarreport.org
It’s simple math.
Tobacco will never be cheaper to buy than it is right now.
Tobacco may never be as available as it is right now.
Cellaring is a good idea. Just make sure that you don’t get to a point where you’ve got more than you’ll ever need...still not a bad problem to have.?
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But Once. Cry Once.
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Pretend prices won’t and cry forever more.
At 3 bowls a day I have enough for 15 years. Not enough, but I plan to add 5 years to that by August. I've got plenty of tins so I'm concentrating on bulks and tubs. If online sales are done away with, I will drive to Mass and fill the trunk with WCC and LPJ. I have a good local source for SWR and Granger so that I have covered.
Way too late for me...Cellaring is a good idea. Just make sure that you don’t get to a point where you’ve got more than you’ll ever need...still not a bad problem to have.?
Me too...only thing I can do is share my experience with the hope that it benefits at least one person. ?
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I don't have a problem! I can quit any time!Me too...only thing I can do is share my experience with the hope that it benefits at least one person. ?
Forget cellaring for aging purposes. That's a nice bonus, but I'm really concerned that online sales won't be a thing several years from now.
Ditto. Many others share this concern too. I am an hour north of Los Angeles, so if Tobacco Trader in West LA goes kaput (which all B&Ms in LA inevitably do), I and many others in a 100+ miles radius are up the fecal creek with no paddle, boat, or flares, if you catch my drift. It's a veritable tobacco wasteland in these parts. Even if you live in a town where tobacco isn't regarded in this fashion, I can't think of a single reason not to cellar to the Nth degree.
Tobacco prices only go up and blends disappear so it makes sense.
It's inevitable (in the UK anyway) that they'll get round to banning internet sales at some point so that's a factor as well.
It's inevitable (in the UK anyway) that they'll get round to banning internet sales at some point so that's a factor as well.
No way to go wrong here. Even if you cellar aromatics you are betting in the day when they are no longer around. According to Levine Laws "Tobacco is as Plentiful Today as it Ever Will Be and It is as Cheap as it Will Ever Be".
Learn to grow/cure/process/case/blend/sauce. Too much to ask?
And then you can bootleg half of the Peretti orientals to Tennessee. Yes, sir, we'll make you very rich indeed.
I recommend that you develop a way to track what's in your cellar, a spreadsheet will do as will several web-based solutions. I've found that it has helped to avoid purchasing blends that I already had in abundance or to review periodically for blends that I have yet to try. I also track whether a particular blend is a candidate for re-purchase as well as the few that are banned.
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