Cellars - Complete or Still Working?

[Jwebb90]

I would fall under the "close, but regularly adding category." I have my favorites but I am always looking for new blends to enjoy. With that being said, I will continue to buy until the prices become too outrageous for me to justify it.

 

[seanv]

I am done buying anything other than Carter Hall. Still buy a tub ever two weeks or so.

No more briar fox?

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I have enough to last me 40 years. I'm still expanding the depth for a few of my favorite blends, half a dozen or so. And then you have special releases, small batches, etc. that come out from time to time. I've probably bought a 1/4 this year compared to what I had purchased a year ago at this time. Tobacco is still so cheap, not a big deal.

 

[gervais]

You know it's funny. Sometimes I look at my cellar (25-30lbs roughly) and ask myself "what the hell is wrong with me?!? Look at all this effing tobacco!!" Then at other times I look at it and think "hmmm. Will this last me as long as I'd like it to? Will my smoking increase as I become less busy in life? ( Kids move out, retirement... Blah blah) nope! Not gonna cut it! Lmao. I have slowed down quite a bit and will only buy if there is some sort of sale on now. The Canadian dollar is absolute shit right now, so it's not cheap any way I look at it.

 

[lochinvar]

I say I'm complete.....until someone comes along with a new Virginia & Oriental Flake, or a miracle occurs and Germain Brown Flake and Stonehaven come back from the land of the leal.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Still kinda new only been puffing a pipe about 4 years. The first few years i bought whatever sounded good to me without rhyme or reason and only went through 3 or 4 tins a year. Now i have a few blends i like and I'm starting to by more of while still looking. Started buying mac baren vanilla cream and luxury bullseye flake in bulk and have a few #'s each. Small stash of G.L.Ps quiet nights, Druqures and sons Prince's blend & inns of court, cults blood red moon in tins so far. Along with a bunch of randoms in jars left over that didn't cetch my eye at the time.

 

[didimauw]

No more briar fox?

I don't really think so. I have a lot, and haven't been smoking it much lately lol.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

My cellar is shallow and narrow.. still a work in progress.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Mostly done, but buying a couple things here and there, new releases that interest me or stuff ive been interested im for a while but never found.

At this point my cellar will probably outlive me, but who knows. Always better to have too much than not enough.....for most things anyway, hahaha.

 

[BarrelProof]

Must keep buying.

 

[k9shag]

I have way too much. I have talked about starting to sell off some well aged unobtainable tins. I could sell all of my tins and still have too much jarred tobacco to finish

 

[PipesAndCigarsInFrance]

I am in the 'What's a cellar' camp. Can't even claim a single gram/ounce.
One day I will however.

 

[ram74]

I am almost done with big purchases but will always be adding or selling small parts of my inventory. Most of what I buy now is aged tobacco. If I find a batch of aged tobacco that I stock fresh I will sell some of the fresh inventory. For example I bought 10 tins of Low Country Cooper in 2017 but recently bought 10 tins from 2010. I will sell 6 of the 2017 tins to reduce inventory. Some blends I no longer like as much I also sell off for example GLP English blends I no longer like as much since I started smoking HU English blends. Now I am cellaring HU to replace the GLP blends. I stock about 30+ years worth of tobacco and that will shrink as I get older. I need to do a good inventory but I would guess I am at about 120-140 pounds of tobacco but I am not sure.

 

[Smoking In The Fast Lane]

Still a work in progress at ~45lbs. I was in a maintenance phase until the recent availability of certain Fribourg & Treyer, Wessex, and Astleys blends at several online shops. Like many I am exploring several of the HU blends and expect that I will invest heavily there in the future.

 

[jaytex1969]

Coming into the pipe from vaping, with full awareness of the FDA deeming crap, I hit the ground running and built a sizeable cellar in the first couple of years.

I've now slowed way down, but am still adding here and there.

I am primarily non-aro and I like most entries in that category, so I've cellared wider than deep.

I intend to add some depth with a few favorites with my remaining time.

Honestly, if retail availability ended tomorrow, I'd likely not notice until my end of days.

 

[twoonefive]

As others said, I too hit a number I was comfortable with and slowed down heavily. I still grab new blends to try and if I like them I cellar them too. However, for the most part I am done cellaring and only look for new releases or blends that are not readily available in the US.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

My cellar currently stands at around 30lb. It's very wide but shallow, I'm hoping to correct that a bit over the next couple of years. I want to go deep on British blends that are readily available to me. When I say deep I mean 500g, I realise that is nothing to some of the chaps on here who buy pounds & pounds of a certain blend but it's all relative, I probably only smoke 30 tins or so a year.
You've got to remember price is a factor as well, tobacco is a lot more expensive in England than it is in the US.

I definitely want to stock up on some Germain's and Gawith Blends. I'm a big Ennerdale fan and I aged 50g for two years and it really made a difference, the flakes went very dark and it tasted better when I did a side by side comparison with some fresh. I'd always been led to believe aromatics lost their flavour over time but to my taste buds the aged had a fuller/stronger flavour. I'd be interested to see what five to ten years would do to it.