Could you please tell me what is the least, the least amount of time you have noticed a blend changing when aged some? Remember, the LEAST amount of time...
Change?
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honestly a month. Nothing super dramatic but still clear and noticeable.
A blend will appear to change by airing it or for a week or two upon opening. I'd say 1 1/2 to 2 years before I could tell much difference from aging.
Some blends are night and day if you let them dry a bit.
1 year is about where it starts to really change and be something new or worth waiting for.
There's this idea of "travel rest" for cigars and tobacco in general I guess.
I've found 2weeks to a month in a mason jar to show noticeable changes - noticeable but not significant.
I've found 2weeks to a month in a mason jar to show noticeable changes - noticeable but not significant.
A couple different things to me.
Thing 1... Some Pease blends dried an hour or so but from a fresh tin were ashy and chemical tasting. Shake them around and open them up a bit then leave it a couple weeks or so and delicious. But to me that's more likely a blend topping issue... or may brain telling my taste buds lies.
Thing 2... 1.5+ years on PS Luxury Bullseye Flake does real wonders. Different than just the topping drying off or airing a bit, as described in Thing 1. Starts to be noticeable to me around 1.5 years and just gets better with age.
Thing 1... Some Pease blends dried an hour or so but from a fresh tin were ashy and chemical tasting. Shake them around and open them up a bit then leave it a couple weeks or so and delicious. But to me that's more likely a blend topping issue... or may brain telling my taste buds lies.
Thing 2... 1.5+ years on PS Luxury Bullseye Flake does real wonders. Different than just the topping drying off or airing a bit, as described in Thing 1. Starts to be noticeable to me around 1.5 years and just gets better with age.
I guess for me it would have been about a year for Chelsea Morning. Didn’t care for the stuff the first time I tried it so I jarred it and forgot about it. About a year later I tried it again. To make a short story shorter, it’s now my go-to coffee and tobacco morning blend.
This.
If stuck in a opened tin I get a difference after about 6 months. Never had aged (3+ years)
Probably anecdotal but one night I had a bowl of Vauen No 22. Tasted everything as described on the tin. It was peppery, sweet, had hints of leather, campfire, etc etc. The very next morning the same tin tasted like hot air and ash in what at the time was both my pipes. Over a year later I bought another fresh tin and it tasted like hot air and ash once again. I will never understand how the first bowl tasted so wonderfully but the following ones were so bland.
Now that I remember, Vauen's Evening Mixture did the same to me as well. Tasted like I was biting into fresh pineapples with a vivid aftertaste of walnuts. The next day it only had a detectable (by me) room note of it and after that it was extremely bland. I had to get my Peterson drunk on Everclear to make it forget the ghost.
Haven't touched aromatics since. Must not be for me.
Now that I remember, Vauen's Evening Mixture did the same to me as well. Tasted like I was biting into fresh pineapples with a vivid aftertaste of walnuts. The next day it only had a detectable (by me) room note of it and after that it was extremely bland. I had to get my Peterson drunk on Everclear to make it forget the ghost.
Haven't touched aromatics since. Must not be for me.
From aging: About six months I'll dig in and notice a change.
A lot of answers to this question would be opinion I assume
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- Smokes at least 10-12 bowls a day, over many years. This is required to eliminate random factors like mood, meals eaten, drinks taken, etc…
- Number of blends is extremely limited (2-5) over long periods of time from multiple tins of the same blends with different age points, and also to eliminate random differences between each tin
- Yet the number of blends also need to be high, as it might happen that different blends age differently
- The two points above while is somewhat a fallacy, it is not when someone is smoking for many years
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- Detailed Note taker - cannot rely on memory
I find that all blends need at least a week after opening to breathe and open up. To me, a freshly opened blend tastes very muted. I find that it needs to oxidize just a bit before the flavors open up, much like a bottle of wine or whiskey.
I have definitely noticed a big difference just from drying some tobaccos before smoking.
Rather depends on the RH where you live, specifically what it is where you "decant" your tobacco. In Arizona, it'd be too dried out. In Alabama in the Summer, it'd be too wet.
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When I first tried Mac Baren Old Dark Fired, I hated the stuff. I buried it for 6-8 months tried it again in a different pipe( Rad Davis Zulu) and totally fell in love. PC and SP both had sales on the 3.5 oz tins within a week of each other. One sale was for 9.99 a tin and the other was 10.99 a tin. I bought 35 tins from one and 30 tins from the other. All I new was that I had a winner of a smoke in my cellar and today I can't believe everyone of those tins is almost 10 years old. I have been smoking the 2012 and it is awesome. It is the closest blend to aged Stonehaven that I have smoked.
All of my tins are almost half the original price. I was surprised it went up so quickly.
All of my tins are almost half the original price. I was surprised it went up so quickly.
I think that depends entirely on the blend. But to answer your question... the shortest time for me is about 10 minutes. That's from the time I get it in the mail, till I pop it open and smoke it...
Ten minutes in "aging" and you noticed a difference??
Well I guess it went from unsmoked to smoked during that time...