Do you Cellar or just Smoke?

[greyfoxactual]

I just came to question - does cellaring tobacco come with the hobby or do you just smoke your favorites?

 

[warren]

Smoke.

 

[jackswilling]

Cellar. I doubt prices will go down, and for sure regulation/taxes could really slam availability. Aged tins seem to go up in value and will at least hold their own investment wise.Then there is the benefit of aging, tobaccos generally improve with age. No matter how I consider it, cellar/aging makes much sense.

 

[oldreddog]

Smoke, calling my cubby hole a cellar would be a touch grandiose.

 

[captainprophesy]

I cellar when I can, but at the moment finances are extremely tight so I just smoke... thank goodness I cellared when I did.

 

[jkrug]

I cellar and smoke. Always try to order more than I smoke so I can slowly build up my cellar. ::

 

[elbert]

Smoke. I've got 2 jobs, debt to pay down, a car to maintain...it just wouldn't be responsible of me to tie up too much cash in one hobby. Once all of my other obligations have been met I'll think about it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I usually order 10 tins. Keep 2 out to gradually smoke, the remaining 8 are put up to age.

 

[samon]

Not enough coin to cellar.. smoke what I have and buy more when it's nearly gone. I find buying a few 25 gram pouches to try and a good 50 gram tin of a popular one to try (untill I find my true 'go to') lasts long enough for me to decide if I like them and to get a modest variety to mix things up depending on my pallet. Sadly, my favoured dark cherry aromtics are starting to give my tongue bother.. so I may have to 'cellar' them for the odd once a week or so.
If funds were no issue, I'm sure I'd have a library of baccy to sustain a platoon of sages for the next century atleast!
Same with whiskey.. but I'm an alchy and the sages would be thirsty in a week. lol

 

[mso489]

I don't mean to cellar anything, and don't think of my trove as a cellar, but in fact I buy at a much higher rate than I smoke, so I end up aging while storing quite a few tins and jars of blends. By default, I guess I have a cellar, such as it is. My "cellar" is in the drop front of a pipe rack and on the top of a pipe cabinet out of direct light. If I didn't buy any tobacco for a year, I don't think it would have much impact. I'd still have quite a few tins and most of the blends I have open.

 

[elbert]

I'd also be curious to see someone much smarter than myself analyse the potential negative-feedback loop of all these deep cellars in the event of a major regulatory change. When the guys who are buying big right now switch into bear mode after a price hike, it'll make things that much worse for the producers.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Not enough coin to cellar.. smoke what I have and buy more when it's nearly gone

Have you checked SPC's C&D sale?
http://m.smokingpipes.com/tobacco/by-maker/cornell-diehl/bulk/
Most of the blends until the end of September are $2.29/oz.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Mostly smoke, but starting to get into moderate cellaring.

 

[agnosticpipe]

LIke mso, I don't usually intend to cellar many tobaccos. But I'm always trying new blends, so after I open the tin and try it, they always get jarred up. I'll revisit the new blend over a week or two, and if I like it, I keep smoking it. If I'm not to fond of it, I push it to the back and try it later in time. So what I have now is a cellar of sorts, containing about 55 different tobaccos, ranging from about 1oz. to 6oz. I have a few tins of what I smoke a lot put up for when I need them. I know it's a scattershot way of doing things, but I really do enjoy the process of smoking new blends, and keeping on hand a few that I come back to often. I only smoke about one bowl a day, so as mso said, if I didn't buy any tobacco for a year, I would probably not notice too much difference.

 

[hierophant]

I guess I cellar, but only because I buy more tobacco than my smoking volume can keep up with. It's not a conscious choice.

 

[okiescout]

Both

 

[rayje589]

Considering I don't remember the last time I smoked a bowl I'm in cellaring mode.

 

[aldecaker]

Both here as well. The smoking is for enjoyment, the cellaring is an attempt to perpetuate the enjoyment.

 

[jmill208]

Both. And sometimes, I smoke in the cellar.

 

[elbert]

Seems like there's a few of us in the middle. Cellaring, to me, is laying up a store "so that it will be pleasant to expect hard times" (Old Cato).
But I buy new tins at a faster rate than I've smoked the old.