Gents, I love Texas for many reasons, but by George the humidity is not always one of them, especially for my tobacco.
So I got a bag of Dunbar over the summer and opened it up, and put it in 4 jars immediately. It was pretty moist on opening, had a unique aroma, but I thought it was just the apricot topping mentioned in other descriptions. There were a few questionable pieces of tobacco that looked odd, but it was Esoterica and I thought maybe unique to them.
So I smoked this a few times as noted in some of my other posts, and every time I got a tongue burn like none other the next day. I put it aside for about a month and today I went to grab it to try again for the Christmas weekend. Lo and behold mold in jar one. Careful inspections of jars 2 and 3 and there is potential of mold, but not hairy yet. Quick google search shows I am not the only one to experience this.
Questions, should I have dried this a bit before jarring? And should I hold onto the other jars and see what happens or consider it a loss and dump them? And I’m thinking this could explain the tongue sensation the next day as well.
And happy ending, I decided to open a tin of FT CVP and it is delicious. Makes me not miss that Dunbar a bit.
So I got a bag of Dunbar over the summer and opened it up, and put it in 4 jars immediately. It was pretty moist on opening, had a unique aroma, but I thought it was just the apricot topping mentioned in other descriptions. There were a few questionable pieces of tobacco that looked odd, but it was Esoterica and I thought maybe unique to them.
So I smoked this a few times as noted in some of my other posts, and every time I got a tongue burn like none other the next day. I put it aside for about a month and today I went to grab it to try again for the Christmas weekend. Lo and behold mold in jar one. Careful inspections of jars 2 and 3 and there is potential of mold, but not hairy yet. Quick google search shows I am not the only one to experience this.
Questions, should I have dried this a bit before jarring? And should I hold onto the other jars and see what happens or consider it a loss and dump them? And I’m thinking this could explain the tongue sensation the next day as well.
And happy ending, I decided to open a tin of FT CVP and it is delicious. Makes me not miss that Dunbar a bit.