Fribourg & Treyer Golden Mixture - Huge Tin - Why?

[PipeIT]

On my recent TAD purchase I bought for the first time some Fribourg & Treyer Golden Mixture.

I had to do a double take, wondering if by mistake I received 100 grams, instead of 50g, because the tin it came in was huge, twice the thickness.

Anyone know anything about this blend, as to the reason(s) why Fribourg & Treyer put it in such a huge tin?

I’m wondering if it’s because they didn’t want this blend to be compressed tighter in a smaller tin, possibly they want it to breathe better in a bigger tin. hmm

If this could be the reasoning, hmm, I didn’t think there was anything so special with this blend, they’d take care of it this way.

It also came quite dry too, with just the slightest hint of moisture.



Here’s the tin on top, with the comparison of a typical sized 50g tin.

 

[kschatey]

Maybe they ran out of 50g tins during the run?

 

[PipeIT]

Maybe they ran out of 50g tins during the run?

But then, I’m probably ending up with a blend, not tightly packed, aging nicely more compressed and also moister too.

Hmm

 

[anotherbob]

maybe they wanted to stand out and make people think they were getting more.

 

[fireground_piper]

I imagine there isn’t a big reason to over think it.

It looks like this blend once upon a time came in rectangle tins as well.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

It’s a ribbon cut so it requires a larger tin. Same thing for Blackjack.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Maybe they ran out of 50g tins during the run?

I have a few 100g tins of OGS with 50g labels on them, I suspect for this reason.

 

[PipeIT]

It’s a ribbon cut so it requires a larger tin. Same thing for Blackjack.

Ahh so Blackjack is also in a big tin?

Have you smoked this before? Mine is pretty dried out, with the slightest hint of moisture, if I squeeze a handful, I can feel ever so slight some moisture.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Ahh so Blackjack is also in a big tin?

Have you smoked this before? Mine is pretty dried out, with the slightest hint of moisture, if I squeeze a handful, I can feel ever so slight some moisture.

Yes, all the tins of Blackjack I've gotten have been the big tins like in the OP

 

[PipeIT]

Ok, so big tins it is...

Now I’d like to know, who has Golden Mixture, or has recently smoked it, how dry it came, and levels of flavor?

This is the driest blend I’ve ever smoked, almost at Vincent Manil level of bone dry, and pretty much bland dead.

If it’s not suppose to be almost bone dry, I think I received a bad batch.

 

[AcesAndEights]

Maybe it was tinned by Lays. Half air.

 

[Andre_T]

Maybe it was tinned by Lays. Half air.

THE AIR HAS A PURPOSE!!!! IT PROTECTS THE CHIPS!!! (former Frito-Lay employee)

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Ahh so Blackjack is also in a big tin?

Have you smoked this before? Mine is pretty dried out, with the slightest hint of moisture, if I squeeze a handful, I can feel ever so slight some moisture.

I have enjoyed multiple tins of both. Both good but not great.

 

[ashdigger]

It’s complicated, but here’s what actually happened.

Several tobacco companies folded leaving a metric ton of empty tins. Another rival bought the tins. Then in an aggressive move the blenders of F&T solicited a relative to infiltrate the competitors warehouse. During the illicit subterfuge the managers daughter, Dorothy, figured out the scheme. She then involved a super heartfelt employee and the most cowardly employee in her bid to reclaim ownership. It was during this daring action a house fell on an unsuspecting coworker. Shortly after and in need of smuggling out the tins they first tried to fabricate them into a Trojan Horse. Having failed at that they just fashioned them into a lumberjack. It all blew up in their face after that.

 

[BarrelProof]

It’s complicated, but here’s what actually happened.

Several tobacco companies folded leaving a metric ton of empty tins. Another rival bought the tins. Then in an aggressive move the blenders of F&T solicited a relative to infiltrate the competitors warehouse. During the illicit subterfuge the managers daughter, Dorothy, figured out the scheme. She then involved a super heartfelt employee and the most cowardly employee in her bid to reclaim ownership. It was during this daring action a house fell on an unsuspecting coworker. Shortly after and in need of smuggling out the tins they first tried to fabricate them into a Trojan Horse. Having failed at that they just fashioned them into a lumberjack. It all blew up in their face after that.

I clicked on this three times before I figured out what to write.

 

[fireground_piper]

It’s complicated, but here’s what actually happened.

Several tobacco companies folded leaving a metric ton of empty tins. Another rival bought the tins. Then in an aggressive move the blenders of F&T solicited a relative to infiltrate the competitors warehouse. During the illicit subterfuge the managers daughter, Dorothy, figured out the scheme. She then involved a super heartfelt employee and the most cowardly employee in her bid to reclaim ownership. It was during this daring action a house fell on an unsuspecting coworker. Shortly after and in need of smuggling out the tins they first tried to fabricate them into a Trojan Horse. Having failed at that they just fashioned them into a lumberjack. It all blew up in their face after that.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Ok, so big tins it is...

Now I’d like to know, who has Golden Mixture, or has recently smoked it, how dry it came, and levels of flavor?

This is the driest blend I’ve ever smoked, almost at Vincent Manil level of bone dry, and pretty much bland dead.

If it’s not suppose to be almost bone dry, I think I received a bad batch.

You may have gotten a compromised tin. But I've found ribbon cut tobaccos to often seem drier. I opened and smoke a tin of Golden Glow in the past six months or so, I thought it was fairly dry but smoked nicely.

 

[Peterson314]

I bought some F&T 34th Mixture ages ago, and it came in the exact same huge-ass tin. I think that's just F&T's way of doing things.

 

[PipeIT]

You may have gotten a compromised tin. But I've found ribbon cut tobaccos to often seem drier. I opened and smoke a tin of Golden Glow in the past six months or so, I thought it was fairly dry but smoked nicely.

Dry can be ok, it wasn’t totally bone dry, but verging on close.

What about flavor? I had a little bit of VA, but only through the first quarter of a bowl, afterwards, zip, zilch, nada.

I mean really, only the first quarter of a bowl, with a wee flavor, and then putters out after, that’s lame.

I swear, so many of these Euro blends, when I started smoking in the 80s, the impression then, was light years in quality above American.

Hell, today, it seems like so many Euro blends are falling by the wayside in quality, not what they use to be from the original blenders, or consistency varying from batch to batch.

hmm

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Dry can be ok, it wasn’t totally bone dry, but verging on close.

What about flavor? I had a little bit of VA, but only through the first quarter of a bowl, afterwards, zip, zilch, nada.

I mean really, only the first quarter of a bowl, with a wee flavor, and then putters out after, that’s lame.

I swear, so many of these Euro blends, when I started smoking in the 80s, the impression then, was light years in quality above American.

Hell, today, it seems like so many Euro blends are falling by the wayside in quality, not what they use to be from the original blenders, or consistency varying from batch to batch.

hmm

Again, you could have gotten a compromised tin. This dry ribbon cut also can burn really fast. Has to be smoked even slower than usual or the flavor will go flat and ashy.