How Do You Organize Your Tobacco Cellar?

[Chalaw87]

How Do You Organize Your Tobacco Cellar?

Background: After taking the advice of many of the fine folks on this forum, I've been fortunate enough to accumulate enough tobacco to have a decent sized personal cellar. However, for lack of a better description, my cellar is a mess. I came to this realization when I tried my KBV Haunted Virginia from last year with no success.

So I'm looking for some ideas as to how to tidy up, and I'm curious what other folk's cellars look like.

Do you organize by alphabetical, manufacturer, tobacco genre/components, etc? or just no particular organization at all?

 

[fireground_piper]

Keeping the same blend together is about all I do.

Granted, I also don’t have 200 blends to think about. Probably only about 12-15 which makes it pretty straight forward.

 

[AirOne]

An excel sheet and many numbered boxes. It is a mess, but more or less organized.

 

[seanv]

I try to keep blend types together. It is far from perfect but works for the most part.

 

[JeffNYC]

Older in the front, newer in the back. Then by type of tobacco left to right: Va, Va/Per, Burley, and English. Downloaded Tobacco Cellar into Excel to keep track. But I only have about 8 pounds.

 

[AcesAndEights]

I keep mine separated by age. That’s about it.

 

[Indygrap]

I ended up getting a roll top desk. 1 drawer for jarred Va & Va/per, one for English, one for Aros or flavored, one for misc or larger jars(the bottom 2 drawers are pretty deep). On top, I’ve got unopened tins of blends I haven’t tried on the left. On the right, unopened tins of stuff I’ve tried or currently have open. The smaller drawers hold tools, rags, tampers, pipe cleaners, etc. I’ll try to add some pics to this post later.
I use painters tape to label the top of jars with the blend name & the born on date or jarred date if I don’t know the BOD.
As of my last count I have about 100 different blends either jarred or tinned, so the desk was a big help with organizing everything.

 

[Brad H]

I toss mine in the corner and hope for the best.

 

[Briarcutter]

Organize???? you give me too much credit! Great idea though.

 

[sablebrush52]

Strictly by brand. All the McClelland is together, same with D&R, KBV, etc. Then I just fumble around to see what stands out.

 

[Brad H]

If you can get passed the frustration of the 8 hours of putting this thing together it makes a pretty fine cabinet.

 

[Meat]

Cabinet contains jars organized by blend type in alphabetical order. Top shelf is half aromatic and half American, second shelf is Balkans and Burleys, etc. These tobaccos are generally the current rotation.

Closet contains the small mountain of jars that aren't in rotation, but are still organized by blend.

Numbered and hermetically sealed bins keep the tins and mylars organized by brand. These are kept in the attic so they're out of the way and to help me forget how much I actually have.

Updated Excel spreadsheet tracks where everything is, from shelf to bin.

 

[plugugly]

Poorly!

 

[Snook]

Mine is broken up into two different sections. I have my tobacco and pipe cabinet, which has about 100 or so pint jars of different blends that I smoke regularly. The bulk of my cellar is stored in the little closet under our stair landing. Right now, I have mostly everything in 64oz jars, which are in turn kept in the 2x6 boxes that they came in. I just stack these on top of eachother. I also have a few pallets (3x4, or 12 jars) of 16oz pint jars for a bunch of Sutliff blends that I stocked up on. These are also just stacked on top of eachother.
I keep track of everything with a spreadsheet that I made. I need to take some time and set up a better organization system so that I can easily find blends when I need them, though. Maybe a column on the spreadsheet where I can look and see that a blend is in like... box A, row 2. Or something. Maybe that's overkill. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it!

 

[FLDRD]

Placed into plastic totes until full. Oldest purchases in the back, on the bottom, newer on top.
Repeat with the next pile in front of that one.
So, only by age of purchase.
It's fun to go back and look.
My totes are see-through and that helps.

 

[Oddball]

my response:

my cellar is a mess dog..

 

[Oddball]

More helpful response.
I keep my Euro leaf flat tins in one tin. My American Leaf squat round tins in one Cabinet, and my jars all over the place.... Pretty sure I share a pick of the maelstrom before, let me see if I can dig it up.

 

[Oddball]

Here it is.. Always in some flux of this situation...

 

[Sobrbiker]

and a big black and yellow tote full of tins, bags and Mylar.
No spreadsheets or lists…

 

[ThermionicScott]

Boxes by genre, with a spreadsheet to track everything.