How Long Does This Sh!t Last?
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It all depends on the size of your pipe and how many bowls you smoke of it in a day.
If you really like it, it goes much faster than if you think of it as shit.
If you really like it, it goes much faster than if you think of it as shit.
It smokes pretty quick due to it’s dryness. If you mean how long will it last in that brick, IDK not too long, just jar it. If you’re asking the longevity of it as a smokable good-tasting product I have no data on that. But I’m betting mine’s gonna be fine for 15-20 years in a jar.
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This has been in the original packaging since 2016. Leave it, jar it, or trash it? Had not planned on smoking it just yet.
I’d wait until a smoker with more experience than me can chime in, but I’ve always considered this packaging to be somewhere between paper and foil So I jar it immediately. I doubt your stuff is ruined though as it comes bone dry from the factory. I suppose the ambient humidity in which it was stored could play into it too. I suppose if it turns into powder when you rub it it’s lost. But if it mostly stays intact when rubbed it’s probably not much drier than the day it left the factory.
Leave it. It's fine. Tabac Manil comes as dry as tinder. It'll probably stay good past the end of time.
I think the same artist did the artwork on the Semois packages and the old slang flash cards:
I wonder where this notion that tobacco goes stale so easily comes from. Is it the obsession to get stuff into jars so fast, and all of the bullshit banter over tins not staying sealed, when the very damned jars they put them in are way more likely to leak than the tins?
Pipesmoker like to say that they long for the days when pipesmokers were plenty, but they'd laugh their asses off at how we all act about exposing tobacco to air... like it's going to turn to shit just setting there. Meanwhile, they were buying tobacco in small burlap bags, with plugs just setting out to be cut in the store windows.
Pipesmoker like to say that they long for the days when pipesmokers were plenty, but they'd laugh their asses off at how we all act about exposing tobacco to air... like it's going to turn to shit just setting there. Meanwhile, they were buying tobacco in small burlap bags, with plugs just setting out to be cut in the store windows.
Maybe from cigarette smokers
Great blend. Holds great in that package even after opening it. Smokes faster than most blend (in a good way). Enjoy!
Granger has a half life of 10,000 years and Carter Hall will be moist throughout the next ice-age. But Captain Black is eternal.
I'm currently smoking some Le Petit Robin that I put in a roll up pouch a couple months ago. The tobacco is dry from the beginning, and now it's like snuff dust. I understand a few months is nothing compared to many years, but it's still smokeable. However, I like my tobacco dry. Still perfectly delicious.
I usually dry my tobaccos out for days to weeks before jarring it. But I know from now on to jar this stuff immediately.
I usually dry my tobaccos out for days to weeks before jarring it. But I know from now on to jar this stuff immediately.
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It’s.fine to keep it in the wrapper. I store mine once opened in old cigar boxes(outside a humidor)
Another point is that, since it is shipped so dry and sold by weight, there is more leaf there than it appears compared to most blends with more moisture. Semois is some of my favorite tobacco, especially the thick and medium cut pure burley variant. It tends to be polarizing. Some love it, like me, some don't, some throw up. But if you like it, it's a really good experience.
I would presume it comes from spending too much time watching YouTube and not enough actually smoking pipes.
Seriously, I guarantee it is no dryer now than when it was shipped out of the Ardennes Valley. It's perfectly fine.
It's a unique Burley blend unlike any other I have tasted in the world and I smoke it at least weekly. If you like Burley and enjoy a simple but unique smoke, you might just love this.
I vacuum seal them but it's more so I don't have tobacco all over than to try and preserve it. It's so dry it should last decades.
It's a unique Burley blend unlike any other I have tasted in the world and I smoke it at least weekly. If you like Burley and enjoy a simple but unique smoke, you might just love this.
I vacuum seal them but it's more so I don't have tobacco all over than to try and preserve it. It's so dry it should last decades.