How Many Blends Do You Have in Rotation?

[ziv]

I counted mine, and it seems I have 3 dozen mylar bags and jars that I smoke from (and a single tin haha). I don't smoke all of them equally, some only get smoked once in two weeks, for instance, but I still consider them as "active". Basically, almost any tobacco I buy loose, I want to smoke it.

What about you? Are you a type of person who opens a tin or a bag and smokes it till it's done? Or maybe you have a dedicated blend for every day of the week?

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

None of the above. I have quite a few opened jars/tins/bags and it's just usually a whim (which means I have too much open at any given time, lol, but so be it).

 

[coming to_falling too]

I used to smoke from a rotation of several blends. No particular rhyme or reason. Now I tend to open a tin or jar and smoke until it's gone. Things are easier this way.

Still trying to smoke through my original cache of open jars. Slowly getting though them.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Open containers (not counting jars): 18

Of those, I'm actively smoking from like about four or five.

 

[ziv]

I used to smoke from a rotation of several blends. No particular rhyme or reason. Now I tend to open a tin or jar and smoke until it's gone. Things are easier this way.

Still trying to smoke through my original cache of open jars. Slowly getting though them.

Don't you get bored of smoking the same stuff time after time?

 

[ziv]

Open containers (not counting jars): 18

Of those, I'm actively smoking from like about four or five.

Have it always been this way for you, or have you started smoking fewer blends as you got more experienced as a pipe smoker?

 

[coming to_falling too]

Don't you get bored of smoking the same stuff time after time?

Not really. I think I get to know a blend better this way. Doesn't really take long to get through a tin and I'm off on a different one.

 

[fireground_piper]

At this point, I pull a tin/jar out of the drawer, set it on my desk and that's what I'm smoking until it's gone.

I actually prefer it compared to bouncing around all of the time.

 

[BingBong]

Don't know about rotation, other than it's like the Solar System. Most smoked, core, like the Sun. Almost everything else on increasing orbits, with some comets thrown in.

 

[WirelessSmoke]

I have over 20 blends that I consider "in rotation" but only because I'm still trying things out. I've been smoking for a little over a year now and don't light up every day. It takes awhile for me to get through any one blend, so I consider everything I own to be in rotation. I think once I get a feel for the different genres there will be much less in my rotation, but will likely stock up on others to smoke at a later date.

 

[Servant King]

I currently have about three dozen active jars, mostly four and eight ounce, which I move about randomly for each smoke. Trying to whittle that number down, but I've been more adept at saying that rather than actually doing it.

I'm with @BingBong although I will add that some of these blends I have seem to taste like the asteroid belt...

 

[Bbailey324]

I've got 30 to 40 jars of stuff I smoke periodically, some very regularly, and about 6 or 8 tins open at the moment. What I want to smoke changes regularly and I grab something that sounds good.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Have it always been this way for you, or have you started smoking fewer blends as you got more experienced as a pipe smoker?

I've always had about the same number of "active" blends, but curiosity and experimentation have lead to more open containers than when I was starting off (back when I had like, two pouches and a tin all from B&M's).

"Current rotation" is War Horse, Gentleman Caller, Haunted Bookshop, Cob Plug, and Cult BRM, though I will dip into the jars and other opens - just those are most of my consumption at present.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Don't you get bored of smoking the same stuff time after time?

Some aren't "hobbyist" smokers. Though I have over 100 blends cellared, I primarily smoke only two blends.

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

I don't really have a rotation. I have 52 mason jars in my tobacco cabinet that are not part of my tobacco cellar. I can smoke from any one of those 52 at any given time; however, there are some blends in there I haven't smoked in a very long time as they're not favorites. Sometimes, I'll stick to just a few blends and smoke them regularly for a while, and at other times I'll pull something out that I haven't had for a while.

 

[HammerandPipe]

Around 12 and I switch out one two per week.

 

[warren]

3

 

[Zamora]

About seven but it's not so much a set rotation as whatever I'm in the mood for.

 

[MidTNPiper]

I have about 8 in rotation. Basically 4 burley blends, 2 va, 2 english. I try hard to keep the jarred part of my cellar alone and not crack into them. Id really like to get to the point where I crack something open and smoke it until it’s gone, but we’ll see - i like to switch it up.

And also, I will always keep a Haunted Bookshop jar around, i smoke that 2:1 (typically) vs everything else.

 

[woodsroad]

I ran out of fingers.