Ah yes, you are one of 'em professional pipe smokers!
How Many Blends Do You Have in Rotation?
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@70 opened tins, jars and gifted samples.
I like variety
Spoiled for choice
I like variety
Spoiled for choice
Same-same.@70 opened tins, jars and gifted samples.
I like variety
Spoiled for choice
Somewhere around 50 smoking jars and open tins here. An equal amount of opened single malts on the shelves. I'm with the "variety is the spice of life" philosophy. Quite whimsical in my pursuit. Of course, some smoking jars get refilled from the cellar more often than others. Some i have been smoking from, occasionally, for more than a decade.
Nah, just a smoker or tobacco user. Some get into the specifics and history of it all making the act of preparing tobacco and smoking the pipe the main attraction. I just use tobacco to accompany whatever else I'm doing and put the pipes back into whichever box is nearby when finished.Ah yes, you are one of 'em professional pipe smokers!
Granger, Crooner, Pegasus, Winchester mainly. I oftentimes smoke others but theses are my staples.
I need to get some Granger one of these days, I've seen a lot of people say the quality has remained consistent over the years.
My answer will probably give some of you anxiety. To answer the original question of how many in current rotation, I'd venture a guess of 100. I have somewhere between 400-500 jars of blends. The jars I gravitate to are in my "tuhbaccy station" and the rest are pushed aside and receive little to no attention unless I am revisiting a blend or decide to mix a tobacco cocktail.
Of those 100, weather/temperature divides them into latakia blends/non-latakia blends. I don't enjoy smoking latakia in warm weather and Arizona is warm most of the year.
Beyond that, it's all about mood. Sometimes I know exactly what I feel like smoking, sometimes I don't. I'll pull out jars and starting giving them a whiff. Am I in the mood for a lakeland today? Something light and airy? A punchy vaper? A strong virginia burley? I may only revisit the same blend 2 or 3 times in a year currently and I smoke almost daily.
As time has gone on my buying habits have definitely focused in on a smaller amount of blends and continues to trend that direction. I could probably be happy with 40-50 blends. I do like variety because I'm not in the same mood every day.
Of those 100, weather/temperature divides them into latakia blends/non-latakia blends. I don't enjoy smoking latakia in warm weather and Arizona is warm most of the year.
Beyond that, it's all about mood. Sometimes I know exactly what I feel like smoking, sometimes I don't. I'll pull out jars and starting giving them a whiff. Am I in the mood for a lakeland today? Something light and airy? A punchy vaper? A strong virginia burley? I may only revisit the same blend 2 or 3 times in a year currently and I smoke almost daily.
As time has gone on my buying habits have definitely focused in on a smaller amount of blends and continues to trend that direction. I could probably be happy with 40-50 blends. I do like variety because I'm not in the same mood every day.
I have 62 blends that are open and tried, and primarily in 8 oz ball jars or mylar bags that I smoke from. I only smoke the 'seasonal' blends during the appropriate season/holiday, so those aren't in regular rotation. I choose from the rest each time I smoke depending on mood in the moment.
About 18 of them are my faves though, and those do tend to get chosen more often than the rest.
About 18 of them are my faves though, and those do tend to get chosen more often than the rest.
Open tins approximately 20 and blends I smoke on a continual and regular basis only 5 !
Blends I’ve smoked to get to that point maybe 300 ish ?
Blends I’ve smoked to get to that point maybe 300 ish ?
For now I have been able to reduce it to 9 tobaccos. Previously, it was crazy to have so many open tobaccos, some already dusty. I would like to reduce to 5 tobaccos.
I'm one of the open a tin/jar and smoke thru it then open something else.
Ive got about half dozen I typically smoke but a good number of others open that Ive tried and occasionall visit.
The problem is that if you have a lot of variety of tobaccos in your cellar, and you want to reduce it to 10, for example, the rest will turn into dust, if you don't hurry. LOL
Roughly 6. Milan's "our Prince Albert" is my every morning smoke with my first cup of coffee. There are about 5 that I smoke most every day, but I alternate with samples to keep things interesting.
My best blends are in glass jars, their threads are covered with Teflon. I will never be able to open a jar sealed with Teflon. I simply look at them through the glass, like when you go to a museum. It's fascinating.
3 on a regular basis. I will occasionally dip into something else but, really, I’m satisfied with those 3. All 3 are very different from each other and that’s enough variety for me.
I currently have 11 open jars and one old kaywoodie humidor that holds about 8 oz. Once I finish a jar I'll open another one. That being said if I'm craving something I don't hesitate to pull it out of the cellar. The 12 blends currently that are open cover a wide gamut.