How Many Tobaccos Do You Have Open and Smoking at Once?

[cortezattic]

I keep about 20 jars at arm's length, but a bowlful of anything in the cellar is fair game if it will scratch a particular itch. That includes opening a sealed tin if I have an empty jar at the ready. ::

 

[deathmetal]

A 1.5 inch deep chamber lasts me around two hours if I smoke it with no interruption, and I generally only smoke 2 bowls per day.

I never knew this thread was going to have so much math. I get about the same duration, but lately, have been grinding away so much that a pipe is the only thing keeping me conscious (and then sometimes not, as a few shirts full of burn holes can attest).

 

[mso489]

About two dozen including open pouches, several open tins, mostly jars including some small quantities, and two open tubs. A few jars are not opened but are "aging." I have no set rotation, but just choose bowl to bowl.

 

[warren]

4-6 tins on average.

 

[huntertrw]

Do NOT allow JimInks to post to this thread, as I doubt that Kevin's server could handle the sheer volume of data!

 

[theloniousmonkfish]

A few pounds of the basics, a plug or two and a couple tins plus some one-two ounce samples.

 

[philobeddoe]

Between open tins and jars in use, not in storage, I’d say I have about 20-30 tobaccos to choose from at any given time.

 

[sablebrush52]

I generally have only one blend smoking at any one time. I have about 10 blends in jars from which i help myself at any given moment. It used to be more like 30, but I made a decision to smoke those down before opening any more tins.

 

[snoopy311]

Last count I was between 45 to 50 jars. But I’m working to get that down to around 30 different tobaccos.

 

[jayski]

Dang folks! Some of you definitely make me feel like a conservative piper. I am usually overseas at work and for some reason can’t get my self to have more than three maybe four tins going at once. I have started quite the small collection of blends out here. I can’t get myself to open more than four due to the fact that I may have to un-a** my AO at any moment if things get to dicey and believe me I’m not leaving all of it behind!

 

[unkleyoda]

I have 8 or so different tins open at once.
I do have some bulk stuff in mason jars. Quarts for long time storage, small (4oz?) jars for usage of bulks.
Basically I buy a tin, smoke it a little at a time to see if I like the tobacco. If I like it, I buy either bulk or 10-20 tins, to store away and pull a tin or 1-2 oz at a time to smoke. If I don't like it that much, I slowly finish the tin and not buy again.
Currently I have:
965 40 tins, 3 pounds bulk

bb1938 20 tins

Elizabethan Mixture 20 tins

Balkan Delight 10 tins

Old Dublin 5 tins

Squadron Leader 1 pound bulk

Night Cap 5 tins, 1 pound bulk

HH Latakia Flake 2 tins, 1 pound bulk

HH Bold Kentucky 1 pound bulk

HH Acadian Perique 2 tins, 1 pound bulk

University Flake 2 tins

Irish Flake 2 tins

Red Rapeere 1 tin

3 Noggins 1 tin

Proper English 2 pounds

English Oriental Supreme 1 pound

Irish Whiskey 1 tin, 8oz

Irish Oak, 1 tin

Escudo, 1 tin

Luxury Navy Flake, 1 pound

Luxury Bullseye Flake, 1 pound

Commonwealth, 1 tin

Bothy Flake, 1 tin

The Solent Mixture, 1 tin

HH Vintage Syrian, 1 tin

1965 Mixture, 1 tin

Haunted Bookshop, 1 tin

Eastern Star, 1 tin

Orient Express, 1 tin

The Aperitif, 10 tins

London Mixture, 10 tins

Royal Yacht, 12 tins

Montgomery, 1 tin

Union Square, 1 tin

St. James Woods, 1 tin

Frog Morton Cellar, 1 tin

Condor Green, 1 pouch

Carter Hall, 2 pouches

Capstan, 1 tin

St. James Flake, 1 tin

Halberg Green, 1 pouch

Edward G Robinson, 1 tin
A lot of the 1-2 tins stuff I have not tried yet. I only started smoking 2 years ago, and got hooked on 965, which I always come back to.

 

[deathmetal]

Royal Yacht, 12 tins

Or a "weekend supply," as it's known around here.

 

[leatherman]

I haven't started cellaring tobacco, but I usually buy 1-2 tins a month and have 4 on the go right now. I am still trying new blends, mostly to see what I like. I will be stocking up in 2018 on blends I love, but will continue to try new ones.

 

[pianopuffer]

I say life is short, open whatever you want. If stored properly it should last you a long long time. As someone who is exploring all the great tobacco that is out there (I used to mainly smoke Carter Hall), it's nice to have lots of jars at the ready to A/B a blend against another.

 

[virginialover]

5 tins and a lot of bulks opened.

 

[cigrmaster]

I normally have around 20 tins open at all times. I also have 5 bulks I smoke out of at the same time.
My bulks that are always available are:

Samuel Gawith Best Brown, Full Virginia, and St James.

Solani Silver Flake

Stonehaven

 

[thefishguy]

I spent this last year looking for the Holy Grail blend. What I found after about 80 different tins or 4 oz. baggies is that about 3/4 of them are Holy grail blends depending on my mood. So I guess I've got about 80 blends at the ready.

 

[danielplainview]

2 or 3

 

[mcitinner1]

Every tin I open goes in a jar within a couple of days, and there are eight dozen 8 oz. jars stored in their original cases. There are four dozen pint jars, and fourteen dozen quart jars, for bulk. Also a lot of vacuum sealed bags. I have no idea anymore what it all weighs, but it's less than my Capt. Duane has. He's such a hoarder. :mrgreen:

 

[lestrout]

I've been trying to pare my stash down to my Top300 Cellar.
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