Let It Age More Or Smoke It Now?

[wahoo92]

For fans of Old Dark Fired...
Being a newbie, I'm continuing to sample a variety of tinned tobacco to find some favorites, and I recently bought a tin of ODF online. When it arrived, I noticed it had a date of Nov 2012 on the label. I've seen many on the forums say ODF is one which gets finer with age. If that's the case, should I take advantage of a one-year head start and just put it in the cellar? Or is almost a year in the tin aging enough? I do want to try it, but I've got plenty of other new blends to keep me busy for a while...

 

[captainsousie]

Me? I'd buy a couple more tins and toss that one to the back of the cellar and forget about it. Just did that with some McClelland blends I got off eBay.

 

[mrenglish]

It will be really good now, I recently popped a tin with that date stamp. Definitely get more to stock up on and age but you will enjoy it now. After a few days of it being opened, it will transform into a sublime smoke.

 

[wahoo92]

Thanks for the opinions, boys. One on each side. I think I'll pop the tin, let it age in the tin for a couple of weeks after opening and give it a shot. If I like it I can always order more and cellar some then!

 

[wahoo92]

Good stuff, Rothnh. Thanks again!

 

[tarak]

Roth if you're running out of closet space I'll be glad to take that ODF off your hands
I think a year of aging should make it a nice smoke. Crack 'er and and enjoy!

 

[magicsmoke7]

Im sure by now you've already cracked that puppy, but I'm a fan of delayed gratification. How much better would it be if you just threw it down a crawl space then played video games for 6 hours and just forgot about it until you went to throw something else in your crawl space in like 3 years and magically there's a four year old tin of odf. It's like the long lost friend you never knew you had!! that's just me though. I'm crazy.

* I say play video games because playing them engages the part of your brain dealing with memories suppressing the most recent ones.

 

[andrew]

If you don't like it at first, you probably won't like it with age. I bought 2 tins of it and haven't got around to it, I have enough blends going at the moment. I don't get the obsession with newbies cellaring, find blends you like and then worry about building a cellar.