I thought about it, but I decided to just roll the dice and wait. I have yet to ever find mold in anything after all these years, so.........knock on wood.Well shit.....anyone else crack a tin and have a similar experience?
I thought about it, but I decided to just roll the dice and wait. I have yet to ever find mold in anything after all these years, so.........knock on wood.Well shit.....anyone else crack a tin and have a similar experience?
Don't be too positive about the blend.Well I opened another 2023 tin of C&D Steamworks…
No “C&D Mold” that’s so pervasive as the PM hive mind suggests.
Guess I’ll just have to keep trying.
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My experience is the same.I thought about it, but I decided to just roll the dice and wait. I have yet to ever find mold in anything after all these years, so.........knock on wood.
SO much discussion, pondering, and debate over this... it's C&D! We were here 30 years ago with C&D mold. I lost $700 worth of tins from a charity drive to C&D mold (GLP 9/11 commemorative; I have involvement in that morning), and several other buys. It just doesn't stop, does it?
Sorry for the rant. I edited it down a little, but this brings out my Italian.
Tribute was a nice idea. Proceeds went to family of freedom as I recall. And yes, many/most of the tins went to mold. But man that was so long ago now and Jeremy was likely a kid (I don't know) and had nothing to do with Craig and Patty and Greg..and others ...in trying to do something good really fast. It was a very sad time.SO much discussion, pondering, and debate over this... it's C&D! We were here 30 years ago with C&D mold. I lost $700 worth of tins from a charity drive to C&D mold (GLP 9/11 commemorative; I have involvement in that morning), and several other buys. It just doesn't stop, does it?
Sorry for the rant. I edited it down a little, but this brings out my Italian.
Thanks, that was a bad memory and loss. It wasn't just that blend, you'll recall. It was a trend. Of course, Craig and Linda are everyone's family; great people, and Sykes has done more for the craft than I'll ever know. I've lost touch and glad they seem to be back on track again.SNIP... Not admonishing you, I purchased many tins too. Still have some too...likely most not good but some may be (a few were) ok. Heck, mold happens. Like unexpected other things.
I happen to really like the work Jeremy is doing at C&D. I buy Sun Bear every year. They will make good on the tin of steam works. Never have had a problem with that operation; they are very good in my experience. Sykes worked very hard to make that company what it isis.
that's some nightmare material XDSteamworks has been my daily morning smoke since late Summer of ‘23. As of today I’ve smoked through at least two dozen tins from ‘23 & ‘24. I’m smoking a bowl of it right now. Not once have I hit the mold lotto.
I’ve got a feeling though… the day will come where I’m down to my very last tin. I’ll open it, knowing full well it’s been a long and flavorful ride, and it will be packed with webby molds.
yep, everything is cover in mold and other microorganism, we deal with that everyday, and will be a forever fight, but in the other hand, now we have a lot of knowledge and tools to preserve things, so it feels really frustrating when we face something spoiled. As a Winemaker, I'll talk from my experience, wine is delicate, and full of bacteria and yeast, and the main enemy of wine is the oxygen, not only cause oxidize the wine, but also activates all the bacterias that can spoil the wine, so the basic preservation tool is avoid all contact with air after the wine is done. We also started bottling the wine, but then the corks that we use to cap the bottles could have mould and spoil the wine and we started using screwcaps, and so go on. of course is a natural thing, and is ok if happen once in a while, but sometimes when something starts to became common, there is a need for actions.The more I read about tobacco and mold, and the more I experiment with whole leaf tobacco, the more I realize there really is a bit of a spectrum at play in that all tobacco (like any vegetable) may have some living bacteria… and it seems like the veteran blender consensus is to wait until the so-called “mold” is widely spread, highly visible, and unmistakable. Otherwise, based on these same leaf-handling veterans, it’s okay to smoke “technically speaking.” Obviously, a given smoker may not be comfortable with any level of “mold” but to each his own. My wife will drink milk a day past the “use by ____” date, but I won’t. I have, similarly, cut off “moldy” portions of whole leaf and smoked the rest countless times without any difference in flavor or any other adverse result. Just my two cents.