My Tobacco Bar

[londonbriar]

Finally sorted out my tobacco bar. Still in a bit of comfortable chaos, but a pleasing selection of tobaccos. I usually take a large pinch of something (3 or 4 bowls) and put it in the baccyflap, along with a brace of pipes, then smoke that for the day. The vintage smokes I'll have a bowl on occasion, when the mood strikes.

We have:

Left hand shelves (below the notebooks):
- JF Germain Shelf - King Charles, 1820 Mix, 1820 Flake, Royal Jersey Latakia, Special Latakia Flake, Rich Dark Flake, Brown Flake, Virginia Goldleaf, Plumcake
- British Aromatic Shelf - SG Chocolate Flake, SG Navy Flake, SG Kendal Cream, SG Grousemoor, Condor, St Bruno
Below this there are various odds and ends - A Byzantine Jar, a few sweet aromatics, a jar of cigar leaf, various blending leaf - that sort of thing

Right hand shelves
- Samuel Gawith Virginia-based Flakes - Golden Glow, Best Brown, Full Virginia, Cabbies, St James, Sam's, 1792
- Vintage Shelf - Skiff (2010), Squadron Leader (2010), Harbourmaster* (2013), Balkan Sobranie (1970s), Balkan Sobranie (1980s), Three nuns (1970s)
- One-off/ trials (& accessories) - GLP Abingdon, GLP Charing Cross, GLP Caravan
Below this there are shoe-boxes of pipes in home-made pipe socks. I have no great order to my pipe collection!

What is your set-up like?

Steve

*Harbourmaster is a personal blend of SG tobaccos to make a richer, darker latakia mixture - the one thing I feel is missing from the Samuel Gawith line-up.

 

[gervais]

Nice set up! Mine is a couple lonely tote bins sitting in the basement. My kids would have every one of those jars scattered around the house when I got home from work.

 

[judcole]

Well, lemme see.
First there is the active rotation, which consists of a whole bunch of jars, mostly on one shelf in the basement. A couple dozen of those. Often a tin or so that I have very recently opened and have not jarred yet.
Then there is what I think of as "the pantry". This is the storage bin of tins or jars or sometimes ziplock bags of small samples I have acquired, that are just waiting their turn to make the active rotation.
Then we have the real cellar - blends I am actively aging. There is an old 48 qt Igloo cooler full of jars. I just laid in a pound each on a couple of blends, so the cooler is full, and there are two or three pint jars on the floor.
There is an old chest of drawers, not real big one, loaded with tins. There is a drawer with only latakia blends, a Dunhill drawer, and two more drawers with McCranie's Red Ribbon, SG Best Brown, and I am not sure what all else.
Then there's the plastic storage bins with tins. One is MacBaren tins only; one - not large enough, alas, an error on my part - of McClelland tins, one with pouches of Amphora - Regular, Burley, Virginia (I have discovered that this stuff really benefits from a year or so of aging) - I seem to recall there is a canister of Lane RR in there, too - and one very large bin of all the other tins of Virginia blends that I am deliberately aging. Lots of Capstan, and a wide variety of other blends.
None of this looks pretty at all - it's functional. I label the jars with a strip of masking tape that I write on, placed on the lid. I suppose that when I get around to cleaning off another one of those shelves, I might make it look fancier, but probably not. It's for me. I don't care what it looks like, as long as I can get what I want when I want it.

 

[judcole]

Oh, and I forgot - there are two small storage bins, one with about 6 tins of Old Dublin, and one with jars of HH Burley Flake.

 

[cigrmaster]

Looking good. Sounds like you have some good stuff to smoke.

 

[dquisenberry]

I’ve got pieces of furniture full of tobacco throughout my man cave. I have bulk and tins separate but no breakdown beyond that. I do maintain a spreadsheet of what I have.

 

[didimauw]

Nice set up! What kind of notebooks are those? Moleskine?

 

[shanez]

I've got my pipes and lighters on display but not my tobacco. I hadn't thought of displaying some tobacco until you posted this. I like the look of the jars and lids. They don't look like canning jars but something rather nicer.

 

[Old School 3319]

I keep mine on a shelf in jars but i keep a tub of PA and a jar of Half & Half on the table by my chair with 2 or 3 cobs for daily consumption.

 

[radrick96]

I keep my tobacco on my model making desk. Tobaccos, pipes, etc go into the two small boxes to minimize space. I’ve only been at this little over a month. Need to buy jars and a crate to store them in!