My first go with ODF...wish me luck!
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Ah. Luck only depends on if you love great tobacco or not.... 
I will say this blend will benefit from much more dry time, and more broken up when packed next time!
I buy the stuff by the pound, agree on the dry time and I do cube-cut then load up in a smaller chamber. The stuff delivers sweet-sweet/bbq all day/night long. - That reminds me, need to go get more on-deck for the AM smoke
I still haven't tried ODF. I keep intending to pick some up but forgot on the last order. It sounds like something I will like.
Good and earthy but not too strong. Been a favorite for over a decade now. It looks so strange in a round tin.
Just noticed the label on 1lb jar I just opened - 10yrs - Happy BDay indeed 
It surrounded the square flakes with a golden ticket with square sides...total waste of a tin, lol.
That makes the round tin even more weird.
I have round tins that are as yet unopened of flake cuts that originally came in square tins.
But at least they take up the extra space. I don't like my flakes becoming ready rubbed on motorcycle trips, less void to have to fill for it to not bounce around and break up. I'd have no problem with it if it would be properly ready-rubbed, but it just ends up half way, goes from flakes to splinters.
Why they change a good thing... I will never understand. Peterson did the same thing with Flake and University Flake...better seal on rounds or something / cheaper?
There used to be a video on YouTube of Per George Jensen at the Mac Baren factory showing off bales of leaf harvested in 1974 and 1983 that went into Old Dark Fired. I'd be curious to know when they ran out of that old stock leaf, what they replaced it with, and how it changed the flavor of the blend.
I posted a link to the video a few years ago in this post
I love to see the video again. Maybe someone knows how to resurrect it from internet archives.
I posted a link to the video a few years ago in this post
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SPC's recent 20th anniversary blends with 18-yr old perique. Sutliff's 2020 Cringle Cake with 10-yr old virginia and 17-yr old perique. Do these blending houses keep stashes of old tobacco around? If so, how is it stored? Is it stored dry? I can't imagine they're keeping it stored in "jars"...
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I love to see the video again. Maybe someone knows how to resurrect it from internet archives.
I'm glad they kept the golden ticket. I always liked that part of the presentation in the square tins.
There were some really good videos of his that aren't available anymore. I was just looking for one I knew existed and couldn't find it a few weeks ago. I forget the topic now but I specifically went looking for it to refresh my memory and couldn't find it.
This stuff is amazing. It's fantastic fresh but with a few years of age it becomes heaven.