So Plume is Real… and Dating Gawith

[Sgetz]

Has any chemist analyzed the crystals? Or are we just assuming they are sugar from flavouring/ topping ?

 

[timt]

Nope, age has everything to do it

I've had some Virginia blends develop significant plume in as little as six months in a jar.

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[Country Bladesmith]

Has any chemist analyzed the crystals? Or are we just assuming they are sugar from flavouring/ topping ?

I’d love it if someone could run some plume from a few different blends through a GCMS to see what’s really in there.

 

[craig61a]

As has been repeated myriad times- the crystals are not sugar. They are oils that have oozed out of the tobacco over time and dried. Some suggest that the colorization and crystals are the result of minerals.

The subject has seemed to come up every fortnight for the last 30+ years I’ve been smoking cigars and pipes.

 

[craig61a]

Or bake it.

Another subject that gets mention every so often…

Baking your tobacco in the oven will caramelize or burn any sugars in the tobacco, and kill off any enzymes responsible for any further fermentation, i.e. it will age no more.

 

[craig61a]

The best most likely explanation is calcium oxylate and other salts that leach out of the tobacco.

 

[cossackjack]

Tin Code "280" = March 2019

 

[puff_not_snuff]

"It's real and it's spectacular".

 

[Pipeoff]

Look, people say that plume is in fact mold. With that being said some of the best tins of tobacco that I’ve smoked were dusted with shiny crystals. The last one was a tin of Kajun Kake from C&D and it was sublime.

On a side note, I have no idea why Kajun Kake is never talked about. Such a great blend!

On my 3rd order of kajun Kake, dark pressed block. If you like this blend try Pirate cake.

 

[craiginthecorn]

Since I don't care about what day it was made, I ignore the first two digits. The second set of numbers is the number of months past 1995. You can diddle with the extra month to account for the December start, but who cares? 280/12 equals 23.3333333333333333333333 years. I'd call it somewhere in the neighborhood of April 2018, the third of the year being four months.

I stand bold, fearless, and fully erect waiting to be corrected.

According to a nice tobacco dating spreadsheet that I have, the production date was March 10, 2019.

This was calculated using the spreadsheet discussed in this thread.

 

[bullet08]

Sorry! Didn't look at the title. No, never dated a girl named Gawith.

 

[jon11]

On my 3rd order of kajun Kake, dark pressed block. If you like this blend try Pirate cake.

Kajun Kake and Pirate Cake are nothing alike. Pirate Cake has large amounts of Latakia, Kajun Kake is a Vaper