Tin Size Preferences

[badbriar]

When a favored pipe blend is available in different tin volumes, which size do you prefer in your cellars?
50g, 100g, 200g, 400/500g, 8oz bags?
Personally, I prefer 50g or 1.5 oz size simply so I can leave more in original tins and not have to deal with as much jarring. Seems that unopened tins keep value better than jarred tobaccos. However, as tin size goes up, price per oz. comes down quickly. As a result, I do have a number of 100g & 200g tins.

 

[sandollars]

YES! I have all the above in my cellar.

When I buy quantities in bulk, I break them down into pint sized Mason jars which is about 4 ounces of tobacco. so 4 pints per pound, 3 if it's flake.

 

[johng99]

I have a lot of tins as well as a lot of jars in my cellar. Tins for new blends, blends that I can only find in tins, and blends that I only smoke occasionally. Jars for blends that I buy in bulk, either because I smoke them a lot, or they are only available in bulk.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Depends on how much I like the blend. If it is a change of pace blend, I prefer 50 gr. If a blend I really like, 100 gr as I will really go through that amount in a month or two. Any package larger than that gets transferred to jars or mylar bags.

 

[mso489]

The 1.75 and 2 ounce tins give a sufficient quantity to learn if you like a blend. That's twenty or twenty five bowls, maybe a little more, plenty to know if it suits your taste. I have fallen for larger tins on sale. I took a real gamble buying a 7 oz tin of Potlatch before I opened the 2 oz tin, but from the 2 oz tin, I know I won that bet. Potlatch is that rare blend with five or six tobaccos that really works, isn't muddy or harsh. I have bought bag tobacco in 16 oz sizes, on sale, and those have worked out well, but I shopped and pondered a lot on the way. If I'd jumped on the price, I could have ended up with a whole lot of tobacco I had to mix or give away. I have a bit of Scotch blood that doesn't throw away, even if I have to put it on the garden flowers as a pesticide. For all these reasons, I like bulk tobacco that I can buy in one or two ounces, or pouch tobacco. Also, various times I have decided against a blend after a pouch or sample, only to come back to it, after figuring it out in my subconscious, and found it truly good. That's a weird surprise. Three Star Blue, yuk ... until the second pouch. Must have been something there, for me to re-order.

 

[Chasing Embers]

If available always the 1 pound or 500g option.