Can't you almost always find a bulk blend that's very close to a blend only available in tins?
Why Buy Tins?
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Tins are simply more convenient for me.
I don't smoke "very close", only blends I thoroughly enjoy and trust.
The tins that I smoke are quite unique.
Well then flip the question around... why buy 1 lb if you don't know if you'll like it? Now you've spent $50-100 on something you can't get rid of if you don't like it or your tastes change.I smoke 2-3 bowls a day on average. And if the same blend is available in bulk, why would I ever buy a tin? That's exactly what I'm asking.
Or as others have mentioned, storing bulk takes up space, which not everyone has a lot of.
I'd rather have 100 tins of different things than 75 tins-worth of 5 blends from bulk.
Id rather smoke something i really enjoy then something i kinda like just to save a few bucks., almost all my cellar is in tins. Also i dont like messing with mason jars unless i have to.
How 'bout having 100 of 2 oz packets of bulk blends rather than 100 tins? It would cost you approximately 1.5 times less compared to tins. And I'm sure the storage issue could be figured out, given the purchase price difference?
Nope. Show me Criingle Flake in bulk release. Sometimes a blender produces a special version of a blend, like Watch City's Old Dominion, which can be bought in bulk.
In the case of the Old Dominion 25th Anniversary Flake, which was only released in tins, a limited amount of higher quality tobaccos that got very close to the original Hampton Roads version that featured McClelland blending components was used to create this version. Limited amount, released in tins.
Some years back, Russ Ouellette blended a series of Va/Pers that highlighted Perique from different parts of St. James Parish. Again, limited amounts of very special leaf and only released in tins. Nothing resembles those blends.
And there were single farm, single year releases like McCrainie Red Ribbon and Red Flake, made by McClelland.
There are numerous examples of unique blends only released in tins.
And, there are a lot of great blends that are available only in bulk, like the Sutliff Match series, of which I've cellered a goodly amount. McClelland 2015 was "The best Va/Per never tinned." 5100 was a bulk and an outstanding matured Red Virginia.
I buy what I like, and I dislike about 90% of what I've tried, in whatever form it presents itself.
Any "class warfare" statements are just plain horseshit.
Bulk is often available by the ounce.
As does tins but I put 1 pound of ribbon in pint jars with a caulk gun.
Though I enjoy the tins I have, my favorite blends are only available in bulk.
I have bought the same blend in bulk and in tins. The bulk tends to be drier but not always. If I’m building a cellar I want tins, they take up less space, are much lighter, and are easier to move. I have a lot of C&D tins and none of them have failed. I have had a couple of the regular round tins (the ones you need a coin to open) lose their seal. I just prefer tins for the convenience, the freshness, and the pleasure of popping them open.
I still buy bulk, specifically of blends not available in tins. I would never buy a different bulk blend that’s close to a tinned version to save a few dollars. That is just sad to me.
I still buy bulk, specifically of blends not available in tins. I would never buy a different bulk blend that’s close to a tinned version to save a few dollars. That is just sad to me.
I buy a lot of tins because they are relatively cheap and I can sit and wait on them without any extra prep. Just buy, storage, and pop when you feel it's best. I just opened C&D's golden days of yore and a tin of their wintertime reserve scarlet cache. Which I plan on smoking for the month of December. I couldn't get it bulk and I could only get one by buying a new peterson pipe.
Everybody’s finances are different. I have really built up a nice cellar the past three years and now I’m at the point where I am very selective about buying anything. For me, if the blend is available in both tins and bulk, I’m fine paying an extra dollar or two to save space in my cellar.
Sometimes but not all the time. A blend that comes to mind that is tinned without a similar blend in bulk is Windjammer.
If a blend is available in bulk that is what I purchase. I’ve recently started buying a pound of something I like in bulk, throwing it in Mylar, and throwing it in the cellar with a heat seal. Whenever I want it, I just rip the heat seal and smoke out of the zip-locked Mylar bag until the pound is gone.
Merde De Cheval, available only in tins at fine-ish tobacconists.
I love Blend A, it’s $15 dollars.
I like Blend B, it’s $7 dollars.
I’m smoking Blend A, the one I love. Even the most expensive pipe tobacco is cheap in relative terms. So I don’t consider price when I’m trying different blends.
Maybe saving a few dollars and smoking a lesser blend is something people are interested in. Not me. Have at it.
It goes both ways, if I like a cheaper option better then that is what I would smoke. I don’t want to complicate pipe smoking by thinking about pocket change.
Makes sense to me. My Grandfather smoked Half and Half out of the pouch. He used coffee cans instead.
Whereas in good old europe, (UK aside) we don have bulk blends and roughly 70-80% of pipe tobacco come in pouches, and beacuse of this green new crap policies STG/Barens have announced that starting from 2025 onwards they would drop Gold foiled tobacco pouches out of production replacing them with these standard the standard plastic pouches like it was before
If I like something I've tried a tin of and it's available loose, I refill the tin with loose or bulk, depending how much I like a blend. Simple as. Some things are tin only and that's that.