How many pipe tobaccos in your rotation?

driftwood said:

I'm new at this Pipe game so I've been "sampling" A LOT. I've probably got 25 open tobaccos, all in mason jars. My hope is that I find a few that I live enough to but in bulk and just but the odd tin for when something new strikes my fancy. However, if the razors, shave soap, DE blades, are a historical indication ill likely just keep buying more and more

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nortac said:

I too am an occasional pipe smoker, been at it for less than 2 yrs, and want to try everything. I have approximately 35 blends, most have been opened and transferred to small mason jars. Most have had only a few bowls sampled from them and then put aside.

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oc_in_fw said:

I love Latakia.

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the_edski said:

No one else was shocked by this?

I rotate through a few (Nightcap, various Frogs, Esoterica Pembroke) taking detours to try samples I've been sent and saved.

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nortac said:

I too am an occasional pipe smoker, been at it for less than 2 yrs, and want to try everything. I have approximately 35 blends, most have been opened and transferred to small mason jars. Most have had only a few bowls sampled from them and then put aside. I don't really have anything cellared in quantity yet. Like many others, as my technique has improved and my tastes have changed, I've gone back to a few that I initially did not care for, only to find that they are much better now. Case in point, one of the first tins I purchased was a dusty tin of Peterson's Gold Blend that was at least two years old before the tin was opened. I tried to like it, but at that time I was still experiencing tongue bite, largely due to my poor technique. I put it away in a mason jar and came back to it about a year later, it was very enjoyable last night! There have been a couple of tins that I have polished off and may buy again, like Frog Morton OTB and Cellar, but for now I'm still sampling new varieties. I'm sure I'll find a few that I will eventually cellar in quantity, but I have not yet found "the one" (or the few). The glass tobacco jar in my father's old pipe rack is filled with a local B&M English blend and I may buy some EMP bulk to put in another. Eventually my sampling of new blends will slow down, but with the low frequency of my pipe smoking, it will take a very long time for my many small mason jars to be depleted. So I will probably always have a lot of jars/tins open for occasional use. Eventually I'll settle on a handful of blends to cellar in quantity, but I suspect I'll die (not that I anticipate it happening soon!) with a lot of tobacco on hand!
In reference to the correlation to razors, within my first year of wet shaving, I accumulated about sixty vintage razors and I just bought several estate pipes , bringing the total pipes to about forty! Yes I tend to jump in with both feet into the deep end!

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