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I purchased a tin (57g) of one of the tobaccos from this deries (Bijou) last spring (2016) and put it aside, not with the intention of cellaring it further, but rather for smoking when I got around to it.
Well, this morning when it came time to have my after breakfast pipe and coffee, I came upon this tin and, feeling like breaking out of the rotation I'd fallen into as of late, decided to break the tin open and sample it.
Well, imagine my surprise when I pulled the aluminum seal back and saw all, or very much of, the tobacco coated with an off white color. Now, I know this stuff is supposed to already be "seasoned" over a decade, and I've read about old Virginia tobacco being coated with sugar crystals, but to me, I would bet that this was nothing else but mold. In fact, it looked as if the moist tobacco had been spread out and a knife with some vanilla cake frosting had been smeared over it.
As I say, This didn't resemble crystallization to me at all. I ended up separating a small batch of tobacco that had not been touched by this coating at all from the rest. I ended up with about 30% of the original. Now, If I really went through it with a fine tooth comb, as it were, I could have gotten a bit more, but I just put it aside in a sealed baggie to see if I liked the stuff first.
Well, like all tobaccos from this brand, it just didn't do it enough for me. It's a strange thing, to be sure, but it seems that C & D stuff just can't please me like McClelland and Samuel Gawaith, mainly, and a couple others as well.
Anyway, does this sound like a case of mold on this moist tobacco to you, brothers? If so, I'd hate to think of folks stocking up on this stuff and cellaring it for the future.
Well, this morning when it came time to have my after breakfast pipe and coffee, I came upon this tin and, feeling like breaking out of the rotation I'd fallen into as of late, decided to break the tin open and sample it.
Well, imagine my surprise when I pulled the aluminum seal back and saw all, or very much of, the tobacco coated with an off white color. Now, I know this stuff is supposed to already be "seasoned" over a decade, and I've read about old Virginia tobacco being coated with sugar crystals, but to me, I would bet that this was nothing else but mold. In fact, it looked as if the moist tobacco had been spread out and a knife with some vanilla cake frosting had been smeared over it.
As I say, This didn't resemble crystallization to me at all. I ended up separating a small batch of tobacco that had not been touched by this coating at all from the rest. I ended up with about 30% of the original. Now, If I really went through it with a fine tooth comb, as it were, I could have gotten a bit more, but I just put it aside in a sealed baggie to see if I liked the stuff first.
Well, like all tobaccos from this brand, it just didn't do it enough for me. It's a strange thing, to be sure, but it seems that C & D stuff just can't please me like McClelland and Samuel Gawaith, mainly, and a couple others as well.
Anyway, does this sound like a case of mold on this moist tobacco to you, brothers? If so, I'd hate to think of folks stocking up on this stuff and cellaring it for the future.
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