aging tobacco
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I was excited. An unopened 8oz tin of Haddo’s Delight from 2019. What would that be like? Opening the tin, I found there had been some break in the seal, and the tobacco was very dry. Undeterred, I decided to try it anyway and talk about a few ways to bring dry tobacco back to
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In my review of this year’s release of From Beyond, I mused that it seemed different from my memory of previous releases, and that it would be interesting to see if that were true and if so how. Looking in my cellar, I found I indeed had a tin of the original release of From
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Lately I have been spending some time at our Hooksett location, and while I has going through what was available for tobaccos, I came across this tin of G.L. Pease Fillmore, with a stamped tin date of 12/21/21. I noticed that the tin was a bit bowed and not sitting flat. Fillmore is a VAper
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One of the long-running themes on NJBS since we started in 2019 has been an interest in exploring how aging cigars and tobaccos impacts the experience of the blend. Whenever I can, I love to compare aged tobaccos side by side, and I recently had an opportunity to do just that with one of my
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One of the highlights of my career as a tobacconist has been the privilege of working with Jeremy Reeves, the head blender at Cornell & Diehl, and Kaz Walters from Laudisi Distribution Group, on a series of pipe tobacco blends that would essentially be a tobacco line extension to Kurt Kendall’s storied 7-20-4 cigar brand.
Not Just Blowing Smoke with Pastor Padron 