Two Emails I Received This Morning

PappyJoe

motie2

The pipe tobacco business becomes a dystopian wasteland…..

Zouave1864

@PappyJoe thanks for sharing 

PappyJoe

@motie2
I would concur.
I would change to dysfunctional dystopian wasteland though.

motie2

At 78 and ailing, I have more tobacco than I’ll be able to smoke in what’s left of my lifetime. Thus, STG et. al. are henceforth exiled to the Island of Irrelevancy. 

PappyJoe

@motie2
Your last post is not one I can Like or Dislike. 
Many of us are getting older and have more tobacco on hand than we can smoke. That is the sad truth on our mortality.

motie2

Concur

KA9FFJ

@PappyJoe
Tnx for the update. Although I understand that as a business you have to do what you have to do, it doesn't mean we have to like it.
I, like @motie2 , have more tobacco than my life will probably allow me to get through.
But I do feel disappointment for those younger than myself that have many more years of pipe smoking to look forward to. 
My only advice to them is to, "fill their cellars"...
On the flip side, it does make me feel both grateful and fortunate to have over 50 years of being able to experience such a wide variety of blends.

PappyJoe

I sat down yesterday and updated my cellar inventory. If I never bought another tin or ounce of bulk tobacco, I probably have enough for seven or eight years, maybe more.
That being said, here's what I found I have on hand of unopened tin tobaccos. It doesn't include what I currently have opened or what I have in jars.

I have 80 unopened tins of tobacco. There are a total of 63 different blends as I have multiple tins of 10 blends. (This is the result of my habit of buying two tins of a new blend, smoke one and cellaring the other.)

I was surprised to find out how few of what I have are blends affected by the decimation of MacBaren and Sutliff. I have one tin of MacBaren Black Ambrosia. I have four tins of Sutliff branded blends. I have 5 tins of Seattle Pipe Club Blends. 

I guess my point is, I'm not going to really miss the MacBaren and Sutliff blends that are disappearing. I will miss Seattle Pipe Club blends if they don't find a new company to do the manufacturing. Note: I went online last night and ordered four ounces of Plum Pudding Special Reserve and two ounces of Plum Pudding Barrel Aged.)

RockyMountainBriar

I probably have a couple hundred different tobaccos.  I have maybe three? that are Sutliff, one of those is “Mixture 79”, and less than ten Mac Baren most of those are limited editions.  I have a tin of SPC “Deception Pass”, maybe one other?  I didn’t plan on getting any more “Deception Pass”….ahh….I’ll pass on “Deception Pass”🙂