Tinning tobacco for long term storage

[PressuredLeaf]

A few days ago I opened a mason jar with a 2oz plug of a VaPer blend I press last year. It has been fermented using the method I described in another thread, pressed, vacuum sealed for about 6 months, and had been sitting in a mason jar for about the past 6 months. As I recall, I was not to impressed by the blend when I smoked the trimmings out of the press, but it smelled so dang good in the jar I had to try it. I was blown away by how much better it was, extremely smooth and sweet with just a little perique pepper. This inspired me to try a whole bunch of new blends with the intention of waiting at least 6 month before trying them. My hope was to come up with some good blends that I would then scale up.

The problem is, mason jars are kind of clunky and it would be very cumbersome to have a bunch of mason jars sitting around while I wait for the tobacco to age. So I decided to look into sealed tins for tobacco aging. I really wanted tins because tinning seals air in with the tobacco, which I suspect to be very important in the aging process. So here we are today air tight sealed tins ready for aging, and I must say I am very excited to see how things go!

The tobacco pictured is a 1oz test plug of some Virginias, basma, and prilep.

 

[TigerTom]

How do you seal the tins?

 

[PressuredLeaf]

How do you seal the tins?

I bought a hand tin sealer that matched the tins I purchased. Its pretty easy to uses, there is a simple adjustable wheel with a groove that rolls the tin lid over the lip of the tin. I tested a tin with water, and it is water tight.

 

[TigerTom]

Awesome. Is it a particular brand? I just spent several minutes on Google trying to find decent manual sealers and most of them are quite expensive, at least to me.

 

[deluxestogie]

How about a reusable jar?

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A Pipe Blend Storage Jar for a Large Batch

Storage Jar for a Large Batch of Pipe Blend For years, I've kept my pipe blends in 1 quart Ziplock freezer bags. These work fairly well to maintain humidity over the short term. My desk in my study supports a small avalanche of impromptu pouches and cascading Ziplocks. They're cheap...

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Bob

 

[PressuredLeaf]

Awesome. Is it a particular brand? I just spent several minutes on Google trying to find decent manual sealers and most of them are quite expensive, at least to me.

The brand I went with was Comatec sold through JB prince. You are correct, it is waaaay to expensive for what it is. That being said, it is very well made. I tried to go the cheep route and get a tin sealer off Amazon. The one I received was for a different style tin, and the instructions were in Russian.

 

[TigerTom]

Ah. The Comatec didn't look expensive compared to all the others I found that were commercial grade sealers that cost thousands.

I may start saving my pennies and nickels...

 

[burge]

You can also save them in vapour proof bags