I just love how this gentleman talks , his cadence , his rithm is just beautiful

You seem like the nicest man ever, man. Keep up the good work!

The excellence of this content is two fold. Mutton chops videos are wonderful. I've smoked pipes of and on for 30 years and these videos have changed it emensly. Second.. the comment section is some of the most thoughtful and pleasant on KZfaq. Glad to be here.

Cellaring improves like red wine ;-) Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge

Im just getting started in pipe smoking, your really an inspiration and such a huge help, thank you so very much!

Another fantastic and informative video sir. Thank you so much for the invaluable information!

Thanks for taking your time to post all this info. I'm a new subscriber and I've been cruising your videos the last few days. I own several pipes, don't smoke very often, but your videos have given me a new appreciation!

hey mr muttnchop i quit smoking cigarettes after 45 years .one year clean i decided to try a pipe and im loving it but i didnt know there was so much to it im learning a lot from your videos thank you so much and keep doing it all the best my friend from the uk

I want to thank you for making these videos. Knowing what to do with your tobacco and pipes makes smoking so much more enjoyable. I wish I had discovered your videos years ago, perhaps I wouldn't have made every rookie mistake possible.

This guys channel is my new ASMR before I go to sleep. I learn and relax. It’s awesome. Thanks dude.

Fascinating. Looking forward to cellaring some of my favorites. And paying attention to the dates when purchasing from sales.

Thank you for your help and advice on this forum, through the information contained in this video I was able to locate the manufacturing date on my dunhill blend of tobacco and it made my experience so much more pleasant and enjoyable knowing it had been aged about 4 years as well..👌

Really enjoyed the video buddy. I heave learned a lot from you as a newbie pipe smoker. Thanks for all you do

Excellent, excellent vid Chris. Congrats. I liked it so much. Thanks a lot my friend.

Good video, very informative and interesting! you have so many tobaccos on display, they all look good.

Dude I hope you come back eventually your videos are truly amazing!! I hope you are well!! This coming Thursday is thanksgiving, I do sincerely hope you are well!!

Thank you for the information. I saw that add and almost bought some. I will now and cellar it for at least 6 months. Thanks again.

Great video Chris. I am always blown away at how some of these tobacco warehouses can have tins form years back.

Thanks for sharing tobacco matures in flavour like a good wine if kept in the right conditions. 👍

Inadvertent cellaring...Cleaning my workbench I found an old margarine tub with an aromatic blend I hand mixed...in 1987. It was a little dry so I re-hydrated it and it smoked very nicely. Good flavor to be sure, but I don't know that I would say it was any better than before it fell behind the toolbox. At least I can say I've smoked 31 year old tobacco. (For any Virginians out there, it was mixed at the "Ye Olde Tobacconist Shoppe" that used to be in Busch Gardens, Williamsburg). Keep up the great videos, brother.

Wow, it seems I have the same!! I bought the same deal from the website and I checked now, 2012 it is!! thank you for making me notice since I haven't cracked any open until now... what a channel!

I’m a cigar smoker , I agree with everything you say!, ageing changes the dynamics of a smoke!

Dear Sir, indeed, excellent explanation!

great information here. thank you for doing these kind of videos. I am learning so much from your wealth of knowledge that I can pass on to other pipers.

Love your videos. Please make more.

You're right on the spot here. When years ago I first learned from American YT pipe presenters about cellaring (which doesn't seem to be a common practice over here in Europe), I was sceptical, to say the least. But as soon as I'd tried it, my doubts vanished. Cellaring really does make a difference, especially to English blends. Now I always let a few tins of my favourite tobaccos sit for 2-3 years before popping them.

Sounds like you hit the jackpot. Thats pretty awsome. I just started to do this so ill definitely be watching your channel.

Hey fella, great video again! Thanks very much 👍

Very clear. I've never thought about that. From now on I'll buy my tins two by two, one for immediate use, since I know myself and couldn't resist tasting a new purchase almost on spot, and one for cellaring. Thank you Sir.

Hi there my piping good buddy, back here for my nightly routine of watching your videos here, just thought I drop ya a line to say I'm praying for ya brother, hope you and the family are doing well there and wanted to say sending you and them the very best wishes my friend. Much love good buddy take good care 😉

Thank you so much for this video. I found a tin of My Mixture 965 (which I've never had before) from St. Patrick's Day, 2011 in my cellar. Discovered Dunhill is using Orlek's dating convention since 2008. I'll probably wait another five years before opening that tin and will buy a fresh one, if curious. I'm very grateful you prompted my search from your (as usual) great information. Take care,

A few weeks ago, I was lucky and got a tin of MacBaren’s bold Kentucky that had four years of age on it. Looking forward to smoking it when winter comes.

Thank you for the example! I'll be investing in some Mason jars over the next few weeks after watching this and your other videos.

Just found your channel. Love the videos so far. Keep up the great work! Would love a step by step on how you cellar, what bulk blends you prefer, etc. I'm trying to start getting into that. thank yoU!

Dear Chris, thank you for sharing this interesting experience! I myself came recently about a tin of Wellauer's Best (a tobacco that I haven't smoked so far) at my little newspaper and tobacco shop round the corner. It still has a price and tax label in Deutsche Mark, therefore it is at least from 2001, before the Euro was introduced. I wonder how it has developed, and I will buy me a new tin to compare it, just for curiousity. Let's see! Best regards from Munich, Peter

Dear, I join the comment of the colleagues, if the videos of the channel could have subtitles in Spanish, it would go further spreading what we like the most! Congratulations for such content and greetings from Córdoba, Argentina... good 💨💨

Great video Muttonchop! Keep up the good work! I recently got a new tin of nightcap and had the same thought as you when I smoked it. Night and day as far flavor goes. Turns out the tin was two years old. It has defiantly spurred me on to cellering more tobacco.

I recently found a tin of Old Dark Fired at a tobacconist in Baton Rouge, LA. It had almost 4 years of age on it. When I got back to Texas and opened it, the scent of fermentation was overpowering. There was so much plume on this tobacco, (loupe verified, not mold!). Amazing.

Wonderful video sir. I'm really new to the hobby and I've started my friends at work on it as well. Love your video series always content rich with intelligible presentation. I can't wait to get my tins and samples for the pipe club.

Wow....nice find on that 4 year old Dunhill ....just wow

I am a noob Pipe Smoker even though I am 68 yo. This is great information. Even we old people can get better, more mellow and sweeter with age.

Early Morning Pipe is soooo good. It was the first that I ever smoked (coming from cigars) and was hooked into pipe smoking from the first puff.

Still searching for those few blends that make me want to buy in bulk. Excited for that day!

very gd job Chris that was awesome I've got some that I'm cellering been there for six years I'm not going to touch therm for another year thanks Chris great video ☺☺☺☺👍👍👍👍👍👍 best regards Peter.

Great info and awesome vid dude! I will definitely be checking the age of all my new tins!

Sounds like you got lucky on getting aged tins. I made a little trip to a nearby cigar/pipe shop yesterday and they had a large stock of mcclelland tins and I picked up 8 of my favorite tins and a couple cigars to try. A couple were dingy from the cigar smoke- a good sign. They had price stickers over the dates so I couldn't tell the age in the store, after getting home and doing some peeling I was delighted, a few of the oldest ones were St. James Woods from 2011 and Bombay Court from 09' . They had a bunch more left that had gotten dingy. I will be going back soon, they even gave me a 10% discount for showing my pipe club card.

Great video Chris. Cellaring tobacco to age is the most important reason to do it, after availability and the price. It is nice how you bring it in to the video. Regards. Janez

amazing video !!!

Thank you for teaching your valuable experience! Your a gentleman, a scholar, and a glass of fine wine, and there’s damn few left of us! Could you tell us what books you have on your shelf! Thank you!

Well done, as always

I found the same thing with a tin of fox provost and I’m finding it drying rather quickly. I found the same stains though could not find anything even a code. Thank you for the info!

The youtuber "posthuman" have a really good video about how pipetobacco age :) and nice video as always!

This happened to me as well. I just received a Nightcap with 5 years of age on it. What a wonderful treat! :)

Thanks for the reply really appreciate it

Hey Muttnchop, I just bought a tin of NightCap and EMP and it came in roughly three days ago. Going by your research my tins were produced in 2012, already over four years age on mine as well. I noticed the same thing you did, the stains on the paper under the tobacco, and of course a great aroma and it smoked very deliciously. Apparently I need to place an order again. That's a great jump start on cellaring!

I had just started smoking a pipe around Sept 2017 and the first 2 tins I bought were early morning pipe and nightcap. I had no idea at the time that they were also the 2012 batch... Looking back I'm thinking " wow! What a way to begin a pipe tobacco hobby with such a fine, aged tobacco!"

You hit the jackpot there.

Thank you for this informative video. I like how you take your time to explain everything, which is great for a beginner like myself :) I have two questions for you please. Can you age a tobacco once the tin has been opened, do you keep it in the tin or in a glass jar? Is there an ideal or maximum amount of years you can let it age? Thanks again

Night cap was my first pipe tobacco and I have veey fond memeories of it, but I haven't tried it again. I think, as I was buying from a small town tobacconist, that it had some age on it. Because I recall wondering why my second tin of a different brand didn't have stained paper. It was a wonderful smoke, I'll need to age some myself

Great video

Hi, Chris, I’d just like to say thanks for all your videos and advice. You have taken my pipe smoking to a new level. I love smoking my pipe using the breathe method (took me a while to get there...) to a level where it is just going out: the taste is so enhanced that it is unbelievable. In the UK we can’t get the variety of tobacco you can get, but pipe smoking isn’t about variety, it’s about what it gives you as an experience. Relax. Enjoy. Keep posting videos as your views and advice are always looked forward to and much appreciated.

It’s similar to “craft beer”. You need to store it appropriately or it goes bad. The “Julian code” is for company’s that want to hide that their product is “old”. Good company’s put “born on dates”. (I work in the beverage industry and we have sell by dates”. Great video! Same on the seller!

I am a big fan of cellaring, but sadly some of my favorites are flake tobacco's that come in square tins. The square tins tend to be very finicky about maintaining their seal. I would recommend going ahead and popping the seal on these, and dropping them into an appropriate sized mason jar to advance the aging process. I've had too many square tins compromised in the past, to take any chances. Another great video Chris!

I have some Samuel Gawith's Skiff Mixture from 07 and Ferndown Red and Orange from 04. Saving for a special occasion

I bought from the same sale Muttonchop. Having some of the nightcap as I type. It and the EMP are smoking beautifully. Hope to see you soon.

Hi Chris, thanks for the tip on EMP. I jus received 12 tins from SP, and all of them are from 2012 👍🏻😊

Nice clip Chris,been cellaring bulks for years. Mason jars are excelent for that purpose. EMP is good blend just too mild to my taste. The re-release of Standard Mixture Full version is sublime blend. Recomended. Yeah it think that they lightly stove tobacco to create that mellowish taste-talking about EMP. Have a great week and as always cool smokes,mate.

You lucked out my friend. Bob

Hi friend!!! Excelent video. I want you to know that recently (about two weeks ago), we opened a 1980 Dunhill Standard Mixture tin (with my fellas of Buenos Aires Pipe Club), and it was incredible. it was like an English Blend but much more sweet. (i didn't try a recent made blend tin to compare but i don't think a fresh one could overcome that one). So, best regards and to your next video!!!!

Dunhill Early morning pipe is currently my favorite tobacco. I love it.

I have four tins of Royal Yacht and two tins Ready Rubbed can't wait to see what they will age like, I've aged Red Rapparee before and it was so sweet.

I love cellaring I have a Tin of Wessex traditional blend from 2002 I never opened it until this year and it has sugar crystals from the Virginia in the blend such a sweeter flavor best thing to do is cellar great video my friend

I don't even smoke tobacco but I love this

Had a tin of London Mixture that was 2 yrs old before I opened it. It was SO much better....

Awesome video muttnchop. Cigars get aged too. But I don't/can't always age. But with pipe tobacco it's easier than cigars, cheaper... Can get some age on em... Any amount of time is better than straight away. But yeah it's all good... We'll see what tobacco I can get where I live... And where from

It might be that, since Dunhill exited the market, a lot of old hoarded stocks are entering the market as no fresh product is being made anymore. In Europe we started running out of Dunhill blends, I had to hunt for early morning to get a 50g tin. It may be my last one 😢 I took a lesson out of your video and started stocking up my cellar too. I will have to ration me and my pipe and savour it as long as I can before they make pipe smoking a capital felony (I am sure hard drugs will be legal though, so many damn politicians are addicts).

That is great information. It's like aging a fine wine.

Dear Muttonchop do you think as well as age the exposure to air makes a difference as the tobacco tins you received must initially been vacuum sealed or do you think they just settle and mature with age as we all do? PS I'm on my first tin of early morning pipe and loving it. For me it's a all day smoke. Please let me know your thoughts.

Muttnchop vids are so tasty that I just have to pop the seal and watch them fresh, no way could I cellar all that tasty info! Nothing like scoring a few aged tins from your favorite tobacconist. I got lucky and got a few Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture and Royal Yacht that had a few years on them, so tasty. Aged bacco is the best, much like Muttnchop's vids. Sweet smokes amigo 😎

I'm looking at that wrapper and I'm wondering: Is that a coffee filter? Is there anything special about what the wrapper is made of and is it important? I'm wondering if I should use something inside my tobacco jar when cellaring it to absorb undesirable components that may build up while aging. Thanks for the great videos. I love to sit here and have a pipe (or cigar) while watching them. It's like sitting on the front porch with a buddy and having a smoke with him.

Love your videos...New piper here...what if you don't have a cellar or basement...is just mason jars good enough?

I just bought 2 dunhill EMP tins from a local shop and they are made in 2016 .

Sir Muttnchop, Do you have any information on how to decipher the date codes on Peterson, Dunhill and Lane tobacco tins?

With the deeming regulations going into more effect in the future I am trying to aquire & cellar more and more tobacco that I know is a favorite of mine and may be "on the chopping block." Therefore if the company decides it's not worth the cost of the FDA testing and fees and decides not to produce the tobacco any more, I'll have some to smoke if it doesn't make it back to the shelves.

By accident, I went to a pipe store in my area and picked up a tin of london mixture. I noticed the price tag was yellowed a bit, but being a lounge I didnt think too much about it. Then I checked the code on the back, It turned out it was packed in 2011. Sweet.

My tin of Rattray's Black Mallory also had stains on the paper wrapper, love that mixture.

My daughter was born November 2012. I'd do a lot of things to get my hands on a tin of 2012 EMP.

where can I find these codes to tell how old my cans are

muttnchop"lt.columbo"piper...you go where nobody goes..nice work!!

There is no telling how many years of age mine are because I never smoke a tobacco that hasn't been cellared for at least 5 years. I buy all my tobacco bulk and put it in quart jars. Then it goes literally in the cellar to have a long rest. Very good video.

So I live in the hellish environment of Arizona. My problem is when I cellar my tobacco it tends to be bone dry in 2-3 years. I store all my tobacco inside my house in a dark box but still have this issue. My house is usually 78-79 degrees. I thought about adding some moisture to the tobacco before I cellar them, perhaps that will fix the issue? I know many pipe smokers say to NEVER add moisture to the tobacco before cellaring, but most of those people who give such advice live in colder and more humid climates. Do you think I should add a few Boveda packets with my tobacco then transfer the slightly more moist tobacco to a jar for cellaring?

I dont really smoke pipe any more, buuut when i happen to see a tobbaco shop i go over to the pipe tobbaco and pic the rustiest oldest boxes. The tastiest ones i roll up in ciggaret paper and smoak. Once you try aged tobbaco you cant live without it. Just a tip... Oh its true for olives too. Just pick the oldest tin you can find in the shop.

Hey, Thanks for the video. I'm thinking about starting to get into the hobby of smoking a pipe and your channel is super helpful. In my personal experience I haven't seen many women smoking pipes, wonder why that is? Maybe I'm just in an isolated area, lol.

What is the best temperature to cellar pipe tobacco? I assume cool but not cold.

Muttnchop, I am a padewon, and you are a Jedi Knight. Thank you my friend! 😀

An even more important reason to cellar is that your favorite blends, go out of production. Or your favorite companies go out of business altogether! (I'm talking Dunhill and McClelland at this point of course).

My friend and I jarred a bunch of tobacco and then kinda took a break from pipes. We got back into pipe smoking and found our old jars...jarred in 2013. We have a jar of Frog Morton Cellar and I am looking forward to smoking that SLOWLY...

Hello guys and muttnchop so if I get it right after you put it in a ball jar ect... You just put it in a draw or maybe a box? Thanks for the info.

So mr. Chris if we want to cellar a tobacco we just leave it in the tin for a couple of years or more in a shadowy and dry place... Am i right??

Another useful video thanks a lot sir,, What do you recommend to age tobacco in an opened tin? Im currently using plastic wrap between the lid and the tin and tape the edge of the wrap to reseal it, what do you think about that method? PS: I dont use jars because i dont have that much place