"Until I pass away." You, sir, are simply not allowed!

I really miss your old background of your pipe and tobacco collection.

I’m only about a month and a half into my pipe smoking career, kind of glad I got to miss the MIA of Muttnchop. Love your videos. They have helped me a lot. Merry Christmas to all!!! May your pipes stay full.

Just a thought...Have you ever thought of doing a video on pipes being designated for certain types of tobacco? As a new pipe smoker I hear a awful lot about ghosting which makes me think I should maybe designate certain pipes for certain types of tobacco to not have to worry about that. You could also talk about what type of pipe would be best to designate for those types of blends. I haven't really found anyone online that really covers this, let alone the way you probably could. Maybe this way a new pipe smoker would know the best way to start their collection of pipes and not have to worry about having potential bad experiences due to trying so many types of blends with one or two pipes and not even the right pipe for the job!

This is the channel that single-handedly influenced me to cellar pipe tobacco even before I got into pipe smoking. I now have over 100 different tobaccos that I’ve begun the cellaring process with. As an enjoyer of wine and whiskies I can appreciate the aging process and am excited to do direct comparisons in the future.

You are without doubt the king of the KZfaq pipe channels. Great to see you back, as authentic as ever. Thanks for the good advice.

I started pipe smoking late in life. Two yrs ago at the age of 60. I cellar for another reason on top of improving the tobacco. I’m trying to build a cellar before I retire next year. Tobacco will only increase in price in the coming years. So I’m also doing it from an economic side. I’m off the a pretty good start. I have added 240 tins to my cellar this past year. Trying to have 400+ when I retire. Thank You Chris for another great video.

I love how down to earth Muttnchop Piper, for example he is telling us if we want to try it, we should keep the Tobacco for 7-10 years. He said it as easy as it is 7-10 hrs. This was so funny 😂and he remind me of my grandfather. I love him and wish him all the best!. Also when he drank the juice, he is natural and has a BIG HEART ❤️ . I love everything here 👍👍👍

Hi sir, greeting from Indonesia. I'm a re-establish smoker. I smoke in my younger years but then i quit because of work, lifestyle n family. Now i almost retired and have new setup in my daily life. Then I choose to smoke pipe instead of cigarette because it's more elegant and relaxing. I only smoke when i want to relax not in daily activity. For few months now, I been watching your videos and enjoy every pipe smoking knowledge from you. I hope your health well and if someday you went to Indonesia please try our tobacco. Cheers.

Totally worth it. If you're not buying more than you can smoke, you're doing it wrong. Always buy more than I intend to smoke for the sole purpose of cellaring.

Another outstanding video. Thank you so much for what you do for the pipe fellowship.

Merry Christmas to you and the family. It's very interesting to see just how much the 'core' flavors/tenets (i.e., the breadiness vs. fruit tastes) changed over time. I'm really looking forward to cracking a tin of my favorites in 5 and 10 years.

It's great to see you back on here, Muttnchop! As always, it's a relaxing and enjoyable video you put on.

Great episode!!! Always wonderful listening to experience and wisdom from you. Thank you for all you gives us. I hope to some day be half as a great teacher. Merry Christmas and Yuletide Blessings.

Glad your back missed you while you were gone. Because of you you I have enjoyed my pipe smoking so much more. Thank you for all the great advice and little tricks. You really are a wonderful person! God bless you!

Fantastic video as always!! Happy Piping!!!

Really enjoying your channel. I’m 3 weeks into pipe smoking and so enjoy the breath method I’ve learned from you. Love this type of video. Thank you Muttnchop!

Thanks for confirming what I hoped would happen with my newly purchased tins. I started collecting a few extra tins each month and really looking forward to them aging nicely. Also hedge against current and future inflation and future taxes I’m sure will get added on. Now I have a legit excuse to build myself an even bigger cellar. Thanks for the advice in all your videos! I’ve been doing this all solo for about 2 years now, and no one else in my extended family smokes a pipe. So have really benefited from your sage advice and continue to enjoy pipe smoking more as time goes on. Merry Christmas!

I have followed your advice on cellaring and I am better for it. With the few people that still smoke a pipe, I find myself always looking for recommendations and techniques to try. Thank you for being relevant and inspirational. You make my enjoyment more fulfilling. Merry Christmas to you and your family and friends. Bless you my friend.

Chris you made my day just by uploading this video and showing us the difference of cellaring tobacco, also congrats on the new watch I have a silver one just like it!

Hope you and yours have a very merry Christmas and happy new year. Thank you for the wonderful videos.

I appreciate all you do Mutton chop piper. I live in Louisiana and drove to go see a friend by Harrisburg Pennsylvania. I stopped by Boswells in chambersburg Pa. i wanted to say thanks for the recommendation. I bought a very nice boswell pipe and some of their tobacco. Pipe smokes great and they have good tobacco thank you and merry Christmas

I have a few tins that are set aside from 2018 of various blends. Just waiting on them. Always enjoyable to see your videos. I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season.

I purchased my first Sav 122 on your recommendation a few years ago and i love it. Purchased a few since then. Great pipe.

Wow, I learn something new every video. Love watching Muttnchop videos.

2 years of age on old dublin it's amazing. Makes it smoother and calmer.

Chris, I've always loved your videos. I'm glad you're back now. I have fond memories of learning to smoke my pipe and asking you questions, which you were always gracious enough to answer. And I'm glad to see the merch shop!. That's a great logo, it captures you well. Happy Piping my friend

Very good presentation. I could tell by the duration of the time you spent on the cellared tobacco that it was definitely much better. Your videos are the reason I had the confidence to start on this journey. I enjoy your content and I'm glad to see you're having some current stuff. To you and all of yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. And to all the KZfaq pipe-smoking Community as well.

Excellent vid Chris. Thanks a lot. Have a great week.

Thanks for that info. I watched a couple of other cellaring videos you did as I've just started to realize the value in this procedure.I found out by accident about this although I had heard about cellaring for years in various blogs and other discussions. I received a couple of 1 ounce jars of Brigham's Mark Twain a few years back as a gift and didn't like it - bland and non descript. I threw it in the cupboard thinking I'd eventually toss it. This summer I found it and decided to give it another try and wow was I surprised. In two years and however long it had been since manufacture it had matured to a very nice aromatic. Merry Christmas to you!!

Merry Christmas mutton chop paper love the videos buddy glad to see your back

The gandalf of the YTPC, sage advice as always, for those just discovered this channel listen well and absorb👍. Have a merry Christmas and a happy new year.

Started my pipe journey towards the end of last year, got me a 6$ cherry wood pipe and a bag of cheap cherry Cavendish. Went the aromatic route due to my early years going to grandads house and getting that cherry aroma! But I discovered your channel and I have learned so much more about all the small details and nuances. Thank you so much for doing what you do, just got my 1st Peterson and it is a world of difference! Look forward to your videos and continued success! Happy piping from your friend here in Texas!

Both videos were absolutely great. I gained a lot of knowledge. Thank you for way you explained everything. You are a true artist. Bob from Maryland.

I started aging tobacco when I first started smoking a pipe back in 2010. Luckily I have many tins that have aged so I don't have to smoke fresh unless I want to. I was smoking a 2104 Christmas Cheer while watching your video and it is just awesome. Very mellow with no longue bite. Always like watching your videos; keep up the good work!

Muttonchop!! I love you man. I've been looking forward to this next video. I'm smoking right now while watching a blend of all different types of tobaccos. It's my "best of the rest" blend, i guess you could say. I've literally just combined every type of unsmoked tobacco you can imagine into a large container that has been sitting on my shelf for years now. It's to the point where I can't even describe the smell or taste because there's so many different things going on in it. I will say it's good though. Instead of throwing away tobaccos you don't care for or that get old and dry, try putting them all in the same container. They will rehydrate as long as you also put some blends in there that are still moist.

Very insightful and educational. Well done and thank you.

Glad to see you are still making Videos you are a Great Help to the New Pipe Smoker like myself

Good to see you making videos again. Thanks for all the info you put out there. I'm fairly new to pipe smoking but so far enjoying it very much. I only have 2 pipes for now but love them both. One a church warden a very cool smoking meerschaum from sms pipes. The other also a meerschaum full bent dublin from sms pipes. I've thoroughly enjoyed the blends you have shown from english to aromatics. You do an excellent job describing them taste smell ect. I'd like to see you do a few more videos with some quality meerschaum pipes in the future. I believe a quality meer can make a great novice pipe for numerous reasons. That's what I started with blew the cob pipes I tried out of the water for me imho. I may have to look into a nice quality briar pipe in the future. My goal was to avoiding having to purchase a 7 day sets resting pipes etc. I also love watching the meer pipes color overall. Anyways I'm rambling keep up the good work look forward to your next video and some more of that mountain 🎶. Who knows maybe one day we could pick a few tunes together. I'm sure I could follow on the guitar or fiddle.

Thanks Chris. I've started to buy more of the tobaccos I like and I am starting my cellar. I look forward to 5 years+ from now.

Man you're one of the world's real champs. Thanks for taking time out of your life to share your knowledge and wisdom.

Thank you for the thoughtful demonstration. I can say for certain that cellaring tobacco is worth it. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Very interesting series brother 👍👍 I'm making a list of the tobaccos that I want to do my shoe box celler soon

Watching you thoughtfully smoke and describe what is going on with your taste buds is one of the most satisfying experiences of this week! I'll definitely keep cellaring my favorite blends. Does the difference in flavor due to cellaring vary depending on the type of blend or does it just blend and mellow the flavors in general regardless of the blend?

Merry Christmas Muttonchop!

That’s amazing it’s so different with some age on it. Merry Christmas, MCP!

Merry Christmas and a happy piping new year

Thanks for your help in my pipe hobby truly appreciate your video and views please Carey on with the expert advice

Great video Chris, I am sold on cellaring!

First of all, thank you for your service. Just ran across you on youtube a while back, I've been smoking a pipe for some 50 years now and enjoy it to this day. I'm 70 now and I still enjoy smoking a pipe. I was in the Navy by the way. A pipe has always been relaxing to me and it still is today. Love watching you on youtube, keep it up. The very best to you and your wife and kids>

Well, I know what I'm trying next time I place an order. Very interesting information, enjoyed watching the results.

Funny how even one of the sharpest, most peppery blends can totally mellow out and become smooth, almost creamy. Even after a considerably short cellar of 1 year can totally change a blend. I followed your advice of prior videos and set aside blends I didn't like for exactly one year, and totally changed them (also considering a change of my palet). Thanks for the great content and advice.

Happy holidays my friend. Wishing you and your family the dearest of holidays. The lesson I have taken away from this video, is that we humans have to make a point of aging like these blends. A sweet end to a wonderful story.

Thank you for such a well thought out and executed video!

Good comparison. Another fine example of the benefits to aging, Virginia blends especially.

The wonders of cellaring and aging tobacco never quite. Thank you for a fine video.

Have owned a Nording signature pipe for years, smoking it once or twice a year when I got together with college buddies, but never really enjoying or appreciating it. However, I recently decided to take it a bit more seriously. After employing your smoking techniques, I am here to report that it has improved my smoking enjoyment many times over. Cheers!

Ciao from Italy, glad i have found your channel ; just suscribed. Merry Christmas

Thanks for the video!

Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 to you and your family.

Merry Christmas to you and your family mutton chop

you are the best we have here on youtube. thanks for sharing your knowledge with us =]

Master Yoda you are! Glad you are back Sir!

I don’t smoke, but your videos are relaxing to watch. Thank you very much!

I was almost able to smell during testing 😃. Thank you for your videos

It really is incredible that a tobacco that was cellar will even loose its harshness after a few years . Merry Christmas Mutton Chop 😉

Phenomenal test! Cellaring is such an awesome piece of pipe smoking. Serves as a way to store tobacco and simultaneously allow it to mellow out/develop better characteristics. Cheers mutton chop! Another great one

I believe I'll be attempting to cellar a few tins in the coming years. It should be as easy as stocking up on essential supplies- add an extra tin or two to your order occasionally and you'll have a stock before you know it.

Thanks for the videos. A couple questions, first how was dryness/ wetness between the two. And second how different was the smoking at the end of bowl, last third portion let's say? Thank you again.

Great to see these videos from a top guy

I 100% agree with your findings. That is why I have about 4 to 6 tobaccos that I call my must have and I buy them in bulk. Better better better as they age.

I have a jar full of a blend called Hearth of Galway which is my pipe groups (Pipe Smokers of Ireland) group blend. I tried it as soon as i got it and it was a decent American/English blend good flavor and smooth kick of Cyprian and regular latakia rounded off with a Tennessee burley and sweetened with some black and regular cavendish. but after cellaring it for a month or two it mellowed out and became so much smoother. It had rounded out the latakia to meld with the burley and the cavendish had mellowed out losing its over sweetness and replacing it with a mild more gentle sweetness. so i agree. Definitely cellar your tobacco. Because as they say good thing come to those who wait.

Great video, thank you!

Great video!

Great video my friend !🔥🔥

Hey, you are still alive, you kinda snuck back on youtube under my radar. Thanks for video.

Thanks for sharing Muttnchop, I enjoyed the video and do agree that cellaring tobacco does make a big difference in color, taste and smoke ability. 👍👍👍👍👍

Ahhh yes, loved the actual smoking experience you did. Guess tobacco ages like fine wine. Great video, so glad to have you back doing videos. How did you get so many subscribers? I've been doing KZfaq pipe community videos for about a year, and have 474 subscribers wich I am extremely thankful for, but would love to learn how to improve my videos more and obtain more subs. Maby just time I guess.

I agree, cellaring is definitely worth it. Blends that I don't smoke all that often it's nice to have some cellared when you get the urge to tuck into it.

Just purchased a tin of 4th generation 1931 erick peters blend. The tin was loaded in August of 2018. They cellared it for me! only problem is That I don't know what a fresh tin tastes like. Oh well. Happy piping!!!

Love the pipes you choose

A comforting voice returns...

The Great MuttnChop has spoken.

I‘m a big fan if cellaring, I‘m sure it smooths and softens the rough edges but brings out the virginia’s sweetness too. If you cellar is a cool place I think is preserves aromatics too. Congrats in have achieved the max subscriber score in YTPC, you are in a class of your own 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊😉🎄☃️🎅🏻

Great information, thanks!

M.Chop - The thinking mans pipe smoker. Great work thanks.

Hi Muttnchop...........Good 2 see you my friend..........Great vid as usual.

Merry x-mass and a happy new year 😊

Greetings Mr. Muttonchop and happy new year. My question is this. When you cellar tobacco does it actually have to be in the cellar or is any cool dry location acceptable?

Helpful! Thanks

Happy new year to you sir

Loved this video. QUESTION: Do you think the nicotine levels remained about the same or do you think it changed as well? 🧐

Thank you MuttonChop

Totally worth it in my opinion. In fact I just cracked open a tin of G.L. Pease Jack Knife Plug last night in a video. It was such a good smoke. Mellowed out the Kentucky and really smoothed out and married the flavors! I was going to give it three years but it was swelled up nicely so I cracked it open. 👍👍

Nice,, I'm interested in aging tobacco. Good video.

Will cans that twist off (like Dunhill) store/cellar as long as the "pop tops" like the can you popped in the last video? Thanks, sir! Merry Christmas to you and yours!!

Great video! A few friends and I started pipe smoking a month ago. We find you videos extremely helpful as we begin our journey in pipe smoking. I started cellaring right away based on a few suggestions from others. I keep a journal with key info including purchase date. What is your method for keeping track of your cellar? As an engineer I’m probably over the top keeping a journal but would love to hear what others are doing. Thanks again! We can’t wait to participate in Blend Club 2022!

I know that this is not question about cellaring but I would very much appriciate your advice. How can I prevent or minimize small pieces of tobacco partly blocking the pipe end of the stem? Nearly each time I smoke Ihave to use a cleaner to get a good air passage. I am very fond of your channel and have recieved a lot of fine informations.

Looking forward to blend club 👍

I need your help why when I smoke my pipe a problem happen to my tongue like glossaries ?.