References and Further Reading

The Pipe Rack has lots of vintage and limited edition tobacco tins for sale. Check them out.

The USENET group alt.smokers.pipes is the source of a great deal of information, and spirited discussion on all of these topics and many more.

G.L. Pease's FAQ, Aging Section. Highly recommended. Much of the material here is a different version of the information posted in this set of answers.

RC Hamlin's tobacco aging article from Pipes Digest. A bit older, but also recommended. Lots of solid advice.

The Ottawa Pipe Club cellaring page. Another good presentation of the topic, with a variety of perspectives.

Toren Smith's aging experiment results, discussing various containers and storage observations. Long and good!

Steven Fowler's report on mason jar aging discusses results of his storage protocol.

Vegas Smokes gives their take on the top 5 aging questions.

Barry Levin's tobacco evaluation article from Pipes Digest in 1995 contains a section on aging.

Aging and storage information from Dan Pipe which doesn't necessarily agree, in many respects, with a lot of the information presented here. But it's still worth reading, to get a complete picture of some of the points of controversy in the community.

Material pertaining to the aging of cigars and other forms of tobacco exists. Here's a selection:

• alt.smokers.cigars' FAQ covers a variety of aging and storage topics. Good reading!
• The Cigar Hut has a respectable FAQ covering aging and storage issues, as well.
• Steve Saka's essay on cigar aging. Interesting for its aging milestone list.

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Contributors and Credits

Special thanks to master blender Gregory Pease, whose prolific comments occupy so much of this document. He generously reviewed, and even revised, many of his remarks specially for the Aging FAQ.

Thanks also to Tarek Manadily and Jeff Folloder for spending time to review their contributions over their years for continued accuracy.

Credit is diligently due to all the contributors whose words have added to the pool of ASP knowledge and are quoted herein (with links where known):

Steven Banks, James Beard, Bernie, Boomgate, Bill Burney, Sean Chercover, Cheryl, Robert Crim, Scott Curtis, Tim Daneliuk, J.W. Davis, Rad Davis, Walter L. De Visser, Pascal Essers, FatMax, firedancerflash, G.W. Fletcher, Jeff Folloder, Steven Fowler, Inquisitor, Irwin Friedman, Andrew Garner, Samuel M. Goldberger, Jim Gottliebson, Bear Graves, Tom Greene, Terry Hagley, R.C. Hamlin, Fred Hanna, Mark Hogan, Michael Hogue, Justin Holmes, Jari, JHowell982, Lannes Johnson, Mike Jacobs, JohnnyFlake (of the Pipesmokers2 Yahoo Group), KMFDM, Kip, Krister K., Jim Kooy, Max Kama, Chris Keene, Dave Keever, Fred Langer, Fred Latchaw, Joe LaVigne, Steve Lawrence, Steve Lehman, Norman Lever, Michael D. Lindner, Loiskelly1, John C. Loring, magnulus, Tarek Manadily, Terry McGinty, Buddy McNiel, Daniel L. Merriman, Mingkahuna, Edward Mitchell, John Offerdahl, Russ Ouellette, Colonel Panic, Tim Parker, G.L. Pease, Bob Pelletier, Tapio Pentikainen, R Perry, Ian Rastall, Robbie, John Rocheleau, Mike Rothenberg, Jeff Schwartz, Mark Shelor, Kurt Slauson, Toren Smith, L.M. Spitz, Greg Sprinkle, Stanmed, Paul Szabady, Craig Tarler, Jon Tillman, Bill Triplett, Weston in Atlanta, Stephen E. Williamson, Kevyn Winkless, David Wise, Tim Wisner, Clifford W. Woodward, Yarnspinner, and Mark Z.

Thanks to Ian Rastall for reviewing this page and offering some much-needed advice.

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