Chris Glad to see you enjoyed the Christmas Cheer my friend . I am so happy it is so smooth .I loved your review . I am honored to have you as a friend . Thank you for everything you have done for the Pipe community . You are a true Gentleman Chris . I am having a bowl to bring in the new year . I wish you and your family A Happy New Year and I look forward to 2018 with you Chris . God Bless you my friend . Your the best Your friend always Scottie Dickens
Ray dickens - Ray, the Honor is mine, your gift was above and beyond, and I plan on enjoying it for months to come, I just hope my video did it justice. God Bless you as well my friend. 👍👍👍
Muttnchop Piper Chris it was my pleasure . The review was Amazing I am so glad you like it . I wanted you to have it . I might have some suprises for you . You are my brother Marine and a good friend I have been following you for a long time . I want to send you a New year's gift Chris . I lost your address in my move recently. My Email is Sherlockdickens1967@gmail.com. Chris please send me your address so I can send you something s . I want to also come and visit you sometime . I hope to here from you again . My new phone 615-580-5499 Chris I will be in touch . Happy new year Chris I look forward to hearing from you . Your Friend Scott
Man its a strange feeling to watch this and then see the date that this was packaged was 1998. My first thought was "that's not 20 years old. I was born in 1998". Then I realized... I'm 20...
Payton Scott - You think that’s nuts, wait until you wake up one day and you are 50, that will rock you to your core my friend, now it seems 10 minuets later I’m pushing 60, time gets away from you if you are not careful. 😒😒😒
I've been smoking a pipe for roughly a year now and just discovered your channel. I love your videos! You remind me of my dad a bit. My dad used to smoke a pipe regularly but gave it up when I was a teenager. Last year, he gave me a couple of his old pipes and two cans of Captain Black, the regular and a can of Gold. Both were canned in 1992. The cans were 30 years old, but they aged extremely well. I just finished the regular and opened the Gold yesterday. It smells and tastes like bourbon. I will miss it when it's gone. There's something special about opening a can so old. Thank you for sharing this and all of your videos.
Connor Reynolds - No, I think my son-in-law thinks I pretty cool, we have gone to 2 Chicago pipe shows together, and frequently get together to play table top games, but your right if he ever hurt my little girl, there would be hell to pay. 👍👍👍
Airborne 1966 - Thank you my friend, I love everything about pipes, the history, the taste, the ritual, the way you are perceived by others while smoking a pipe, the way it relaxes you, and a hundred other things. 👍👍👍
I had the same thing with my grandmother before she passed. She always tried to give me money for caring for her. I always used to say you paid me when I was kid, I’m just paying you back, so you best keep on living because I still owe you a lot and I don’t like being in debt .
Maybe it's me being strange, but when at home, if I have 'flake' that I am preparing to smoke, I take my good old fashioned 'marlin spike' (pocket knife) and slowly cut it like you would plug. I think it's that I have smoked aromatics so long (which most are ribbon), that it's just natural to load my bowl with ribbon...so, my brain stops and says 'nope, all must be ribbon, that goes in the bowl'... And, if it's too dry...I'll throw a new (old) can or pouch into the old jar humidor/humidifier and bring it up to 70-75% (day or two), before I smoke it...brings back a LOT of the original flavors that way.
Muttn I too have always gotten a ketchup tin note in the McClelland tins. I always enjoyed the Christmas Cheer releases as well as the Maduro cigar flake pipe blend.
Good stuff, I learnt a useful trick from one of your videos. Using your thumb and rotating to pack the pipe. Must say it pack better and more evenly making for easier draw. Thanks for the great tips ... John
2017 was the year I started taking up pipe smoking in my grandfathers stead who just passed the year before. youve been a tremendous help and a wealth of information for the first time pipe smoker such as myself. Happy new year.
i have two tins of Frog Morton - On The Town and On The Bayou that are unopened and undamaged that date from the early 1980's. I have a great anticipation to arrive at a time I can appreciate their opening. Greeting you in spirit from 2021, nice to get to know you and your ' Piping '
Hey, Muttnchop, I just started smoking pipes few weeks ago and watching your videos has been really helpful. I'm really enjoying your channel, here, in Brazil, where I live, pipe smoking in not very common or usual. Anyway, you seem to be a very polite and kind man, which is cool. Congratulations for your work and thanks a lot.
Awesome my friend I can only imagine how hard it was to open this batch, I am very grateful for the videos you make and glad I found you, You have been a huge help to me and I thank you, I am the same as you I make videos for fun and enjoyment not for money and can never ask my viewers to do so
Happy New Year Chris! I picked up the pipe about 8-9 months ago. Thank you so much for your channel and videos, I've learned so much from them and pipping has brought me so much joy! May 2018 be a fruitful year full of blessings for you and your family!
I have just discovered your channel. I watched this with a full bowl of Dunhill, well, Peterson nightcap, in the garden before bed. Very entertaining, highly educational. I enjoyed thoroughly. Thanks
Hi Chris. I hope you and your family are OK and in good health. I have noticed that you have not posted any videos in a while. I missed your videos. I hope to see some new ones soon. I have learned a lot from them.
Oh that is so awesome. I like the sharing we do here in the YTPC. Makes this more of a world wide family. Really enjoyed watching you open and smoke this 20 year old tobacco. One day i wanna try a 100 year old tobacco. The oldest tobacco i ever smoked was 45 year old Amphora. Wow i didn't like the taste. It tasted nutty and with a hint of roses. But it is incredibly interesting to taste the past as a matter of speaking. Now i know i'm more aromatic smoker. And i like Velvet. So i wil search for a tin of old tobacco from the 1920's. Kinda hard to find on a budged. Greetings,, Kitty.
Oh just take the gift, you do a great service. Heck even I want to send you a gift but I'm an impoverished college student. LOL. So happy to get another video from you before the new year. Have a great new year Muttnchop piper and all subscribers who read this. =)
I just want to thank you for the amazing videos you upload concerning pipe smoking and proper etiquette. I am fairly new to pipe smoking, got my first pipe 2 weeks ago, but your videos have helped met a lot on what to do from start to finish. Thank you very much. Happy New Year sir. Regards from South-Africa
I've watched your videos for quite some time now and I'm finally going to tell you that I am really digging your shirts! Awesome! I could feel your pain opening that tin, man. That had some serious age on it. Have a Happy New Year, brother.
I have a 4 year old tin of McClelland's Cellar, still sealed. Considering they closed up shop, that tin is even more valuable. I'm saving it for a very special occassion.
I recently watched a video about how Davidoff grows their tobacco. One of the gentleman in the video stated tomato and tobacco plants are in the same family. Perhaps this explains the ketchup smell…also I am not a pipe smoker but I do greatly enjoy your content.
Thank you for sharing this experience, and the many outstanding videos on your channel. I’ve learned much since finding it a few days ago. It’s great to see a fellow Kentuckian represent in the pipe smoking community.
I know this videos old but damn! McClellands Christmas Cheer is an Awesome damn tobacco!!! That’s a crazy gift! I’m actually bidding on a 100g tin right now on TinBids.
What a treat, thanks for sharing this with us! I have a tin of Christmas Cheer that is bulging at the top so much, I am just waiting for it to burst open on its own any day now! I don't recall what year it is as I have just gotten back to smoking my pipes after a few years away from them. I am sad that McClelland has closed down after these 40 years of excellence. In my opinion their tobaccos are the finest in the world. I have a fair amount cellared, though, so I will be able to enjoy them from time to time. Again, this is a rare treat and I hope you enjoy many great smokes from this tin! Best regards.
I have never tried any aged tobacco . I did most of my pipe smoking around 2017 . I tried cellaring a pound of night cap in ball jars. but I was new to the whole pipe smoking expirence and ended up smoking all my tobacco as soon as it arrived. I was a regular customer at pipes and cigars and bought and smoked a lot of dunhill tobacco. also westminster , frog morton, john cotton . just about anything with virginias and latakia i will smoke
I was cleaning out an old shed on my property which was previously owned by preppers from the 70s and have come across a stash of 40+ year-old tobacco tins. All sealed and of many different manufacturers. Would this interest you?
Great review looking forward to more of your reviews. You certainly knock it out of the park with your expertise in piping, thanks Muttnchop and Have a great New Year.
Muttnchop Piper I have a real catastrophe. I did a deep clean on my regular rotation of pipes, I have a Hans Christian Church warden that has the long stem and short stem some how the stem broke in the bowl and I can't get at it where it broke any suggestions if any on how to get it extracted?
Clarence Bodicker - I am no professional when it comes to working on pipes, if it were me I would contact Smokingpipes.com because they repair pipes, I’m pretty sure they can get it out for you, sorry that’s the best I got. 😔😔😔
Muttnchop Piper Thanks for the info I will contact them tomorrow. I know a lot of people would just pitch it but like you when it's one of your favorites to enjoy a good smoke out of its dismaying. Once again thank you.
Happy New Year, Muttnchop Piper! Many thanks for all your great videos and expertise! Your flicks are always educational and relaxing to the spirit. Sure is a nice pipe you're smoking there, too. Looks like tasty stuff! Best wishes to you and yours in the coming year!
Happy New Year! Muttonchop I recently started to watch your videos a few months ago, fairly new to pipe smoking, 8 months or so now. I always watch your new videos now and contribute your to watching your info to most of what I now know. I respect your opinion over most simply because I can tell the passion you have for the hobby through your videos. I don't usually comment so sorry for the paragraph just wanted to share with you that I picked up a tin of MAC BAREN VIRGINIA NO1 a month ago that was still vapor sealed. After doing some research its around 30-35 years aged. My curiousity got the best of me last week and WOW the taste was amazing. Thanks for what you do!! Happy Pipping!!!!!
Steven Collins - thanks for commenting Steven, and I appreciate your kind words. Wow 30-35 years of age, I have never smoked something that old, Amazing, simply Amazing. I hope for a Happy and healthy new year for you and your family my friend. 👍👍👍
The ketchup smell of McClelland's is a secret that keeps mold from growing on the tobacco. I smoked a 20 year old tin this year and was not impressed with the flavor improving and if anything, I felt the blend had lost the fullness of flavor I recalled when smoking it first in 1999. What I liked most about this blend was the orange Virginia which is something that one does not often find in blends.
Awesome! Glad you got around to reviewing this. I bought the Sutliff Christmas Spice before you released the new blend club list. I'm currently cellaring it untill next December.
Many people comment on the "ketchup" smell. I really wonder about it. When you opened that old can you should have had the the ending notes of "Le Prelude" by Franz Listz playing in the background.
Happy New Years to Muttonchop! Looking forward to all your videos in 2018 ... I’m smoking bobs chocolate flake right now which I believe is your blend club blend for one of the months next year! It is awesome ... smoke some Stonehenge flake if you haven’t already cause it’s just like bobs chocolate flake but with more of a chocolate note )
I'm a new pipe smoker and I love it. Love your videos. what would be the best tobaccos to start with and where to get them. Ive been smoking cheap Walgreens $5.00 a pouch cherry and vanilla and I like them. This is a fun hobby
Does tobacco really get better with age..my dad had some unopened ww2 ration camel's. They tasted like asphalt. But they were " vintage" idk but i guess its up to the individual.
The right tobacco ages very well in the right conditions. Unfortunately, cigarettes are not the right tobacco OR conditions. It's like saying you tried an 80 year old Bud LIght crowler and it tasted like urine, but it was vintage.
Question Muttnchop - I open a can of tobacco, peel the metal tin seal off, have one smoke from it, place back the plastic lid, place back in sealed tub in cellar and walk away. Same or not the same as unopened metal seal?
Matt Seimears - Not the same, the tin is vacuumed sealed allowing only the oxygen left inside. this oxygen reacts with the tobacco to ferment, but it’s not like alcohol fermentation, this kind of fermentation allows the tobacco flavors to mix and deepen the all around flavor. Once you open the tin the oxygen is constantly replaced and fermentation never occurs, unless you put it in an air tight jar preventing the oxygen from constantly replacing itself, then the fermentation can begin again. Putting it in a plastic tub does nothing but dry out the tobacco. 👍👍👍
Thank you very much (new at this and love your tips). When you buy a new can, break the seal of the new can, and place the plastic lid back on for later use, what is the timetable here before it changes? How long will it last or should I transfer to a Mason jar or plastic bag? Is there a better advantage here?
Matt Seimears - Ok, it all depends on how much of this tobacco you plan on smoking and how fast, if you smoke 3 to 4 bowls a day until the tobacco is gone, then no, the tobacco will not dry out before you smoke it up, but if you only smoke a bowl of this tobacco once or twice a week then yes transfer the tobacco to a mason jar, it will stay fresher longer. 👍👍👍
I use to think McClelland used vinegar or acetic acid as a anti-fungal agent that gave it that Mcketchup tang. I read that the McNeils in addressing this issue said they didn't do anything of the sort and is a natural outcome of fermenting the tobacco. Obviously they do it in such a heavy way that nobody else does. I can't ever recall any of their tobacco having even a trace of ammonia. I have aged tobacco for more than ten years and especially if it is a goopy aromatic it will turn into a vinegar bomb from all that sugar fermenting.
NGC6144 - I don’t particularly like that ketchup smell, there are some of their tobacco that the smell is so strong,mi can’t taste the tobacco, I just taste and smell that fermentation. 👍👍👍
I agree, it can be overwhelming at times as if the olfactory bulb is getting a sucker punch. It seems they add a lot of casing to their so called straight tobaccos which I think just makes it worse.
Hello again nice video and I would like to say that I agree with you I lose the battle all of the time with Mom and if I can say mom buddy said that even though we don't expect something in return we could be hurting there feeling if we don't take what is offered makes me wonder 🤔 thanks again enjoy.
