That should stop me from going over board and ending up in a Bill situation. I don't want to get to the point that I run out of space or end up with extract that is too old and going flat.
Yes, that's the downside of a hobby about which I am both compulsive and prodigious. If I lived someplace where people could come over to my house and fill up their own bottles with my extracts, that'd be great, but I live in a tiny town at the extreme western edge of the continent, so no one drops in unexpectedly.
I wonder, what is the life-span of natural tobacco extracts? I doubt that a hard-and-fast rule exists for that, and longevity probably varies considerably from one extract to another, based on many variables---the tobacco blends used, age of the tobaccos when extracted, extraction method, solvents used, care in storage, etc. I've been at this home-extraction thing for 18 months now, but only three of my 43 extracts are more than a year old. The rest are about evenly distributed in age from 11 months down to one month old.
So far, all my extracts are still good (meaning vibrant and "alive"). In the three oldest, the tobacco has deepened and emerged more strongly, with a corresponding but only slight diminishing of non-tobacco casings and toppings. None tastes flat to me, but common sense suggests that a flattening of flavor will be inevitable eventually. I figure I have another year probably before the euthanasia squad shows up to put down any extracts that have succumbed to Alzheimer's. But that's just a guess. I'd wager that some natural tobacco extracts will soldier on quite nicely for a long time---two, three, or even more years---while others will shuffle off this mortal coil somewhat sooner. Just like people. LOL.
