Exorcising Lakeland Ghost?

[tom12]

Is Ennerdale the main popular Lakeland style blend? Are there lots of others? Is it a popular style or niche?

I think Ennerdale is the most popular but there are many others out there, my favourite is No. 7 Broken Flake. I have a fair bit hoarded away. This is mixed in with some aromatics but this is what I can get in the UK

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[alexnc]

Sablebrush’s advice will work, I’ve successfully purged lakelands before. That was before I loved them. My treatment now is to smoke more lakelands though it. But when I did it I was OK to destroy the pipe. I used alcohol in the stem and probably an oxi-clean soak after. Be ready to rebuff the stem if you do that. I believe I salt alcohol treated 2x and then retorted it several times.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Is Ennerdale the main popular Lakeland style blend? Are there lots of others? Is it a popular style or niche?

Ennerdale used to be the Lakeland bomb. It had more floral than the others and garnered the most attention. My favorite though is Rich Dark Honeydew.

 

[Chasing Embers]

oxi-clean soak after

Be careful getting that inside the stem or you'll have an oxidized airway.

 

[karam]

Is Ennerdale the main popular Lakeland style blend? Are there lots of others? Is it a popular style or niche?

A clarification: Lakelands means tobaccos made by Gawith, in the Lake District of the UK (a wonderful place). Then you need to dissect whether whoever writes “Lakelands” actually likes them or not. Regardless of whether one likes them or not, the term refers to the aromatised blends from Gawith & Hoggarth and Samuel Gawith (same manufacturer, two brands). Then those who don’t like them usually refer to various things that have zero relation to how these blends smell and taste (like urinals, grandma underwear, bathmats). Those who do like them usually are crazy for them for their uniqueness, harmony between tobacco and additives, and know that there are BIG differences between them.

@sablebrush52 much more accurately refers to the underlying general whiff that accompanies a lot of Gawith blends, aromatised or not, which can remind one of soap, and sometimes translates to the smoke.

Regarding Ennerdale, not my favourite, but a good one still. Would put Coniston Cut Plug, Bosun, Dark Flake Scented above it personally.
@Ahi Ka not Lakeland police, but could I qualify as a Lakeland preacher?

 

[Egg Shen]

A clarification: Lakelands means tobaccos made by Gawith, in the Lake District of the UK (a wonderful place). Then you need to dissect whether whoever writes “Lakelands” actually likes them or not. Regardless of whether one likes them or not, the term refers to the aromatised blends from Gawith & Hoggarth and Samuel Gawith (same manufacturer, two brands). Then those who don’t like them usually refer to various things that have zero relation to how these blends smell and taste (like urinals, grandma underwear, bathmats). Those who do like them usually are crazy for them for their uniqueness, harmony between tobacco and additives, and know that there are BIG differences between them.

@sablebrush52 much more accurately refers to the underlying general whiff that accompanies a lot of Gawith blends, aromatised or not, which can remind one of soap, and sometimes translates to the smoke.

Regarding Ennerdale, not my favourite, but a good one still. Would put Coniston Cut Plug, Bosun, Dark Flake Scented above it personally.
@Ahi Ka not Lakeland police, but could I qualify as a Lakeland preacher?

Thanks, Karam and others. I appreciate the knowledge

 

[jhowell]

Bake the strummel at 250 degrees for 24 hours...

 

[ofafeather]

Lakelands now are a shadow of what they once were. The new Ennerdale is nearly flavorless.

Sadly true

 

[ofafeather]

Bake the strummel at 250 degrees for 24 hours...

If you add activated charcoal then bake it’s even better.

 

[londonbriar]

The only way I ever found of exorcising a lakeland ghost was to sand the inside of the bowl back to the bare wood. Then give it salt-alcohol. Then sand a bit more, until I was only getting brown wood dust. I used 180-grit paper, so it didn't remove too much wood, but not something I'd like to repeat too often or in a particularly precious pipe.

Condor is even worse than GH&Co. I once smoked one single bowl of Condor in a pipe and can taste it to this day.

Those ghosts are there to stay.

I only smoke lakelands and Brit codger blends now in a dedicated Falcon with different bowls. It seems to suit them.

 

[hauntedmyst]

Three pages in and no one has bothered to correct johnny. Ennerdale does not "ghost" a pipe, it refines, forges and quenches it into a fine smoking device much the same way a Katana is made. Why would you want to turn your Katana into a cheap butter knife?

 

[Johnny_Pipecleaner]

I'm making progress by simply smoking the daylights out of the pipe, primarily with burley based blends and subtle aromatics. At least as an aromatic pipe it will see use. I think I'm done with Lakelands (gasp!) so the pipe would do me little good there.

 

[hauntedmyst]

I think I'm done with Lakelands (gasp!)

I know we're not religious on here but can we call in a specialist from the Vatican to exorcise Johnny? Giving up Lakelands is a sign of possession. Or can we can at least organize a Brian's Zoom Pipe Club meeting and have group prayer for Johnny?

 

[BROBS]

Can it be done?
I only smoked Lakeland blend three times or so. BUT it was Ennerdale.
Pipe was new briar, so there’s no cake.
I gave it hot water treatment, and now I’m smoking OJK in it but yeah, definitely a ghost in there.

It can be done. It just takes time.. the first few smokes may be a bit flowery. It’s good to use a blend that this compliments like a VA.

 

[paulfg]

A clarification: Lakelands means tobaccos made by Gawith, in the Lake District of the UK (a wonderful place). Then you need to dissect whether whoever writes “Lakelands” actually likes them or not. Regardless of whether one likes them or not, the term refers to the aromatised blends from Gawith & Hoggarth and Samuel Gawith (same manufacturer, two brands). Then those who don’t like them usually refer to various things that have zero relation to how these blends smell and taste (like urinals, grandma underwear, bathmats). Those who do like them usually are crazy for them for their uniqueness, harmony between tobacco and additives, and know that there are BIG differences between them.

@sablebrush52 much more accurately refers to the underlying general whiff that accompanies a lot of Gawith blends, aromatised or not, which can remind one of soap, and sometimes translates to the smoke.

Regarding Ennerdale, not my favourite, but a good one still. Would put Coniston Cut Plug, Bosun, Dark Flake Scented above it personally.
@Ahi Ka not Lakeland police, but could I qualify as a Lakeland preacher?

I have said it before but will repeat it.
You are one of only a few here who appear to understand the lakeland/Gawith blends.

there is no one lakeland blend but several different ones using different oils/botanicals

 

[karam]

I have said it before but will repeat it.
You are one of only a few here who appear to understand the lakeland/Gawith blends.

there is no one lakeland blend but several different ones using different oils/botanicals

Thanks for the compliment! It is a compliment but I am sure there are many here who understand them very well, it's just economical to just say "Lakelands"!

 

[Johnny_Pipecleaner]

It can be done. It just takes time.. the first few smokes may be a bit flowery. It’s good to use a blend that this compliments like a VA.

YASSSSSS HE'S BAAAAAACK

 

[BROBS]

YASSSSSS HE'S BAAAAAACK

 

[Johnny_Pipecleaner]

Smoking Vanilla Roll Cakes in it rn. Very rosey in the beginning, but now at the end I can only taste the cakey goodness.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I just want to know who says Lakelands smell and taste like "grandma underwear"—that sounds like years of therapy to me.