I miss the old Erinmore. It used to have enough nicotine in it, that it sat my ass down on the street one time while I was walking the dog. Now... it's just like... another hum drum tobacco, but a good tasting one.
Is Erinmore Lakeland Flavored?
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they all suck..
worse than C&D.
never try them.. you will get lakeland in your mouth and sinuses and never be able to taste other tobaccos.
they will also ruin every pipe you own.
The Fruit in Juicy Fruit - http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/03/fruit-juicy-fruit/ If you read this you might suspect what the mystery "fruit" in Erinmore is just like I have.
I think that it makes it even better, Juicy Fruit that is. I'd rather have a pure chemical make the flavorings, than what makes strawberry or raspberry flavorings in hard candy. Those come from anal glands of beavers.
It's not uncommon to see people conflate Lakelands and traditional Irish aromatics. They all get lumped together in a "we don't know what the hell this topping is" category. Both styles use strong African tobaccos, which have their own unique character, Lakelands typically use Rose-Geranium as well as other floral and fruit toppings, and some Irish tobaccos (Condor/War Horse) may use a bit of Rose-Geranium as well. One of the biggest mysteries in toppings is fig extract. Figs are actually inverted flowers and not fruits in the strict sense, hence their extract is very floral and unique. Another shared practice between the two is the use of whiskey or whiskey based honey liqueur such as Irish Mist. To me, Erinmore is a minimally topped Virginia based tobacco that has a touch of sweet fruit that defies attempts to pinpoint. Maybe a hint of plum or apricot and fig, and probably a splash of cooked-down sticky Madeira wine to help bind the flake. I don't really notice the presence of traditional Lakeland florals or Tonquin.
Mmm, Isoamyl Acetate, the banana & bubblegum flavor in young whiskey! Interestingly (to me anyway), jackfruit is in the same family of pseudo-fruit flowers as figs. I'd bet with the triple distillation process of Irish Whiskeys, Isoamyl Acetate would be an abundant and cheap flavoring option there.
This.
As to Erinmore, a former member who was banned here has posted elsewhere internal correspondence that came out during the tobacco litigation and has been preserved in a searchable (with some difficulty) datatabase maintained by the University of California San Francisco library. It shows that older versions of made in Ireland Erinmore did in fact contain pineapple flavoring. The makers now say it doesn’t, but it did.
That makes sense. Otherwise, why put a pineapple in your graphic when it doesn't have pineapple in it?
absolutely.. I think the topping/casing of Erinmore has been solved.
It probably also explains that urinal cake tin smell it has, but doesn’t translate into taste.
This just blew my mind! I've eaten dozens of jackfruit in Jamaica when I've visited my grandparents. Sad to say I have never thought about juicy fruit but I could never get enough. Now that it's mentioned I could definately see why they say that. Now I want to get some Erinmore haha!
I would smoke Erinmore in a VA-dedicated pipe. Ghosting hasn't been much of an issue for me, but I like the flavor of Erinmore, so if I got some lingering ghosts in other VA blends for a few bowls... Hardly the end of the world. You may want to try it in a cob first if you're worried about it, but I don't suspect Erinmore would be a big ghoster.
When I really started learning how to smoke a pipe circa 1979, Erinmore and Mixture 79 were the only two tobaccos I can recall being specifically warned to never smoke in a briar pipe. My first recollection of hearing about the salt treatment was in connection with a friend saying he had done it four times on one pipe he had smoked a half tin of Erinmore in before he exorcised - mostly- the ghost.
OTOH, I started smoking GH blends around 1984 or 1985, and it was only when the Alt Smokers Pipes newsgroup came into being that I heard a word about “Lakeland’s” ghosting a pipe.
I did smoke some 1970’s/early 1980’s vintage Erinmore Flake in a cob from time to time, and like @cosmicfolklore reported, it was a big hitter nicotine/strength wise, up there with Five Brothers and McQuaid Plug of the era.
I don’t know if it’s “old Erinmore,” but I was lucky enough several years ago to find a few tins from the mid-aughts at a local B&M. It gives me a wallop every time I smoke it. It’s great stuff, but now I’ll only smoke it in a small bowl after a large meal.
Or just open up a box of Dove hand soap and inhale. Visualize tobacco as the substrate to this smell, and you know what Lakeland is.
And, you have to diversify, add in some MeeMaw's little pink rose soaps, some in the shapes of hearts and birds. Every time I smell it, I think of her pink shag carpet and enema bottle hanging in the tub. Ahhh, memories...
I agree with some previous comments. I wouldn't call it a Lakeland scented. Rather a good enough full-bodied virginia with a light fruity note. The original version of Murray was perhaps a little stronger in both taste and nicotine. I smoke both the current version and the original one, fortunately I still have 3 tins of the Murray's in the cellar 
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