School me on Lakeland Tobacco

[Briar Lee]

I love the Lake District, the sheep, the hiking trails, and summer rain, the daffodils, and the leisurely way of the people. I like the non-aromatic blends, the rope cuts, and other aspects of the tobacco.

The Rose Geranium flavoring and other aromatics from there I avoid. They are the only blends that would impel me to designate a pipe or pipes to avoid ghosting, and I don't like that flavoring enough to devote a pipe to it. I want flavoring that brings up the flavors in the tobacco itself, not that upstage or dampen those tobacco flavors, which for me, Rose Geranium does. That's my preference. Others love those flavorings and wouldn't have them any other way, and gladly designate pipes for the purpose. They are just not my thing.

But if you ever get a chance to go to the Lake District, do so. It is a lovely place to be.

Oh but someday I want to go, see it all, where Churchill stood, Big Ben, the Naval Observatory, Dublin, the Old Head of Kinsale where the Lusitania was sunk, the Scottish Highlands, and now add the Lakeland District to the list.

I’m told the Ozarks is as close to Scotland as my ancestors could find, and the only delicacy unique to my beloved Ozarks is the roe of paddlefish, taken from above the dam at Warsaw.

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If Jesus came to your house, you’d never feed Him spoonbill.

Wild mushrooms and perch fish are tasty, but paddlefish is for furriners.

 

[FLDRD]

I have a meer-lined estate I picked up that I tried Ennerdale in. Wouldn't try it in any other pipe I ever wished to use for any other tobacco - ever.

To say it's unique is an understatement, but sometimes I like unique. At the same time I had a tin of Balkan that had lost it's seal prior to my opening it... of course it smoked rather dry, nay, it was crisp.

I mixed the two and found that it wasn't too bad.

I still have a large amount of that Ennerdale tin and I will try some again soon. But I do think that using it as an enhancement for another blend is rather fun. Otherwise "unique" gets out of control on my palate.

 

[greysmoke]

Yes, I would call them "floral." I managed to score a bulk bag of Bosun's Cut Plug from Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. I think the aroma's awesome. On the other hand, the nicotine hit is definitely beyond my comfort zone which has been nurtured on low-nic Latakia. They do tend to ghost your pipes pretty massively.

 

[karam]

This is an old thread but packed with Lakeland info! I bought aged Grousemoor originally just to get the tin, lol, but I really like it at certain times. Lakelands: Let's Build A Sauce Scale :: Pipe Tobacco Discussion - https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/lakelands-lets-build-a-sauce-scale.70729/

Yep, this is, or was at the time, the DEFINITIVE saucing scale.

As for me, some here know I am a big Lakeland fan. In fact I'd say that bundling anything scented/flavoured from GH and SG as "Lakeland" does them a disservice, given they are all different.

The scenting strategy, as I've come to think of it having tried quite a few of them, is that GH/SG - mostly GH by the way, I wouldn't say that SG have classic "Lakelands" - have a base background blend of flavours including vanilla, tonquin, rose geranium, clove and several other nice old-timey smells and then they jack up one of them in some of their blends. I haven't smoked any of them recently after going on a nearly 9 month bender on straight Virginias, but I'd have a go describing some of them. Oh, it's important to note that if you smoke hot you get more tobacco flavour, if you smoke cool and slow you get mostly the scenting, and tobacco in the back

• Ennerdale: this one really is a mix of stuff, smells like bubblegum in the jar
• Coniston: strong DFK, sweet, floral
• Bosun: amazing, clove and Virginia
• RB plug: reminds me of cumin, five spice, tea perhaps, and Virginia
• Dark Flake Scented: also amazing, rose geranium
• Bob's chocolate flake: some chocolate, some almond, some more stuff, Virginia, a tiny but critically important touch of Latakia

Now note: 1792 is NOT a Lakeland, it has a very dominant flavouring (tonquin), is amazing, but not a Lakeland in my books.
Also, do NOT dry them, they smoke FINE as they come. Trust me on this.

Finally, they are polarizing, those of us who like them really love them, they are particular, they are unique. A trip to the past. Don't forget that the tobaccos under all these scents are actually top shelf leaf.

Those who don't like them, respect their opinion, will write stuff about bathmats, grandma underwear etc. It's cool, more for those of us who appreciate them!

 

[condorlover1]

I've always loved Grannies Bath Mat tobacco. My only bitch is that the sauce seems to be lighter these days but maybe I am just getting old.

 

[woodsroad]

I've always loved Grannies Bath Mat tobacco. My only bitch is that the sauce seems to be lighter these days but maybe I am just getting old.

No, I doubt that.