Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Erinmore Flake
(2.95)
The leaf tobaccos for Erinmore are selected from only premium tobacco growing regions of the world. The blend consists of mature Virginia, mellow burley and sweet dark air-cured tobaccos. It is pressed into cakes, aged and cut into slices providing a mellow and cool smoke with flowery and fruity note.
Notes: Formerly blended by Murray & Sons, UK, until 2005. Now produced by Scandinavian Tobacco Group (Orlik factory, Assens, Denmark).
Details
| Brand | Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) |
| Blended By | Scandinavian Tobacco Group |
| Manufactured By | Scandinavian Tobacco Group |
| Blend Type | Virginia/Burley |
| Contents | Burley, Virginia |
| Flavoring | Floral Essences, Fruit / Citrus |
| Cut | Flake |
| Packaging | 50 grams tin, 100 grams tin |
| Country | Denmark |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Medium
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Medium
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Average Rating
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2.95 / 4
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Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 10 of 32 Reviews
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Mar 21, 2001 | Medium to Strong | Medium to Strong | Overwhelming | Pleasant |
I have actually tried this tobacco long ago. I know, I know. I was young, naive, new in town and hungry. He said he could get me into "show business", NO, wait a minute that was a different story about an encounter with a stranger. At the time that I tried it, I had just made the transition from aromatics to Latakia, and was looking for a tobacco that I could enjoy in public without having to open a fresh can of Whuppass on potential smoke nazis. The new guy behind the counter recommended Erinmore Flake. I bought it, lit it. After waking, a few days later, I now had a punch line for roughly 11% of my future conversations with fellow pipe guys, and an ex tobacco retailer that I'm still on the trail of. I still fantasize about the next meeting. A smoky, dimly lit bar in South America. "Remember me you sick, sadistic Bastard? Stagg Tobacco, Phoenix, 1980.... If you HAD a future, I'd give you the following advice: If you try to kill a "Bear", you had better finish the job...!" But I digress. I wanted, in the interest of Science to try the tobacco again, Partly out of curiosity, partly out of a dare from an ASPer. I also received the Tobacco from a kind ASPer, so there you are. Appearance: A nice looking can, yellow with red logo, the tobacco inside appears to be a well made, attractive flake. The tin aroma is a fairly pungent pineapple -pineapple/cherry combination. It packs just fine. Test Drive: Fire touches, puff, puff...... Hey! Everybody!! There's a party in my mouth and you're ALL invited!!...A PARTY OF FRIGGIN' HELL'S ANGELS ON A KILO OF METH THAT IS!!! I haven't had this much fun since a bunch of force recon Marines caught me without my paratrooper buddies and nearly stomped me to death. As bad as this sounds, it's actually not as bad as I remember. I mean, I maintained consciousness this time, that's gotta count for something. The blend has a real peppery bite to it, and FWIW, the pineapple doesn't seem as obnoxious lit as it does in the tin. I couldn't finish the smoke which put it in some interesting Company, like 1792.
Aroma: 2-3 Burning qualities: 5 Taste: 2 Overall: 3
Aroma: 2-3 Burning qualities: 5 Taste: 2 Overall: 3
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| May 31, 2018 | Medium to Strong | Medium to Strong | Full | Tolerable |
Not sure how it happened but I'd never tried Erinmore Flake so I ordered a tin. Being one that predominantly smokes Flake virginias I was excited to try it.
The flakes were dark and moist, but not too moist. The tin note was sweet and seductive. So I loaded a trusted pipe that's been a friend for years and relaxed ready for a great smoke.
Well that's were it all went wrong. It was sweet, but like artificial sweetener. Bitter and sour. i initially attributed it to me oversmoking or having too fast a cadence. Now after 3 bowls, 3 pipes, and varied methods of smoking this weed I've come to the conclusion this one is not for me. There is nothing about this blend I like. Believe me I've tried to like it but to no avail.
Everyone has there own taste and body chemistry and I guess I'm one that Erinmore doesn't agree with.
The flakes were dark and moist, but not too moist. The tin note was sweet and seductive. So I loaded a trusted pipe that's been a friend for years and relaxed ready for a great smoke.
Well that's were it all went wrong. It was sweet, but like artificial sweetener. Bitter and sour. i initially attributed it to me oversmoking or having too fast a cadence. Now after 3 bowls, 3 pipes, and varied methods of smoking this weed I've come to the conclusion this one is not for me. There is nothing about this blend I like. Believe me I've tried to like it but to no avail.
Everyone has there own taste and body chemistry and I guess I'm one that Erinmore doesn't agree with.
Pipe Used:
Stanwell, Comoy, No Name Briar
PurchasedFrom:
Smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked:
Fresh
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Apr 22, 2015 | Very Strong | Very Strong | Overwhelming | Overwhelming |
I too tried this blend long ago (in the eighties), and, frankly, this is where this flake belongs, the eighties. I'm a flake fanatic, I've tried many—but I really regret revisiting this one. Rotten apricots, super wet, strong as hell, in a word,
bluch!
It was very wet out of the tin (a real gurgle fest, here). It took me forever to get it lit, and when I did, well, if you don't already get the picture, I don't know what else to say. This is an awful flake.
Its when I smoke rot like this, I want to quit. Quite possibly the worst blend I've tried (or re-tried) yet. Does anybody want the rest of my tin?
bluch!
It was very wet out of the tin (a real gurgle fest, here). It took me forever to get it lit, and when I did, well, if you don't already get the picture, I don't know what else to say. This is an awful flake.
Its when I smoke rot like this, I want to quit. Quite possibly the worst blend I've tried (or re-tried) yet. Does anybody want the rest of my tin?
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Aug 13, 2002 | Medium to Strong | Strong | Medium to Full | Strong |
Juicy fruit just about sums this one up , an unholy allaince of chewing gum and tobacco . I see that this is availble in 100g doses over the pond , stick to the 50g . This stuff has a habit of lingering in your pipe and your house. A friend of mine bought a house and the minute I walked in the frontroom the smell of this tobacco hit me , the previous owner smoked this stuff and even after the room was redecorated it still lingered every time I walked in. Availble in flake , ready rubbed and plug in England.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Apr 03, 2002 | Medium | Strong | Very Full | Pleasant to Tolerable |
If you are like me, there may come a point, early on in your smoking career, when you think smoking pineapple cinders is pretty cool. This stage may last you about half a tin. Afterwards, you will spend about six months trying to get that pineapple taste out of your pipes and perhaps even thanking Jah that your tastes have evolved so far as to not again require Juicy Fruit in your pipes. But then again, you might really like this stuff.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Apr 16, 2019 | Mild to Medium | Medium to Strong | Very Mild | Very Pleasant |
The tin smell is awesome. The room note is very pleasant in a grown-up way, not cloying or sticky sweet. The taste kinda sucks, however. It manages to simultaneously lack in flavor and at the same time feel like I've just licked a bar of hand soap. Having just finished 2/3's of a bowl my tongue is sour and tired in a chemically sort of way.
Don't recommend. First time I've disagreed with Pipestud.
Don't recommend. First time I've disagreed with Pipestud.
Pipe Used:
1961 Wilke 5.5" billiard
PurchasedFrom:
4Noggns
Age When Smoked:
Brand New
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Jul 23, 2018 | Mild to Medium | Very Mild | Mild | Tolerable |
I smoked Erinmore in the 1990's when it was produced by Murray, I bought a tin a few months ago for old times sake. Turns out the current Erinmore in no way resembles the flake of thirty years ago. The Murray version was a rich, full, fruity, semi sweet tobacco that produced thick heavy smoke. The modern flake reminds me of so many current English blends being thin, weak, bitter shadows of what they once were. I can't recommended Erinmore. Tasteless and bitter.
Pipe Used:
Various
PurchasedFrom:
Pipesandcigars.com
Age When Smoked:
Six months
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Oct 23, 2002 | Medium to Strong | Strong | Full | Strong |
Pure CRAP. Not only is it crap, it will make whatever pipe you smoke it out of CRAP too. It creeps up into your pipe and dies a horrid death. You have been forewarned.
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 19, 2021 | Mild to Medium | Medium | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
This blend has changed since my last tin and not for the better. It's much more burley forward, not nearly as dark, lighter pressed and the flavor is a bit different. In the tin note it has a slight medicinal note along with the fruity aroma. The medicinal note doesn't come through in the smoke but the flavor has a bit of a more piercing lime note on top of the grain-like flavor of the burley. There doesn't seem to be much dark air-cured leaf in this anymore which I think gave the older version a coarser texture and more body to the smoke. The older version, despite it's make up had wonderful sweet virginia notes come through in the smoke. None of that in this new version. I think this blend has become victim to STG's continuing efforts to simplify production which I have noticed with many of it's blends over the last few years. What may have been blends that were ready-rubbed cakes are now just ribbon. And now this just seems like a lighter pressed flake that isn't stoved or heat pressed which I assume the previous version must have been. The last time I buy this blend; Erinmore Flake R.I.P.
Age When Smoked:
New
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
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| Nov 22, 2013 | Medium | Medium | Medium | Pleasant to Tolerable |
I bought a tin based on the reviews of others and the desire to have a tobacco I could reasonably smoke indoors without upsetting anybody too much. I heard about the fruity casing and thought it would be like a pleasant Virginia with extra sweet flavour.
At first I found the flavouring sort of pleasant, but soon got tired of it, and its over the top floral background flavour. Since then, I have struggled to finish a bowl. I have found it consistently unpleasant compared to other VA's. This ties in with my experience of other heavily topped tobaccos which seem to taste mainly of burnt sugar throughout the bowl.
Perhaps I'm being unfair, perhaps I am hopelessly inexperienced in these things, but I still have more than half a tin left and little desire to finish it off. In the meantime, I have ploughed through a tin of SG Golden Glow, and am loving my tin of Nightcap.
At first I found the flavouring sort of pleasant, but soon got tired of it, and its over the top floral background flavour. Since then, I have struggled to finish a bowl. I have found it consistently unpleasant compared to other VA's. This ties in with my experience of other heavily topped tobaccos which seem to taste mainly of burnt sugar throughout the bowl.
Perhaps I'm being unfair, perhaps I am hopelessly inexperienced in these things, but I still have more than half a tin left and little desire to finish it off. In the meantime, I have ploughed through a tin of SG Golden Glow, and am loving my tin of Nightcap.
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