Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Happy (Brown) Bogie Unsliced

Need a short blast of pure VA power with strong N? Smoke this. The twist cuts easily with scissors and rubs out fairly well afterwards. Pack it fairly loosely to start. A little peppery. Yes, it's strong, so try it the first time or two in your smallest pipe (I favor a little rosewood pipe). It smokes fairly cool, but if you rub it out a lot it does burn a tad on the fast side.

This blend is a serious one. It is not for school girls.

If is so strong that i had to dump the contents at our Pipe Club Meeting last night after about 10 puffs.

The gentleman across the table from me Inhaled a puff and thought his lung was gonna collape. Not a good idea with any pipe tobacco, ESPECIALLY this one.

The taste is extremely Full, there is just no other way to describle it. While i was puffing i could feel a tingling on my tongue similar to tongue bite. The difference was that it was the sheer strenght of this tobacco and not bite at all.

Be carefull when smoking this.

Mo, South Africa

I do love this stuff, it is ideal in a small bowl on a cold night and for a quick smoke. It does not bite and just keeps delivering the nicotine! I will keep trying different varieties but I've got a feeling I will come back to my bogie for more!

This tobacco pretty much lives up to what everybody's saying about it. Strong and full bodied. It's got a cigarish taste to it and leaves you with a good nicotene buzz. There is no level of stress this stuff cannot conquer.

This, as many of the Gawith & Hoggarth's go, is the everclear of tobacco. The trashcan punch. The rough "woman of negotiable affection" at the Texas border down on the Mexican side.

A great pipe tobacco if you enjoy movies full of violence, action morbid horror. I do.

Also great if you are an ex-cigarette smoker trying to stave off nicotine cravings. Be satisfied in spades.

Images evoked include a zombie crawling through murky swamps with sliced hamstrings and a penchant for alligator brains.

An interesting tobacco, from a historical point of view. I enjoy smoking unusual tobaccos for the fun of preparing them. This was no exception, but the smoking characteristics were less fun. It was very strong for a start, and rather harsh. I put the pipe down for 15 mins as it was so strong, but on relighting the harshness was 10 times worse. It wasnt bite so much, just a harshness that irritated my mouth and throat. The flavour was very natural, woody, nutty, slightly smokey, but the harshness made it unpleasant to smoke.

I've heard of this style of tobacco that miners would chew while in the mines, then put the chewed quid in their pockets. Later, when it was a bit drier, they would smoke it, and kept some of the ash for their wives to blend with their snuff. Perhaps by chewing it first it gets milder. I'm not too enthusiastic to find out, but in the interests of historical research I suppose I should. Ill save it for a rainy day, but will report my findings when I do.

-------Update 2019-------

So I never did bring myself to chew this, but did smoke it again, if only because I think it's the very strongest tobacco I've found, and wanted to check if my tolerance has increased. It has, and I can now smoke a Falcon full of this stuff and survive... But it still stands as the strongest weed I know of. The harshness I complained of when I first tried it is I think a nicotine tingle, which grows as you progress through a bowl of this. The flavour is otherwise mild, astringent and nutty, and there is no tongue bite as such. The main issue for me is that its hard to keep lit, rubbing it out well and packing loosely helps with this bit make sure you have plenty of matches.

Handy weed for a high speed nicotine hit from a small pipe, but not the sort of tobacco to settle down with for an hour or so. The unusual presentation and heroic strength makes this one any nicotine fiend should try. I'd be interested to know if anyone knows of a stronger tobacco...

Last Saturday a friend of mine gave me a nice section of this rope. This one is slightly smaller than a dime and cut easily with my cigar cutter. Dark brown, all-natural Virginia it says. When I unraveled my small cut off plug, I was greeted with leaf tobacco somewhat like a cigar wrapper. This stuff is probably the moistest tobacco I have had and was a BEE to keep lit. I have had about six bowls of this in my Poker Meerschaum and find it fairly potent in the nicotine department. This has a really nice strong natural tobacco taste. Like others have said probably one for a little more experienced pipe smokers aka as nicotine junkies. Other than the problem of keeping lit and I am not exaggerating on that point, I found it really good. In my limited patience I even let this dry out some. Maybe my problem was I was stuffing the whole leaves into my bowl. Maybe I should have torn it up more but I digress. This apparently is hard to get as I searched 3 popular online sites and they were all out of stock. I signed up for an email notification on one site and was number 788. Good luck getting that one.

Thinner than the twists, the bogies can be chewed like the pigtails or cut down and smoked in a pipe. G&H brown twists, bogies, and pigtails aren't cooked, so they are stronger and more direct than the black twists.

Brown Bogie has the same flavor as Brown Irish Twist, the primary difference being that it's 15mm instead of 20mm thick. It's pretty interchangeable, but if you like to chew this is the one to buy.

I still recommend the rum twist for smoking, a little flavoring goes a long way with strong, raw tobacco like this.

Sweet, earthy smell. Simple unadorned twist. For the person who appreciates a dark musty tobacco. But be warned. It does indeed deliver some serious nicotine.

I love it. Not every day, but once or twice a month.