Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Black & Brown

Bought this in bulk form, bag note is maple, dark chocolate, and a touch of Prince Albert if you will. Visually, it appears as if dark cavendish pieces (like BCA), & medium brown cigar leaf (1/4” torn pieces), though I don’t think it’s a cigar wrapper, just the appearance of it. Didn’t find any stems mixed in the bag. Moisture content when pinched will hold form for a second, thin spring back to origional shape, aka, ready to smoke. Not sticky or goopy to the touch.

From first light to the end, it’s consistent in taste & strength. Requires average number of relights, and minimal moisture left in the bowl. The flavor is almost exactly as the pouch note, maple, dark chocolate, with a muted sweet va & nutty burley addition. As a non aromatic puffer, I thoroughly enjoy it, weather in a meer, cob, or briar.

Note: This review is an addition to the many fine reviews posted here.

Currently, this may be Gawith and Hoggarth's very best blend. I don't say this lightly, and it has some contenders in my book. This blend does something that no other pipe tobacco does: it starts out tasting only as tobacco, but the topping comes out 1/4 down the bowl, then grows stronger until the end! I have tested this in several pipes with the same result.

Not your typical black cavendish, this neither bites nor transforms into hot air. I at first figured this as G&H's attempt at a danish, but boy does this blow away any danish! How it can increase and not lose its topping or casing as it burns down the bowl is astounding. This is one tobacco that I would choose if limited to one blend.

I get a little rose or violet behind the vanilla in this one as well as a hint of licorice (not anise) which makes it so smooth. The room note is as good if not better than many aromatics! It is a rock solid tobacco flavor, very smooth and grows floral down the bowl.

Sometimes a blend bests out flakes, and this is one of those. I plan to have a very large amount of this blend stockpiled. Makes a great smoke several times a day. Never monochromatic or tiring. One of the least boring blends I have ever tried.

After reading reviews given here and on smokingpipes.com I am shocked at the experience I had with this blend as opposed to so many. I had about 2 ounces of it and gave it a good go, but the more I smoked it the more I lost interest and grew a distaste for it.

The pouch note was pleasant and had a vanilla like aroma. Very light. It did smoke slow and the production and quality of smoke out put was nice. However, whenever I smoked this particular tobacco if roughed up my tongue quite a bit. I tried packing it multiple ways, smoking slower, and it always left my tongue feeling like sandpaper. I have heard of particular casings causing negative reactions and I can only assume that this particular casing just didn't agree with me.

I didn't find this blend to burn hot, however I never went at it like a freight train. It did always leave a dry white ash and always burned evenly to the bottom.

The flavor was very mild from the beginning but as the smoke continued it morphed into a cigarette like quality which became overpowering. I've noticed in the reviews that some would suggest this to be a "tobacco" type flavor. However, even in smoking English, Burley/Virginias, and other aromatics, etc; I have never found that taste to be present unless I was smoking ash half way down the bowl of one of my larger pipes. Which at that point I would scrape some of that ash out to get back to the flavor of the blend. Or think of when your at the end of a smaller bowl and you start tasting ash. Even when I tried scraping out the ash it didn't seem to help. It is almost as if the blend itself is so light that the ash flavor overshadowed the notes of the actual blend.

The room note was pleasant. I usually smoke in my car on the way home and whenever I would get back into the car a little later it left that pleasing vanilla-esque type aroma.

For me though, somewhere between the delicious mild bag note and the left over room note, the enjoyable qualities of this blend were lost in translation when smoking. Maybe down the line I'd give it another go. Maybe let it sit for a month or two, but to be honest I found no qualities in this tobacco that would make me want to come back and put in the time to let it age. Especially when there are other blends that represent this style of blend better.

Normally I at least get along with most from gawith, however, this one not so much. Opening the pouch I got a very buttery aroma and nothing else, no tobacco scent, no other flavours just butter. Packing is easy enough, lighting is easy enough, it produces plumes of thick smoke but literally nothing else. Even though the smoke comes out as thick a plume it has no mouth feel nor discernible flavour, perhaps this was one of the most boring smokes I've ever encountered. There was littlerally nothing to get me to come back to this one, I tried and better tried to find some glimmer of hope but nothing came. Not recommended.

Gawith Hoggarth: Black & Brown

Another high quality blend from G-H. Reminds me of a pipe tobacco my Grandfather smoked after he had serapticiously nicked a tad of Grandmothers Vanilla for an additive - but not as powerful! This is a slow-burning & cool smoke that possessss a sumptuous taste & lovely pervasive aroma. It has no bite for me. I smoked it recently during the symphony intermission outdoors & drew compliments from passers-by, both men & women. Some reviewers wisely opined it is an aromatic for the non-aromatic smoker ... I concur. It is a comforting smoke that has real strength... The Cavendish process lends the main characteristic, whilst the VA & Burley are great supporting actors. Moisture level is appropriate & it requires few re-lights. The Nic is medium. It is easily an all day tobacco. I highly recommend it! 4 Stars.

This tobacco is amazing! Opening the bag I thought I'd stepped into Liberaces boudoir. The first light filled my mouth with coconut. I wasn't expecting this and was quite taken aback. I actually thought I'd filled my pipe with Auntie Mollys potpouri.

The powerful perfume soon abated to a really pleasant albeit mild tobacco with a backdrop of swirling pinks and mauves and yellows and more pinks.

This is so unlike anything else I've had from G & H and it really lives up to their standard. It's really good. Mild, it left me a tad unsatisfied. But then I've been smoking for yonks.

And when I reincarnate as a baccy manufacturer I'll call this Pixie Potpouri.

a well blend, flavour tobacco. this tobacco burn moderate. take a slow puff and you can taste all the nice flavours. little creamy and nicely sweet. i have no regrets. does not burn your tongue. overall, it is another smooth and gd blend from gawith. i have list it in my anytime smoke.

This is the caramel-creamy deliciousness I've been looking for. It has the tobacco flavor I have come to expect from G&H products, though maybe a bit less strong (not a bad thing). The pouch note is amazing and candy-like without cloying. The smoke is the same way, but with the tobacco of course, and the room note is the same. This is the most similar from pouch, to smoke, to room note out of any tobacco I have tried. A mild, creamy smoke that fits the bill as a crowd pleasing all-day aromatic smoke. It does come a little moist, though it will still smoke perfectly. I will certainly buy a lot of this stuff and keep it cellared.