Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Ennerdale Flake

Foul stuff, made me sick. I really tried to like this in several types and sizes of bowls, alas, failed to ring my bell in the slightest. It literally made me nauseous. Had to put it away, hoping that I would forget it and it would crawl away into another county to haunt some poor unsuspecting pipe head. What is it about this stuff that makes me ill? I can't believe it's my chemistry since Bosun Cut Plug and CCP are still in my line-up.

Sorry, gave it a shot, can't stand even to look at it. Yuck!

Hmm, well I'm not sure. I've read and re-read these reviews and smoked another pipe or two of this and I have to come down on the side of "don't like". How this is anyone's best selling flake I just cannot fathom. I live just down the road from where they make this stuff and I've tried a few of G&H's tobaccos and I can't say that I'm getting on with them. It just tastes of chemicals to me. Horrible bite, but really I think it must be the casing and the perfume, it just leaves a horrible claggy coating in my mouth that takes all day to dissipate.

So I've tried drying it out and after a few days it's ok but still a sort of chemical taste. The tobacco looks and seems like it must be good quality but it's just wrecked by the casing, in my opinion. I'm not a fan of aromatics anyway but this is silly. Why not let the tobaccos speak for themselves with all the different ways of curing them and so on?

I'm guessing that maybe there's a trick to it but to me life's too short to be hanging around with this one as there are many other tobaccos I've tried that I get on much better with, especially the Samual Gawiths stuff, which is made just round the corner from this lot but couldn't be more different. G&H is made on an industrial estate whereas SG's stuff is made in an old stone building and I think that it sort of comes through in the product, though SG's stuff is incredibly hard to get hold of in the Bay area, alas, whereas G&H's is everywhere.

It packs and lights fine, smokes fine, but I've found the taste to be offputting and not in the slightest bit interesting. I'll keep on trying until I've smoked the rest I have but at the moment it's just one dimensional chemical pretense methinks. Like a pipe tobacco for the day the world turned day-glo? perhaps that's a bit harsh.

I had huge spectations for this flake with superb reviews. Upon opening the tin the smell assaulted me with notes of cheap bar bathroom air freshener. When ligthed, the nauseating perfume highlights and evoke the smell of a taxi cab or a bawdyhouse. I am sure is quality tobacco by a quality blender but the overtones of sanitation, simply spoiled this flake.

This is the most disgusting muck I have ever smoked. I am so glad I bought a small sample, the rest of that went in the bin. I can only liken this to eating a kipper (not that it tastes of kipper, I almost wish it did) in as much as the taste won't seem to go away.