Gawith Hoggarth & Co.: Best Brown #2 Flake 50g Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-069-0003

Founded in Kendal, Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. has fashioned quality pipe tobacco since 1887, utilizing processes and techniques that date to 1792. The Cumbria-based company prioritizes natural tobacco flavor, and in many of their mixtures, Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. maintains the standards enforced by the United Kingdom's strict purity laws of the 19th and 20th centuries — such laws dictating how much and what type of flavorings could be added to pipe tobacco and ensuring that sub-quality leaf wasn't hidden under the veil of exorbitant toppings.

Best Brown #2 is a flake mixture of the finest Virginias and Burleys with a slight casing of complementary sweetness, and it's among the pinnacle of Gawith, Hoggarth & Co.'s production. The blending house is particularly lauded for their flake tobaccos, which are still produced using machinery from the 1790s and with production patents from the late 1800s. Gawith, Hoggarth & Co.'s only production change in the last 100 years involved transitioning from coal-fired to gas-operated tobacco presses, and their flakes are pressed for nearly a month before being sliced and tinned, personifying traditional pipe tobaccos at their best.

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39 reviews
Perfect!
April 11, 2025
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown Flake #2 Bulk
To me this a a perfect blend. With BBF2, GH&Co must be using their finest leaf. Only the natural flavors of burley and VA enhanced with a mild topping that only complements the natural tobacco taste. Nutty, with a dried fruit sweetness, hints of golden molasses or treacle come to mind. The flake is dark with specks crystals that sparkle when the light hits it just right. BBF2 is guaranteed to age well. If you love burley, you will like this blend. If you never got into burley VA blends, this may be your gateway blend. Solani aged burley flake is in the same wheel house if you are familiar with that. If I found a treasure chest loaded with gold, rubies, diamonds, and BBF2 was in there as well, It would not be out of place, nor would I wonder why it was there.
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Best Virginia Blend There Is
May 16, 2025
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown #2 Flake 50g
This is my favorite VA blend. Been smoking it for years now. Super complex and flavorful with absolutely zero bite. Gets better as you smoke it. Surprisingly good at first light and has you looking forward to that last third of the bowl. I love English blends and deep flavors, and this is the only VA blend that I've found to fill the void and that doesn't kill your tongue....Read More
Good morning.
September 23, 2023
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown #2 Flake 50g
I cube cut the flake and gave it a light rub and oh my this is good. 30 min dry time while I pressed some coffee and this has become a good morning.
Simple but Great
September 30, 2023
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown #2 Flake 50g
Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! Definitely for the virgina/burley lovers. Get some while you can!
Very good blend
October 01, 2023
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown #2 Flake 50g
I see a lot of vinegar and sour but I get only maybe a little sourdough. I get sweet earthy bready and mild. No Lakeland at all. Not a whole lot of bite if you take it easy and the driest Gawith blend I’ve ever had(which means only about 30minutes of dry time)I imagine with a few years on this it will be really wonderful. The more I have of this the more I like it quickly becoming a favorite.UPDATE this has now made the daily rotation cellaring as many tins as possible....Read More
awesome!
November 19, 2022
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown #2 Flake 50g
Package note of stewed fruit, raisin and vinegar. Tobacco flakes are a marbled brown and fairly dense, will require some prep either cubing or rubbing out. Tobacco is moist and may need some drying. Burns is slow with a few relights. The strength is medium and nic is mild. Flavoring is very mild and inconsistent, with notes of slightly sweet and even slighter Lakeland. Taste is medium and mostly consistent, with notes of wood, earth, tart citrus and tart dark fruit, grassy floral and a little spicy on the retro. Virginia is leading with burley supporting and the flavoring hiding in the background. Room note is pleasant to tolerable, and aftertaste is great too....Read More
The king of the hill
July 30, 2022
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown #2 Flake 50g
This is the king of their tobbaco line up for me! After aging for over two years now It's sweet & sour burns great has a great tobbaco core, so I bought a pound of it.
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December 11, 2021
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown Flake #2 Bulk
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Winner
September 02, 2021
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown Flake #2 Bulk
What a delicious tobacco. Behaves nicely with ample drying time plume of rich smooth smoke and in mo full flavored Bought 4 oz. And went back to order a lb. And all gone just a perfect blend
Solid snoot of smoke
November 05, 2021
Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Best Brown Flake #2 Bulk
I'd buy pounds of this stuff if you had it.