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Gawith Hoggarth & Co.

Brown Irish X Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 005-001-0040

Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Brown Irish X

Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Brown Irish X

Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Brown Irish X

Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Brown Irish X

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Details

Strength:

5/5

Room Note:

4/5

Taste:

5/5

Components: Virginia
Family: Virginia
Cut: Rope

About This Pipe Tobacco

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.

Carefully selected dark-fired wrapper and sun-cured filler leaf, hand-spun into rope with the addition of an aromatic topping.

Customer Reviews

Overall Rating:

4.8

53 reviews

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I’m partial to the black Irish xxx

September 26, 2026

Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Brown Irish X Bulk

Maybe it’s because I tried it first, but I would say I prefer the black Irish xxx slightly more, but I do enjoy the aroma of this smoke more than the black Irish. Similar taste but if you want that straight smoky salty meat I’d go black, and maybe not go back.

THE BEST

July 17, 2026

Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Brown Irish X Bulk

This is the smoothest, tastiest, and most satisfying rope tobacco GH&C produces. Not as peppery as Boggie, it still hits the senses like sweet wildfire and doesn't leave your palate as scorched in the process. It has a more subtle flavor profile than the Black X, but it's not lacking anything at all - this stuff doesn't leave much room for contenders....Read More

A Perfect Tobacco?

March 29, 2025

Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Brown Irish X Bulk

No toppings, no complexity, no competing flavors; Just the most perfect smoking experience one could ask for. This is smooth, cool, slightly smoky and delectably sweet. The sweetness is purely natural and contains no hints of anything topping or artificial flavors. The room note is very pleasant, but not the same as aros. It’s by no means disagreeable to those in the area. The natural sweetness shines through with very slight woody, smoky, almost mushroom like notes. The amazing taste remains consistent from the charing light to the end of the bowl. Being a rope it holds moisture very well and one may need to dry it out after cutting it and rubbing it out, but I’ve not had to dry it for more than 15 minutes or so before loading up my bowl. If not allowed a little air time after prep it can be hard to keep lit. If I had only 1 tobacco to smoke for the rest of my life it would be this one and that’s a hard milestone to top. In the 30 years since I took up my hobby this tobacco is so good I find myself looking at my other reviews and having to consider notching them all down a star or so. What I had previously thought as a 5 star now only rates a 4 when compared to this beauty....Read More

Old fashioned simplicity

March 10, 2025

Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Brown Irish X Bulk

I just received a half pound of this and I don't regret the purchase. It's a simple,peppery,strong in nicotine old fashioned natural tobacco. I just smoked a bowl hot and still enjoyed it.I also think that it has a great room note. Not many people mentioned that in the reviews,but I found it to be nice....Read More

Just an incredible tobacco

September 24, 2025

Product: Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Brown Irish X Bulk

Just bought some to fill out an order and because I hadn’t tried a rope tobacco yet, and wow, this is an incredible smoke. I was surprised at all the flavors and subtlety, and especially the room note when compared to the tin note. This one’s going into the regular rotation