Samuel Gawith: Brown No. 4 Rope 50g Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-059-0011

Samuel Gawith was the son-in-law of Thomas Harrison, a snuff manufacturer who moved his trade and equipment to Kendal, Cumbria, England from Scotland in 1792. Gawith inherited this equipment from Harrison, and the company has been crafting premium tobacco since, with one of Samuel's two sons continuing the brand while the other joined with Henry Hoggarth to establish Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. Though offering separate blends, both brands remain forever linked and still share the same manufacturing facility in England's Lake District, utilizing processes and techniques that date to the brands' 1792 roots. In many of their mixtures, Samuel Gawith 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.

A rope-cut blend, Brown No. 4 from Samuel Gawith offers a spun mixture of Dark-Fired Kentucky, Virginias, and cigar leaf for a robust and full-bodied flavor profile.

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Components: Virginia, Dark Fired Kentucky, Cigar
Family: Virginia
Cut: Rope

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December 19, 2022

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

Tin note of smoky barbeque, mildly sour, and mild tart fruit. The sticky, three shades of brown, 25/32-inch (20 mm) fat rope needs slicing into thin coins (with a razor or thin sharp knife) and rubbed out to get the fastest drying time. Burn is slow and requires numerous relights. The strength is medium to strong and nic is medium to strong. No flavoring detected. Taste is medium to full and mostly consistent, with complex notes of smoky wood, very earthy, lemon grass, slightly bitter cigar, floral, moderately spicy, a sweet roasted nut background note, and very peppery retro. It's like Dark fired Virginia is wrapped around more Dark fired Virginia and a small amount of dark air cured Indian burley spun into a rope. Room note is tolerable, and aftertaste is outstanding....Read More

If you like savory cigars with a pinch of high quality virginia‘s…

January 03, 2022

By: The Hot Piper

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

Well I do and I love this stuff! However I will say it does require a bit of prep work but that only builds the anticipation so don’t let it detract from the excellence of this blend. Cut with a steak knife into rounds don’t worry about jarring immediately it’s not necessary or recommend it can and should sit out for at least a week or 2 and be perfectly fine. Prior to smoking however you are going to want to further cut your pre made rounds into smokable shreds with your trusty steak knife microwave for 45 seconds in a coffee mug (it’s strange I know but trust me). Pull that sucker out of the microwave give that steaming mug a big wiff! and pack into preferably in a small briar pipe then have at it!...Read More

Very Good

June 25, 2021

By: Southern Smoker

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

Only my second rope tobacco to try... and I like it! Smooth and strong, nice tin note and manly room note.

Great tobacco

March 10, 2021

By: Yuan Yang K.

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

Hope to re-available soon

Welcome To Rope Tobacco Heaven, Level Four

February 27, 2021

By: Puffin’ Pied Piper

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

Here’s a tin you might have to fight, and fight hard, to obtain, but any very serious pipesters should. It’s worth at least one try. Old Brown Number Four will transport you to the forth level of Paradise, but it must be cut, dried out and packed just right. I achieved this only on my third smoke session of this blend, after “The Great Gawith Smoke Session That Wasn’t” and a retry of the same bowl the following morning.

Admittedly, in my first session I packed the bowl just too tightly, but just as mistakenly, I packed it minutes after opening the tin for the first time. I expended almost all of the butane in my pipe lighter in a futile attempt to keep my meerschaum’s bowl lit. I soon put the pipe aside, and cut up another small section of the rope and let it dry overnight on my foyer’s “tobacco table.” My wife was struck by the strength of the drying tobacco’s aroma, something between pure, natural tobacco and barbecued beef brisket. She was standing about eight feet away in another hallway. Never before had she commented on the scent of any drying blend atop my table.

Early the next morning, despite sitting out overnight, my packed meerschaum didn’t burn that well in my second smoking session. It was only in my third session, when I then loosely packed the portion I’d dried overnight into a briar, that I fully experienced this blend in all of its old-fashioned Kendal glory.

Pipesters disagree on the complexity of this blend, some calling it magnificent (due to its rich flavor) but still one-dimensional. But all will testify to its sheer strength. It’s best puffed after a decent-sized meal and probably best after dinner—an evening smoke. Regardless, of all twist blends, this is the one that to me best celebrates that rope or twist tradition that only the English seem to keep alive.

That following morning after breakfast, that loosely packed bowl of dried-out twist burned better and I reached that pipester nirvana I’d sought. Retrohale at least once, feel it burn past your nasal cavities as it leaves your nostrils, and fully take in the flavor and it’s true scent.

And then you’ll find the reason this blend, at least in the tin form, sells out so soon after being posted on a vendor’s website.

5.0 stars....Read More

High nicotine high volume high standard

June 16, 2017

By: Bhaskar Mandal(call me JOHN)

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

Very good

A "powerfull" rope

October 05, 2016

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

This is a rope... strength, big flavor with a very heavy smoke. This tobacco is necessary smoking it very slow for to taste all your flavours. Is a virginia very rich and strong...

An excellent rope

May 24, 2016

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

This tobacco is for serious smokers only. Cut the ropes in to coins and fill your pipe. There is a massive amount of nicotine here. It is almost like smoking a cigar that has been soaked in to a beef stew. There is a beef taste with this tobacco. It burns slowly. This is what I pack when I am bear hunting in the cold Ontario fall mornings - watching over the clearings for hours on end. This rope tobacco can also be chewed if you desire. You better have a full stomach and a strong constitution for a relaxing smoke It will put hair on your chest.... You have been warned....Read More

Goodbye old tobaccos

March 04, 2015

By: Holysmokepipes

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

For me, the great problem with this rope tobacco, as well as with the "Black XX Rope" (and a few others), is that once you smoke these "true and essential" tobaccos, the rest of your cellar will be left bereft of your eyes and companionship. It will create "tobacco jealousy" with unknown consequences on your "old loves". What else can I say? Try it, but slow and not on an empty stomach!...Read More

Good for peep the rope world

February 08, 2015

Product: Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Rope 50g

VA filler and Ke wrapper I think.
Best rope for me so far.
Godzilla vitamin N, musky sweet and penetrate great matured aroma.