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Samuel Gawith: Fire Dance Flake 50g Pipe Tobacco

Product Number: 003-059-0016

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.

Fire Dance Flake is the same straight Virginia blend as Samuel Gawith's Best Brown No. 6 Flake but topped with notes of blackberry, brandy, and vanilla — the blackberry being acting as the focal point, with the brandy and vanilla in supporting roles. It makes for a delightful room note and enticing, fruity flavor balanced by the Virginias.

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  • Components: Virginia
  • Family: Aromatic
  • Cut: Flake
Customer Reviews
Overall Rating:
3.3
21 reviews
Nice flake great flavor
June 10, 2024
By: Pete-Geek83
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 50g
This is a thick quality flake with an amazing tin note. The berry topping poems through in a very natural way that's just right. Leave it out for around 30 mins though or you will have a tough time keeping it lit. Once you get it charred and going it requires very little relights, and has an amazing flavor. The berry really shines at the top of the bowl then mellows out a bit, that's the vanilla comes through. By the bottom of the bowl I had a very subtle flavor of blackberries on vanilla ice cream....Read More
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Best Brown, but improved... if that's possible
July 10, 2019
By: Brian C.
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 50g
I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into with this. Cracked the tin, the note was amazing. My friend said his mouth started watering. The smoke is no less significant. They balanced all the components perfectly and this could become an all day smoker quite easily.
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A Great Aromatic!
September 15, 2018
By: Bob T.
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 50g
One of the best aromatics made. The flavor of blackberries and brandy come through with no problem. The flavors sit on quality tobacco which you can taste as well.
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One Of The Best Aromatics That I've Ever Smoked!
August 06, 2017
By: Eddie M.
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 50g
The title pretty much says it all! The flavors don't hit you over the head with a sledgehammer....Perfect blend of flavor taste and tobacco taste!
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10+ Years Of FireDance
April 15, 2017
By: RWiggins
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 250g
I have smoked this product consistently for over 10 years. A conservative estimate in pounds would be 20+. A couple years back this product was not being manufactured or held up in export red tape, I forget exactly which. My last order, 5/250g boxes, the tobacco was so moist it was mildewed upon arrival. Rather than contact my pals at Smoking Pipes, I culled the mildewed tobacco and smoked on. I have enjoyed this bran for so long, I'm going to give it one more try and order enough 250g to free load on UPS....Read More
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Rebel flake
July 10, 2016
By: Ayax g.
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 50g
This is an ambivalent kind of smoke. At times it is rather pleasant, thats when it develops its quality character, a mild strength with low nic, smooth body and mild taste which is vaguely fermented with mild notes of vanilla and a distant background of lakeland, at times the apparition of roasted honey in a bbq and liquor too. Good after taste and not overcased respecting the English aromatic tradition.

But then when you start considering to buy another tin it does transform into something rather monotonous and even insipid, so it kind of seem to hide its flavour palette. In the end it is hard to make it a favourite, at least for me.

It is best consumed after getting it dry leaving just a mild oily humidity to reach its top....Read More
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Follow-up review from 2014
April 20, 2016
By: Jeffrey G.
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 50g
I have smoked two tins of this blend from the years 2010 to 2013. Those two tins were absolutely wonderful. However, my thrid tin purchased in 2015 was not the same. The tin aroma was there, but the taste had totally changed and was not present. The style of flake is completely different also. The first two tins were each one massive strip/flake of soft, leathery tobacco. The third tin consisted of nice looking perfectly rectangular flakes. They were too thick. Whatever Sam Gawith did to this blend ruined it. I would not recommend this blend now. Oh please go back to the way it was made because it was a delicious, quality aromatic unlike typical aromatics. I used to be able to sit back, read a book and sip this blend in my dedicated Boswell bridge pipe...the good ole days. Just wanted to update my 5 star review as that rating has changed. :(...Read More
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A full flavored tobacco.
January 04, 2016
By: ole time smoker
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 50g
This is the first flake tobacco I've tried. I highly recommend it, especially if you're into aromatics. It has a very pleasant room note, and it smokes well. The 1st time I tired it, I had to light it only once and it stayed lit all the way through the bowl. Also unlike some of the other reviewers I got the taste of the toppings all the way through the bowl....Read More
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Smooth, But....
June 16, 2015
By: GFGraham
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 50g
Smooth, burned well, and very mild. But, like the previous reviewer's experience, the flavors just didn't come through. The tin note was pleasant enough, but I got almost none of that once it was lit.
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Firedance
December 12, 2014
By: Taxman
Product: Samuel Gawith Fire Dance Flake 50g
Fantastic tin note, and the flakes look like quality tobacco. Unfortunatetly the flavours don't come through for me.
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