Pipe Tobacco Review: Samuel Gawith "St. James Flake" 

When Bradley states the nicotine level of a tobacco is 'Medium/ High', that usually means nicotine light-weights such as myself will be able to see through time soon after smoking it ;)

You have now entered the Gawith zone! 99.9% of the time I tin dry then jar it. I have a couple of time wanted to try some right away so I put a bowl or so's worth on a piece of paper and sit it on my cable box. It is slightly warm to the touch but not too hot. If your tobacco gets over 120 it will effect it. Its why storage is so important, even before you get it. Great video and great review!

I always watch your reviews before I purchase my tobacco. Your videos have helped me get started in this new hobby that I'm beginning to fall in love with. I had just gotten a tin of St James Flake this morning (I'm from Malaysia so it's only 1 33pm here) and tried to smoke knowing that Gawith blends are always so moist, and then I checked your channel and realized you just posted this an hour ago. I'm fairly new so my palate isn't necessarily "refined" just yet, but I have grown to love English blends and Va/Pers are something I'd love to try after watching your reviews of them. Haha. Anyways, love your videos and keep them coming!

Great review. Bro tip: try rubbing out the flake with your two palms rubbing it together (ew). You can then get close to a ribbon cut, even with SG flakes

The SG flake cutter is said to be the oldest piece of industrial machinery still in use, in the world. The cut can be irregular to the point that one end of the flake is very thick, while the other end is quite thin.

Hi ya. Thanks for nice clip again.While writing this I'm smoking St.James Flake in my Pete's Spigot and I must say it's very good Va/Per.After a long period(around 15 years) with heavy Lat/English I started serious journey in the world of Va/Pers.Smoked occasionally Escudo,Orlik's Golden Slice,but after half a year messing with Perique I found few execelent mixture..St James Flake is one of them anothers are Stokkebye's LBEF,Pease's Haddo's delight¨and J:F Germain's Royal Jersey Perique, So,thanks again and thanks for the nice review.

From the tin colors I thought at first that you were reviewing "Best Brown Flake" by S. Gawith. Allow me to reccomend it to you. If you enjoy straight virginias, BBF delivers everything I expect from these blends. Sweet, smooth, "citrusy", cool, not boring at all. Not full bodied like its FVF cousin, nor all sweet and grassy like bright Va's can be. It's the best for me. Great review by the way. :-)

Thanks for the review. Very good (as usual) ! My tin of St James Flake was opened a couple of years ago. I don't remember why I didn't smoke it all when I first opened it -- probably because it was too moist as you pointed out. I smoked it yesterday to break in a new Dunhill County pipe. It was super dry and smoked extremely well. You are right about the syrupy sweetness -- I didn't like that. You're also right about the high perique content; it is very peppery, and I like that. On the whole it is not a bad tobacco, but I doubt if I'll buy it again. The strange thing about it is that it is almost as if the sweet and pepper tastes are separated rather than fused as one. There are certainly better VA-PER blends out there, at least for my taste.

Love watching all your videos. I don't comment much but always come here first to your channel to get the best info on tobaccos Thanks for all your videos

Awesome review once again Bradley. Thanks for the info. I agree that Gawith is super wet.

Hey buddy. Loving the reviews! Really like the voice when reading the descriptions. Lol. Hey, have you reviewed fire dance yet? One of my favorite tobaccos. Another is Presbyterian. Review that yet as well??

Thank you for these reviews. They are informative and very helpful. I am grateful. At this juncture, I am off to buy some St. James Flake.

Great review bro, I like the way you presented it,I liked everything about it very good bro look forward to more reviews have a great day.

Perhaps "Added Flavoring" is a more precise category name?

Nice! I have placed my SG flakes on my plate for 4 hours and they still are hard to keep lit. But it has nice plume on the flakes....so that's good.

Thanks for your review!

hi, great videos, i smok this tabacco to 1 week in six different pipe...but i don't found the correct metod to load. very good tabacco but with very difficult caracter! great channel. i'm moreno from italy

Have you tried Sam's Flake yet? Also, Gawith just released a blend called Brown Sugar Flake with The Danish Pipe shop to try and recreate the old Orlik Brown flake (never had that one) but I can tell you this Brown Sugar Flake is amazing. no bite at all, slightly smaller flakes and seems more consistent in thickness, damn near half the moisture content of other Gawith's but still required just a little drying time. I was blown away with the first bowl of it last night. It's something that I could see myself smoking daily. I immediately like it more than Full Virginia Flake because it's been a lot less of a hassle, haha.

Hi cheers from italy! Great tabacco with delicious perique! Perfect for home made english mixture...

I know that you enjoy VaPers' but have you tried any BurPers and if so what do you think of the combo? My great uncle from Cutoff Louisiana, a really southern part of our state, occasionally makes home made BurPer cake tobacco that is fantastic. Him and my grandfather are the reason I smoke a pipe and have loved the smell of tobacco since I was little and I absolutely loved going with them to their favorite pipe shop that sadly has long been closed.Their little Cajun BurPer blend, with very fresh and very stout perique,along with their coffee with chicory is one of the best combos that I have ever experienced and love to this day.Give it a try sometime and see what you think because I think there's a good chance that you would enjoy it.

So did you buy all those Samuel Gawith blends a month in advance and planned for this review lol. I like it. Always enjoy your reviews and look forward to everyone!

Have you ever tried " The best of the Rest" blended by pipes and cigars. It contains a blend of Virginia, Perique, Latakia, Burley, Cavendish,Cigar leaf, Dark fired Kentucky, Oriental, Turkish. It only comes in bulk only. 16oz, 15 dollars. I think you'll like it. I hope you can review it. Take care.

Hey Bradley, try to cut the flakes in cubes (there is a youtube video about this kind of preparing) -- this works well with Gawith-blends. Greets from Germany, Giacomo ;)

i find this one (bought 2 oz. in bulk) to turn sour, halfway thru the bowl. i've smoked and enjoyed a lot of VaPers, and i prefer flake to ribbon, if possible. Don't know if i got a bad batch or not, but it was bad enough that i dumped the bowl 2/3 done. My pipe was and is fresh and clean, in fact i finished off my Deluxe Navy Rolls today, prior to trying the Gawith. Hating to be wasteful, i might get a low - cost Missouri Meerschaum pipe to finish this (if i can get thru it) without coloring the taste in any of my main pipes. i don't know if i should call Pipes & Cigars, to let them know of this or not. i doubt they would send an alternate replacement, but it may be good to make them aware. If anyone else has encountered this, or other problem with this blend, please comment. Now back to my HH Vintage Syrian and Tea. :) The world is set right again! As always, Everyone, Be Well, -trout

I'm a Cuban cigar smoker..nothing against other cigars...I just prefer them.. but i just bought a corn cob pipe to "try out" the pipe hobby.....what would be another good pipe to try out? Nothing crazy in price. Another thing I dont understand is ..."Pipe" smoking should be a relaxing thing...yet all of the pipe smokers I see are constantly lighting/re-lighting their pipes over....and...over or tamping down the ash..lol NOTHING relaxing about that. Love the show. Cheers from Canada.

The work makes me a little nervous and I have been a bit Perique averse lately (Cool Hand Fluke from Patton Blends nearly knocked me out). I have a tin in the drawer, though it may go in the hold it til later category. Thanks for the review, ever informative.

If I have va/per list this will be number 1 for the good nicotine hit and the exquisite aroma: 1-SG St James Flake 2- DT Salty Dogs 3- Peterson Elizabethan Mixture 4-Escudo 5-C&D small batch carolina red flake

Great review...think i would like this as i have a bit of a sweet tooth....thanks for the in depth review!

I find rubbing a bowl out and leaving it on a piece of paper for half an hour is about right when fresh out the tin

Try Fire Storm... excellent VaPer.

1:22 I couldn't help giggling when you spoke super fast lol. fab review btw. I like listening to different tobacco reviews and finding out different people's oppinions

Great review Bradley! one question: This is sweeter than Full Virginia Flake?

If you dry it out more than necessary it burns so much faster and your taking much of the flavour and natural sweetness out

Your taste for VaPer's has got me interested. I just received an order including: Elizabethan Mixture, Sixpence and Three Nuns (ok - not technically a VaPer, this I know). I also have a tin of Escudo that I ordered along with some McCranies Red Ribbon - but I had to send it to my GF in Montana for her to bring across the border in May as McCranies won't ship to the True North. So, my question, where should I start as an introduction to VaPers?

nice review man, always enjoy your review and keep it up the good work! one question do you dedicating your pipe into one particular blend or brand? thx u and have a good one

Do you find that flake tobaccos smoke better with a certain shape or style of pipe? I know some people have mentioned Savinelli 320's for example being a better pipe for smoking flake. I'm curious where your experience/opinion rests. Great review! Thanks!

Garnett Brown - I haven't, though it sounds interesting!

Hey is that you singing in your intro and outro to your video?! If so you I want to hear more. Asap buddy. And the o my reason I bring this up is before I've seen guitars in your background etc

I literally just grabbed a tin of this, it will be my first VaPer and my anxious to try it! It would be really nice if you did a revisited of this blend.

Great reviews, would you consider doing a review of Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky or a blend that contains dark fired Kentucky? Thanks

always like watch your review.keep on smoking bro

I'm really digging those yummy flakes.

would smoking it more on the wet side change the sweet flavor or it doesn't matter?

Moisture level: Gawith. Oh it is so telling...😂 Also nomen est omen: that blend is a beautiful VaPer! Ordered three more tins today!

How exactly do I go about drying these tobaccos? Leave with the lid off for a month, or open then close then leave to stand?

I'm getting to be a pain commenting on your videos... Haha. But, serious question - I know you don't smoke aromatics, and typically I hate them more than anything. Recently, however, I found ONE blend, blended locally to me, that has become quite a favorite. I would be willing to send you a sample for review purposes if you'd be willing to try it. Not your typical aromatic in my opinion.. Actually tastes like it's described, 0 bite, and very easy smoking. Thought of this because of your discussion about flavoring and casing.

I've just cracked my first tin and a sort of ketchupy-tomatoey note hit me... did anyone else get that? perhaps it'll change when I let it breathe a little.

I have not heard the term vapor whats that imply?

I’m definitely a 42 year old child. Love chocolates, ice cream and my kids are glad I’m like them 👦

Bro...I just got the 3 tins of tobacco I ordered a couple of them are really wet...how do I dry them out so I can smoke? Crack the tin and open it fully yo air out?? Is this what you do?

I heard rum is used to case or cure most Virginian tobacco. Is this true?

Gotta ask...what's your top 3 va/per's?

Have you tried SG 1792 ?

Only ***

+addison davis - It IS me singing, but as to seeing more - I'm not sure about putting anything like that on the Stuff&Things channel. ;-) I'll never say never though. Thanks for watching!

3:43 Slight casing detected 11:22 I detect the casing more than in most

Heres a thought, or copy Samuel Gawith. Put pipe tobacco tins in sleeves where the death threats and the atrocity exhibitions can be disposed of leaving nice printed tins. Stop putting the fear into folks, Stop It !!.

God damn it and damn your eyes lucky Yanks!. (can I say Yanks), just did twice. We make it and pay twice as much. But now in 2020 can you guys still buy it in Merica ?. Rules, red tape, tax, import, export. Meanwhile there is somebody/something trying to teach us universal conciseness. Write a song Bradley, get it of my chest. Today was the day I tried Elizabethan Mixture. So nice, nice.

Detecting sweetness? Iam smoking it right now and Iam not getting any sweetness. You sure you didn't have any chocolate cake before having that smoke. 🤪

Do you know what I afraid? I like you reviews and I love English blends. So I afraid if you will drift to VaPers. :) There will be no interest for me and it will be terrible.

Moisture content? "Gawith" lmao