Lane Limited - BCA pipe tobacco reviews

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p.smoker	08/15/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
o.k. so after trying to find a blend close to my beloved midnight from the tinderbox...i find out after reading about this tobacco "it is my beloved midnight from the tinderbox"!.(now you tell me).this is a great tobacco.i have smoked pounds and pounds and pounds of it and never been disapointed.it smokes cool,never bites,has a great taste and flavor,and the room note is pleasant .as others here have mentioned it is a good blending tobacco.i hav`nt tried it with lanes iq.but i have mixed it half and half with c&d`s autumn evening with great results. i think these two tobaccos compliment each other.you get a creamy caramel, dark chocolate,vanilla taste.you can`t go wrong smoking a caramello chocolate bar (with zero calories)as far as i`m concerned.if you like a good mild vanilla tasting aromatic tobacco give this one a try.if you want to kick it up a notch add the autumn evening or blend it with one of your favorite tobaccos and see what you get.this is a great black cavandish tobacco with a nice light casing.its my all day tobacco. give it a try it just might be your all day smoke.let me know.p.smoker
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happy jack	06/03/2010	Very Mild	Extremely Mild	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
Did alot of reviews on BCs, this is a fine smoke for blending, not bad, not horrible, yea, try it,... its pleasent alone, brightens up some blends. 2 stars
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jgr1974	05/21/2010	Extremely Mild	Mild	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
This is my favorite daily smoke!!! I am a black cavendish fan and this is surely my favorite! This can be bought at most retailers by the ounce, and it is reasonable priced-$5 per 2 oz average. Aroma when open bag is a chocolate raisin. Has a very mild taste and nice room aroma that will be pleasing to all. I used to smoke this in an Armellini calabash, and it was superb. Right now on the cob kick, and smoke well in it too! This is a very mild smoke that will not offend anyone. It is all cavendish from color to cut, a dark black in color. A little sticky from casing, but tolerable. This is what I would recomend for novice just starting out, or experienced pipe smoker who wants a cool mellow smoke!
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DeadMensPipes	04/16/2010	Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
Very nice aroma from the jar. When smoked has a very pleasant room note, produces huge clouds of fragrant smoke, does not bite, but does not have much flavor either. Make sure you let it dry out on a plate for at least a half-a-day if you do not want to go through a box of matches keeping it lit. If you enjoy a bland, almost flavorless smoke that smells wonderfully good, this is for you. On the other hand, it makes a great blending tobacco. Blend one-third Lane BCA with two-thirds Lane 1Q, and let it air dry out on a plate for 24 hours. Makes a delighful aromatic smoke. In the world of aromatics, you will not find a better blend than Lane 1Q+BCA, IMHO.
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paulw	04/15/2010	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
The best vanilla black cavendish on the earth. This tobacco burns cool and will not bite. If you like capt. black you'll love this!
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Big Nick	04/13/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant
This stuff was much better than I thought it would be! Mild yet flavorful, with good body. You'ld be hard pressed to do better in a Black Cavendish. High availability, low price, stock up! Whether everyday or change of pace, you won't be disappointed. I like it!
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pgmrdan	02/19/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
I have nothing negative to say about this tobacco except that I don't have enough of it in my cellar. A very nice mild smoke with great taste and it leaves a very pleasant aroma in my truck. To me, that's what matters.
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Kissphantom05	02/11/2010	Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
This is one of my favorite blends. Toasty black Cavendish? Oh yes! I do not know if it was the fire-curing, but this blend is everything I could want for in an aromatic. It smells a lot better once lit, and the lingering aroma is very welcome in my house. If you can master the art of keeping it lit, the rest is just an enjoyable ride. Highly recommended. Note: I have bought some of this (probably an impersonator) from a shop that was really finely ground up like coffee. I do not recommend this as it dried out really quick and was very easy to suck through the stem. Look for some that is more coarsely constructed.
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Helzbelz75	01/12/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I recently switched to smoking a pipe from cigars and cigarettes. I got tired of my mouth feeling like someone farted in it the next morning. I was pleasantly surprised with my first bowl of pipe tobacco, which was not BCA. No funky taste left in my mouth. Hell my wife couldn't even tell I smoked a bowl. That never happened with cigars or cigarettes. I had tried several aromatics from my local tobacco shop, many of which I liked before trying BCA. I told the tobacconist I liked the taste of vanilla but wanted something with a little more tobacco flavor and a little more kick. He knows I am a new smoker so before he mixed me up a blend he said try this. They call it something different there but I later found out it was Lane Limited BCA. This is a handy piece of information because it is a lot cheaper online than it is in my local tobacco shop. It smelled delicious in the bag. The local tobacconist told me to let it air out about 20 minutes before smoking. I was too excited to wait that long so I just loaded a bowl in my 9.5" Wellington. Upon lighting, I instantly noticed that it was not as vanilla flavored as others I tried. This I liked a lot. Around the half way mark, I really started to taste the tobacco. The vanilla was still there but it was more of a faint toasted vanilla. Tasted like this until the bottom of the bowl. No tongue bite, no gurggle, no gook. Just good ol' dry cool smoking toasted vanilla. Was it the Wellington?...maybe, because I have smoked it in other pipes and I have to relight a couple more times than other aromatics. Maybe it's my packing technique. I recently started letting it dry out for 5 minutes before smoking and I have no problems. It doesn't have as much nicotine as I'd like but it is by far my favorite smoke right now. Enjoy!!!
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strongirish	09/12/2009	Very Mild	Medium to Strong	Full	Very Pleasant
I have spent the last week trying mostly VA's, VaPers and English Blends to review. While I really enjoy these blends, every now and then I like a nice aromatic to wake up my mouth and give me a burst of flavor. I received a little bag of Lane BCA as a sample and thought why not, I need something different. So, I took out the bag and in the pouch, upon opening was the most pleasant smelling, Vanilla, Licorice like aroma in a very dark black cavendish. Rough cut flake, and somewhat moist but I expected that. I loaded it in a Falcon so I would not have a moisture problem and after an easy pack, I lit it up and sat back to relax with it. My first reaction was Wow! What a great taste and the aroma! How many tobaccos have the room note and taste that match up and for the smoker? It also tasted like the pouch aroma. So, as I was carefully sipping this smooth, creamy, tasteful tobacco, expecting the usual steam and bite that most tobaccos of this type are, I just felt a coolness on my tongue. So, I got a little more aggressive and smoked it into a smokey inferno. Yet, no hotness in the smoke at all. This has to be the coolest aromatic on the market. No tongue bite at all, none! So I thought about all the complaints I have heard and read about aromatics being hot smokers and well...those people have never tried this blend. It's cooler than PA, which I love a lot with my morning coffee. So, for anybody that wants to try a really cool aromatic, new smokers, or those that are looking for a change of pace or a great after dinner desert tobacco, I highly recommend this blend. I liked it so much after another bowl, I ordered several pounds to cellar to have on hand when I feel like a good aromatic. It's that good. I have been smoking a pipe for 39 years, I can't believe I have never tried this one.
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Thorre	07/06/2009	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
This is a good leaf. I never smoke it alone. I don't mean by myself. I mean I use it for a mixer. I add 1/3 to a good English with a good amount of Latakia. I used to use it with 965. Now I use it with PS Proper English, or Squadron Leader. Great flavor, burns to a white ash. It has been my all day for some time now. The BCA adds to the room note. In a positive way. My wife likes it. She hates the smell of straight English or Balkan blends,which I love smoking. This is an easy compromise. By the way, BCA smokes just fine by itself. Surprisingly clean burning.
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DakotaPeacePipe	05/25/2009	Mild	Strong	Full	Very Pleasant
One of this smokers all time favorite aromatics. Smokes, cool never any bite, an all day smoke. Sweet but not cloying so, vanilla yes, but in some moderation, a complex of flavors really seem to come together in this blend to produce a near nirvana smoking experience. Wonderful aroma for those around the smoker, but more importantly a truly rich and flavorful experience for the smoker. Herman Lane really left pipe smokes a wonderful legacy and BCA is no small part it. It is tragic to see how the current entity controlling Lane seems to be squandering this rich history, I pray that BCA survives Lanes current (mis)management!
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BBlevins	05/12/2009	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I give BCA 4 stars because it's excellent at being what it is supposed to be. A basic, mild Cavendish for every day use as well as blending. I slow burning smoke with a mild vanilla flavor and a a hint of licorice. Smokes extremely cool and possesses no bite. In my opinion, the best black Cavendish blend available and I go through a lot of it.
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greekthinker	04/22/2009	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
If your wife burns incense and potpourri in the house and you like it, then both of you will love this blend. Whatever relationship it has to tobacco eludes me. I understand that is what English blend folks say about all aromatics. I love aromatics, but this is over the top. Pull some grass out of your backyard and pour a little (or a lot)of cheap perfume on it, count to 10 and smoke it. The fact is, however, that many people like that kind of stuff and if you are one of them - go for it. Even I can enjoy a bowl of this once in a while, say 2 or 3 times a year. Every day, I fear, would result in diabetes.
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tonyg	03/11/2009	Very Mild	Strong	Mild	Pleasant
Smokes hot, difficult to light and keep lit, and lacking in flavor with a tendency to bite.
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Christopher Patey	03/10/2009	Mild	Medium to Strong	Full	Very Pleasant
Like its brethern, this Black Cavendish is a good example of something that provides others with a great smelling treat, but leaves the smoker underwhelmed. BCA is appealing to smell, both in the pouch and when being smoked. It burns fairly cool, but is too wet/gurgling for my tastes. I like more of a natural tobacco flavour and little of that somes through in this, as with nearly all aromatics. Taste is more of a wet chemical steam-which while not unpleasent isn't fulfilling either. This is better than many of the aromatics I have smoked, however, so I will give it 2 stars based on that. Prince Albert (which I have also rated at 2) is a far superior tobacco, but my tastes lean toward a non-aromatic, so I am biased. One thing worth mentioning is that this tobacco makes a great blender. For a tobacco whose room note is not overly appealing, you can use this (sparingly) to spice things up without interfering too heavily with taste. It goes best with Burleys and I've recently blended a 12 oz tub of Prince Albert with a 2 oz bag of this. I will provide an update on how this smokes once I've allowed the flavours to sit together for a while. Update This makes an okay blender, but smoked alone, ick!
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quantumboy	03/07/2009	Very Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant
As an English/Balkan hound, I'm not into aromatics at all, so there are only two on the planet that I smoke. This is one of them, even though it's only once a month or so. BCA is just dependable. Easy to smoke, tasty, relaxing, contemplative, this is the one I choose on those rare occasions when a big in-your-face Balkan just won't cut it. Makes me feel good and the room note pleases.
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Pipe4ever	02/26/2009	Extremely Mild	Strong	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
This is the finest American black Cavendish and the best blend ever created by lane limited, smoke it as it is or use it for blending, this tobacco works in every single way. Definitely it is the best of its class.
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stream25	02/25/2009	Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant
For me, BCA is the comfort food of pipe tobacco. There's nothing complex about it, but it always hits the spot with its sweet aroma and taste. The tobacco is wet, but does not give me any tongue bite. It's also priced right. So while it does not have the complexity of a nice English tobacco, it's sometimes nice to go back to basics.
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macbforme	02/01/2009	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Who doesn't enjoy this stuff? You either started off on this or came across it by chance. Either way, you'll find out eventually that BCA is the only "aromatic" tobacco you'll keep coming back to time and time again. I love this stuff and give it 4 stars because it is just awesome!
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