Lane Limited - BCA pipe tobacco reviews

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NA Morrison	05/22/2011	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
my favorite tobacco shop tobacco world in the flour mill carries this and they label it as dainsh vanilla. this tobacco is a room pleaser with everyone enjoying the scent. its got a nice balance and has no bite to it. a good aromatic that beginners to expirenced smokers will enjoy.
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Kittycatman	04/11/2011	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
My local B&M recently added a new blend to their tobacco bar. It is called 50/50. They take half BCA and mix it with half Peter Stokebbye Whiskey. I have smoked several pounds of this blend and am completely hooked. It is a wonderful combination. Very mild and has a wonderful flavor and room note. Give it a try sometime. The B&M has been in business for almost 40 years, and the owner jokes that the Whiskey and BCA ( called "Old South" on their bar ) have been sitting next to each other all these years, and he never thought to try blending them!
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THESSALONIAN	03/01/2011	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
The BCA that I received was dry enough and smelled good. But that's where the good ended. This is like a cigar in taste and aroma. I've bought better black cavendish in bulk from the cigarette store. McClellands VBC is much better than this. One star only. Note to another reviewer: This is not Midnight by Tinderbox. That is a completely differend animal. I bought 2oz. of Midnight when I was at the Tinderbox 2 months ago and just received BCA from Cupajoes. Unless Cupajoes got something mislabeled I do not like BCA but Midnight is smooth and has good flavor.
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whitebriar	02/16/2011	Mild	Medium	Medium to Full	Strong
Among aromatics BCA is most definitely superior-- the moisture content of the tobacco i used for this review was just about right --it refused to be crushed together as a sticky mass as some aromatics do-the pouch aroma was quite pleasant, although not overpowering-- it lit easily, and burned to a very small dottle with only one relight--there was just a trace of moisture at the bottom of the bowl-- i enjoy an aro frequently although i could never make a steady diet of them, but this one would come close to a full time smoke if necessary--i use BCA mostly for a mixer to enhance other blends that seem to lack something -- i later followed the advice of several on this review site and mixed BCA and 1-Q in equal parts--my oh my!!--that was nice--why has it taken me all these years to discover that one?? if you are looking for a non goopy, non overpowering, utilitarian aromatic then let me direct your attention to BCA--my only word of caution is to make sure that you receive Lane Limited's BCA, and not some pretender-- Lane's is the only Black Cavendish i have found that isn't wet and covered with PG--
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Rumplestilzken	01/09/2011	Medium	Medium to Strong	Full	Very Pleasant
This is my go to smoke. The taste it incredible, and smooth. Refined, yet wild in its own way. It tastes like vanilla and honey to me. Ive tried to abuse this tobacco just to prove myself wrong, but you cannot get bitten at all, no matter how you smoke it. Tight, Loose, taking a puff every few minutes, or puffing on it like a fog machine,this will not bite. Easily an all day smoke, even when i have tobaccos i want to try that i've bought recently, i find it hard to stray away from this because it is such a great tobacco blend, and as led to quite a few disappointments in other tobaccos, because they just don't match the quality i find in BCA i have never had a bowl of anything else last anywhere near BCA, ive smoked for close to 2 hours in a medium sized bowl. its incredible. when i have the money, i will be buying 5LBs of this, without a doubt.
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Funn	12/15/2010	Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
I used to smoke this in my early days before I knew how to smoke and pack a pipe correctly. I have been enjoying this in my Aromatic meers for months now. Once I learned to pack it,and most aromatics, loosly, it has opened up a new dimension for me.I smoke this in my car on the way to work and home and usually in the evenings. Extremely tasty and creamy. It even tastes good DGTeed for a day and for weeks. I smoke all catagories of tobacco and BCA and PA are my go to blends for laid back non-critical enjoyment. Fantastic in a briar or cob and really exceptional in a meer. If you pack it loose you won't get that soap taste many complain about & I used to taste when I packed with a heavy hand. This is the blend for sweetness and a great tobacco taste. Many use this for blending but I love it just as it is. Excellent for a beginner and great for the veteran smokers. This along with Black Cordial and Butternut Burley are my aromatics standbys. Particularly great during the Christmas Season which I am currently enjoying now.
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rattdogg	12/15/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
Good ole' BCA. I've smoked this blend off and on for many years. If it ain't a classic I don't know what is. Excellent vanilla/chocolate spice taste with a pleasant room note. This one is a real wife pleaser! Smooth and creamy with no bite and the flavor remains throughout the entire bowl. It has become my go to blend in a cob while fishing or setting in my tree stand during deer season. In recent years I have taken to mixing three parts BCA to one part McCelland's 5100 to ramp up the vitamin N a bit. Overall I'd class this as a must try for any aromatic or part time aromatic smoker like myself. It still sells for around $2.00 per ounce in my area and appears to be reasonable in price most other places as well. Go for it! You'll be glad you did.
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WillardFan	12/12/2010	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
My B&M sells two types of the Lane Offering. One is the BCA and the other is simply labeled Black Cavendish. I looked at the actual multi-pound bags, and they do indeed have two different names. I've tried them both, and there is a difference. The BCA has the milder flavor of the two. The Black Cavendish blend is well over the top though. I actually like the stronger blend more. The BCA is too mild for my taste buds. I do like them both, but IMHO the stronger one has more to offer in both flavor and room note...
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TK Pipe	12/08/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
BCA.. Where I go for a mild all day Cavendish. Nothing special but when a mild, tasty and bite free, outdoor all day smoke is called for, Lane tobaccos like this one, IMO are hard to beat.
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apipeareyouserious?	10/22/2010	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
Oh wow, I really really like this blend! Bought 2 ounces of it from a local tobacco shop and have to get more. Finally, an aromatic I can stand to smoke! On the down-side, the store I went to pretended not to understand what I was talking about when I asked which of their bulk blends was Lane's BCA. When I said "OK, well thank you very much" they remembered..."Oh, THAT Lane's BCA. Yeah, right here."
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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 update:january 2011...just when i thought this tobacco could not get any better! mix it 50/50 with lanes 1q.these two tobaccos are made for each other.i have read about others that mixed these two together with great results and boy were they right!! i`ve been smoking this 50/50 mix for a few weeks now and it is pure bliss.do your self a favour and get some 1q and mix it with your bca.you will be a happy pipe smoker.oh yeah,pipe smokers always ask each other ...what would be your desert island tobacco? well...if i were on a desert island like tom hanks in the movie "cast away".screw making a raft! i`d be sitting with wilson enjoying the view and smoking this mixture all day long.(he,he)
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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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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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