Lane Limited Captain Black Royal

Last one of these I will review, they had their chance(s) and its time to put the Captn. in the stockades. Dishonorable discharge and on and on.

It's great and best tobacco that i test until this time 🙂 So Nice smell

Read my review of Captain Black White, turn the flavor wheel down two notches and you've got my impression of Captain Black Blue!

A year ago I left a scathing review of CB Royal, but now I’ve had a change of heart. I see where it belongs in my rotation. My problem is that I was smoking it after heavy English blends, making light aromatic blends like Royal impossible to taste. After giving my pallet a break from heavy Latakia blends, I now see what all the fuss is about.

I would argue that this is easily the most complex CB blend and one of the most complex aromatics I’ve smoked. I’m able to tease out all sorts of flavors and it’s a bit of a treat to try and guess exactly what I’m smoking from puff to puff. I get a lot of caramel and brown sugar like flavors throughout the bulk of the bowl. I can pick out the burley and the mix of gold and black cavendish; this alone would make the blend pretty interesting. But then I get an occasional puff of bright Virginia that’s rather pleasant and adds a bit of smokiness. From there I can just tease out a note of some kind of liquor, possibly two or three different ones. I’m not sure on this, but I THINK it’s rum or possibly some kind of cognac or whiskey. And finally, rounding and softening all of these disparate flavors, there’s the barely audible vanilla.

At first glance, this sounds like too many flavors to go in a bowl. I didn’t even mention the more subtle after notes I get like honey, molasses, chocolate and dried fruit. When you add it all together, it can be a dizzying affair to try and keep track of it all. I don’t think it would even work if the folks at CB didn’t use all of these flavors sparingly. When I look at my review it sounds like too much to pull off, but they have. I’d be impressed just that they were able to make it work, even if I didn’t enjoy it so much.

A big part of enjoying this blend was finding where it fits in my rotation. It doesn’t sit well after heavier and smokier blends like English or Dark Fired. The flavors are too subtle to be sensed after something like that. So I’d either wait a day or so and let my pallet refresh or gradually shift to simple burley blends like SWR to help me enjoy the complexity of Royal. This is a soft and complex blend for those that enjoy teasing out the subtle flavors, but it can also be smoked all day, another feat to be praised.

Pairs well with black coffee, dark beer, and scotch.

I completely misjudged this blend the first time around and now it’s one of my go-to blends.

Happy smoking

Captain black Royal is my first choice never miss a chance to enjoy this blend good balance of vanilla. Most people over look this as just a drug store tobacco.

This is one of the drug store blends I started with when I bought my first Grabow. As time went forward I grew out of it and started smoking more complex blends like Vapers and Englishes. I have come full circle and have started to enjoy some aro's again and this one became a big hit with the first bowl. Maybe it's because I bought the bulk version but the flavors seem more complex than what I recall several decades ago. I love the vanilla and caramel overtones and the nuttiness of the Va's shines through the toppings making it that much more enjoyable. Rather a desert blend that burns will without a bite.

This is a good one. A pleasing, aromatic and "ellegant" tobacco. Heavy on the vanilla, right off the pouch it smells very good. Dark, and yellow bright cavendish stripes will be found in a loose cut. Smoking it, the aroma is quite decent on the exhale, smoke is dense and flavorful. For me it is the most pleasing of al CB blends and it does not bite the tongue a lot more than Gold or even Round Taste. However I wouldn't call it mild at all as it is heavy both on flavor and room note, neither its strength - I would say medium-strong in some bowls I've had (and mild-medium rarely). It really depends on how you keep it. I've noticed that it will dry up considerably fast if not set in a can or ziplocked. I definitely recommend it, but not for the faint hearted.

I Really LOVE this Tobacco, was my first and became my Passion. I've been tasting it whenever possible, and what impresses me is the aroma and flavor in Smoked.

Typically I wouldn't smoke a Captain Black tobacco,although I do like Dark Red...I'm only reviewing this because when I first smoked Royal, it was very wet, loaded with PPG, and was way over the top in sweetness...

Now, I do like alot of the OTC tobaccos and upon several recent dicussions I decided to try this again...Quite a difference, now that STG has taken over these Lane tobaccos... Not "goopy" or as wet , the feel is less sticky, and I don't feel/see the overload of PPG.

Many say that Royal and 1-Q are the same...They are very similar, for sure, but I can't quite say if they are indeed the same...In any case, I'm glad I have given Royal another chance...