Lane Limited Captain Black Royal

I’ve been smoking a few bowls of Captain Black Royal every summer. Very flavorful, mostly vanilla but also the caramel and molasses notes are detectable. Low nicotine, burns relatively fast, clean, and slightly hot if pushed. Performs better in a cob pipe. A fine tobacco of great quality in its category.

Smoking now from the pouch:

Pouch not smells sweet. Honey vanilla and raisins. Moisture is pretty ok not overly sticky or wet. Smoked right away.

The taste is ok. It’s sweet, tastes like raisins, vanilla, honey, sugar. It’s mild. Has almost no aftertaste. Retrohale is slightly sweet and bready like. No mouth tingle or bite. Maybe a little burley nutty flavor, raisin like Virginias. It’s pleasant, easy, and mild. It is an aromatic so I suspect be careful for bite, did leave moisture in the bowl. Below average relights. Handled and smoked well. Co-workers say the room note is of raisins and chocolate. It was very nice.

Not bad for a pouch aromatic at all. I feel this is the better CB tobacco.

*now*

Is it the same as Lane 1Q? NO. First off they look different. CBR has light brown ribbons where as Lane 1Q has dark brown ribbons and I feel is more sticky. Lane 1Q also smells stronger and I feel tastes more vanilla / honey like. They are very similar, but definitely not the same.

1M I feel is the best of the 3.

A very good aromatic with vanilla/caramel flavor, some said this is discusting taste like PG but you know what PG taste nothing that's just a snobbish statement in my opinion .

If you love simple aromatic with a good balance try this blend you wont be disapointed.

Much lighter than the 1-Q with not so strong of flavours. Still has that sweet vanilla and date scent to it. Very easy to sip on.

At the tail end of our 2019 NASPC show, I was hailed to stop at a table where a man asked me if I would buy the "dregs" of his pipe tobacco collection. Since I had bought his magnificent main collection the year before, I said okay. When I got his box of "dregs" home, in the bottom were; not five, not ten, not even fifteen, but twenty-one sealed roll-up pouches of Captain Black Royal. After pondering how I was going to disperse them, I decided to open the odd twenty-first pouch, as, I had never smoked this blend. The opening revealed a normal looking black and brown ribbon cut with a slight vanilla aroma that, while not wet, was somewhat moist after thirteen years. I gave a wad about an hour of air-out and lit up. I have seen Captain Black mixtures get sand kicked on them at the beach for sixty years and now that I have smoked one, I must say, I don't know what all the ridicule is about. Mild not weak, aromatic slightly but flavorful and priced right; CB Royal fits right in with the many such blends that are out there in the "drugstore" market. I feel it is one of our milder aromatic VaBurs and a good candidate for the omnipresent "all day smoke". However, in the bottom third this blend gets stronger and a bit pushy. I have smoked many two star blends in my time and Captain Black Royal smokes better for me than most of them. This is a three star blend all the way.

This was the first pipe tobacco I tried. Though I have found I do not like aromatics, this classic is just fine to me. There is some tongue bite that can build up, however that can be cut down by letting it air dry a bit before packing the bowl. This tobacco is what I recall from my childhood neighbor smoking. It is a very pleasant room note, one that is soothing and sparks memories.

Basically read every review here, and flip it where Captain Black regular (white) is better, lol. Seriously, I thought I was missing something in me'head until I recently went back "through" all of the CB series. CB White has a much stronger flavor and room note than Royal to me, my friends, and my mizeruzz. Always has, even when the tins were still metal. Not saying Royal is bad. Meh what'dya do. It's a fine canned tobacco product, god bless 'em, sell the crap out of it. I just prefer what I prefer! I just often wonder how much others reeeeeeeeally smoked of original CB, assuming "royal" and "gold" MUST be better.

A pleasant all day smoke. Regular and straight forward like all captain bkack series. Nothing special about it. Gives a harsh taste at the end. A very nice room note.

Captain Black Royal is a less heavily cased than White but otherwise comparable. The room note comes from the first few puffs and can draw attention from people nearby. After that, the flavoring wears off quickly, and you're left with the Black Cavendish flavor.

I keep this one in a pouch for traveling rather than jar it, and so it doesn't dry out like other tobaccos in my rotation. All said, don't puff too quickly and it's a nice smoke, except a gurgle in harder wood pipes.

Much better than CB Gold, similar to CB White without the strong vanilla taste.

2.5 stars rounded up.