Lane Limited Captain Black Royal

Well this made me feel sick. There's something sweet and sour to it that frankly makes me ill. The white is the same. Maybe I am allergic to Cavendish....

I am writing it exactly as I read it.

Captain Black = Marlboro = Coca Cola = Mac Donald

Regardless what you hear, it is true that it is difficult to find the aroma of this tobacco filling the room in another tobacco.

I started out with this blend close to 50 years ago. Over that time, I've smoked hundreds of blends and varieties, but I keep coming back to this. Most boutique blends are a one shot. Good or bad. This blend has been consistently good over time. I switched to cigars about 12 years ago, for convenience and the wide variety of new flavors. I like rich, dark, especially Nicaraguan tobacco. I'm not a snob, but I know what I like. Rich, dark, strong. I've had lousy $22 cigars, and great $5 ones. Same with pipe tobacco, and alcohol. Smoking is personal. It's not about being a snob. Smoke what you enjoy, and I've enjoyed this blend longer than any other tobacco blend. That's the point, isn't it? And best of all,, it's [was?] easy to find. And that makes it that much more enjoyable. Might not be for everyone, but I've enjoyed it for a long, long time. My favorite cigar blends have come and gone, but this has remained consistent. I took a break for a couple of years, so I hope my next pouch is as good as I remember. 🙂

This was one of the first pipe tobaccos I tried as a new piper 2 decades plus ago along with captain black original. The pouch aroma is delightful, A melange of sweet tobacco and vague faint vanilla. The cut is medium ribbon with a mostly light brown color. Some leaves are nearly transparent, and I get the impression that this has either been exceedingly heavily cased, or has propylene glycol added. The room note is incredible. Bystanders almost always love this stuff. Unfortunately there is almost no flavor here whatsoever. This blend is mild to a fault. It’s a lot like sipping hot steam. Not for me, but given it’s long production history and easy availability, it is worth a try for smokers craving a mild aromatic.

My all time favorite pipe tobacco, I used to blow through a couple canisters a month of this stuff before I cut back and started to really try other things but my true love in pipe tobacco, I also love Lanes 1-Q which is similar to Royal (there not the same) but dang near close. Royal is a top of the line aromatic hands down thats not even a debate, I think the sales and its place in the pipe world says enough and it does NOT have a chemical smell to it at all period for all you new pipe smokers that are curious about Royal. It taste like Captain Black Gold except it has more of a Cavendish presents to it obviously and topped with a nouget because it leans more torwards a chocolate rather than a vanilla approach, its really close to 1-Q if you have smoked that but not Royal. The golden Cavendish is really pronounced and very smooth with a wonderful taste that does not bite the tounge, I'm sure it could if you smoked it like a locomotive, the nicotine level in all the Captain Black product are low to medium and does not pack a punch in that regard. Many pipe tobacco companies have gone out of there way to either copy or produce a pipe tobacco blend that is close to Royal which makes sense of course, a few examples would be~~~ 1M by Sutliff 7 Seas Royal by Mac Baran Nougat by Peter Stokkebye These are just a few examples of blends that are close to CB Royal but not the same for example if you smoked and like Royal go try the blend Mark Twain by Sutliff, if your a new pipe smoker this is how you branch out with pipe tobacco blends to learn and see what's out there and what you like or dont like. Captain Black Royal is one of those blends you could smoke all day every day very easily. Royal is no more topped out then lets say 1-Q on the contrary to what you read its moisture level is actually perfect its not to dry by far and not to moist (goopy) and does not leave a mess in your pipe, you should let your pipe rest anyway after a aromatic smoking session to dry out as a good practice and habit. I would highly recommend Captain Black Royal because its good tobacco and a wonderful smoke. It taste as good as it smells and I have been smoking it for 21 years and still loving it and will continue to smoke the stuff until Lane goes out of business or I go to be with the Lord, I hope Lane out lasts me with the way things are going these days. I want to encourage new pipe smokers to try pipe tobaccos that are freaking good and to be able to over look the pipe snobs who degrade and say the most retarded things about all American pipe tobacco that are worth there weight and do taste good, ignore this OTC talk and chemical crap because some of the best smoking pipe tobaccos in the world are blends like, Carter Hall, Prince Albert, Captain Black and Velvet etc. I could keep going and going with this trust me lol!!! Go pick up a pouch or canister today and enjoy one of the best aromatic pipe tobacco blends hands down, dang I sound like a freaking commercial or something. God bless all you pipe smokers and have a blessed day...

I bet that if this had a bigger price tag, a fancy packaging and were hard to find many people would praise it. But, since is cheap, comes in a simple bag and is widle avaiable, it MUST be awful!...

If you accept that this is not a multilayered, complex, high end smoke, you'll be able to enjoy this simple, smooth and unpretentious tobacco for what it is.

Being one of the most reckoned blends from Captain Black line, I indeed had high hopes for this one. But unfortunately it disappointed me a lot.. The taste is quite faint - at least in comparison to CB Regular - and it's extremely moist, wet even. And no matter how long I dry it, it stays moist and can barely be kept lit. It bites quickly, however careful you are. Which is stressful rather than calming.

This is another of my weekly pouch purchase. Weekly coupons is the mail reason I buy it. 2 pouches a in week go into a jar. Smoke flavor is good. Easy to light no tough bite. Pack bowl full with 3 plus pinch. Smokes much better packed than loose. Good flavor that lasts. Ages well. Pouch and bulk good buy.

Not too bad, but still not good.

Compared to some blends that I have tasted, including other drugstore blends, I have come to expect very little with Captain Black, but this one is by far my favorite as it is the least offensive.

It has some flavor, but I can't quite place what exactly they were trying to do with it, as the flavors are mixed and matched in ways that I cannot decipher what is what. It is a cacophony of ????

It's too hard to explain what I taste, and I have tasted it more than once. I rather liked it, but it was not exactly what I have come to expect from a blend of tobacco.

out of 10 i would give it a 4, I would not recommend it to anyone but the man who has a gun pointed to his head, and the only way to get out of it would be to smoke a captain black blend, and also, only has 3 dollars.

Otherwise, I would spend that money on pipe cleaners.