Lane Limited Captain Black Royal

Pay caution to those who recomend this to a novice pipe smoker to start his journey. This is not for beginners. It does bite bad if not carefull. The mixture itself is half bad. It don't give you any image. If you put this thing on your pipe it will only let you know you are smoking one and that's about all. Sometimes it smell nice to the person next to me. Sometimes it smells horrible. But occasionally I can put some good use to this. This is a good mixture to work your over-nights with. I purchase a bag of this to do stuff with people. Imagine stuck in a room full of Marboro chimneys trying to plan out a production together. About 5 am I would have gone throught the whole pack. And when everyone leaves the room by 6 am, I still have 3 or 4 bowls's worth left in the bag. I looked in my ash container I see ashes from my pipe collected throught the night, 40% is wet tobacco unburnt. Imagine if this was my Davidoff, I would have cried. But thank God it was the Blacks, I can throw this away without any sympathy along with the 3 -4 bowl's worth. I then leave the building, ride my bike home and then I load up some nice English tin on my pipe thinking, "damn...I made it through the night with the one and only Captian Black Blues"

The reason I said this is a work horse tobacco and not one for beginnner is that it can bite real bad if not carefull. Most USA Virginia based mixed have this tendency. Yet like most quality Virginia, it has a nice creamy taste and for a drug store anywhere tobacco, this is well worth mentioning.

I tried this once because I ran out of some of my higher quality tobacco and it was late at night. I did the same thing that many other reviewers here did, I went to the drug store and bought a pouch. While I definately would not buy this in normal circumstances this is tolerable when out of premium blends. I had to wait for three days to get all of the tins I had ordered online so I gave this a try in a few differant pipes. I found that for me this smoked best in a meerschaum. This seems to be a common occurance with me for the cheaper aromatic tobaccos. It seems that the meerschaum pulls some of the casing and moisture out of it better than some of the briars I tried it in. I will not give this the worse rating because it is tolerable and probably the best I have had of the drug store type tobaccos. Also noted, this had a resemblence in flavor to me of 1Q. Not recomended under normal circumstances but tolerable if out of high quality blends.

Another mild, pleasant vanilla blend from Lane Limited. I found this to have a little more flavor than Captain Black Gold and Smoker?s Pride Vanilla Cavendish but not quite as much as Captain Black White. It doesn?t have the hint of a fruit essence that White has, this is pretty much vanilla and that?s it. But there is nothing wrong with that if all you want is a plain, nice aromatic smoke. There?s no arguing with the satisfying room aroma Captain Black products have. If your palate requires more complexity then look elsewhere.

Update: I've downgraded my review because I doubt that I will buy this again unless desperate. There is just too much good tobacco out there to waste money on this unless you can't get to your tobacconist.

This seems to be just like the Captain Black white with a little less vanilla. It's been a while since I tried any CB White, but I seem to remember more vanilla and less tobacco flavor.

In a pinch (i.e. where I can only get drugstore tobacco) I'd probably buy this or perhaps the white label depending on what sort of mood I was in. I'd probably choose this over CB White because it tastes more like tobacco.

This is a tobacco that seems to be present in every drug store in America. My friend and I used to take this out his dads tin and smoke it in our corn cobs. It's a cavendish tobacco with I believe a burley base. It lites well which it should with all the chemical agents added for help. It has both a pleasant pouch and room aroma that will definitly please most. Be warned it will leave some goopy dottle in your pipe bowl when your done, but it's a good tobacco to cut your teeth on.

For a drugstore anywhere tobacco, this is actually smokeable. The nice thing about Cap't Black (Blue) is that if I ever run out of a really premium tobacco and I'm in some out-of-the-way place, I can probably get this and be happy.

It came to me fairly dry, I hydrated it with a small piece of a Fuji apple for 3 days and the wonderous aromas of the fruit and tobacco intregued me. It lit well, burned evenly, some tounge bite, but not bad.

I finished the pouch and thought I had gotten my money's worth. Good for a beginner.