Lane Limited Captain Black Royal

Typically well put together Captain Black blend. Very similar to CB White but with a more refined Vanilla taste that never bit and was always sweet. As fine an aromatic as you'll find anywhere on the market today, Captain Black stayed true to form with Royal.

As with some of the other Captain Black products, you have to sip it to avoid tongue bite. Unlike most of the other CB mixtures, this actually has a little complexity of taste. The various toppings include a touch of molasses, some caramel, honey and more obvious vanilla are not over the top, but they do sublimate the tobaccos quite a lot. The grassy, citrusy, dried fruity gold cavendish is hardly noticeable. The sugary black cavendish mixes in with the toppings, so it, too, is not very obvious on its own, though I would say it synergistically works in harmony with the toppings for the overall, very consistent flavor of the blend. The strength is mild, while the taste is a couple steps past that mark. Barely has any nicotine. Burns clean and slightly fast. Leaves little moisture in the bowl, and requires an average number of relights. Has a pleasant, short lived after taste and room note. An all day smoke that wears fairly well on your senses during the day so long as you don't puff like a steam engine.

-JimInks

I don't know why so many people knock Captain Black tobaccos. I rather like them, and I think extra points should be given for price and availability. The overall quality is better than most people judge. I don't smoke the cherry, but I do smoke the White, Royal and Gold. Of these Royal suits my taste best - it's a little more refined than White with a slightly deeper tobacco taste and less vanilla topping. Overall a very nice aromatic smoke, more complex and higher quality than most people judge. Soft hints of vanilla and perhaps some chocolate and caramel, subtle rather than overboard like many aromatics nowadays. I like it and always have a supply in my cupboard. Smokes nicely in my Big Ben which has a slightly wider bore and therefore easy airflow. No wetness. Burns down to a nice clean ash.

My go to bowl lately. Always lights and burns evenly without drama. Tastes good and has a nice mellow room note. My wife loves the smell. One bowl lasts me a good long time and lightens my mood. Mild and no bite or disgusting left over liquid type dregs in the bottom of the bowl either.

How did captain black get the reputation of being cheap? It’s $11.00 a pouch here in NY and no cheaper than many others online. Price aside I think captain black royal is the standard for mild aromatics. I have tried all major brand lines from frog Morton to borkum riff and captain black is one of the most consistent lines in all of pipe tobacco. It almost seems like knocking captain black is the cool thing to do. My question is if captain black is so bad, why does it sell so well? Someone is smoking it obviously. I love the white, gold and dark also but royal is the one I always come back to. The flavor is mild with some vanilla and molasses but you can still taste some tobacco. If you want to feel superior and cool go bid on some penzence on eBay. If you want a cool, tasty smoke grab a pouch of captain black royal at the gas station and enjoy smoking your pipe!

If the CB White is too strong for you then the blue is your cup of tea. Just Cavendish very mild. Good aroma like the White but lighter. A good blend for a begiiner or someone who needs to go lighter. CB An American Classic you can't go wrong.

Wow...Captain Black Royal is very aromatic. The vanilla scent while you are hit with the tasteful notes of the tobacco is extremely pleasing to yourself and everyone around you. If you like CB White, you will LOVE CB Royal!

***edit*** I just smoked a huge bowlful of this stuff in my kaywoodie...my god. I sipped on it like wine, it is legitimately the best taste I've ever experienced thus far (23 years old). I have yet to try other brands which I must order (very rural area I live in!)...CB Royal...delicious when smoked correctly!

I enjoyed this blend, it was mellow and quite restrained. It is however very sweet, which is a good thing considering I get am urge to eat sweet stuff during that period. It was my candy, my chocolate and my cake. Light up a bowl and sip it slowly and I get the fulfillment I require. It was the fastest consuming pouch I had.

After reading many of the reviews on Captain Black Royal (it's official name, after all), I got all nostalgic about it. I went out and bought a pack of it ($5.79 nowadays!). I used to smoke this all the time, as well as Captain Black Gold, when I started smoking a pipe fourteen years ago. Boy, my tastes sure have changed!

All I can think now is: "Good grief, why did I ever smoke this stuff? It has about as much flavor as a bowl of steam." Granted, it does smell very nice in the package--absurdly artificial and nothing remotely like tobacco--but nice. And it burns nice and easy, and of course, it is easily available. Nevertheless, its flavor is virtually non-existant. The only discerable taste I got was a mild, slightly bitter, aftertaste on the back of my tongue. Ugh.

I guess when I first started, I didn't want tobacco to taste like much of anything. In any event, there is so much better tobacco out there that I don't see any reason to touch this ever again. With all the increases in tobacco taxes, it's not even that cheap anymore! I will say in its defense that it is a bit better than the other Grade Z pipe tobaccos available at the drugstore--namely Prince Albert (which is rancid stuff). Sure, it's just a beginner tobacco, as everyone has already noted. But there are many other mild aromatic tobaccos out there that are good beginner tobacoos and at the same time have an actual flavor. The prime reason to buy Captain Black is that you're completely out of something better, and the only thing open late at night is a drug store.

CB Gold & Royal are the only two tobaccos I smoke.After trying various other blends these are the only ones I am stuck with.To hell with the tobacco snobs who shun OTC blends & aromatics and try to make you believe that something that tastes like wood or leather are for the connoisseurs.I want my tobacco to smell as good as it tastes.Recently I did an experiment which I would like to share in this forum.I mixed half a pouch of CB Royal with half a pouch of CB Gold poured a tablespoon of Captain Morgan spiced rum on it kept it on a newspaper & let the mixture soak in the rum overnight.The next day when I smoked the mixture I got an awesome taste.Why don't you try it & see if you like the taste or not.