Lane Limited Captain Black Dark

Puchased a pouch from my local B&M today along with another tin of Virginia Woods. The thing I love about my B&M is that every tin I purchase there is from the early 2000's so seeing fresh pouches of Captain Black sitting on the counter today was an eye opener. While I want my Virginias to be well aged, I want my aromatics to be fresh as can be so since he just got these in the last couple of weeks I was delighted to be able to smoke fresh CBD... Aroma is marshmellow and deep vanilla, taste is maple syrup and butter cream. No bite whatsoever, I mean you can light your pipe on fire with a welder and CBD will not bite but it will also not give you any nicotine satisfaction at all, because of this I will only smoke CBD mixed 50/50 with 5 Brothers or Nightcap or a Gawith rope. Absolutely delightful Black Cavendish and better than the white and on par with Royal, this needs to be available in a large tin. I paid $11 which is absurd for a pouch but I wanted it NOW so I paid the instant gratification price instead of waiting for a delivery... As another reviewer pointed out dump this after half a bowl (or so) otherwise the last half loses its topping and turns a little nasty, better to chuck it and repack..

This tobacco is awesome. Very full of flavor. Alot more flavor then Lane Limited BCA. Very enjoyable tobacco. Very highly recomended. Top notch all the way.

This a typical Captain Black remastered and blended without the artificial flavor and with very nice vanilla/caramel aroma, the one thing missing in this blend is the body and the nutty/buttery taste that I like in the CB White, this blend is very similar to Lan BCA,

For a very long time, I have purchased pipe tobacco either by going online and placing an order or by calling a particular vendor direct and ordering. Long ago simply because of the great variety available I more or less ceased purchasing the OTC tobaccos available. In my youth of course when there was no internet Captain Black White, Borkum Riff and MacBarrens Golden Extra were my staples. Nowadays OTC blends are always qualified by reviewers as being decent smokes "good for their value" In other words it is their relative inexpensiveness that makes them acceptable; the smoking qualities being secondary. Out of curiosity I picked up a pouch of Captain Black Dark to see if it was any good compared to what I usually smoke. I must confess, it was far better than I expected. Mildly sweet, no vanilla or identifiable flavor. Perfect for me in that I have a one hour ten minute comute to work giving me a chance to get a good smoke in. There is a nutty pleasant flavor which I attribute to the Green River Burly. All in all it made the grade to be in my regular rotation. Nothing cheap or second rate about this offering at all. A good delightful smooth smoke. One nice thing. I have smoked about three pouches in several pipes, and in all cases CBD smoked dry and down to ash. Very un aromatic like. Minimal mosture in the pipe stem, but the bowls were all bone dry. As an experiment I re introduced myself to CBW and CBG. Sorry to say I did not enjoy them as much as I used to. But Captain Black Dark is worth a try if you haven't already. Good quality, good stuff.

I just received my sleeve of 6 from pipesandcigars.com and immediately opened a pouch for smoking. The pouch aroma was not that different from many of the black cavendish tobaccos out there. It smelled very similar to the Super Value BC I have on my shelf. The tobacco was jet black, moist, and with what I would describe a riff cut. Loading into a paneled Wessex rusticated billiard, Dark lit very easily and stayed lit, requiring relights only when I needed to put the pipe down to tend to other business. The taste is typical BC and I first thought that it was so similar to Lane's BCA and the Super Value BC, that I said, "What's all the hype?" Well, with slow smoking there is a definite hint of caramel or something similar that I find very appealing along with the typical BC taste. I wouldn't even say the vanilla (if there at all) is prominent. Yes, there is that typical BC sweetness, but Dark is a different animal. It never smoked hot no matter how fast I puffed, nor did it smoke wet. It left no wet, goopy dottle in the bottom of the bowl either. To say the least, I was impressed. I think this is the best BC I have ever smoked (having started with Tinderbox's Capt Spice). Oh yes, there was no chemical taste to this one either. If there was, it was masked by the sweetness of the tobacco. This sweetness is not cloying - at least not for me. I wouldn't say this will be an everyday smoke for me - although it certainly could be. I'm also going to add some of this to some other blends I smoke that lack sweetness and see what happens. All in all a 3 star smoke that I can recommend. Maybe since Orlik is now producing this for Lane Ltd., this explains the lack of chemical taste. If this is the case, I'm going to get some CB White for revisiting. CB White's chemical taste was a major turn off for me.

UPDATE 6-16-13: I've been smoking a lot of this since my purchase and am really finding it quite good. What I first perceived as caramel I think is not quite right. The mouth taste/ after taste is very buttery and almost honey like in some way, but not really honey. Almost like the caramelized crust of a strudel without the fruit taste and without actual caramel. I've never quite remembered having tasted anything like that in a pipe tobacco. Really, very good.

UPDATE 1-18-17: Very similar in taste to RLP-6, but sweeter.

Captain Black - Captain Black Dark.

I've wanted to try one of the Captain Black's for absolutely ages, ever since I first saw one being reviewed on YouTube. When I finally came across them, along with Sir Walter Raleigh, available to be delivered to the U.K., I jumped at the chance! I normally smoke VaPer and English blends during the day, but enjoy a sweet aromatic after my tea, in the evening. This fits that slot perfectly. If you don't want a strongly flavoured aro', then walk away.

I opened the pouch to find one of the blackest blends I've ever seen. I could tell it's heavily flavoured because, 1: it stinks of vanilla and sugar, and 2: it's wet. But that's all forgiven after an airing and I'm piping it, I enjoy the smoke very much. Although the list of ingredients on here is almost endless, the only extra tastes I can identify are the vanilla, chocolate, and sugar; the vanilla's stronger for the initial part of the smoke, and then it gives way to the chocolate. The flavour of the tobacco isn't much of a surprise, it's a simple Black Cavendish taste; but due to the weight of the topping, the vanilla sweetness gets a little lost/confused with the vanilla from the added flavour. Even though this is cased strongly, it doesn't bite me, and the temperature's about the coolest ever!

If you pipe for nicotine smoking a bowl of this would be totally pointless: it's got none in it! And finally, the room-note's very false: it would probably suit some non-smokers with its sweetness!

I can see how some folks may feel incensed at a bowl of this, it is after all, a strongly flavoured, simple tasting aromatic! But I think even though it's quite basic, it's been executed well, very well.

A straight-up four star aromatic. High praise from an English/VaPer fan!

Highly recommended.

I'll second what Zombie said. I love Captain Black White, so i thought I would give this a try. It smells great out of the tin and in the room while smoking, but it's just way way too mild for me.

In the bag smell great, like liquor and vanilla, very sweet smell. It comes with a little moist, but this is no problem for me. In the pipe the taste is very mild, pleasant but a little to mild, it burns well and cool, with no bite. For me it worth, at least three stars.

Mr. H.Gilman I have the same problem here in Portugal with the taxes and customs. I have to order small amounts of tobacco, like 100gr per order to see if it pass the customs control withou paying the taxe. All my tobacco I order from 4Noggins and Cup´Ojoes.

Nothing much to say about this tobacco apart from it smells absolutely lovely in the pack but isn't worth the match to light it.

Terrible stuff in my opinion and best used in a pot pouri bowl than a pipe bowl.