Lane Limited 1-Q

Lane Limited's 1-Q? I've got good news and bads new about this popluar traditional blend.

The bad? It's a super-cheap-dime-store-tobacco masquerading as a quality smoke at your local tobacconist, that taste like cardboard, is loaded with chemicals and juiced up with Vanilla flavor to mask the cheap Virginias and fool the masses with a pleasent aroma.

The good?? Theres plenty of it!

New to pipes, I looked around online and this seemed like a favorite. I'm not sure why. It smells nice and it's cheap, but that's about it. The plastic, chemical undertone and aftertaste, while not nearly as bad as Captain Black Regular, is still unpleasant. It's also one of the more difficult of the tobaccos I've tried (five so far) to keep lit. I'm glad I tried other tobaccos, otherwise this and CBR would have made me give up pipes at the start.

Room note is ok but it has very little flavor. It seems Lane has relied on the glycol for furnishing the flavor as well as serving as a humectant. It is so soaked with propylene glycol it is nearly impossible to light. Surprisingly, it doesn't bite and it leaves little goop in the bowl considering how wet it smokes. I suppose I could have tried to dry it out but it had so much glycol in it that I could have set it on a sunlit rock for decades and it would remained imcombustable. I like aros but this stuff is awful.

I was excited to try this since it was recommended to me buy a guy i bought a pipe from and the guy at the tobacco store said its a top seller. basically bought enough for a couple bowls. tried one right away. lit it up meh its ok i felt like it got worse as i went on. not a really good flavor it smelt decent tho just really nothing to write home about. i didnt even finish the whole bowl. just really didnt like it. gave me kind of a sick feeling like after you eat something thats not that great but you eat it anyway thats what i got just overall not that impressed. i give it 1 star just because it started off alright and no tongue bite. maybe someday i will give it another whirl but not something im buying anytime soon.

What is wrong with the world today? Why is this one of the most widely sold blends on the planet? Ahh- the questions I have for the almighty! This crud is for the birds. Tasted like just another vanilla cased drug store blend at first and then gets nauseous. This is another blend my poor uninformed wife brought home from the local tobacco store when she was trying to be nice. They must of seen her as a poor defenseless victim to push this crap onto. They might as well tried to give her dope! It would have been less criminal. I fired it up to make her happy and waited for her to wander off so I could dipose of the rest in a biohazard bag, before going to retch in the commode! Please do yourself a favor and look somewhere else for your cheap stuff. I agree with Kerdy in that Captain Black Blue is a much better alternative.

This one is just alright.. it has a bit of an "off" taste to me that I just can't put my finger on. It has a good flavor, but very little tobacco and the flavoring seems more artificial than say LL-7 or Stokkebye Nougat. I like it and would smoke it again, but wouldn't buy it over say LL-7.

REVIEW EDITED: FOR SOME REASON A HALF-SMOKED BOWL OF THIS CAN SOMETIMES SMELL LIKE BEEF JERKY. WHAT THE HECK? AND LIKE MOST LANE BULK PRODUCTS LOADED WITH HUMECTANT.

KETCHUP? BBQ SAUCE????????? NOT IN A GOOD WAY.

Think of the relationship between a Big Mac to a steak. The steak has more nutrition, natural flavor and quality, but it is harder to eat and not very sociable. The Big Mac easily fits in the hand, is heavily sugared and salted and dosed in piquant sauce, and can be easily acquired at low cost.

This same difference applies to tobacco. Lane Limited 1-Q aromatic pipe tobacco serves a sort of tobacco "junk food" in that it is highly sweetened, smells and tastes of vanilla, and leaves behind a room note better than unnoticeable; it is outright pleasant. You can smoke it all day and your neighbors will not complain because it smells like vanilla-chicory potpourri. You will also not experience any level of nicotine that will stimulate your brain, possibly leading to complex thoughts that may disturb your otherwise carefully constructed web of illusions which convinces you that your life and your civilization are doing Just Fine.

On the other hand, 1-Q suffers because it is balanced toward the sweet flavoring which obscures any natural flavor of the tobacco, and as a result it misses the richness and intensity of less-processed tobacco. Its somewhat wet appearance leads to wondering what it has been soaked in to produce this mild smouldering effect, and while it burns cleanly down to white-grey ash, its taste staggers somewhat from overly sweet to a charred non-entity during the smoke.

Mixing this tobacco with richer blends can soften them a bit and camouflage the thick clouds of dark and powerful smoke they leave behind, but in my view, this is a sociable tobacco. Much like going to McDonald's and getting everyone a Big Mac will produce no complaints because it is inoffensive, this sugared tobacco will fit into any social occasion where the tobacco KGB still allow us to smoke. Women love its graceful scent and you would have to burn a heap of it to get any kind of nicotine overdose. At the same time, this may not be a satisfying blend for those who like a rugged or full-flavored smoke.

Quite simply the single worst tobacco I've ever smoked! Absolutely no flavor, no taste, whatsoever. As far as the room note goes, I didn't notice it at all ( I always smoke outside). I cannot believe people smoke this. Someone else said you might as well be smoking colored paper. Sadly, I had to put that statement to the test. I did. And he was right.

Often times this is the first pipe tobacco a tobacconist sells to a new pipe smoker. Fortunately, there are far better blends available. This one burns somewhat hot and produces a lot of steam, which in turn will burn the tongue.