Lane Limited 1-Q

The fact that this is the #1 selling tobacco in the U.S. is disturbing. So this is what the masses smoke? I too, like any beginner, started with heavily cased wet tobacco as well. I must have missed this one, thankfully. The taste does not live up to the pouch aroma, not to mention the bite it lays down on your tongue - without much taste to go with it. The room note is about all that is pleasing about this blend. Only half of this blend can be smoked due to the PG & flavor content - which makes it impossible to dry out. Believe me, I tried. For a beginner, I would just assume recommend Captain Black or virtually any drug store blend over 1Q. Lane's gold cavendish or HS-3 are better alternatives for the beginner or lover of aromatics.

I tried this when I was a relatively new pipe smoker and had only tried store brands up until then. My tobacconist suggested 1-Q. I was surprised to find that the smell is pretty much all there is to this blend. After lighting there was almost no taste and the rest of the way into the bowl there was a hint of flavor but I wasnt sure if it was left over from another tobacco. It was a little to hot for my tongue. I had to light more times than I care to mention. Many have said it is a good beginners tobacco, but I wouldnt even say that. I would smoke it if I had nothing else available, but do not plan to ever purchase it again. The one thing that makes this blend worth the money spent on it is the very low cost. It is also a very good tobacco to blend with something else to tone the other down a bit, but I can't imagine any other use for it.

Lane's 1Q must be one of the most widely distributed blends around. Of course, it is found under a myriad of other names. In my case, I purchased it at a Tinderbox, two years ago, under the name Wilshire. It is a mixture of fine cut pieces with a heavy Vanilla pouch aroma. I only smoked a few bowls, and then I put it away. The Vanilla makes for a fine room aroma. Unfortunately, that is all that I taste during the smoke. I can't taste any of the underlying tobaccos. Even my hands smell like Vanilla from handling the mixture. Still this is a very popular blend, and probably not too bad for a beginning pipester. One of my concerns is that I found this little plastic bag in a kitchen drawer where I placed it two years ago. I was sure it would be bone dry. Yet, it is as fresh and wet as when I first purchased it. In fact, it is still too moist too smoke. My regular blends would have turned to powder in just a month or two. There is a ton of preservative chemicals in the blend. I would not mind smoking a bowl once or twice a year, but I won't keep any around.

If you like and smoke aromatics, you probably like or love this tobacco. If you are a pure leaf blend smoker, you\'ll really not like this. I only smoke pure leaf blends (VAs, VaPers, English, Burley, etc.) and almost never an aromatic. The only aromatic I like and smoke is CB White.

This is like caramel, cotton candy to me. Smoking this, you\'ll get a pretty strong taste of caramel and sugar. To me this is really like putting a caramel square into your mouth and sucking on it. The aftertaste stayed with me for a day and smoking it ghosted my cob. Thank god, I used a cob to try this stuff. I read so many positive reviews that when I received it, I was so excited to try it, but oh my, was there a let down. I live in the south and some folks really enjoy drinking \'sweet tea\'. I hate sweet tea and only drink black, unsweetened tea. Same with coffee. I only drink black coffee. My bland taste buds, did not enjoy this blend.

Again, not knocking anyone\'s taste buds or the aromatic crowd, but for me that only smokes pure leaf tobaccos, I really did not like this tobacco. Again, I got a lot of caramel, cotton candy out of this. If you don\'t smoke aromatics, this is probably not your blend.

I started out with this as my first tobacco I purchased in bulk. It was good, not great. It’s has an off flavor, and sour smell. Smoke was hotter and had some bite to it. I let it age and still no real change. I heard so much about this as good basic blend. Gave most of it away.

In most cases, the most widely sold product in a market is usually pretty mediocre. Bud Lite tastes like alcoholic water, Jose Cuervo gives me the worst hangover possible, etc. so I was hoping that Lane 1-Q would break the pattern in the pipe scene. Sadly, I was mistaken.

Upon lighting and drawing I expected a full-bodied black cavendish flavor backed up by heavy sugary and vanilla topping. Yet, there was nothing at all. I smoked it for some time hoping that it simply had to heat up, or that I had some residue from a previous blend covering it up, but all that emerged was a slight hint of mild virginia, with some residual sweetness. As is the case with all black cavendish blends, the room note is excellent and inviting, but there's simply no flavor to back it up in this case.

Lane 1-Q is in the same genre as Captain Black, which, while divisive, is a pretty typical aromatic with plenty of flavor. I was told by several reviewers that 1-Q was, in fact, a premium version of Captain Black -- boy, were they ever wrong. 1-Q is like the incorporeal platonic form of Captain Black. It's like a ghost, I can't tell if there's anything in the pipe. I've tried smoking it in different ways -- faster, slower, puffing, sipping, didn't matter, no flavor. All I can think of trying next is to stick it in my non-filtered pipe.

Lane 1-Q is sweet and has a nice room note, but taste is everything which it lacks. Prince Albert tastes much better and has a similar room note.

This was the first pipe tobacco I tried and almost the last. I wanted to try pipes as a nice and cheaper alternative to a cigar so was recommended this(as a lot of new smokers are) and picked up some and a cheap briar. This was not what I was expecting from pipe tobacco. The smell was good but I soon learned that no matter how I packed and hit the pipe it would give me tongue bite everytime and the tobacco did not taste natural. I also tried drying it out overnight and as others have stated this stuff does not dry out mostly due to chemicals. After a little research I learned about the different pipe tobaccos and what I ended up trying next was sone straight Va(bright CR flake) out of a cob and bam...thats the taste I was looking for in a pipe. In summary I think this is a very cheap and artificial tasting tobacco that I would be afraid to try again. I am up for trying other aros but not this one again!

This is the first Lane bulk tobacco I ever purchased. I never read the reviews, just figured it was slightly better than average. I wasn't expecting much, but some tiny bit of flavor shouldn't be considered "much". This blend smells nice in the bag, but it tastes like nothing except hot air. As other reviewers have mentioned, it smokes wet even when left to dry for a few days. It has been compared to Capt. Black, and I assume it must be one of the lighter blends. CB regular, dark, copper, even cherry, have better flavor and better smoking characteristics than this. Sadly, this is a waste, and waste goes into the garbage. Let's see if the other Lane blends I got in a sampler fair better. Absolutely not recommended.