Lane Limited 1-Q

What more needs to be said? This is the quintessential pipe tobacco. It is fairly mild, but tasty, has an awesome room note, and your tobacco collection would be remiss without it. Chances are, if you like smoking a pipe, you’ll like this blend.

A base of Golden Cavendish with a dash of Fire-Cured Black Cavendish provides this blend with a tasty and flavorful aroma. This is a good Anytime blend and can be equally enjoyed in any size pipe. Good slow-burning qualities.

Not that this needs another review but here's my 2 cents: I love 1Q! Its room note is amazing, the taste is superb and best if all it comes in at bargain prices. The best wsy to describe the taste is Sweet! There's cavendish carmel and some vanilla in there, but overwhelmingly, 1Q is sweet. Its like eating candy. I fell in love with 1Q early on and it remains one of my daily staples. For the price, I don't know of a better smoke to be had.

Revised 7/3/23: After a couple of years of trying all kinds of tobaccos, I settled on English tobaccos as my favorite. The only aromatic I continue to smoke is Davidoff Danish Mixture.

I regard 1-Q as being important in my "pipe smoking journey" because it helped me to learn to taste tobacco that was burning at a proper rate. Initially I was puffing too hard and burning the tobacco to an ash-like taste. By slowing down and smoking 1-Q I could relate to the expected vanilla flavor, and I eventually developed a correct technique. If you like 1-Q, try the Davidoff Danish Mixture. There's a lot of similarity, and I think the Davidoff is better.

Original review:

I like 1-Q because it has a great mouth feel and is a good change of pace after smoking English, VaPers, and Danish style aromatics for a while. I sense it as a sweet flavor with some vanilla flavor on retrohale. I can understand why it is as popular as it is. I always keep some and smoke it regularly.

This is my favorite vanilla aromatic. My least favorite vanilla is Sutliff Z92 Vanilla Custard because it is so heavily flavored.

Mouth feel of 1-Q is the best of any tobacco I've tried. It really is a pleasure and I wish more tobaccos could duplicate this quality.

Technique notes: My smoking technique is to focus only on smoking. No reading or work or other distractions. Just enjoying the smoke. Outdoors only. A few bowls per week of pipe smoking. Lightly charring the tobacco initially and with relights. Sipping. Occasional retrohale. Peterson pipe lighter with smallest practical flame. Sometimes a BIC EZ Reach lighter.

Am using a variant of the Frank method to pack a 2/3 full pipe without first putting loose tobacco in the bowl. I just take a wad of tobacco and press it into place Frank-style. Tobacco is stored in OXO POP container with size 60 Boveda 72% pack.

Savinelli 207 smooth is my favorite pipe and favorite pipe design.

I was really wondering to taste this tobacco. Fresh sample has nice aroma after pure vanilla. To be honest, I was very excited when I tried first bowl. Smoking was pleasant, smooth with vanilla taste almost whole duration of seeping. First bowl of this tobacco was awesome. My experience with this tobacco was less idealistic next time, but honestly, I now understand why is this aromatic U.S. best seller.

Nice creamy Cavendish blend with a real light vanilla flavoring. I get a little vanilla, cocoa, nuts, a tiny bit of wood, and smokeyness. The light addition of fire-cured adds just enough edge and complexity to make things interesting, and toward the end of a larger bowl I notice somewhat of a rich savory build-up as the flavors come together and the casings/toppings slowly dissipate. Overall A simple but enjoyable, mild smoke with a good room note. Comes a little moist, but is smokeable as-is. Doesn't bite. Little nicotine.

I can see why so many people swear by 1q. It's one of the few aromatics I can actually come back to without getting bored halfway through a bowl. It's also excellent when mixed with other tobaccos. I'd highly recommend trying it with an English. I'm serious just try it. I don't smoke 1q very often, maybe once a month. But when I do it's always surprised me, and keeps me indoors firmly planted on the couch.

Tin/bag note: caramel, toffee, vanilla, virginia, hay, very slight baking spice

Flavor: this is the first aromatic that tasted like I had hoped/expected from the tin note. This in my relatively inexperienced opinion is basically the perfect ratio of flavor from the topping and the flavors of the component tobaccos coming through

Strength: mild to medium it can burn a bit hot due to how smooth and tasty it is messing up your cadence.

Room note: not as good as I expected, walking out of the room and coming back in after about 10 minutes, a little sour in my opinion but not very strong.

Moisture level: perfect, smokes great right out of the bag, this may vary though so yours may run a little dry and require moisture added or run a little wet and require a small amount of drying time.

Overall: A great inexpensive blend that is aromatic without completely masking the flavors of the tobacco. I think everyone should at least give 1q a chance. Dense smoke, excellent flavor, well behaved, what more could you ask for except that flavor coming through to the very end of the bowl but I think that's almost impossible to achieve. And on top of all that it's always in stock

Very pleasant and easily smoked cavendish with mild aromatic scents. I've smoked this under the name of 'Ducat' for some 20 years and the only one who complains is my wife... who hates all smoke. Everyone else who smells it says it reminds them of their beloved Grandfather! Love the way it smokes and easily burns.

First of all, don't pay any attention to any negative or objectionable reviews about Lane's 1 Q. If you do, you'll be missing out on one of the finest flavored & enjoyable aromatics on Planet Earth. It does not bite & doesn't necessarily have to be sipped. The extra sweet taste will provide you with a delicious chocolaty caramel flavoring and vanilla & or something akin to marzipan... like being able to smoke a Milky Way candy bar.

At the halfway point, I noticed a chocolate flavoring more than the vanilla. Also, the tobacco itself does possess enough nicotine to satisfy a craving. The nicotine is just above the mild range. It is not really a totally wimpy blend when it comes to getting a supply of Vitamin N, especially when smoked in a larger bowl. It is not a goopy aromatic & on the plus side, provides a good burn rate. If not properly dried out it will produce extra condensation & I've found that drying it out to the proper moisture content will not diminish the flavor.

I'll also add that I'm not a total user of aromatic blends but can certainly enjoy a good one to the fullest for a change of pace and the room note of 1 Q provides an enticing aroma that even non-smokers will enjoy as well. However, Erik Stokkebye's 4th Generation Family Reserve will always be my favorite aromatic blend. 1 Q is an outstanding aromatic blend which is the reason it's number one in sales of this genre.