Lane Limited BCA

I read alot of reviews on here about Lane's BCA, and since I'm usually a big fan of Lane's tobaccos, I thought I'd give it a try. Got an ounce at my local B&M, and fired it up in the parking lot. Didn't exactly blow my skirt up It was a nice enough smoke, but I didn't get anything special out of it particularly. Then I came back here and read some more reviews and saw that many of my fellow pipe smokers were mixing it with "Codger Burley" and enjoying it more. I had some H&H left over, so last night a mixed up a bowlful, and WOW!! What a nice surprise! Before the H&H had been just okay,and the BCA was way too light to smoke by itself, but blended 50/50 it's a delight!

Usually I don't smoke this by itself. I like to use it sparingly added to blends I feel burn a little too hot or could benefit from some sweetness. It lights easy enough and seems to stay that way. 1st 3rd of the bowl is not all that pleasing to me. Not too much flavor mostly hot air with creamy smoke. 2nd 3rd of the bowl is much better. Still the creamy smoke but now accompanied by a nice enough flavor of chocolate and caramel. That flavor ends quickly and turns to the classic captain black burnt cardboard taste. Final 3rd of the bowl is pretty much all hot air and burnt paper/cardboard. Leaves a nice white ash. Leaves my pipes a little damper than other blends.

To sum up. Not really anything I would smoke alone. Used as a mixer with other blends you could do worse.

Lane Limited- BCA

I’ve come to the realization that regardless of what aromatic tobacco i smoke I’m resigned to the it smells great but tastes like a bunch of nothing. I’ve really been wanting to find an aromatic I could enjoy on occasion but it’s just not in the cards.

I will rate this higher as it does smell fantastic, it’s one of those it’s not you it’s me situations.

If you love aromatics and can get some taste from them you will love this caramel/marshmallow flavor.

An acceptable smoke. Gets tired quickly. For the moments where the smoke needs to stay in the background. Must try once... you may actually like it.

Years ago I really enjoyed BCA but I just can't enjoy the last batch I purchased. I expected it to be mild but not bland. It was like smoking hot air. Maybe my tastes have changed but it was hard to find anything good about this tobacco. It was fresh and seemed to be of relatively high quality but not much else. I will try and use it for blending but by itself it is a waste of time.

My B&M sells two types of the Lane Offering. One is the BCA and the other is simply labeled Black Cavendish. I looked at the actual multi-pound bags, and they do indeed have two different names. I've tried them both, and there is a difference. The BCA has the milder flavor of the two. The Black Cavendish blend is well over the top though. I actually like the stronger blend more. The BCA is too mild for my taste buds. I do like them both, but IMHO the stronger one has more to offer in both flavor and room note.

As a side note, I mixed this with some Prince Albert and imho, it's a pretty good poor man's version of Captain Black Royal, and a whole lot cheaper too...

As an English/Balkan hound, I'm not into aromatics at all, so there are only two on the planet that I smoke. This is one of them, even though it's only once a month or so. BCA is just dependable. Easy to smoke, tasty, relaxing, contemplative, this is the one I choose on those rare occasions when a big in-your-face Balkan just won't cut it. Makes me feel good and the room note pleases.

This is my initial impression of it; I'll trying smoking it again with some extra time and all the way down and update if it changes anything. The tin note is fantastic. It's light and pleasant, almost like some sort of candy I would have had as a kid. Somewhere between burnt marshmellows and molasses. It came relatively dry, but still somewhat "dry sticky" to the touch. A little harder to light than usual, but not difficult by any means. Now, the taste. Good lord, the only thing I could have described it as was a sweet cigarette, like if a Marlboro Southern Cut was dipped in honey. Very strong chemical taste, I could only last a few minutes before dumping the bowl. Definitely some moisture even from that. The room note was somewhere in between the taste and tin note. I did enjoy how thick the smoke was, though.

Decent, but nothing special.

Kept going out on me. I dried this out for a while and still felt very damp. Worried this was a PG-fest.

Nice smoke, very mild and not ooomph at all. Nice aroma.

About as middle of the road as you can get in terms of tobacco. Perfect for starters.