Lane Limited Captain Black Gold

I cut my teeth on this tobacco and made many friends by smoking it in public . I no longer smoke it as my tastes have changed over the years , but I would recommend it for the beginner , especially for breaking in your wife to your new hobby .

Package note of vanilla, tart fruit and hay. Tobacco cut is ribbon cut, and mostly brown, a little dark brown, and a small amount of tan. Tobacco is quite moist. needs drying a bit. Burns somewhat fast with few relights. The strength is mild and nic is zero. Flavoring is mild, with notes of vanilla. Taste is mild and consistent, with notes of lemon, sweet grass, and bread. Virginias are leading, supported by flavoring. Room note is pleasant, and aftertaste is ok.

This was the second tobacco I ever smoked and as a beginner it wasn’t bad. Since that time I’ve had the opportunity to smoke a dozen different tobaccos, and I would never smoke this again unless I was in a pinch.

Gets hot fast. Some people recommend learning to smoke on this in the same way you might give a new driver a manual transmission, with the theory being that if you can smoke this without tongue bite you can smoke anything.

The taste is expectedly one note, though there are some subtle variations you can nose out here and there as you go deeper into the bowl. Has that pleasant Captain Black “dusty old cellar” quality. The general flavor is a pretty uniform mix of honey, caramel, orange, and hay. Sometimes there’s an occasional note of toasted mash mellow or blonde coffee that comes and goes.

I find that this is too finicky and unpleasant to recommend and the flavor itself isn’t that great even if you didn’t have to fight it. It might be worth learning how to smoke this stuff if it actually was rewarding, but I think I’ll pass. Might be good for blending with something else, but that’s about all I can say for it.

(Plus it’s the only tobacco that irritates mine and the misses eyes for some reason?)

not recommended because CB gold can give you a chemical bite even when you follow good pipe smoking protocols as for taste its nice but you still have to search for it . im sure there is lots of better options .

This was another "fill an order" pouch I recently bought, with no expectations beyond being a basic filler smoke. It lived up to my lack of expectation, with a mildly sweet non-threatening aroma that was boring and smelt 'old' from a cardboard-esque smell.

The pouch bulged from the bounciest cut I have ever come across, it was like a new pillow that was so full, I thought they snuck in a few ounces one me! It was hard to gauge how much to pack, as experience kept telling me I already had too much in there, but then I'd light it and it would pack down into half a bowl.

The puff itself was "meh" and as dry as a left open tin. It burned quickly and ashy. Catching me off guard with a few coughs. Thankfully it wasn't overly topped, yet sadly the quality was not there to make up for the boring lack of aromatics.

It exists primarily as a cheap, emergency "grocery store" smoke for those on a fixed budget. It 'may' be a hair above the rest, buy honestly... who cares.

The Captain - Gold

A very nice room note. I remember a girl I was friends with commenting that it was "a nice touch, a nice winter touch." Otherwise, no tobacco flavor and no nicotine either. What flavor there is is a chemically sort of vanilla as I remember. Attempts to puff up some power from The Captain will lead you to burn your tongue and maybe also the roof of your mouth, because this is one hot wet smoke. I mean, you dont know what tongue bite is til you've puffed on this. And it will make your pipe gurgle with moisture and goop.

These comments go for Captain Black Regular also.  For whatever reason I seem to remember the Gold (King Midas in reverse) as smoking slightly dryer and not biting quite as hard, but insofar as smoking characteristics I doubt I'd be able to tell the difference between the two in a blind test.

I thought I might as well try this blend, and well, it met my (modest) expectations. It's not at all unlike huffing Glade air freshener. I'm mostly a fan of English and Balkan blends, but enjoy an occasional aromatic.

The pouch smell is delicious, sweet and chocolate like a breakfast like a breakfast pastry. It's a little damp set of blond ribbons.

On lighting, it burns well and I get slapped in the face with aromatic chemicals like visit to the ladies perfume counter with an aggressive sample-dispensing attendant.

Mid bowl, the topping remains overbearing. Very careful sipping keeps me on the ragged edge of tongue bite.

Finishing, I get a little suggestion of tobacco flavor.

While I consider a lifetime plus of dumpster-aging, I may keep this around to set the baseline against which other tobacco seems an improvement.

Room smell is fantastic.

Disappointed like waking up on Christmas Day to find out that your presents have been stolen. Is a more pleasant feeling than smoking this stuff. If you want to get an idea of what tongue bit is and how bad it can be put this in your pipe and smoke it. Not going to buy that stuff again. I love captain black royal. Tried the gold because that was all that was instock. Should have waited.