Lane Limited Captain Black Gold

I finally managed to get a pouch of Captain Black White from Germany.

I had been wanting to try for some time and it wasn't quite what I had expected. But then pipe tobacco can be like that. An anti-climax.

I mean it's got favorable reviews in here but what one smoker finds to like in a blend another does not.

Oh, it's not bad. As a supposed supermarket shelf tobacco in the US it certainly compares favorably with anything on these shores' supermarket kiosks.

We have St Bruno, Condor, Gold Blend, B & H, Drum plus something called Pall Mall, a brand I thought was only cigarettes which seem to have invaded our corner shops in the last few years.

Captain Black has been likened to MacBaren's Seven Seas, a brand available only by internet where I live. It shares a pouch fragrance with Seven Seas although with little more alcoholic nuance.

This tobacco seems quite moist although loads from the pouch and lights and burns with little maintenance.

However - and even virtual beginners will know this - the initial aroma from the pouch only follows through to the smoke in 95% of cases. This is where the similarity with MacBaren's Seven Seas stops.

It doesn't taste of anything much even after the initial light and that's its downside really.

No bite even when pushed.

It a pleasant enough smoke and Mrs RH has made no comment so we can assume the room note is pretty ordinary.

Worth dragging it across the pond ?

Nah not especially, buy Seven Seas instead.

Its was my first tobacco, i while loved when smoked. The Smell oh! so wonderful, pitty that lasts a few days only. On air enjoy who are around you. But after know others better tobacco, you see that if not be careful its burn your tounge, and bite a little, so i hope that one day i find a similar of this but with more quality.

An oldie and a fair one. This is used when ever you are in need and all you can find is a drug store that has Captain Black. I'm sure that it works out well for a beginner, helps ease into the pipe experience. All and all it wasn't an unpleasant smoke but it wasn't noteworthy either. I would say for a beginner try it for someone that smokes more then once or twice a week move on.

The notorious captain.. that beautiful aroma.. but what else to mention.. not much.. a great introductory blend that will be popular as long as it is produced.. but one which if smoked regulary will become nauseating.. i like it on occassion but it is a little bit ill behaved and not very natural tasting.. i like the smell in the tin (or bucket if you will) more than the aroma when smoked.. very enticing.. smokes very moist - maybe you should dry it out a bit.. but i get a very chemical flavor.. and even if i blend it with other things it dominates and destroys.. i tried adding a little rum to it which helped with the flavor but not much with the smoking - it became even harder to smoke.. well well what was i excpecting?

Considering all aromatics i´ve smoked before, this one is what i can almost call "neutral". I mean, it still in the 'aromatic family', it has some artificial sweetener in there, but the tobacco flavor is the main character and also, specially for beginners, doesn't turns your bowl in a devil´s chamber overheating your pipe as the aromatic used to do. I consider an all-day smoke bc doesn't bite and has a good price for its quality. IMO its way better than 7seas gold.

First of - this will bite if it is puffed too quickly. This is an unimpressive Golden Cavendish, not bad, but there is nothing that separated it from the the crowd. The pouch note and room note are OK, but again nothing unique. The taste is grassy, I did not detect a dominate casing. For me, I do not have the desire to nurse a tobacco to keep my tongue from catching on fire!

This was the first pipe tobacco I ever smoked, and despite it's ups and downs, because of that i will always have a soft spot for it.

The very first bowl I tried was very pleasant, but also very much a novelty as the first bowl I had ever smoked. Shortly after I tried FM on the town, and it blew my mind, and in turn the CB gold out the water. I continued to smoke the CB gold over the following month or so as I learnt more about pipe smoking. Breaking in new pipes and struggling with school boy issues, such as tongue bite, this tobacco was at times cursed and mocked as awful, but as time has gone on I now believe I have a good grasp of it.

I don't believe this is in anyway a bad tobacco, and certainly not awful, but it isn't going to blow you away. I had the pouch with me for a while, and would dip into it at any time of day without discontent. I'm not sure I would recommend this to anyone else as a first tobacco, but it has treated me well, and who knows I may buy some again at some point in the future to reminisce on my first pipe smoking experiences.

Overall I would struggle to really recommend this tobacco, but wouldn't pass it up in a pinch.

I can't believe I never reviewed Captain Black Gold, given that I smoked it almost exclusively for nearly 25 years (until the Internet introduced me to the wonderful world of premium pipe tobaccos).

What I liked about CBG when I smoked it regularly was that it was inoffensive, it tasted of vanilla, it was easy to light and it didn't gunk up my pipes like a lot of other drug store pipe tobaccos (including CB White and CB Royal). What I like less about it now that I am a pipe tobacco connoisseur (yuck yuck) is that it is rather bland and tastes of practically nothing but vanilla.

I had an unopened can of CBG for a long time. Instead of throwing it away, I used it this past year to make RYO cigarettes, which I smoke sometimes when I don't have time for a pipe. They tasted pretty good and better than most commercial cigarettes. Who says you can't go home again?

Was very skeptical about it from the start, but circumstances aligned in such a way that I could not avoid the purchase and I was pleasantly surprised.

What we have here is a solid stock tobacco with hottish burn, some steady bite, but a pleasant herbish, creamish, vanilish boquet, which kind of makes me think virginia + vanilla, although this is a brown cavendish.

The bouquet is really there, not overbearing, but clearly present through the whole smoke. Tobacco is there too, so it isn't just the sauce.

I would even get it again if nothing else is available, actually, at this price CB Gold is a fair game.