Lane Limited Captain Black Gold

One of my first purchases. I figured it was cheap and quite popular so I couldn't go wrong. It's alright but I won't be keeping this one in my arsenal. One can smell the vanilla but there isn't much flavor in the smoke. Just as well because this tobacco is missing something for me.

Strong chocolate aroma, but you have to smoke slowly to get that delicate taste out of the blend. If you get tongue bite after smoking, try using a filter - it helped me enjoy this blend much better. As for the taste, sometimes I'm getting a very sweet taste, but most of the time there's only the chocolate aroma but not the actual sweetness; don't really know why I'm getting different results.

Mild honey and grass flavor with light vanilla undertones. Puff slowly as tongue bite lurks here. Not nearly as good as Royal or Dark. It works if you are out and need tobacco, but this won't be making my rotation.

Virginia in Golden Cavindish, tastes sweet and good but has an aggressive bite on the tongue, I am a regular Va smoker but could not stand the pain in my tongue. Now after I mixed it 50/50 with CBW it is much better

Sure there are much better aromatic pipe tobaccos, BUT as for this price it's a quite good one. There might be a little bit tongue-bite effect if you smoke it to hurriedly, so it would be better for a non-haste session rather than a walk. It's not so chemical as Petersons, not so heavy as it's brother Captain Black Regular.

What I highly recommend is to mix CB Gold (40%) with Latakia (40%) and Virginia/Oriental (20%) - Captain Black Gold is a great component to create your own English/Scottish Mixture. As a pipe tobacco itself I would give 2 stars, but as an ingredient to pipe mixture I would give strong 3 and a half.

Within my duty as the one and only Mad Piper, I thought that I should offer a bit of an in depth review to this blend... albeit shoddy. Now I will try any blend at least once for the sake of trying it and helping out those out in the pipe world. But I shan't waste an ounce of snobbery, despite it stemming from a well being for pipe smokers.

Well I think Captain Black Gold really isn't bad, yet not good either. I call this the "quasi-careless hipster" blend y'know? I say this because of the fact that you'll see some hipster get into pipe smoking who'll buy a decent Brigham pipe for about $85 or more yet kind of give up when he sees the other tobaccos. Too lazy to learn anything else about it, he chooses the glittery Captain Black Gold thinking it has to be the best of the best from the pouch blends based on its dull brassy-gold pouch. Pardon the arrogance my dear hipsters, but it is my speculation as to your choice in tobacco after getting that Brigham Acadian #59.

ANYWAYS! Back to the main review at hand! So the aroma you get when you crack open the pouch right away is such a heavy smack of vanilla. By God, I have had some vanilla aromatics in my day, but this is like taking a DEEP whiff of a super sweet sort of vanilla ice cream but with less of a creamy note to it and more of a saccharine aroma. Soon after you get the kick of the Virginia tobaccos right after the aromas subside.

Giving a little poke at the tobacco, you can just feel the moisture of the humectants and toppings right off the bat. Mmm, delicious glycerine. Drink it up kids! I'd advise letting this blend to sit on a paper towel to dry out if you so choose, and take the opportunity to clean out that little pouch to help improve the quality of transporting your tobacco in that lovely little pouch. 5-10 minutes tops should be good to get some of the liquids out.

The blend packs fairly easily into a pipe with the three step method and offers a decent draw. Charring light took a bit before the true light got everything going after the tamp.

Now the flavours on this are not very heavy. It just tastes like a simple tobacco with a subtle overlay of a slight vanilla tinge. Nothing special, nothing fancy. An oddly basic drugstore tobacco. It's no mind boggling taste but it gets the job done. Friend said the room note was pleasant, so it's a good blend to enjoy out in public if you want a simple yet satisfying smoke but you want to be mindful of others.

Personally, I cannot say this is a favourite. Yet like I mentioned, it gets the job done. A simple smoke with some vanilla notes from the casing that'll get the job done if you're looking to unwind on a lunchbreak. Just a quick smoke to have if you don't have the time to ponder upon the subtle nuances of a rich Three Nuns or Balkan Sasieni.

Some pairings that I could suggest for this would be just a simple coffee, either black or with a li'l splash of flavoured creamer.

Best pipe to smoke it from? Well, I'd say something with a decent filter system. The moisture on this thing if you smoke it right out of the pouch could drown your pipe if you don't use a rock maple insert or a Medico filter. Your pipe stem will thank you, as will your tongue.

Now go forth and enjoy!

A very simple tobacco. Has a nice aroma / room note but the taste is more neutral and towards the "tongue bite" side if not smoked carefully.

Captain Black Gold is a flavored golden cavendish, only cavendish tobaccos. It is heavily cased with artificial essences and the taste is really ordinary. In my opinion the result is mediocre and in my opinion this is a commercial tobacco. It burns very fast, even if moist and this is a visible sign of a common casing with artificial ingredients. In my personal system rating (from 1 to 10) my score is 5 and 2 stars.

A light flavor that worked well on a blazing hot day. It needed to be smoked slowly to keep tongue bite down and the flavor sweet. I enjoyed it with an A&W Cream Soda that really improved my enjoyment of the tobacco. I'm not sure I would want to smoke this one very often, but it does have a way of making you slow down and relax.