Lane Limited Captain Black Gold

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.

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.

If you hate aromatics, keep walking, try some Amphora Full. If you want a good tart burley that is dependable, easy to find and hard to get bored with, you won't be displeased here.

Be SURE to dry it sensibly! This is not like a heavily topped aromatic that will lose all flavor when dry. It does get bland and tasteless if it is too wet!

This is less cloyingly sweet than the white label. I prefer this one. The burleys and bright virginias lend some very nice natural flavor. Burley takes the lead. The citrus or honey topping is so close to a tart burley that it does NOT seem heavily topped. The flavor seems VERY reminiscent of a fainter version of Dunhill Ready Rubbed.

The room note passes the wife test with flying colors. I can smoke this indoors right before bed with no complaints and usually seeing some mischevious grins from her.

I don't notice much PG goop in this which is great. At least there seems to be less than in C Black White.

Tongue bite is not so bad as long as you sip.

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 .

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.

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.