Lane Limited Captain Black Gold

I don't have the years of experience that many smokers on this site have, but I now know enough to stay away from this crap. yechh!

Update: ok ok, in all fairness I tried this straight out of the bag the first time I smoked it (Bad idea). Let this stuff dry for about a week in a glass jar and it's fairly decent. I puffed it slowly in a longer churchwarden-style pipe and got a very nice maple taste with hints of honey and almonds. toward the end of the bowl it almost got too sweet like a pure cane sugar, sadly I cannot get this stuff to finish off dry...

Greetings Fellow Pipers from the Banks of the Ouachita,

I am reviewing a 3-year of pouch of CB Gold that I found in an old Swisher Sweet box that I used to stash some pipe sundries. I was running out of my other more "serious" leaf, and thought I'd give it another try before dropping some coin on a new blend.

To my surprise, the leaf was still moist enough to pass the Charmin Test (squeezable with no breakage), and perhaps the incidental aging caused it to improve in performance.

The pouch aroma hits you in the honker like a teenager's cologne after his first shave...its obvious its an aromatic but not memorable in that after a couple of days I don't even remember what aroma it was. It was pronounces but pleasant.

Packed fine and stayed lit for me. I did get slightly bit by this bowl, but I am finding that may be caused by the pipe I am using as it burned wet. But I do seem to remember relegating this pouch to a drawer after getting mouth-raped by this stuff a couple of years ago. I would therefore classify this as a tempormental leaf as the problems may be the resulting combination of the piper, the pipe & the choice of pipe weed.

I'll recommend this to a beginner whose looking to experiment without denting the budget. I have not tried other CB labels, and may not ever as I am not intrigued to delve further into the brand. I'm happy at this drug store price point with Prince Albert, which trumps GB in my opinion in Price-to-Value ratio. Give it a try if your a floater, thats what makes this a hobby.

Without Me Its Just SOME,

AWE

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My favorite Captain Black. I seem to remember it was good for blending (in small amounts). Also the only Cap'n with whom I could stay on board for the entire voyage. If I get this brand again, when I am on vacation and out of tobacco and can only find a drug or grocery store, it will be this blend, unless they have Prince Albert or Half & Half. I have some White and Royal lying around and try them once in a blue moon, but can never finish the bowl. I have to either jump ship, or mutiny and throw the captain overboard. Too goopy. This one is the least goopy, to me anyway.

1-29-11 Not so bad, really. A discussion on a pipe forum made me want to try it again, and it is not so bad. Not so bad (I will reiterate), but there are better.

I like the taste of this tobacco, how it lights, and the aroma. The problem I have is that it really bites my tongue. I'll put it away for a while, but it seems like it bites more each time I smoke it.

This version of CB lacks a bit of taste and aroma when compared to the original white version. It does not have black cavendish on it, only golden cavendish tobaccos - burley based stuff. It is pretty mild and light but lacks the enjoyment the white version brings. Even so, this blend is much more decent than many other drugstore blends out there and it is IMO an OK smoke. Casing is not as strong here and a tobacco nutiness can be perceived if you smoke gently. Nevertheless I will not be buying it again... too bland...

Ahh, couldn't even get a taste. This stuff has an unfamiliar smell. It is very blahh. Nothing to it. I won't buy this again.

While I like this blend not entirely as well as the whilte label, this blend offers it's own varying shade on captain black. I personally tend to prefer the sweeter virginian varieties, however this is probably the closest blend of Captain Black to actually tase of tobacco. The room note is probably the best quality of this tobacco, it has a very mild taste and i used it to mix in an unusually strong cherry blend i had received as a gift. like i said, i prefer a sweeter tobacco, but the nuttiness was a good change of pace, and probably a good starter tobacco.

this is a love and hate tobacco for me and one of the very few blends that can assault my tongue like a rabid dog. this one gonna be the lightest cased captain black blend,,its a tobacco that i wont recommend unless u have no other choice,,yet the casing is decent and it hold fire well and burn to white ash no moisture and the aroma is acceptable to many, if smoked slowly it can sometimes yield a cool smoke.

This was surprisingly good for a drug store tobacco, and also i was surprised to find that it is made by lane limited...but suffice it to say i did not enjoy this tobacco, it burned a little hot, maybe needs a good dry, but tasted to much like chemicals, it burned my lips giving them a chapped feeling and when i would lick them it tasted unbearable.