If I dig too deep, there is a little weird aftertaste that I can't place, something acrid, metallic, but it's more than that. Must try once you may actually like it. Always keep little extra on hand. |Forums This is a major-league SWEET aromatic. I understand that is what English blend folks say about all aromatics. I dont taste the whiskey. Just ordered another 8 oz. I find it works best for me if I put it in a roll-up tobacco pouch and let it sit around for a few weeks. I smell mostly chocolate. There's nothing complex about it, but it always hits the spot with its sweet aroma and taste. Still a good tobacco, but I'll definitely be trying something else. The price if possible $ 34.00 or less. Excellent vanilla/chocolate spice taste with a pleasant room note. I'm glad I did as a stand alone tobacco its just awesome. Secondly, the blend was rather lacking in strength. Most would gravitate from starting with something like BCA toward stouter blends. 1. Purchased From: California Tobacco; California, MD, USA. Smooth and a touch sweet. I smoke about 4 oz of this a year and it's very good at what it does. If you happen to be out in the sunlight, a magnifying glass from a box of Cracker Jacks will save on matches. I keep coming back to blueberry. Experimenting can be a good thing. About four months ago, the "vanilla" flavoring just disappeared from the vanilla cavendish blend. Pleasant for the smoker, pleasant for others in the room. At 1.99 an ounce I bought 22 ounces. Nice before bed with a red wine or a cup of hot tea. What I didn't expect was the bite free, cool burning, consistent, sweet, simple smoke that Lane BCA provides when smoked on its own. I wish i could pinpoint the actual taste imitators, but alas i could not. I actually prefer it over Balkan Supreme now. 2. It didn't require having to be aired out on a plate for a while like several Macbaren aromatics I enjoy. This is my favorite daily smoke!!! Enjoy. As one who likes and enjoy dark fired kentucky which for some is a strong tobacco lane BCA is a very good change of pace. I was too excited to wait that long so I just loaded a bowl in my 9.5" Wellington. I mention it a lot. A great smooth smoking blend for the experienced smoker as well. This stuff was much better than I thought it would be! The room note is like warm brownies, fresh from the oven. It is called 50/50. It can be smoked by itself, or used as a blending tobacco. It adds just a little "something" in smaller proportions, namely a sweetness, and can help mellow out a Latakia-rich blend like a charm. Burns perfectly albeit not billows of smoke but a nice steady stream. Very cool smoking, like an ice cube and gets better as you go down the bowl. A really good tobacco to keep on hand. Even though there's definitely a lot of casing on the blend it takes a light fairly well and still burns nice. Pretty new to pipe smoking, left cigars and never looking back! I've smoked this blend off and on for many years. Beginners may have a bit of trouble in this regard, but I think it is a lot easier to dry out a wet pipe than it is to get over a burnt tongue. I absolutely never have to re-light this tobacco unless I have put my pipe down for a while. First bowl and I can tell this is immediately one of my favourites. Gets tired quickly. I bought 2oz. It brings back a lot of good memories. No tongue bite and great room note. This stuff is dirt cheap, too. Happy puffing! This to me is one that I keep returning to. Just don't put this type of tobacco in an expensive pipe! This was my first pipe tobacco. I've smoked several blends in a week or so and I can't help but feel like they all taste the same to an extent too much for me to ignore. |Pipe Shows, |Pipe & Tobacco Reviews Even 1-Q and RLP6! The room note is actually noticeable for once, even outside, and it's a great scent. What else do you need in an aromatic? ENJOY a bowl full soon. Good stuff to break in a new pipe. of tobacco, I get a good double sealed plastic baggie. Reviewed By Date Rating Strength . If you like aromatics with a little more kick, put some of that in your pipe & smoke it! I asked him what the blends were so we could add them to our line of house blends. I do not know if it was the fire-curing, but this blend is everything I could want for in an aromatic. The one thing I have to add with BCA, is that it is a nice condiment ( I believe) if you like to experiment with blending. This smokes & tastes better if you do that after you get a good burn rate started. I had high hopes for this tobacco after reading these positive reviews. So I picked up a few ounces and had a couple bowls yesterday. BCA arrives rather moist but it dries easily enough and it isnt super sweet or overly flavored. As others have mentioned, this is a great mixer. As an equal opportunity smoker (aromatics, English, just about anything I can get my hands on) I really enjoy this for a mild aromatic. The aroma and taste are a higher quality, but still typical, black cav vanilla. Very strong chemical taste, I could only last a few minutes before dumping the bowl. That flavor ends quickly and turns to the classic captain black burnt cardboard taste. Burns really pretty cool for a aromatic. The smell of it is delicious, and the room note is so pleasant. The strength is mild and nic is mild. Stays lit, burns well and leaves a dry residue. Probably the most enjoyable, delightful tobacco's I have ever put in a pipe bowl. I'm not picking up on the flavors. My wife smokes and enjoys both as well but gives a slight preference to BC-A. Virtually no bite to the tongue. this tobacco is a room pleaser with everyone enjoying the scent. | It was smoking hot, just wasn't enjoying it, lovely as it is. Moisture content is not too wet, about right. A little wet straight from the bulk bagbut that's easily fixed. It somehow only seemed to stretch my 1Q without really adding much flavor, only enhancing vanilla smells while reducing it's musky, peppery qualities. I would never smoke anything like this by itself. Lane BCA, or Black Cavendish Aromatic, is the first pipe tobacco I ever smoked nearly 30 years ago, and it's still my absolute favorite! i`d be sitting with wilson enjoying the view and smoking this mixture all day long. I quickly noticed that their most popular blends, and the ones that I liked best, were full of this rich black stuff. Giving my impressions of the Karl Erik freehand, as well of this famous aromatic mixture, Lane's 1Q/BCA. A very mild, tasty smoke. I would recommend this aromatic to anyone, but what do I know? SmokingPipes.com. fresh. Before the H&H had been just okay,and the BCA was way too light to smoke by itself, but blended 50/50 it's a delight! The tabicky burned to a fine white ash and I had no problem with ghosting of my bowl or tongue bite. The room note, however, is very pleasant. For me, BCA is the comfort food of pipe tobacco. There's a glass of tawny port just waiting to go with this at the end of the day! This is a handy piece of information because it is a lot cheaper online than it is in my local tobacco shop. Pipe Tobacco Lane 1-Q Pipe Tobacco Ratings266 As low as $2.97 5 Options Profile Lane BCA Pipe Tobacco Ratings118 As low as $2.97 Why? This is the blend for sweetness and a great tobacco taste. I used to smoke this in an Armellini calabash, and it was superb. Smooth, sweet, mild, low maintenance with great room note. Easy light, smooth smoke, wonderful, full flavor that lasts the whole bowl. It doesn't smoke as cool as past reiterations (2008) i have cellard. Surprisingly clean burning. I keep both on hand at all times and enjoy both very much with 1Q taking a slight preference. I cannot smoke Black Cavendish by itself as it tends to gunk up in the bowl. It was a very relaxing and mild smoke. Room note is a hint of vanilla. Easily an all day smoke, even when i have tobaccos i want to try that i've bought recently, i find it hard to stray away from this because it is such a great tobacco blend, and as led to quite a few disappointments in other tobaccos, because they just don't match the quality i find in BCA. . When smoked has a very pleasant room note, produces huge clouds of fragrant smoke, does not bite, but does not have much flavor either. For the cost, it is a great vanilla buy, but nothing I would stock up on and want to smoke on a consistent basis. Well here he comes with Lane BCA and a MM Pony Express Cob. Lane 1Q Pipe Tobacco is amazingly popular.Void of any factory packaging and very unremarkably named, it's surprising that Lane 1Q pipe tobacco easily ranks among the best-selling pipe tobacco in the world. |Privacy I will say that it does color a meerschaum very well and I did not experience the same problems in a meerschaum. A pleasant, mild and enjoyable tobacco all the way around. | Sometimes useful for blending. If you pack it loose you won't get that soap taste many complain about & I used to taste when I packed with a heavy hand. This is highly recommended for someone who is just being introduced to pipe smoking. So i strolled down to Little Anthony's tobacco shop at the heart of Auburn University to give this one a second try. Lane Limited - BCA Edit this tobacco Favorite Wishlist Subscribed Fire-cured Cavendish tobaccos discreetly flavored to produce an extremely mild, slow burning cool smoke. After learning how to properly pack, light and smoke a pipe, BCA will give a pleasant, dry smoke from start to finish, and at the end the gray ash can be emptied out of the bowl by simply turning the pipe upside down. Has a nice, smooth, sweet taste. Sweet but not goopy, just incredibly mellow, with no sharp edges. The tobacco was moist to the touch coming out of bulk and I smoked it that way with no air time, but I do recommend some air time for BCA. Burns at a reasonable pace, cool and clean with a very smooth, consistent flavor. Maybe my tastes have changed but it was hard to find anything good about this tobacco. It was purchased with the intent to blend it with other stronger tobaccos, but it is a very good aromatic by itself. This is better than Captain Black. The closest to BCA in the Captain Black line would be Captain Black Dark. Whatever relationship it has to tobacco eludes me. Hell my wife couldn't even tell I smoked a bowl. Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note; Sunday (27) 2013-09-12: Mild to Medium: Mild: Mild: . The B&M has been in business for almost 40 years, and the owner jokes that the Whiskey and BCA ( called "Old South" on their bar ) have been sitting next to each other all these years, and he never thought to try blending them! I preferred Lane 1 Q over this & FWIW, my favorite aromatic blend will probably always be Erik Stokkebye's, 4th Generation Family Reserve &/or Bagpiper's Dream much more strength & flavor. I think there are better options to fill this niche in my pantry, for example Missouri Meerschaum's Great Dane. Add to this a bit of black licorice aroma and I think that's a reasonable description. Nice spicy overtones when smoking, though! I don?t keep tons of this on hand, but I always like to have some around. Taste is more of a wet chemical steam-which while not unpleasent isn't fulfilling either. 1q, ENGLISH MIXTURE. Stronger/deeper flavors mainly. It has a nice balance of nut & fruit fusion, unlike the typical vanilla & cherry all black blends out there. So mello and smooth. YepThis is the one! If you are in the mood for a sweet dessert of a smoke, give this one a try. Maybe it's my packing technique. --Flavor: Not quite what the pouch aroma advertisesactually, I find it to be better. I haven't found a better black cavendish, It could be used as an all day smoke it's that smooth and cool, (it would probably eventually get boring though). I am by no means a fan of aromatics, but there are a couple that I enjoy on occasion. 2 stars. One suspects it will be way, way too aromatic, but as it burns it's not that way at all. When I weighed the bags on a postage scale I was relieved that they didn't and saved myself what would have been a very embarrassing phone call. I can't seem to agree. Commercially it is sold as Captain Black Royal. Not bad but I'm not wild about aromatics, and if i were, it would be molto dolce. It doesn't have as much nicotine as I'd like but it is by far my favorite smoke right now. Room note is very pleasant, and aftertaste is good. If you are new to pipe smoking, try this. BCA is moist, but not wet and it will dry out if left to do so. While shopping for a new pipe (ended up getting a used estate Tilshead while there) I packed a bowl of this dark stuff and it sure made shopping fun! I recently started letting it dry out for 5 minutes before smoking and I have no problems. That sums it up pretty well I hope you give this a try you won't be disappointed! I can load up a pipe with BCA anytime and know that I'll have a pleasurable time with it. Nonsmokers tend to like the fragrance of BCA, and often comment at some length about how they can't stand cigarette or cigar smoke but love to smell pipe tobacco, which they feel is more "natural." One of my favorite in the Lane bulk aromatic catagory. Burns normal with a few extra relights. Lane BCA pipe tobacco blends fired-cured Cavendish tobaccos to create a mellow, cool, smooth experience. It would work great for lighting firecrackers or used as kindling to easily start a campfire with a flint rock. If you can master the art of keeping it lit, the rest is just an enjoyable ride. For instance I give you the following for examples: These are Lane tobaccos and their cross to Tinder Box names 1Q= WilshireRLP-6= Chartwell.BCA= Midnight and Peter Stokkebye Nougat= North Sea, Peter Stokkebye Cherry= TB Anniversary and finally PS Black Vanilla= Captain Spice. This is an easy compromise. This is a good blend from Lane. For an aromatic smoke, it is hard to beat Lane's BCA. Never got tongue bite, not even when puffed too hard for testing purposes. I don't normally dry out to tobacco so i didn't this one either. It does require quite a bit of drying time before it's ready to be stoked but it has a surprisingly good burning rate considering the dampness & stickiness while rubbing it between your fingers. I will recommend to aromatic fans, but remember to dedicate a pipe to this blend because the flavor stays in the pipe for a long time. I'm on the search for the tastiest Vanilla/Cavendish combo. The next week I bought 8oz more. I have yet to find a better Black Cavendish Aromatic. Strong vanilla taste with what would appear to be just a hint of licorice. Lots of goop! Unfortunately, this blend let me down. FREE Shipping on all US orders over $95 | When Will My Package Ship. I do not recommend this as it dried out really quick and was very easy to suck through the stem. That is- a way to get your craving taken care of, while puffing away like mad! That being said, you are far from the only one to find them a little "bland" tasting. Liquor and chocolate are the first to disappear, sugar hangs out a little longer, and vanilla is the last to go at 3/4's the way. It can be used to blend your own mixes, added to strong blends to mellow them out, or added to sweeten just about any blend. I feel at the same price point, the Stokkebye Black Cherry Cavendish is much better because it has no bitterness and no bite. I have tried about all of the sweetened Black Cavs and to me this is the best. This tobacco is probably the base tobacco of 90% of all those small b&m "house blends". The flavour is brilliant: mainly a sweet chocolate and vanilla Cavendish. This is the blend that nobody will complain about.Wonderful aroma and a smooth rich taste. I am completely new to the pipe tobacco community, but Ive always loved the smell of an aromatic pipe tobacco. A much better tobacco than 1Q. This is one of the best black cavendishes that I've had. All in all, it isn't a bad smoke. BCA has such a broad range of smells and tastesberries, nuts, marshmellos, rum (whiskey is claimed, but it tastes more like rum to me), really sweet tastes, and remarkably complex. When I do this is one of the tobaccos I choose to puff on along with RLP-6 which is another blend from Lane! It became my favorite pipe tobacco, and it has been ever since. This tobacco, this tobacco Francine, oh my God, this tobacco, oh my God!" The taste is simple but enjoyable without any of that chemical flavor. Captain Black: Original. candle wax, plastic taste when you smoke it like many other of its peers. Leaves a nice white ash. Beginners will enjoy it for its sweet smoke and low maintenance, veterans will enjoy the layers of flavor it has to offer. Every now and then I decide to right a review of a blend that seems so well known I'm not sure why I bother. Mellow in . http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/my-comfort-blend. It was like smoking hot air. I've bought better black cavendish in bulk from the cigarette store. Many have tried to copy but have failed. A single tobacco component - black cavendish - and a little topping? I have smoked BCA for so long, I should have wrote this long ago. Featuring a wide range of the best Aromatic, English and Virginia/ Perique blends on the planet, this popular smoke is a must in all specialty tobacco stores. It works well as a first smoke of the day with coffee, a good afternoon or after work smoke, its nice and sweet after an evening meal, and is relaxing and pleasant enough as a just-before-bedtime smoke. Creamy to say the least. Pair this tobacco in the morning with a bagel / muffin and a light breakfast blend coffee. This is an extremely satisfying smoke, that . Good socially, Good in Private. |Home And, yes it is just Black Cavendish tobacco, a blending tobacco worthy of a bowl all to itself. 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