Cigar Bum Drugstore Pipe Tobacco Reviews

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Alrighty guys, life slowed down for a few hours and I got to enjoy myself a nice cigar tonight. But first, as promised to Tobias, I smoked a bowl of his OTC sampler to write a short review on it! I didn't want to ruin my taste buds before smoking this beautiful pouch of dentist cherry goodness, so of course I went with the pipe first.

I'm going to steal the format from a few other reviews to make this easier for me



Tobacco: Captain Black Cherry
Age: Unknown
Blend Contents: Topping, Black Cavendish, Topping, Cavendish, topping
Pipe(s): Macaroni yellow Grabow Duke (circa some many years ago)
Tin Note: Rotting Cherry. Or what this Captain Black guy thinks cherries smell like.
Prep: 10 minutes drying time; Packed the old fashioned way.

Notes:

Alright. To start I have to tell a short story. I took the above picture like a week ago or so, then I transferred the tobacco to a ball jar as is my custom. I chucked the pouch in my trash can here in my office. Each day for the last week I would come home and think "what smells rotten in here?" After a few days of thinking that I decided that maybe it was something in my trash, so I went through it and got rid of a Starbucks cup that my wife had (it had milk in it, so it was a possibility) and a bag of kettle corn. Next day... still stunk like rotten food. Finally on Friday I thought "it sort of smells like rotting fruit!" That's when it hit me. I took the Captain Black pouch out of my trash and got rid of it. I opened the back door (there's a balcony off my office) and let the room air out a bit and voila the stench never returned! Sooo... the tin note in a nutshell is that story. Thanks Tobias!

I must admit that despite the bad tin note, this tobacco really had a decent -- though subtle -- flavor. Is that bad? I don't know, whatevs. The smoke output was ridiculous to be blunt. The flavor was a little cherry and a whole lot of warm air. There was hardly any tongue bite which really surprised me considering the contents. And I only needed one relight which was nice. The room note was really pleasant when it was being burned. I think that topping is just too powerful before it burns.

The biggest downside to this tobacco was the waxy feeling in my mouth after smoking it. It was like an oily coating on my tongue and roof of my mouth that lasted through the whole bowl. It had to be the topping. The only other tobacco I have with this much goop on it is CAO Black, and now I'm a little scared to smoke that.

All in all, it wasn't a bad experience by any means, more or less it was a lack of experience all together. The room note was great, but there wasn't a whole lot of flavor, so I could pass on this one in the future.

After that I smoked an original blend 5 Vegas Miami. It tasted like cherry in the first third, middle third, and last third. Thanks Captain Black.

And thanks again to an awesome BOTL @Tobias Lutz ! Whenever life hands me Captain Black Cherry, I just remember that someone once smoked an entire Po Boy sampler and it puts everything in perspective.