Customer Reviews (22 Total)
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
Update: Rapidly becoming one of my favorite blends. The key is understanding it! Right now, my mindset is like "It's mildly flavored Latakia with that dash of Perique"...
And that's the only way that I can describe this blend - "interesting". ... Read More
IMHO, you'll either like it or you won't - nothing in between. But....everyone should try it at least once. Read Less
Grape Soda English with sewer-like Retro
January 22, 2020
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
Bad... bad, bad stuff. It's an English flavored with grape. I got a sewage like note on the retro. Used a cob to try this one... thank goodness as it would've ghosted my briar with that grapy sewer aroma. Man, this one's bad. I don’t get the good... Read More
reviews... this isn’t pipe tobacco, this is an abomination! Read Less
Vanguard blend for the top of the english aromatics
October 19, 2016
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
Oh heavens! Oh glory!
I had the intuition this would be cool, and indeed it was. This is completely out of the ordinary and rather uncompromised with traditional aromas, a vanguard blend, and modern art blend if you want.
Captain Bob's blend come... Read More
s with all the artillery (Black Cavendish, Burley, Latakia, Orientals, Perique, Virginia) every single tobacco element in order to bring the most satisfying and out of the ordinary experience.
The virginia never gets to the point of candy sweetness, more likely just tangy and a bit soursweet. The smoke tends more towards the dry side on the palate with a generous participation of burley and latakia which are elements that play a keyrole in synchrony with the unique and strong aroma for this english-aromatic.
And even if this may be a ghosting blend by far it is worth to dedicate a pipe to it, the grape flavour combined with the orientals and latakia makes it something really exotic and wonderful, a full mouthed flavour, round and toasty with little piquant from perique and partial nuttyness, rather floral and never overhelming.
All in all sumptuous, exotic, intoxicating, even addictive...
I am a personal devotee from now on. Read Less
Secret Favorite
October 08, 2018
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
This has been a secret favorite of mine for years. When Capt. Bob first started to promote it online he got some flak (pun intended) but I was willing to give it a shot just from the description alone. I have to say that the first couple of bowls lef... Read More
t me wondering what the heck I had just smoked. The aroma screamed drugstore aromatic, but the flavor whispered american/english blend. All in all, a welcome surprise and I wouldn't be without it in my regular rotation. Read Less
Weirdly interesting
July 25, 2018
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
I'm not precisely sure how to describe this, but I like it. Be careful, though this ghosted like nobody's business.
I'm sorry Capt Bob...this is a mess.
April 15, 2018
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
I don't understand how this can have so many different types of tobacco and supposedly TONS of flavorings and yet just tastes like generic burley soaked in cheap artificial grape soda. Seriously...it's a mess. This stuff stinks something fierce. I le... Read More
ft a baggie out in the kitchen and the entire place smelled like cheap pop. It's overwhelming. I've never smelled any tobacco this stinky. And the taste...man it just lingers in your mouth. This really artificial, cheap grape flavor. Look, I kinda hate burley and I kinda hate grape soda...sooooo maybe this was never for me...if you love burley and cheap grape pop you will ADORE this. Otherwise stay away. Sorry Bob, you do a great job pumping this stuff up on the forums...I just don't get it. Read Less
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
Tastes like grape. Weird but not unpleasant
I Enjoy It
August 30, 2015
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend 8oz
Very unique blend for sure as Nick N. says. Base English with a grape soda (or grape lolipop) top note. Sounds odd but it works for me. I would say it fits in the American English category, like Edward G. Robinson blend, which I also enjoy very much.... Read More
... EGR is much more subtle compared to Cap Bob though, and the top note on the Captain takes a front seat without totally dominating. Cap Bob is definitely not for everyone, but if you try it and don't like it, I'll be glad to finish it for you. :) Read Less
I Enjoy It
August 30, 2015
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend 2oz
Very unique blend for sure as Nick N. says. Base English with a grape soda (or grape lolipop) top note. Sounds odd but it works for me. I would say it fits in the American English category, like Edward G. Robinson blend, which I also enjoy very much.... Read More
... EGR is much more subtle compared to Cap Bob though, and the top note on the Captain takes a front seat without totally dominating. Cap Bob is definitely not for everyone, but if you try it and don't like it, I'll be glad to finish it for you. :) Read Less
I Enjoy It
August 29, 2015
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
Very unique blend for sure as Nick N. says. Base English with a grape soda (or grape lolipop) top note. Sounds odd but it works for me. I would say it fits in the American English category, like Edward G. Robinson blend, which I also enjoy very much.... Read More
EGR is much more subtle compared to Cap Bob though, and the top note on the Captain takes a front seat without totally dominating. Cap Bob is definitely not for everyone, but if you try it and don't like it, I'll be glad to finish it for you. :) Read Less
Capt. Bob's: Great change of pace smoke
January 17, 2015
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend 2oz
I avoid Latakia and aromatics, but in this blend everything works! Think grape soda -- not cloying, and nice for a change.
Totally unique!
July 09, 2014
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
Totally unique in the annals of aromatic pipe tobacco! This is one that will disgust the grandiose pipe snob, but will delight most of the rest of us. The Grape Nehi scent is bold and obvious, but does not overpower the taste of the base english blen... Read More
d. It is everthing an aromatic pipe tobacco should be. No PG or chemical taste at all. Just a smooth english/aromatic blend, mild in Latakia and Perique, yet delightfully evident. I admit the grape scent is a little shocking and most unusual, but the sum of the smoking experience is indeed, greater than its parts. Read Less
Totally unique!
June 15, 2014
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend 8oz
Totally unique in the annals of aromatic pipe tobacco! This is one that will disgust the grandiose pipe snob, but will delight most of the rest of us. The Grape Nehi scent is bold and obvious, but does not overpower the taste of the base English blen... Read More
d. It is everything an aromatic pipe tobacco should be. No PG or chemical taste at all. Just a smooth English/aromatic blend, mild in Latakia and Perique, yet delightfully evident. I admit the grape scent is a little shocking and most unusual, but the sum of the smoking experience is indeed, greater than its parts. Read Less
Totally unique!
June 15, 2014
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend 2oz
Totally unique in the annals of aromatic pipe tobacco! This is one that will disgust the grandiose pipe snob, but will delight most of the rest of us. The Grape Nehi scent is bold and obvious, but does not overpower the taste of the base English blen... Read More
d. It is everything an aromatic pipe tobacco should be. No PG or chemical taste at all. Just a smooth English/aromatic blend, mild in Latakia and Perique, yet delightfully evident. I admit the grape scent is a little shocking and most unusual, but the sum of the smoking experience is indeed, greater than its parts. Read Less
A Completely Happy Surprise
December 29, 2022
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
To start with, I am not a Latakia smoker generally. It dominates the flavor of a blend too much for my taste, and often leaves me unable to taste much else all day afterwards. So when I'm in a latakia-friendly mood, it's always something where it m... Read More
erely a very light condimental flavor.
Having said that, I appreciate blends that deliver their own unique flavor consistently, and always those which are easy to smoke, affordable, and readily available... so the ones I choose are almost always bulk.
Captain Bob's Blend was an impulse buy for me largely because it was just so darn interesting, and I wanted to understand why these flavors would be put together.
The grape/citrus flavor is there... but it works (smells and tastes wonderful by the way) and the latakia is there... but it works, and the amount is extremely small. Everything comes together to deliver something unexpected, and somehow exactly what I was hoping for. A mild, balanced, flavorful, aromatic, and completely satisfying smoke.
Captain Bob and his buddies and C&D worked some real custom magic here. I can't believe, and won't deny how much I like it, or how quickly it grew on me. I smoked through my first 4 oz sample so fast it actually made me sad to think I'd be out of it.
When they say a "refreshing flavor" they're right. The taste and overall experience is extremely comforting, but new and different. It's easy-going, every bowl delivers the same, it works in every pipe above tried it in, and it smokes cool, slowly, and dry... the wife loves (and is amused by the grapey aroma, which she compared to grape big league chew bubblegum) but it doesn't taste like that. It tastes like good tobacco, well-blended for balance and a particular palate- a palate I apparently share, to my complete surprise.
It will not be for everyone. You have to like and appreciate (and know how to smoke) aromatic blends... and you need to be open to a unique vision.
It is a masterpiece that might not be appreciated by everyone, but one I absolutely do. You might too, but you won't know until you try it. But if you do, give yourself a few bowls to give it a chance to show you how uniquely special and charming it really is. It just might surprise you just like it did me. Read Less
simply the best
October 03, 2021
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
One of the best tobaccos I've ever tasted.
How Interesting.
April 15, 2021
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
So I decided to order a blend I used to hear about all the time to start me off on getting back into pipes. I wanted to get something that that was outside the profile of my usual rotation. This hit the mark perfectly. I'm quite surprised with the... Read More
complexity of this blend. It has a definite 'cran-grape' flavor. But the light Latakia and the Sweet Virginia's work surprisingly well together. Little to no bite and a pleasant enough room note. Smoked in a MM Huck Finn. Read Less
Soft and welcoming
September 26, 2020
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
He lacks more character........I'm not a friend of aromatic tobacco...........
Pleasantly surprised
October 17, 2019
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
I was given a sample of this a while back by someone who hated it. When I smelled it I didn’t have much hope for it to be honest.
After smoking through a few bowls it really started growing on me. I grave some Capt Bob’s every few days. Really has so... Read More
me great tobacco flavors under the grape smelling topping.
Everyone should give this one a try. Read Less
what happened with C&D
September 26, 2017
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
This is my second tobacco of C&D, and i had the same problem, burn so fast and my pipe got hot. Also the durability its short for the same reason, burns fast. I smoked hot and i cannot feel the flavor. This Tobacco smells good in cold. I expected... Read More
more because this tobacos has everything, i thought that it can be similar than "Missouri Meershcuam American Patriot", but it doesnt even close. Read Less
Very Very Burley
March 24, 2017
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
This is a relatively strong blend that, to me at least, was overpowered by the burleys right from the start. I can taste a bit of the spice from the latakia, perique, and orientals, but to me the burleys gave it an acrid, sour flavor. If you do not l... Read More
ike the taste of straight burley, you may not like this blend. That being said, I believe this blend was very well done. The flavors are married together very well. This blend is just not for me. I will cellar it for a while and try again. Maybe my tastes will evolve enough to appreciate burley flavor more. Read Less
Not for me
October 21, 2016
Product: Cornell & Diehl Captain Bob's Blend Bulk
Something about this just doesn't taste good to me. I would guess it's the casing / topping. Though it doesn't bite, it tends to give a stinging sensation on my tongue.
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