Capstan

[Terry Lennox]

For a long time I've been trying to figure out what the topping could be in capstan blue, but now bergamot has been mentioned, I reckon I could go along with that, but there's also something else in there, a touch of cinnamon maybe ?

Yes I think that's it cinnamon.

 

[condorlover1]

Cute little tins they were, decent flake too. Still very popular now, albeit in round tins

Why do you always have the things I love Simon!!

 

[BROBS]

For a long time I've been trying to figure out what the topping could be in capstan blue, but now bergamot has been mentioned, I reckon I could go along with that, but there's also something else in there, a touch of cinnamon maybe ?

Rum

 

[anotherbob]

Rum

yeah I think so but a lighter rum then other tobaccos use.

 

[judcole]

Kind of like a slightly higher end codger blend in my opinion.

Capstan is a perfect example,IMO, of a high quality "all day blend". I have a couple of dozen tins of the Blue stored away. I tried both, and preferred the Blue.
A couple of summers ago I -reread LOTR while smoking Blue Flake in an MM Cobbit Dwarf.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

The C Blue is very unobstructed honest tobacco,good for any occasion ,albeit sometimes I'm feeling it a bit bland but this may be due to a fact that my main daily smokes are rather Burley forward blends or blends enhanced with a bit of kentucky fired

 

[simong]

Why do you always have the things I love Simon!!

Well, I'm not too sure. Whilst they do say there's no accounting for good taste, I suspect it boils down to us both being British.?? Having the good fortune to be born & bred in England's Green & Pleasant Land, we're left with the inherent ability to 'tell the wheat from the chaff'. Or, as our American friends would say 'we've got the brains to tell shit from shinola'.?

 

[anotherbob]

Capstan is a perfect example,IMO, of a high quality "all day blend". I have a couple of dozen tins of the Blue stored away. I tried both, and preferred the Blue.
A couple of summers ago I -reread LOTR while smoking Blue Flake in an MM Cobbit Dwarf.

it is totally an all day blend. You want to smoke while typing out your story about little people facing the Spector of death as personified by Wraiths and champions of the down trodden and abandoned (the orcs, not to knock the story but when you realize why the orcs are orcs...) named like a dinosaur discovered by the laziest paleontologist, or if you want to play with nuance and meditate a little bit on the stuff you're smoking. Well either of those scenarios Capstans got you covered.
By the way on side notes there aren't many stories that have aspects that don't fall apart or at least catch a little wrong when you stop and think about them a little more. Whether it's thematic or practical. Wait the point of the story is hard work pays off and yet the whole success hinges on some deus ex machina and a pretty big one(o.k.) or there is no way they could have gotten to Linkinshire (I assume there is one in England pronounced Lincoln Sir Eh) in enough time to save that hamster without teleportation (who cares it's still a good story).