Back in June I got an email from Grant over at Factual. In the email Grant introduced himself and described Factual as the “Wikipedia of Data“. He told me that he stumbled onto Stogie Review and liked what he saw. As a result, he invited me to have a look at the beta site. What […]
2009 European Cigar Cult Journal Awards
While Jerry and I were doing our thing at IPCPR (read: wandering around the convention center floor), we bumped into Colin Ganley of the European Cigar Cult Journal. We talked for a bit and he was kind enough to extend us an invitation to the ECCJ Awards. The awards were being held in the Hilton […]
Cigar Shop Review: Pensacola, FL – Cordova Cigars
This review comes courtesy of Bill (PappyFerrara) If you would like to submit a review of one of your local shops, please take a look at our guidelines Name of Shop: Codvova Cigars Date Visited: 08/21/09 Street Address: 6050 North Ninth Ave, Suite C City: Pensacola State: Florida Zip: 32504 Phone Number: (850) 473-0080 Hours […]
IPCPR 2009 Photo Stream
While Jerry, Brian, and I were attending the 2009 IPCPR Convention in New Orleans, we set ourselves up with a few loose roles. Jerry manned the video camera, while Brian and I manned our cameras. Brian was focusing on taking photos while Jerry and I both had equipment for both still and video, which we […]
ISO Cigars
A little ways back I was on the Cigar Outcast forum poking around like I normally do a few times per week and I came across mention of a new cigar site. What set this site apart was that it wasn’t like many of the other cigar sites out there, this one was geared towards […]
Twitter Brother of the Leaf Cocktail Hour
A couple of weeks back, Jerry posted an article about a Herf that Stogie Review and Hava Cigars were throwing while in New Orleans. The idea was to get everyone from Twitter together while we were all in town for IPCPR and have a drink and smoke a few cigars. While getting everything setup as […]
ECCJ 15th Anniversary Cigar By Altadis
Back in New Orleans, Brian and I bumped into Colin Ganley. Colin writes for the European Cigar Cult Journal (ECCJ) and was kind enough to invite us to the annual awards ceremony. After being given our invitations, Colin removed a cigar from his pocket and asked us to break the story. We immediately posted pictures […]
Glen Case of Exclusive Cigars
Last year at the 2008 IPCPR Convention in Las Vegas, we had a chance to speak with Glen Case of Exclusive Cigars. Glen went over his line for us, which was most notable for the Kristoff offerings, and we very friendly and spent a fair amount of time with us. This year we met up […]
Benny Gomez of Casa Gomez Cigars
As we were wandering around the convention center floor at IPCPR 2009, we bumped into Benny Gomez of Casa Gomez Cigars. After talking with him for a couple of minutes we asked if he would be willing to record a quick video and he was eager to get started. The Casa Gomez line is crafted […]
Julia Lukash of We The People
After talking with Willy Herrera from El Titan de Bronze, we were introduced to Julia Lukash. Julia is the General Manager for a brand called “We The People” which is a cigar that is made for Bidwell Cigar by El Titan de Bronze. Julia briefly goes over the offerings of “We The People” and mentioned […]