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Week in Smoke

Brian’s The Week In Smoke, Issue 112

You may have noticed I’ve been a little quiet since The IPCPR 2017 Complete Digest posted a few weeks back. Sadly, I haven’t been on vacation, well, I was for the last week. It’s that time of year, and I caught whatever crud du jour that was going around. I don’t know for sure, but […]

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IPCPR 2017: Foundation Cigars

The very last interview we did before walking off the IPCPR trade show floor for the last time was with Nick Melillo of Foundation Cigars. And it’s a doozy- so buckle in, grab a drink and light up a cigar. A lot of people talk about having a busy show, but the Foundation booth was […]

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IPCPR 2017: Herrera Esteli

On last day of IPCPR we alway make the rounds one last time in hopes of grabbing some time with people we’d missed. One of those people was Willy Herrera, the man behind Herrera Esteli. After some quick banter, Willy gets us back on track by telling us about the new Pappy Van Winkle Tradition, […]

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IPCPR 2017: 13 Minutes with Pete Johnson

One of the interviews I look forward to every year at IPCPR is our annual chat with Pete Johnson of Tatuaje. And it felt like almost no time had passed since our last installment of the Minutes With Pete Johnson series. There he was behind the bar at the back center of the booth, leaning […]

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IPCPR 2017: Nomad

It’s always fun stopping by to talk to Fred Rewey, owner of Nomad cigars and several entertaining social media accounts. If you can believe it, Fred’s been at it, doing cigars his way for five years now. To celebrate that significant accomplishment, he’s releasing five-year old Anniversary edition of the Classic Dominican Line in the […]

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IPCPR 2017: Xikar

Kurt Van Keppel had a lot to show us in the Xikar booth at IPCPR 2017. To start off with, there are four new colors of the XO cutter, which debuted at last years trade show. The new colors are Black on Black, Orange, Gunmetal Honeycomb and Red. The Honeycomb finish is an interesting process […]

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IPCPR 2017: Davidoff

In the Davidoff booth at IPCPR 2017 we met up with Charles Awad to take a tour of their latest products. He starts us off with the Winston Churchill The Late Hour. The cigar is a reference to the way Winston Churchill spent his late evenings. Charles tells us in the dark hours of the […]

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IPCPR 2017: S.T. Dupont

We couldn’t get the cameras rolling fast enough when we stepped into the S.T. Dupont section of the Davidoff booth at IPCPR 2017. I can’t think of anyone more excited to show us their new product than Alain Crevet, President of S.T. Dupont. Immediately we he was showing us the new Wild West-themed accessories for […]

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IPCPR 2017: Crux

As someone who has gone and Crux’d myself in the past (as directed by their motto, and usually with Crux Passport), I welcomed the opportunity to talk Casey Haugen about the latest Crux cigar developments at IPCPR 2017. This is the first time we’ve included them in our trade show coverage, so we quickly cover […]

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