Cigar Federation

Logan and guest co-host Surgeon are going to sit down with Jeff from Crux Cigars. They'll talk about the new Crux Sports and catch up to see what's going on with the guys from Crux! You know there's going to be giveaways so get your questions in through the Q&A app!

Surgeon and Rob sit down to pair an offering from Fable Cigars with a few beverages to see what comes out on top.

Surgeon pairs a Fourth Prime Mersenne

Pairing with:

• Victory At Sea Porter from Ballast Point
• Meantime Chocolate Porter by Meantime Brewing
• Glenkinchie 12 Year Old Scotch

Rob pairs a Fourth Prime Sapta

Pairing with:

• Half Pints Brewing Company Stir Stick Stout
• BulleIT Rye Small Batch
• Backwoods Bastard from Founders Brewing

WHAT EMBARGO?: 18th Habanos Festival Breakdown

Surgeon sits down to review the MBombay Kesara in a torpedo vitola.

Surgeon sits down to review the Quesada Keg 2016 edition.

Master Blender Claudio Sgroi will join us to talk about everything going on with Mombacho.  Claudio knows his tobacco, so bring your nerdiest questions!

Surgeon and Rob sit down with some beer pairings and the 2016 Quesada Keg. Special guest Terence Reilly will be on the show to answer your questions and do some pairing.

Surgeon pairs:

• White Winter Stout - Steamworks Brewing Co.
• Ten FIDY Imperial Stout - Oskar Blues Brewing
• Christmas Eve At A New York City Hotel Room - Evil Twin Brewing

Rob pairs:

• Guinness Draught
• Bourbon County Brand Stout
• Belching Beaver Peanut Butter Milk Stout

Surgeon sits down to review the Smoke Inn exclusive Pope of Greenwich Village by Drew Estate.

Jonathan Drew today announced through Cigar Federation a new collaborative project: All Out Kings. The new project will be rolled at Joya de Nicaragua and blended by Willy Herrera and Robert Caldwell. Distribution will be handled through Caldwell Cigar Company.

Logan, John and the Cigar Safari crew will check in from the Drew Estate factory in Esteli, Nicaragua!  This promises to be a very fun show.  I'll do my pest to maintain some kind of order and ask your questions, but with a show like this, you never know.

Surgeon and Rob sit down to pair the Drew Estate Lounge Tabak Especial Negra Corona Cigar Co. exclusive infused cigar from Drew Estate. This show was pre-recorded as Surgeon will be in country in Nicaragua on the Drew Estate Cigar Safari.

Surgeon pairs with:

• Mexican Coffee
• Nikka Coffey Malt Japanese Whisky
• Double Coffee Brown Ale by 8 Wired Brewing Co.

Rob pairs with:

• The Original Donut Shop K-Cup by Keurig
• Elijah Craig Small Batch Bourbon
• Chocolate Stout by Rogue Brewing Ales
  

Surgeon sits down to review the peat fired cured cigar, the Caleanoch 25.

Join Yellow Snapper and Big Tuna for H. Upmann Connoisseur Thunderdome!

We had some scheduling conflicts, so Logan and I are gonna go sans guest and BS with you all for a bit.  Should be fun!

Surgeon and Rob sit down to pair the Caleanoch 25 with various scotches. Special guest Erik Wentworth from Hammer + Sickle joins them to talk about the Caleanoch and answer questions.

Surgeon pairs with:

• Kilchoman Loch Gorm
• Oban Little Bay
• Bruichladdich The Laddie Sixteen

Rob pairs with:

• Glenfiddich Rich Oak
• Talisker Storm
• Oban 14

Cornell & Diehl Briar Fox featured on this episode of Pipe Dummies.

Surgeon sits down to review the Ramon Allones Club Allones Edicion Limitada 2015. A few different box codes were smoked in order to bring the best review possible.

Casey Aldulaimi of Alec Bradley will address your questions and Logan and I will do our best to stay out of his way.  We've never had anyone from Ab on the show before, so this should be fun. Lots of giveaways for podcast listeners!

Surgeon and Rob sit down to pair some New Belgium Brewing beers with cigars to see what pairs best

Surgeon is pairing a Tabaquero Robusto by Hamlet with:

• Fat Tire
• Rampant
• 1554

Rob is pairing a Leccia Black with:

• New Belgium Rampant Imperial IPA
• New Belgium Citradelic Tangerine IPA
• New Belgium Side Trip Belgian Style Pale Ale

We were at InterTabac in September and were able to attend the launch of Bentley Tobacco. Tonight we will check out some of their new blends.

Tonight, on What Embargo?, join Yellow Snapper and Big Tuna as we talk winter and celebratory smokes!

Surgeon sits down to review the ultra exclusive Padron 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Maduro

He's kind of a big deal.
This is a CAN'T MISS episode of CigarChat!  Pete will take on all of your questions and we have some serious giveaways

Surgeon and Rob sit down to pair a Padron cigar with a beer, rum and whisky.

Surgeon is pairing a Padron 1964 Anniversary Principe Maduro

Pairing with:

• Havana Club Seleccion de Maestros Rum
• Glenfiddich Distiller's Edition 15 Years Old
• Bombay Berzerker by Clown Shoes

• Stranahan's Snowflake
• Aberlour 16
• Founders KBS

During this episode the trio smoke different aged tobaccos.

Surgeon sits down to review the re-blended Macanudo Estate Reserve.

Carlos and Willie will join us for an interesting show. I've seen La Hoja all over IG and have read some of the reviews, but this will be the fist time that I've smoked their stuff.  Logan is on assignment, so Surgeon will sit in and keep things classy from Canada.

Surgeon, sits down with special guest Paul Asadoorian from the Stogie Geeks show. They pair Sobremesa cigar with various scotches, and Paul throws in a wild Cognac!

We will be checking out the Dan Tobacco Old Ironsides.

Surgeon sits down to review the limited release Warped La Colmena Black Honey

Surgeon sits down to review the Romeo y Julieta Piramides Anejados from Habanos S.A.

Surgeon and Rob sit down to pair one of the top requests from the community, lambics. This is the first time lambics have been paired on Sharing Our Pairings!

Surgeon is pairing a ACME Route 66 Classic with:

• Cassis Lambic Black Currant by Brouwerij Lindemans
• Framboise Boon by Brouwerij Boon
• Peche Lambic by Brouwerij Lindemans

Rob is pairing a Caldwell Blind Man's Bluff Corona Gorda - Burn's Exclusive with:

• Cassis Lambic Black Currant by Brouwerij Lindemans
• Framboise Lambic Raspberry by Brouwerij Lindemans
• Peche Lambic Peach by Brouwerij Lindemans

Tonight we will be smoking the hard to find Esoterica Penzance to see if it stands up to the hype.

Surgeon sits down to review the St. Petersburg Hermitage No. 1 cigar from Hammer + Sickle.

Yep, we've got Gabriel in the house again.  It's been about a year since he has joined us, so we'll have a lot to talk about.  As usual we have some serious giveaways!

Surgeon and Rob sit down to pair the MBombay Kesara with some ales to see what pairs best. Mel Shah from MBombay pops in to talk a little about the Kesara cigar.

Surgeon pairs:

• Winter Dunkel Limited Edition from Whistler Brewing Company
• Alpenglow Winter Ale by Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
• Black Mammoth Winter Ale by Fernie Brewing Company

Rob pairs:

• Boulevard Brewing - Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale
• Enlightenment Ales - Transcendence American Farmhouse Ale
• Holy Mountain  -  The Seer - Foudre Aged Hoppy Saison
  

Join Yellow Snapper, Big Tuna and a special guest this coming Monday on What Embargo? for a show revolving around big ring gauge cigars. We are looking at Habanos that have a ring gauge off 55 or greater. It is a pretty recent trend, and we want to see and talk about the big ring gauge offerings coming out of Cuba. Known for producing great, small ring gauge cigars, can Habanos S.A. make great ring gauge offerings?

Surgeon sits down to review the new IPCPR 2015 release Gran Habano Corojo No. 5 Maduro Limitado 2011.

oMel from MBombay will join Logan and Rob and take on all your questions. Best of all, we'll pick 20 WINNERS during tonight's show! 

Surgeon and Rob sit down to pair Erik Espinosa's Especial with a range of tasty beers. Surgeon's rated this his #6 cigar of 2015!

Surgeon pairs:

• Dunkelweizen from Big Rock Brewery
• Fowl Mouth ESB from Big Rock Brewery
• Smoked Roggenbier from Big Rock Brewery
• Hibernation Ale from Big Rock Brewery

Rob pairs:

• Lagunitas Brown Sugga
• Ballast Point Pipper Down
• Snake River Zonker Stout
• Port Brewing Old Viscosity Ale
  

We are getting down on some EMP.

Surgeon sits down to review the new 2015 release Premier Ecuador by ACME Cigar Company.

Surgeon sits down to review the new Drew Estate Diplomat Retailer Exclusive Liga Privada Único Serie Ratzilla.

Surgeon and Rob sit down for their 50th episode of Sharing Our Pairings. They reflect on the year of pairings and enjoy some Scotch Malt Whisky Society drams with their cigars.  Surgeon's pairing a CroMagnon Aquitaine with:

• SMWS 29.115 'Candy floss in a fairground'
• SMWS 31.27 'Bold Sailor's dram'
• SMWS 53.184 'Fairground on the beach'
• SMWS 127.38 'Enticing fume of a peat reek'

Rob is pairing a RomaCraft CroMagnon Aquitaine Mode 5

Pairing with:

• SMWS 27.104
• SMWS 29.150
• SMWS 125.67
• SMWS 127.38

Some fellow members of the Cigar Media will join Logan, John and I to go over the highs and lows of 2015!

What Embargo?: Top Ten of 2015

Logan and guest co-host Surgeon sit down with Rick Rodriguez and Ed McKenna and chat about what's going on with CAO.

Surgeon sits down to review the new Epic Maduro Lancero.

We'll talk about the new Luchador cigar release, and everything else that Sam is working on.

Surgeon and Rob sit down to do some seasonal pairings with the Joya de Nicaragua Cuatro Cinco Reserva. Beers paired in this episode: