William Cooper is a Owner of Indian Trail Media LLC, and the founder of the Cigar Coop brand, the cigar industry's true 365 a year periodical. He is also the host of the Cigar Coop Prime Time Show, Cigar Coop Prime Time Special Edition, and Prime Time Jukebox.
On Episode 61 of Prime Time Jukebox, we recap cigars and music from both personal and industry angles. We have a special panel consisting of John McTavish of Developing Palates as well as Matt Tye & Garret Robinson of How Bout That Cigar. The recap will include the now famous “Now or Never Segment” […]
On Episode 60 of Prime Time Jukebox, we continue our recap of the Rolling Stone’s recent refresh of their Top 500 songs of all time. This segment will cover songs 400 to 351 and Dave and Coop will go through some of their favorites that made the list, and assess how fairly these favorites were […]
The Performance Rankings were introduced in 2012 as a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. It is meant to serve as a barometer in terms of how well companies scored overall for the year. Today we slice this data by cigar company, a category we have […]
In 2021, Alec Bradley Cigar Company brought back its Trilogy line. The Trilogy is a set of three distinct blends: Authentic Corojo, Native Cameroon, and Exotic Maduro. The unique thing about the Alec Bradley Trilogy series is that each cigar has a triangular press. The Trilogy was originally introduced in 2002, but eventually would be […]
The Performance Rankings were introduced in 2012 as a statistical analysis based on the average numerical score of all cigars assessed on Cigar Coop. It is meant to serve as a barometer in terms of how the cigars were assessed. Today we slice this data by Factory – a category introduced for 2017. This is […]
United Cigars has announced new releases in its Firecracker Series. The first will be the Bandolero Firecracker from Selected Tobacco, a band that is distributed by United Cigars. The second will be from El Artista under David Ortiz’s Big Papi brand. The Firecracker is a 3 1/2 x 50 that features a long fuse stemming […]
Spare Notes is a new series on Smokin Tabacco that I am collaborating on with Matthew Tabacco. It’s a platform where Matt and I can talk about topics and subjects that we haven’t covered on our shows in an agile, free-form open discussion forum. This week, we will cover a potpourri of various topics around […]
Each week, I have the opportunity to produce the news segment for KMA Talk Radio. On the Cigar Coop “blog,” we will now post replays of the shows the week following the date the show is aired. On December 18, 2021 Eddy Guerra of Davidoff of was out special guest. Catch the full show below: […]
Spare Notes is a new series on Smokin Tabacco that I am collaborating on with Matthew Tabacco. It’s a platform where Matt and I can talk about topics and subjects that we haven’t covered on our shows in an agile, free-form open discussion forum. This week, we will cover a potpourri of various topics pertaining […]
Tonight, Pete Johnson of Tatuaje Cigars joins us for Episode 214 as we put a wrap on 2021. We will catch up on everything Tatuaje Cigars, and get an update from Pete on a bunch of industry topics. Plus in our Live True segment, we will talk a little Formula One racing! Note: Due to […]