For Episode 21 of the Prime Time Show, we are proud to welcome Willy Herrera, Master Blender for Drew Estate. We will get some insights on Willy’s journey from El Titan de Bronze in Calle Ocho to Nicaragua’s largest factory, La Gran Fabrica – home of Drew Estate. In our Debonaire Ideal Segment we will “talk about the weather” and […]
Asylum Cigars has been somewhat of a juggernaut over the past five years in the cigar industry. Tonight, on Episode 20 of the Prime Time Show, we have the co-founder and co-owner of Asylum Cigars, the one and only Tom Lazuka. We will discuss the rise of Asylum Cigars and talk about the latest happenings with the brand. Tom’s a big Michigan-sports fan, so […]
For Special Edition #11, this is truly worthy of the name “Special Edition”. We will have the whole Prime Time team on hand for this one, and Coop will be on-site at The Cigar Shop in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This will be an all-Quesada episode as we will welcome Terence Reilly of Quesada Cigars and Mark Boley of The Cigar Shop. We […]
Halfwheel.com is an industry leader when it comes to cigar media, and on Prime Time Episode 19 we welcome one of the co-founders Charlie Minato to the show. We will discuss how Halfwheel rose to become one of the top cigar media sites of all time. In our Debonaire Ideal segment, we will talk some post-Mayweather-McGregor fight talk. Finally, in our Deliberation […]
For Special Edition #10, we discuss people switched jobs in the cigar industry We discuss where the move has been more successful than others and what the impact has been. We also have selected a cigar released at IPCPR and will smoke it. As an added twist, we also will take one of those cigars and place it in our humidors […]
2017 has been a breakout year for Southern Draw Cigars, and for Prime Time Episode 18 we have Southern Draw’s Chief Evangelist and owner, Robert Holt. We will find out what has been the key to Southern Draw making the strides they have as a company over the past year. In our Debonaire Ideal segment, we’ve heard a lot […]
For Episode 17 of the Prime Time Show, we welcome Kevin Schweitzer of Rock-A-Feller Cigars. We will talk about Kevin’s journey from Wall Street to cigar brand owner. In our Debonaire Ideal segment, we do something called “Debonaire Deliberation”. In our final Deliberation segment, we talk about boutiques organizing and what do they need to do to organize. Tune in […]
For Special Edition #9, we discuss cigar industry people who have left the industry only to come back. We discuss who has been successful at it, and who hasn’t. We also look at who has actually resisted coming back to the industry. We also deviate a little and talk some baseball. In particular, we pay homage to the late […]
This week, the Cigar Coop Prime Time Show will have the week off. Stay tuned next week when we return with Episode 17. Kevin Schweitzer, the new owner of Rock-A-Feller Cigars, will be our scheduled special guest. As always, we will broadcast that episode LIVE at 10pm Eastern time. Also, we will have Prime Time Special Edition 9 scheduled […]
Cigar Coop is proud to announce that we are teaming up with Layne Coffee to deliver two unique coffee roasts. Over the past couple of months, Layne Coffee has collaborated with two red-hot cigar companies to develop coffee roasts to complement their cigars. First came three new roasts for Cubariqueño Cigar Company to enhance the cigar experience of Protocol Cigars, […]
