Miscellaneous

Later today, it’s halfwheel’s Top 25 cigars for 2018 and like last year, we are announcing them live on Facebook and YouTube. Watch below as Patrick…

A new date, but same concept. This is halfwheel’s 2018 Packaging Top 10. While we spend most of our time focusing on the blends of cigars, we…

The day is here for the pretty things. Tune in at 2 p.m. central time as Patrick Lagreid, Brooks Whittington and myself announce halfwheel’s annual Top…

Not one, not two, but three. For the first time, we have a tie for first place for one of these awards, a three-way tie for…

After walking away with an honorable mention in both 2016 and 2017, you might say that this year’s winner of our Factory of the Year award…

First off, my apologies on the delay of this post. My intention was to produce daily blogs from the event, but as I tried to…

One of the nice parts of InterTabac is that most companies have the same booths—err stands—every year and for the most part, they are in…

Hallo from Dortmund. A very warm Dortmund. The world’s largest tobacco trade show kickoffs today in northwest Germany and for the seventh year in a row,…

And then it ends. A week ago we published our 137th and final booth post from the 2018 IPCPR Convention & Trade Show. Today’s post…

On Tuesday, Cigar Aficionado published an article that made the final 24 hours of my vacation a lot less enjoyable. It also made the lives of…

When the 2017 IPCPR editorial assistant reached out to me earlier this year with a text that basically read: “Hey, strange proposal. Do you want…