Firecracker Connecticut Ships

After showing it off during the 2024 TPE trade show in January, United Cigars is now shipping the newest addition to its Firecracker Series.

The Firecracker Connecticut is a 3 1/2 x 50 parejo—which includes a long pigtail attached to the cap made to mimic the fuse of a firework—made with a shade-grown Connecticut-seed wrapper from Ecuador covering a binder and filler blend grown in the Dominican Republic.

Each cigar has an MSRP of $6 and it is sold in boxes of 25, meaning a box will come in at an MSRP of $150.

“The United Firecracker Connecticut is a beautiful addition,” said Oliver Nivaud, director of operations for United Cigars, in a press release when the cigar was announced in January. “This Connecticut Firecracker surprised me during the blending process, the final blend represents the line perfectly.”

Originally released in 2007, the Firecracker cigars—most of which have been 3 1/2 x 50 petit robustos made with a long pigtail—were released exclusively by Two Guys Smoke Shop, a New Hampshire-based chain of retailers owned by Dave Garofalo, who also owns United Cigars. The newest release in the series will be sold by United Cigars to stores nationwide and is being made at the Tabacalera Magia Cubana factory in Santiago, Dominican Republic.

Various manufacturers have made cigars for the Firecracker Series in the years since it debuted, including AGANORSA Leaf, All Saints, Dunbarton Tobacco & Trust, E.P. Carrillo, El Artista, Fratello, Kristoff, La Flor Dominicana, My Father, Perdomo, RoMa Craft Tobac, Rojas Cigars, Selected Tobacco and Tatuaje. The Firecracker Connecticut is one of a handful of blends United Cigars has created just for the Firecracker Series, a list that includes the Firecracker Sun Grown and the Firecracker Maduro, the latter of which was previously known as the Firecracker Black Bomb. Unlike the cigars, which tend to be limited editions, made by other companies, the Firecracker-branded cigars are regular productions items.