PCA 2022: Drunk Chicken Cigars
“Have you seen the giant yellow chicken running around carrying a sign?” is not exactly a normal question you hear at most cigar conventions but in the case of Drunk Chicken Cigars, it is actually a valid query.
That is because the cigar business founded by Desiree Sylver embraces a poultry-centric branding scheme that extends not only to the aforementioned person in costume but also to the monikers attached to its other creations include the names Fat Hen, Mother Clucker and Homicidal Hen.
The branding also extends to the company’s booth—er, “chicken coop”—which is decorated liberally with (fake) chickens and roosters, paintings of chickens and even bells made to look like chickens.
Although the robusto extra vitola and the blend of this cigar remain the same as the incarnations the previous two years, the production numbers have changed: this year’s release of the Homicidal Hen totals 5,000 cigars, an increase from 4,000 cigars in 2021, and 2,000 cigars in the creation’s debut year of 2020.
- Wrapper: U.S.A. (Pennsylvania Broadleaf)
- Binder: Ecuador
- Filler: Nicaragua
- Homicidal Hen 2022 (5 1/2 x 50) — $14 (Box of 20, $280)
Production: 250 Boxes of 20 Cigars (5,000 Total Cigars)
Release Date: Aug. 15, 2022
Brooks Whittington
I have worn many hats in my life up to this point: I started out as a photojournalist for the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, then transitioned to photographing weddings—both internationally and in the U.S.—for more than a decade. After realizing that there was a need for a cigar website containing better photographs and more in-depth information about each release, I founded my first cigar blog, SmokingStogie, in 2008. SmokingStogie quickly became one of the more influential cigar blogs on the internet, known for reviewing preproduction, prerelease, rare, extremely hard-to-find and expensive cigars, and it was one of the predecessors to halfwheel, which I co-founded.
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