The Tail of THE FIRECRACKER CIGAR Salem, New Hampshire (April 9, 2016) It began on May 19, 2007 at a cigar rolling event at Two Guys Smoke Shop in New Hampshire featuring Jose Don “Pepin” Garcia. David Garofalo, owner and founder of Two Guys Smoke Shop asked Pepin to roll him a short cigar and to put a long pig tail on it. Pepin followed the direction and The Firecracker Cigar was born. Over the […]
In 2012 RoMa Craft was born with a partnership between two friends Michael Rosales and Skip Martin. Prior to their partnership Michael was owner of Costa Rican Imports, and Skip was owner of a cigar shop in Galveston, Texas that was destroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008. Upon the creation of their company the first cigar they released was Intemperance which is available in two wrappers. Today, we take a look at the Ecuador Connecticut […]
The Neanderthal was first mentioned by RoMa Craft in 2014, but it wouldn’t see a release until 2015. There was a 4″ version called SGP that was limited to two cigar shops in Texas; and a production line called the HN. Today we look at the 5″ version that contains 6 different filler tobaccos including an exceptionally strong variant of Double Ligero from Pennsylvania known as Green River Valley Sucker One. According to the guys at Romacraft the […]
From RoMa Craft Tobac which is based in Texas with a factory in Esteli, Nicaragua comes the CroMagnon. One of the first lines released by the company, the original release saw it with no cigar band. In time as the company grew a band was added. According to the company website, “The CroMagnon contains a long-filler, full-bodied blend of some of the world’s most sought after tobaccos. It features a beautiful US Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper, […]