IPCPR 2011: Complete Digest

Over the past two weeks Stogie Review has been doing our best to bring you the IPCPR experience. Jerry and Brian did an amazing job this year and produced a large sum of videos. Understandably, all of these videos may have been tough to keep up with. In an effort to make things easier for you, we have put together a digest of all of our IPCPR Coverage.

We have broken the posts into four categories. The first is Sneak …

Women of IPCPR (2011)

Each year we try to bring you the best of what IPCPR has to offer. As you have seen so far, Jerry and Brian have put together a whirlwind of awesome videos for our following. In addition to the annual video coverage of IPCPR, we like to put together a post showing off the lovely ladies of the show.

This year Brian set forth on the trade show floor, camera in hand, and took as many pictures as he could …

IPCPR 2011 – Why Didn’t You Interview…?

This year’s coverage of IPCPR was by far our best and most in depth work. We set all kinds of records here at Stogie Review in unique visitors, page views, time on site and all those other analytic measures, some of those values actually doubling and tripling. Thats nice and all but its never been about the stats for us. What motivates us is the feedback we get from you, our friends. Combined, we don’t have enough fingers and toes …

IPCPR 2011 – La Palina

I run into Bill Paley a lot as he’s a local to the DC/MD/VA area. I remember meeting him for the first time at Bethesda Tobacco (now W.Curtis Draper Bethesda) as he was working on blends and artwork for last year’s release of the Family Series. We didn’t get time to talk to Bill at last year’s IPCPR and with him being a big supporter of our site and many others we made it a priority to talk to Bill …

IPCPR 2011 – Prometheus

Last day of videos as we wind down our coverage of the 2011 IPCPR we spend time with Keith Parks of Prometheus. Prometheus is a long time supporter and advertiser here on Stogie Review. God of Fire cigars, Fuente Aged Selection, lighters, humidors and all kinds of shiny new accessories from Prometheus. Personally, the triangle triple flame lighter and color coded fuel tank at around the 15 minutes mark is so bad ass that I’m gonna have to track one …

IPCPR 2011 – American Kick Ass Cigars

I first recall seeing American Kick Ass Cigars (AKA Cigars) at the Texas Cigar Festival in Houston TX back in April. I’l be honest, I didn’t think to try and talk to Jay then. Since then I’ve had little birds chirping in my ear about AKA Cigars so I was happy to see that they made an appearance at IPCPR. Jay was kind enough to give us a free minutes of his time to talk about AKA Cigars and how …

IPCPR 2011 – Martin Family of Cigars

One of the newcomers to the industry is Martin Family of Cigars. What a great story of a family with a long history of being in the business. A daughter, who worked in the industry and with her dying father in mind, decides to bring back and modernize her father’s blends. Its such a great story that I’ll let the “stogiesreview” part slide since we own that domain too. Anyway, the great story alone makes me want to checkout their …

IPCPR 2011 – Pinar Del Rio Cigars (PDR)

As Brian Hewitt says, “And we are moving…” onto Abe Flores of Pinar Del Rio Cigars or PDR. Lots of interesting new stuff from Abe. I’ll admit its tough for me to find Abe’s stuff locally so I’m not as familiar with his lines as Walt is. New things from the show are a PDR 1878 Natural with a Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper (told you lots of Connecticut wrappers from the show), PDR 1878 Oscuro aka Holiday Blend which is now …

IPCPR 2011 – EO Brands

Some developing themes I’m seeing at this year’s IPCPR. The 6×60 size continues with the smaller corona and petite corona starting to catch on. Lots of use of Mexican San Andres maduro wrapper and lots of Connecticut Shade wrappers. I say this now as a preview to EO Brands. EO Brands went with a new look to their 601 bands last year when they first moved distribution to Rocky Patel. After a less than enthusiastic reaction, the bands were changed …

IPCPR 2011 – Berger & Argenti

Another first time interview here at Stogie Review during IPCPR. Berger & Argenti made some waves the past couple years with their release of the Entubar, Quad Maduro and Mooch lines. Al Argenti spends a few minutes with Brian Hewitt and tells us what they are releasing this year like the Connecticut River Valley (CRV) and the limited V32 both extensions and rolled Entubar style.

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