Flavor Odyssey

Flavor Odyssey is back, and it’s the final stop on Amaretto Avenue. This week, your hosts seek the best cigar pairing for the Godfather cocktail. The Godfather is easy to make, but does it pair well with a cigar? Tune in and find out. Thumbs Randy: Flor de las Antillas 👍🏻 Robby: Oliva Serie V Melanio 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 67% Robby: 33%

Amaretto Avenue continues this week as we seek the best cigar pairing for the French Connection. No, not the famous Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider thriller from 1971, but the cocktail! In fact, this is one of the easiest cocktails to create: simply pour 1 ounce of amaretto and 1.5 ounces of cognac in a rocks glass over ice! Make yourself a French Connection, pick a cigar that should pair well, and joi...

We continue our deep dive into amaretto liqueur by finding a perfect cigar pairing for the Amaretto Whiskey Sour. Robby and Randy will be battling it out to see who picks the best pairing, but will also recognize viewers that create especially good pairing combinations.

Robby and Randy are headed down the amaretto trail, as they spend the next four weeks seeking great cigar and cocktail pairings that feature amaretto liqueur. This week, the cocktail is the Dirty Dr. Pepper, which contains amaretto liqueur, Fireball whiskey, and Coke. Please play along by making the cocktail and picking a cigar that you feel would pair great!

It’s the Season 5 premier of Flavor Odyssey. Your hosts, Robby Ras and Randy Griggs, outline the plans for Season 5’s pairing combinations and also recap what they learned in Season 4. Grab your favorite cigar and drink pairing and join the fun.

As we wrap up the shade-grown segment this week, we search out the best drink pairing for the iconic Davidoff Aniversario. With a gorgeous Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade wrapper over all-Dominican binder and fillers, the drink pairing options for this cigar seem endless.

This week on Flavor Odyssey, we explore the best drink pairing for the Aganorsa Leaf Signature Selection Maduro. This is the third stop in the shade-grown segment, and this time around, Robby and Randy tackle a maduro-wrapped shade-grown cigar. Thumbs Randy: 👍🏻 Robby: 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 68% Robby: 32% Pairing Randy: Dalmore 12 Year Sherry Cask Select Scotch Robby: Jura 16 Year Old Single Malt Sco...

Flavor Odyssey continues the shade portion of season four. This week, we find the best drink pairing for the Drew Estate Undercrown Shade.

Flavor Odyssey hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs kick off the “shade” segment of season 4 with the grandaddy of them all—the Fuente Fuente OpusX. What drink pairs best with one of the greatest cigars on the planet? Tune into this episode to find out. Thumbs Randy: 👍🏻 Robby: 👍🏻 Sensei: 👎🏻 Votes Randy: 45% Robby: 55% Pairing Randy: Daiquiri Robby: Mint Julep

Flavor Odyssey takes a quick detour and... on this wildcard episode, we talk home brew and find great cigar pairings with homemade beer. The Dojo crew will be drinking Tanner Cole’s Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout. So grab a beer and a cigar and join the show!

Flavor Odyssey wraps up the Au Naturel segment of season 4, as your hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs find the best drink pairing for the Luciano Fiat Lux.

Flavor Odyssey is joined by Terence Reilly of Aganorsa Leaf, continuing the Au Naturel segment of season 4 with the Aganorsa Leaf Signature Selection. Who will find the best pairing for this popular natural-wrapped offering from Aganorsa Leaf? Thumbs All: 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 21% Sensei: 21% Terence: 58%

Flavor Odyssey is going Au Naturel by exploring natural-wrapped cigars and which drink pairings are best. This week, your hosts smoke the EPC Encore and attempt to determine what drink brings out the best for this cigar. Thumbs Randy: 👍🏻 Sensei: 👍🏻 Jordan: 👎🏻 Votes Randy: 15% Sensei: 70% Jordan: 15%

It’s a Sharing Our Pairings reunion show with Robby Ras and John McTavish (AKA Cigar Surgeon). Rob and John had, very likely, the first-ever cigar pairing show, “Sharing Our Pairings,” which aired from 2014 to 2017. Rob and John reunite on this episode and pair scotch whisky with their favorite cigar.

Flavor Odyssey takes a quick Saint Patrick’s Day detour, and your hosts Robby and Randy grab some Irish Whiskey and seek out their favorite (or most appropriate) cigar to pair with it.

Hot off the maduro road segment of season 4, Robby goes au natural! This week, we investigate the best possible drink pairing for the Camacho Factory Unleashed. This cigar and drink pairing will kickoff the natural-wrapped cigar segment of Flavor Odyssey.

Flavor Odyssey takes one last trip down maduro road as Robby and Randy smoke the Padron Black and attempt to find the best pairing with one of the best maduro wrapped cigars on the planet.

Flavor Odyssey wraps up the maduro segment of Season 4 with the Liga Privada T52 from Drew Estate. Your hosts Robby and Sensei seek the perfect pairing for one of the best cigars to come out of La Gran Fabrica.

Flavor Odyssey hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs strive for an Eruption of flavor as they seek the best drink combination for the Crowned Heads Serie E. It’s the 3rd episode in the maduro segment, and we invite you to tune in and join the fun.

Flavor Odyssey hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs find the perfect pairing for the Drew Estate Undercrown 10, which was the Dojo’s number two cigar of the year in 2021.

Flavor Odyssey hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs set their sights on maduro-wrapped cigars and which drinks pair best with them. On this episode, we explore the best drink pairing with the Aganorsa Leaf Aniversario Maduro.

It’s a wildcard episode of Flavor Odyssey. This week, Robby and Randy will be attempting to find a cigar that pairs well with the bubbly. So grab a bottle of Champagne or sparkling wine and see if you can out-do the experts.

Flavor Odyssey kicks off 2022 with the final episode of the pre-mixed cocktail segment. On this show, Robby and Randy pick a cigar that they believe will pair well with the Cutwater Gin & Tonic.

Flavor Odyssey continues the pre-mixed cocktail segment of season 4 with an old fashioned mix from Barsmith. This is a Dojo must-have—especially when traveling—and you need a quick and decent cocktail.

Flavor Odyssey resumes the pre-mixed cocktail segment of season 4 with the surprisingly good Kirkland brand ready-to-drink Margarita from Costco. Margaritas are well known to be a difficult pairing with cigars, so this episode should be a challenging one.