Flavor Odyssey

Before we get into the thick of Flavor Odyssey Season 7, we decided to take a moment to celebrate the coming New Year with some bubbly! Grab some champagne and whip up a cocktail (or drink it as-is) to pair with a cigar that is fitting of the occasion. Pairings Randy: OpusX Angel's Share 20 Years & French 75 Cocktail 👍🏻 Robby: Davidoff Cigar Dojo Exclusive 2018 & Grand Cru Brut 👍🏻 Sens...

It’s the Season 7 premiere for Flavor Odyssey, and we are easing into the flow with a non-alcoholic wildcard edition. On this episode, your hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs find the best cigar pairing with a Eucalyptus tea. Pairings Randy: Eucalyptus Tea & La Palina Goldie No. 5 👍🏻 Sensei: Eucalyptus Hot Toddy & Sobremesa Wagashi 👎🏻 Jordan: Eucalyptus Hot Toddy & HVC La Rosa Rare o...

This week on Flavor Odyssey, it’s a WILDCARD edition, and your hosts will be revisiting (and possibly refining) their favorite pairings from season 6. It’s been a remarkable journey this season, and we will be sharing our favorites and discussing our least favorite pairings that we have tried along the way. Pairings Randy: Liga Privada H99 & Vieux Carre 👍🏻 Sensei: Death & Co. & World...

It’s the final segment for Flavor Odyssey’s venture into Ready-to-Drink cocktails (RTD), and this week, we go all the way to the top with the best of the best in this arena. We’re talkin’ bougie, high-end, ultra-craft RTDs from companies such as Death & Co. Grab your favorite cigar and create your own pairing for the show. Pairings Sensei: Death & Co. & Davidoff Year of the Dragon 👎🏻...

Flavor Odyssey continues its segment featuring Ready-to-Drink cocktails (RTD); this week, we look at wine-based RTDs. Unlike spirit-based RTDs, this type of RTD can be sold at retail locations that only have beer & wine licenses. Your hosts Robby and Randy will investigate how these drinks pair with premium cigars. Pairings Randy: Randy: Blueberry Cosmo & BLTC Bishops Blend 👍🏻 Robby: Pea...

On this episode of Flavor Odyssey, we find the best cigar pairing for a Ready-to-Serve (RTS) cocktail. An RTS-style cocktail is a subset of the Ready-to-Drink (RTD) segment of this emerging trend in the liquor world. With higher ABV and premium ingredients, these are the closest thing you can get to a real cocktail from a quality bartender. Pairings Randy: Tatuaje The Bride & Knob Creek On the...

Ready-to-Drink (RTD) cocktails are the hottest thing in the liquor world, and we are diving into some trends within this next segment on Flavor Odyssey. The first trend is that the “big guys,” i.e. household name brands are staking their claim in the game. There are none bigger than Jack Daniel’s, and they have introduced their own Jack and Coke RTD with Coca-Cola. Your hosts Robby and Randy will...

This week on Flavor Odyssey, we take a little diversion, because it’s pumpkin season! Whether it’s pumpkin beer, pumpkin cocktails, or even a pumpkin spice latte, your hosts find the best cigar pairings for them. Join the show with your pumpkin-flavored pairing and partake in the fun. Pairings Robby: Pumpkin Spice White Russian & Tatuaje Shaggy Pumpkin 👍🏻 Sensei: Wiley Roots Pumpkin Spice Al...

It’s a wildcard edition of Flavor Odyssey, and your hosts Robby and Randy continue the emerging cigar brands theme. EXCEPT… this week, everyone picks their own brand and drink pairings. Do you have a cigar brand that you feel is going to be the next big thing? Tune in and join the fun. Pairings Cigar Surgeon: Powstanie SBC22 & Pumpkin Pie Milkshake IPA 👍🏻 Robby: Patina 5th Anniversary &...

This week on Flavor Odyssey, it’s the final leg in our journey into trending and emerging cigar brands, and your hosts Robby and Randy will be exploring offerings from Rick Rodriguez and his West Tampa Tobacco Co. Pick a drink you think would pair best with a WTT White, Black, Red, or Attic Series and join the fun. Pairings Randy: West Tampa Red & Coffee Boulevardier 👎🏻 Robby: West Tampa Bla...

Black Star Line Cigars out of Chicago have been turning heads over the past five years, and are clearly one of the trending and emerging brands in the industry. This week on Flavor Odyssey, your hosts Robby and Randy find the best drink pairings for Aric Bey’s BSL releases. Pairings Randy: BSL War Witch & Revolver Cocktail 👍🏻 Robby: BSL War Witch & Mocha Spritz Cocktail 👍🏻 Sensei: BSL...

In this segment of Flavor Odyssey, we explore emerging and trending cigar brands. One of the brands that has caught our attention is Cavalier Genève. Sebastien Decoppet not only has produced some tasty cigars but also opened his own factory in Honduras. Grab a Cavalier and a drink and join the show. Pairings Randy: Cavalier Black Series II & American Dark Lager 👍🏻 Robby: Cavalier Black Serie...

Flavor Odyssey is back, and it’s time for a brand new four-week segment featuring emerging and trending cigar brands. Hosts Robby and Randy kick things off with Ferio Tego, a company spearheaded by industry legend Michael Herklots. Grab any Ferio Tego (including the Timeless series or even an older Nat Sherman) cigar and find the perfect drink pairing and join the fun! Pairings Randy: Timeless Pre...

Flavor Odyssey goes off the grid for this episode as Randy leaves Studio Lot B and travels east to Dojo Studios for a special episode leading up to Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival. We will be pairing cigars with drinks and announcing the winner of the Brewery Bus ticket along with much more.

It’s a viral sensation… but does it really work? This week on Flavor Odyssey, it’s a wildcard episode and your hosts will be exploring the practice of frothing your tequila, whiskey, rum, or other spirit. Whipping your spirits with an inexpensive milk frother adds oxygen to the drink, and is said to smooth out and even make your spirit taste a tad sweeter. Grab a cheap milk frother and a few diffe...

This week on Flavor Odyssey, we seek the best cigar pairing for the Ginger Mint Paloma, which, on paper, appears to be a bit of a challenge. Your hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs wind down their segment on emerging trends in the cocktail world, and will summarize what they have learned over the past several weeks. Pairings Randy: Plasencia Cosecha 149 & Ginger Mint Paloma 👍🏻 Robby: ROS Deser...

Flavor Odyssey’s segment on emerging trends in cocktails contines, and this week, we explore a modern take on a somewhat modern cocktail. The Penicillin cocktail was invented in 2005, but we’re amping it up with maple syrup! On paper, this sounds like a perfect cigar pairing, and your hosts Robby and Randy dive head-first into the complex recipe. Pairings Randy: Espinosa Laranja & Orange Maple...

This week on Flavor Odyssey, Robby and Randy continue their journey into emerging trends in the world of fine cocktails. On this episode, we explore an interesting take on a Negroni that is made with Mezcal. Will this cocktail be an impossible cigar pairing? Tune in to find out. Pairings Randy: Tatuaje MBS FK & Mezcal Negroni 👍🏻 Robby: Ashton Symmetry & Mezcal Negroni 👎🏻 Sensei: Ferio...

Is it a contradiction to say “modern Old Fashioned?” Segment three of Flavor Odyssey season six is upon us, and for the next four weeks, we will be exploring emerging trends in the cocktail world. We will be looking at new cocktails and old cocktails with a modern twist, and that’s where we are going first—as your hosts Robby and Randy will be taking an Old Fashioned and bringing it into the moder...

It’s a wildcard edition of Flavor Odyssey, therefore, it’s joker’s wild (and by “jokers,” of course we mean your hosts Robby and Randy). As the Dojo team prepares for a week in Vegas for the PCA Trade Show, we are creating our own interpretation of what a true two-of-a-kind should look like. So channel your inner Rat Pack and join the fun! Pairings Randy: Winston Churchill & Martini Cocktail...

It’s the final episode of Flavor Odyssey’s Emerging Cigar Trends segment, and on this episode, we explore familiar wrapper types that are grown in atypical regions. Cameroon from Honduras? Broadleaf from Nicaragua? Corojo from Connecticut? It seems that tobacco agronomists are getting creative these days, and your hosts Robby and Randy will be exploring drink pairings with these tobaccos grown far...

This week on Flavor Odyssey, we continue our journey into emerging cigar styles. On this episode, your hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs explore Connecticut Shade-wrapped cigars combined with maduro binders. While this style certainly isn’t new, it’s gained a great deal of momentum with releases such as the Dunbarton Sobremesa Brûlée, Tatuaje Negociant, and our own Diet Sarsaparilla. The sweetness...

Love them or hate them, giant ring-gauge cigars are here to stay. This week on Flavor Odyssey, your hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs seek to find great drink pairings for premium cigars that are 60-plus in ring gauge. Grab the most massive cigar from your humidor and join the fun on Flavor Odyssey. Pairings Robby: Mint Julep & NUb Double Maduro 👍🏻 Sensei: Habanero Whiskey Sour & Perdomo...

Get ready for the newest segment in this year’s Flavor Odyssey journey, as your hosts Robby and Randy will be exploring trends in the cigar industry. This week, we tackle multi-wrapper cigars such as the barber pole (or even more intricately wrapped variations) and what drink will pair best. Pairings Randy: Black Label Neon Tiger & Lime Whiskey Sour 👎🏻 Robby: RoMa Craft CRAFT 2013 & Begg...

Summertime and the livin’s easy. While technically summer hasn’t yet arrived, your Flavor Odyssey hosts Robby and Randy want to get you prepared for the heat. This week, it’s a WILDCARD edition of Flavor Odyssey, featuring favorite summer cocktails along with the cigars that pair best. Pairings Randy: Randy: Mojito Cocktail & Casa Fuente 👍🏻 Robby: Shipwreck Cocktail & Aganorsa Aniversari...