Randy Griggs

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 Inmenso 👍🏻 Jordan: Habanero Whiskey Sour & JFR Lunatic Maduro 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 16% Robby: 84% Audience Pairing Kevin O'Connor: Tatuaje Gran Cojonu & Rock Hill Farms Bourbon

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 & Beggar's Banquet Cocktail 👍🏻 Sensei: RoMa Craft Black Irish & Craft Black & Tan 👎🏻 Jordan: BLK WKS S&R & Craft Black & Tan 👎🏻 Votes Randy: 33% Robby: 67% Audience Pairing Bill Powers: All Saints Saint Patrick's Firecracker & Revolver Cocktail

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 Aniversario Maduro 👍🏻 Sensei: Gin Fizz & Davidoff Year of the Bull 👎🏻 Jordan: Gin Fizz & Alfonso Añeojo 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 70% Robby: 30% Audience Pairing Mike Smith: Espinosa Laranja & Grapefruit Shandy

What’s old is new again! It’s our final stop seeking great cigar pairings with emerging trends in the craft beer industry, and we dive feet-first into the American stout. That’s right, Flavor Odyssey hosts Robby and Randy immerse themselves into American stout-style beer, which, on paper, should make for a phenomenal cigar pairing. Pairings Randy: Faction Imperial Stout & Liga 9 👍🏻 Robby: Federation Low Boy Stout & Tatuaje Jason 👍🏻 Sensei: Malpais Stout & Liga UF-4 👍🏻 Jordan: Malpais Stout & Aganorsa Rare Leaf Maduro 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 44% Robby: 56% Audience Pairing Nathan Stewart: Murder of Crows Imperial Stout & EPC La Historia

Flavor Odyssey gets back on track, exploring the hottest beer trends in the industry. This week, your hosts Robby and Randy explore kettle sour-style beers. There is no doubt this will be a challenging style of beer to pair with a cigar. Make sure to grab a kettle sour and a cigar and play along with us. Pairings Randy: Glorious Guava Sour & ReviveR (2021) 👍🏻 Robby: Guava Dreams Sour & Patina Connecticut 👍🏻 Sensei: Goliath Pineapple Papaya Fandango Sour & Espinosa Laranja 👎🏻 Jordan: Goliath Pineapple Papaya Fandango Sour & Fuente Casa Cuba 👎🏻 Votes Randy: 76% Robby: 24% Audience Pairing Jimmy Birster: Cross Reference Sour & Undercrown 10

It’s Unicorn Season! That’s right, cigar hunters, this week on Flavor Odyssey, we smoke some sticks that you can’t get anymore, and give them the send-off they deserve. Hosts Rob, Eric, and Jordan each extract a cigar from the humidor they have been waiting for the right moment to smoke, because these unicorns ain’t coming around again! We invite the audience to find a unicorn in their collection and join the fun.

What beer style will you be drinking in the coming years? Flavor Odyssey is here to guide you on the upcoming beer trends, and this week, hosts Robby and Randy find the best cigar pairing for the Italian Pilsner. Snag one from your local liquor store and join the fun. Pairings Randy: Russian River STS Pils & 22 Minutes to Midnight Connecticut 👍🏻 Robby: Fort Point Sfizio & Warped La Colmena Unico 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 31% Robby: 69% Audience Pairing Kevin O'Connor: LongLive PVD Italian Pilsner & JDN Antaño CT

What the heck is a Cold IPA? No, we ain’t talking about temperature, folks, but instead the actual style of beer defined as a Cold IPA. Somewhere in between a West Coast IPA and an IPL, this crisp, fresh beer style is emerging as a popular new beer trend. Speaking of emerging beer trends, that’s what your hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs will be focusing on with this segment of Flavor Odyssey. So grab a Cold IPA, find the best cigar pairing, and join the show. Pairings Randy: Cold IPA & Illusione Epernay 👍🏻 Robby: Cold IPA & Joya de Nicaragua Dos Cientos 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 77% Robby: 23% Audience Pairing Joe Machado: Cold IPA & Casa Fernandez Boheme No. 35

It’s time for number one! That’s right, folks, it’s the final episode of our Cigar of the Year segment of Flavor Odyssey, and hosts Robby Ras and Randy Griggs seek out the best drink pairing for the Drew Estate Liga Privada H99 Connecticut Corojo, which took the top spot in our year-end list for 2022. Grab an H99 and join the fun. Pairings Randy: Randy: Liga H99 & Vieux Carre Cocktail 👍🏻 Robby: Robby: Liga H99 & Fieldwork Hot Chocolate Milk Stout 👍🏻 Jordan: Liga H99 & BCS Reserve 2021 OF 150th Anniversary 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 52% Robby: 48% Audience Pairing Craig Lee: Liga H99 & PB Eugene Coffee Porter

Pack your bags, kids, we are going to Flavor Town! Yes, that’s right, this week on Flavor Odyssey, your hosts Robby and Randy seek the best drink pairing for Guy Fieri’s Knuckle Sandwich Habano by Espinosa Premium Cigars, which snagged our number 3 spot on this year’s best of the best list. Pairings Randy: KS Habano & Old Fashioned Cocktail 👍🏻 Robby: KS Habano & Airmail Cocktail 👍🏻 Sensei: New World Dorado & Gold Rush Cocktail 👍🏻 Jordan: New World Dorado & Gold Rush Cocktail 👎🏻 Votes Randy: 26% Robby: 74% Audience Pairing Kevin O'Connor: KS Habano & Treehouse Gose

As the Odyssey continues! Flavor Odyssey is back this Wednesday night, and your hosts Master Sensei and Randy Griggs continue their pairing journey through the Cigar Dojo Cigar of the Year Sampler Pack. On this episode, we seek the perfect pairing for the golden glow of the AJ Fernandez New World Dorado, which came in number four in our year-end list. Pairings Randy: New World Dorado & Pot 'O Gold Cocktail 👍🏻 Sensei: New World Dorado & Gold Rush Cocktail 👍🏻 Jordan: New World Dorado & Gold Rush Cocktail 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 23% Robby: 77% Audience Pairing Randi Harrison: New World Dorado & Ginger Gold Rush

This week on Flavor Odyssey, we continue our journey through the Dojo Cigar of the Year Sampler from Smoke Inn. The task at hand on this episode is finding the best drink pairing for the Alec Bradley Double Broadleaf, which came in at number 9 on our Cigar of the Year list. Grab a Double Broadleaf and join the fun. Pairings Randy: AB Double Broadleaf & Bakery: Boysenberry Pie Stout 👎🏻 Sensei: AB Double Broadleaf & Double Old Fashioned 👍🏻 Jordan: AB Double Broadleaf & Double Old Fashioned 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 58% Robby: 42% Audience Pairing Bill Powers: AB Double Broadleaf & Founders KBS Stout

Hosts Robby and Randy begin their quest to find the best drink pairing for the Dojo Cigar of the Year Sampler at Smoke Inn. They kick things off with the No. 7 Cigar of the Year, the Aganorsa Leaf Guardian of the Farm Cerberus. Grab a sampler for yourself and play along, sharing your best pairings over the next five weeks. Pairings Randy: White Russian & GOTF Cerberus 👍🏻 Robby: Belgian Blonde Leffe & GOTF Cerberus 👍🏻 Sensei: Zafra Master Reserve 21 Yr Rum & GOTF Cerberus 👍🏻 Jordan: Zafra Master Reserve 21 Yr Rum & GOTF Cerberus 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 39% Robby: 61% Audience Pairing Kevin & Barb: Spiced Chai Tea & GOTF Cerberus

It’s the Flavor Odyssey season 6 premiere, and we kick-off the new season with a wildcard edition titled “When in Nicaragua.” As we prepare to head to Nicaragua to visit the Perdomo factory, your hosts Robby and Randy will be seeking the best pairing for any sun-grown Perdomo cigar. Grab a Perdomo and join the fun! Pairings Randy: Perdomo 12 Sun Grown & Rum n' Coke 👍🏻 Robby: Perdomo 12 Sun Grown & Compass Box Scotch 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 52% Robby: 48% Audience Pairing Bill Powers: Perdomo Habano Bourbon Barrel-Aged Sun Grown & Lagunitas Brown Shugga'

It’s the season 5 finale, where your hosts Robby and Randy reflect on the hits and misses from this past season. On this episode, Randy will partake in Robby’s favorite pairing from season 5 (Tatuaje Tuxtla 7th & Vieux Carré) and Robby will partake in Randy’s favorite (Alma Fuerte & Espresso Martini). Grab your favorite pairing from season 5 and join the fun! Pairings Randy: Vieux Carré & Tatuaje Tuxtla 7th 👍🏻 Robby: Espresso Martini & Alma Fuerte 👍🏻 Sensei: BTAC Thomas Handy Rye & Liga H99 👍🏻 Jordan: Lucky Seven The Proprietor 14 Year & Liga H99 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 49% Robby: 51% Audience Pairing Bill Powers: Olmec Maduro & French Connection Cocktail

It’s a WILDCARD edition of Flavor Odyssey, and on this episode, your hosts, Robby and Randy, will be revisiting a Gin & Tonic cocktail. In season 2 Robby gave a thumbs down to his RoMa Craft Baka with the cocktail, and Randy had the same disappointment with the Southern Draw 300 Hands Habano. Can the team find the right pairing for this floral and botanical drink? Tune in to find out. Pairings Randy: Gin & Tonic & Davidoff Yamasá 👍🏻 Robby: Gin & Tonic & Montecristo Especiales 👍🏻 Sensei: Gin & Tonic & Perdomo Double Aged 12-Year Vintage Connecticut 👎🏻 Jordan: Gin & Tonic & ReviveR (2018) 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 36% Robby: 64% Audience Pairing Barry Driscoll: Gunpowder G&T with Perdomo Reserve Champagne Cigar Dojo Limited Edition 10th Anniversary

It’s the final episode of Flavor Odyssey’s Born in the USA segment, featuring cigars that have close ties to the good ol’ USA. This week, your hosts seek the best drink pairing for the Drew Estate FSG cigar, which uses filler tobacco grown in the heart of Florida. Pairings Randy: FSG & Jane Russell 👎🏻 Sensei: FSG 20 Acre Farm & Sazerac Cocktail 👍🏻 Jordan: FSG 20 Acre Farm & Sazerac Cocktail 👍🏻 Scott: FSG 20 Acre Farm & Sazerac Cocktail 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 53% Sensei: 47% Audience Pairing Jimmy Birster: FSG 20 Acre Farm & Buffalo Trace Kosher Rye

Oh that beautiful, rich Connecticut River Valley Broadleaf! Our Born in the USA segment continues, as your hosts seek the best drink pairing for the Drew Estate Liga Privada No. 9, which is draped with the most sought-after Broadleaf on earth. **Apologies for the audio issues at the start of the show. It was fixed around the 20-minute mark. Pairings Randy: Bourbon Blackberry-collins & Liga #9 👍🏻 Sensei: Reverse Manhattan & Liga #9 👍🏻 Jordan: Reverse Manhattan & Liga #9 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 57% Sensei: 43% Audience Pairing Kevin Acuff: Liga #9 & Hot Chocolate Brownie Espresso

This week on Flavor Odyssey, hosts Robby and Randy continue their journey into American cigars with the Tatuaje 15th Anniversary, which is rolled in Miami at the El Rey de los Habanos factory. What drink pairs best with this delicious premium cigar? Tune in to find out. Pairings Randy: Tatuaje 15 & Rye Manhattan 👍🏻 Robby: Tatuaje 15 & Campfire Stout 👍🏻 Sensei: Tatuaje 15 & WL Weller Bourbon 👍🏻 Jordan: Tatuaje 15 & Bourbon County Stout 👍🏻 Votes Randy: 48% Robby: 52% Audience Pairing Nathan Stuart: Tatuaje 15 & Doc Swinson's Alter Ego Solera Aged Rye

The first show of 2023 is also the first show for the American segment, featuring cigars with a tie into the good ol’ USA. First up in the segment, Robby and Randy find a great drink pairing for the Don Reynaldo from Warped. One of the highest rated cigars on the Dojo, Don Reynaldo is made in the heart of Miami at the El Titan de Bronze factory. Pairings Robby: Winter Highball & Don Reynaldo 👍🏻 Jordan: (Robot-Designed) Disaronno Sour & Don Reynaldo 👍🏻 Votes Robby: 66% Jordan: 34% Audience Winner Kevin O'Connor: Don Reynaldo & Dominicana Cream Cocktail