[E057] One Year in the Garage, Two New LACC Cigars

We hit our one year anniversary and celebrated it by catching up with the LACC guys, going around the table on our favorite moments from the past twelve months, and watching Kyle finally tell Eric about a cigar two years in the making.

Smoke and Steel records every Tuesday night in a garage in Gilbertsville, Pennsylvania. Same crew, same cigars, same conversations we were already having before the cameras turned on. This week Kyle and Big Rob joined us remote from LA Cigar Collective in Louisiana with a full slate of news: a new Lampert Black Card retailer partnership, the Le Flambeaux No. 3 house blend built with Klaas Kelner, and the Voodoo Queen, a Stolen Throne collaboration modeled after the long-discontinued Phantom Queen that Eric never stopped talking about.

We also got into the Gris Gris Toro coming back into production, HDA's move to the Rojas factory, and the Smoke and Steel merch drop.

Mostly, though, this one's about a year of doing this together and the people who showed up for it.

Full blog post here: https://stogiereview.com/2026/07/15/smoke-and-steel-podcast-057/

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CHAPTERS

0:00 Anniversary Show Kicks Off

1:53 What's Everyone Smoking Tonight

4:10 LACC's New Humidor Buildout

8:31 Becoming a Lampert Black Card Retailer

15:55 How Exclusive Is Black Card Really

18:32 The Avowed Rap City Box Story

21:00 The Tatuaje Event Goes Sideways

23:46 A Year of Favorite Memories

33:03 Listener Shoutouts and Fan Stories

46:23 LACC's New Product Teaser

48:01 Building Le Flambeaux No. 3

1:03:51 The Voodoo Queen Surprise

1:18:00 HDA Moves to Rojas

1:20:52 Gris Gris Toro Comes Back

1:26:03 Smoke and Steel Merch Store

1:30:01 Closing Out Year One