Now in its third release, RoMa Craft Tobac’s CroMagnon Fomorian has become a staple of the annual D.C. Cigar Tweet-Up, which was held March 13-14 in and around our nation’s capitol this year. The Fomorian is a spinoff of the company’s CroMagnon EMH release, which uses a Connecticut broadleaf wrapper on top of a Cameroon binder and fillers from Nicaragua. The Fomorian traces back to a small number of EMHs that Skip Martin of RoMa Craft Tobac said had aesthetic issues with the wrapper and that would have been kept at the factory for smoking at the factory. But instead of using them for that purpose, Martin asked that candela wrappers be put on them. In 2013, the cigar was an incredibly small release, with just ten boxes of 24 cigars produced along with a handful of singles for a total run of 250 cigars. With the growing popularity of the company and subsequent increase in demand for the cigars, the team of Michael Rosales and Skip Martin increased production to 2,400 cigars for 2014’s event, producing 100 boxes of 24, with single stick prices increasing from $7.50 to $7.75. In addition, any Fomorians not sold at the D.C. Tweet-Up were offered to ...
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