Acid

Acid is the infused cigar line made by Drew Estate at La Gran Fábrica in Estelí, Nicaragua. It is the brand that made the company famous, and since 2014 it has belonged to Swisher International, Drew Estate's owner.

Jonathan Drew and Marvin Samel started Drew Estate in New York in 1996, and their first brand was La Vieja Habana, not Acid. In 1998 Drew moved to Estelí and rebuilt production there after Hurricane Mitch.

Acid followed in 1999, created with the artist Scott "Acid" Chester. The name comes from his design studio, Arielle Chester Industrial Design (ACID), and his urban art style shaped the boxes and the color-coded labels. Drew Estate calls the cigars infused rather than flavored. The tobacco is aged with botanicals and oils in aroma rooms, and the process is kept secret. Familiar Acid cigars include Kuba Kuba, a Sumatra-wrapped blend, and Blondie, a small Connecticut-wrapped cigar with a pigtail cap, along with Cold Infusion and 1400cc.

La Gran Fábrica opened in July 2007 and, according to Cigar Journal, makes about 100,000 cigars a day. Swisher agreed to buy Drew Estate in October 2014. The same factory makes Drew Estate's traditional, uninfused lines, Liga Privada and Undercrown. Infused cigars and some of Nicaragua's most sought-after traditional ones come from the same floor.