(Description provided by Alec Bradley)
Alec Bradley Filthy Hooligan and Filthy Hooligan Shamrock are now available, marking the twelfth and sixth release of the annual, limited edition take on the brand’s popular Black Market blend, respectively.
For 2024, 5,000 boxes of each blend will be released.
Bradley Rubin, brand ambassador for Alec Bradley cigars said, “Anticipation continues to build each year for the release of Filthy Hooligan and Filthy Hooligan Shamrock. With their bright green wrappers and fresh herbal notes, these candela smokes offer a great change of pace at a time when spring’s on everyone’s mind. The blends have become part of the cigar community’s annual ritual and we’re pleased that we have once again been able to source the perfect aged candela wrapper to make this year’s release a reality.”
Filthy Hooligan and Filthy Hooligan Shamrock are based on the popular Alec Bradley Black Market blend which has been tweaked to complement the multiple wrapper format.
Today we look at the Filthy Hooligan.
Filthy Hooligan features a Honduran Candela and Nicaraguan Habano Oscuro barber pole wrapper, Ecuadorian Sumatra binder, with Honduran and Panamanian filler.
Handcrafted at Tobacos de Oriente in Danli, Honduras, both blends are available exclusively in a 6” x 50 toro format. Filthy Hooligan is presented in a handsome green and black striped box containing 24 cigars, which will sell for an MSRP of $12.69 per cigar.
The cigar is nicely made and has a nice feel in the hand.
The test draw after cutting the cap was good with a touch of firmness. The initial flavors at light up were citrus, apple, lime, a little brown sugar, and a lot of dark chocolate fudge. There was black pepper rated at 7 to 7 1/2.
At the first third (27 minutes) the flavors have boiled down into lime, light brown sugar, and a lot of dark chocolate fudge. The finish is lime and some of the fudge with good lingering black pepper. The cigar is medium bodied. The lime with dark chocolate fudge is not wowing me. I rated the first third 89.
As I moved through the second third (58 minutes) the notes were a little lime and brown sugar, quite a bit of earthiness, dark chocolate, and black coffee. The cigar got a lot darker. The cigar is medium bodied. The finish is lime with a little underlying dark chocolate fudge with average lingering black pepper. The entrance of multiple dark/earthy notes hurt the cigar. I rated the second third 86.
The cigar lasted 1 hour 23 minutes. The cigar stayed very much the same in the final third. It's still medium bodied. The finish is unchanged. The notes just don't work for me. I held 86 for the final third. The cigar is a beauty to look at but not very flavorful.
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