Last year marked the second year of Alec Bradley’s St. Patrick Day themed cigar, the Black Market Filthy Hooligan. The annual limited edition has not been without its side stories, as when it debuted in 2013 it was announced as the Dirty Hooligan, though that was changed after a conversation between Alec Bradley’s Alan Rubin and Drew Estate’s Jonathan Drew over the use of the word dirty. The revised name wasn’t completely well received, however, as a consumer started a Facebook group that called the name “a slanderous ethnic stereotype.” That didn’t stop the cigar from returning in 2015, though it had a much smaller production as just 500 boxes of 22 cigars were made, down from 2,000 in 2013 and 3,000 in 2014. Here’s what I said about the Alec Bradley Black Market Filthy Hooligan (2014) when I reviewed it in April 2014: I don’t know what it would take to get a candela cigar in my regular rotation, and while I don’t think the Filthy Hooligan would be something I would stock up on to have it readily available in my humidor, it has enough merit to warrant it as something to change up the pace and experience a different flavor profile, ...
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