下周，亞歷克·布拉德利雪茄公司將推出黑市系列的臭流氓、三葉草兩款雪茄，這兩款雪茄是每年2月份發布，屬于季節性的銷售，為了慶祝圣帕特里克節（St. Patrick’s Day）。這兩款雪茄的特色是茄衣卷制成一深一淺交替的顏色，其中一道是亮綠色的坎德拉煙葉，宛如覆蓋著理發桿式的滾筒。

這兩款限量版的尺寸一樣，50環徑，6英寸，公牛型號。茄套煙葉都是厄瓜多爾種植的蘇門答臘種子煙葉，茄芯都是巴拿馬、洪都拉斯煙葉。不同之處在于茄衣不一樣。

臭流氓售價是每支11.5美元，茄衣使用了兩種煙葉，一個是尼加拉瓜種植的哈瓦那種子煙葉，一款是洪都拉斯坎德拉煙葉，形成鮮明的色彩對比。三葉草售價每支13.65美元，茄衣使用了三種煙葉，棕色的尼加拉瓜種植的哈瓦那煙葉，綠色的坎德拉煙葉，深棕色的尼加拉瓜馬杜羅煙葉。

布拉德利·魯賓對記者說，這兩款雪茄還是以限量版的形式生產，主要是綠色的坎德拉煙葉需要保持一致的鮮綠色。

臭流氓是每盒24支包裝，限量生產2000盒。三葉草是每盒10支包裝，限量生產1500盒。這兩款雪茄都是委托普拉森西亞雪茄公司在洪都拉斯的丹利的東方雪茄廠（Tabacos de Oriente factory）卷制的。

這是臭流氓產品的第11次發行，也是第八次采用了理發桿滾筒似的茄衣設計風格。臭流氓發行的前三個年度的版本全部是坎德拉茄衣。對于三葉草來說，是第五次的年度發行。

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Need a green cigar to pair with your green beer this St. Patrick’s Day? Alec Bradley Cigar Co. is starting the celebration a little early. Next week, the company will be releasing the Black Market Filthy Hooligan and Filthy Hooligan Shamrock, a pair of seasonal smokes covered in barber-pole-style wrappers, one of which is a leaf of bright-green candela.

Both limited-edition cigars come in the same 6-inch-by-50-ring-gauge Toro, and both are made with an Ecuador Sumatra binder. The fillers are from Panama and Honduras, but the difference is in the wrappers. The Filthy Hooligan Barber Pole Toro ($11.50) features two wrappers—one, a Nicaraguan Habano and the other, Honduran candela for a green contrast. The Filthy Hooligan Shamrock ($13.65) takes it a step further with three wrappers: a brown Nicaraguan Habano, a green Honduran candela and a very dark brown Nicaraguan Habano maduro.

“We only use choice candela,” second generation cigarmaker Bradley Rubin said to Cigar Aficionado. “Barber Pole and Shamrock remain limited editions because the bright green tobacco we use needs to be consistent every year……a little-known fact: Shamrock was actually my first project at Alec Bradley.”

Production is limited to 2,000 boxes of 24 cigars for the Barber Pole Toro, 1,500 boxes of 10 for the Shamrock.

This marks the 11th release of Filthy Hooligan, though the eighth release of the barber-pole versions (the first three years were all-candela), and the fifth release of the Shamrock. Both cigars are made by the Plasencias at the Tabacos de Oriente factory in Danlí, Honduras.