I remember reading somewhere that 5 bro’s used to have a number of competitors in the “strong codger” category. This is to say, there used to be a variety of codger blends that were not tamed into submission. If this were still true, I might be a codger blend smoker. But the codger blends I have smoked, except 5 bros, all seem like white burley with the life toasted out of it, then cased and topped. I taste the flavoring—and the flatness of white burley beneath. I smoke them once in a great while, but it mainly serves as a reminder of how much I like burley alive and wild