Confusion has set in.
My first post, I mentioned they were hardnecks. Someone said 'looks like softneck to me'. I opened the largest one, yep, definitely softneck. What a gaffe.
Not necessarily. In order to keep the other cloves from rotting, I started opening the skin layers of the final two monster cloves. They're both hardnecks.
I just *knew* they were hardnecks at first, guess I just didn't check all of them closely. The strange part: though one was definitely softneck, all three heads looked identical (save for size), even down to the small mutant cloves around the outside.
So, the softneck tasted terrible, maybe I'll have better fortune with these two hardnecks.
J