Feel your pain but not three tons of it. I drew the short straw last year and got a ton (out of three) of the Somerset plague. So bad I called the factory looking for a refund. When they stopped laughing, they told me when the plant runs a batch of Hickory wood the resulting pellets are more ashy but "still within the premium pellet specification". Not sure about that, but they truly sucked. Would have preferred Infernals
. Maybe too late, but I'd recommend cleaning your exhaust venting twice as often with those pellets.
When they aren't Hickory, they are great pellets IMHO. So good that I played roulette again this year and got three good tons. Other have said the percentage of Hickory is quite low so odds of getting them are too.