



Happy Hour -- Starlight Distillery Honey Reserve Bourbon
This Eat Drink Smoke Happy Hour starts exactly where it should: right here in Indiana, with a limited-release bourbon that hits like a freight train and a cigar that absolutely earns its keep. Tony Katz and America’s favorite amateur drinker, Fingers Malloy, pour up the Starlight Distillery Honey …

Happy Hour -- Southern Draw Lady Killer
This week on Eat Drink Smoke Happy Hour, Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy crack open the humidor and pull out something special — the Southern Draw Cigars Lady Killer, a 6½ x 46 Lonsdale created in collaboration with Privada Cigar Club back in 2021. Don’t ask how it survived that long. Just be gratefu…

Tip Revolution, TSA Cash Seizures, and a Lady Killer
This week on Eat, Drink, Smoke, Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy do what any reasonable adults would do in the middle of allergy season: light up a cigar and pretend that counts as medicine. They’re smoking a Southern Draw Lady Killer — a special Privada Cigar Club release from 2021 (don’t ask how it …

Happy Hour — Angel’s Envy Triple Oak
During this Happy Hour edition of Eat Drink Smoke, Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy go full “more is more” with a bottle that laughs at your double-oaked phase. They’re drinking Angel’s Envy Triple Oak (92 proof) — finished in a blend of Hungarian oak, Chinkapin oak, and French oak. It sounds like a b…

Happy Hour — Plasencia El Año del Caballo
On this Eat Drink Smoke Happy Hour, Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy light up a cigar that might belong on a very short list. They’re smoking the Plasencia El Año del Caballo (7x58) — the Year of the Horse — a big, beautifully built cigar with a braided tobacco “horse tail” cap that immediately spark…

Freeze Your Popcorn and Other Bad Ideas
This week on Eat, Drink, Smoke, Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy ride into the Year of the Horse with a cigar that might actually earn a spot on “the list.” They’re smoking the Plasencia El Año del Caballo (7x58) — a gorgeous, heavy, beautifully-presented stick complete with a braided “horse tail” acc…

Happy Hour -- Clermont Steep American Single Malt Whiskey
It’s a rare day on Eat Drink Smoke Happy Hour when the guys say, “Let’s try a bourbon,” and then immediately pivot to… American single malt. Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy crack open Clermont Steep from the Beam folks — an American single malt whiskey, aged five years, 94 proof, and weird enough (in…

Happy Hour — Ave Maria Excalibur and Five for the Price of One
This week on the Eat Drink Smoke Happy Hour, Fingers Malloy goes full bargain hunter and somehow drags Tony Katz along for the ride. The guys light up the Ave Maria Excalibur, a Cameroon-wrapped cigar that’s big, beefy, and not exactly subtle — and they do it for one simple reason: Fingers scored …

Five for the Price of One
This week on Eat, Drink, Smoke, Fingers Malloy goes full bargain-hunter mode… and somehow drags Tony Katz into a cigar experiment that starts with one simple question: How cheap is too cheap? Fingers scored a five-pack of the Ave Maria Excalibur on CigarBid for about $16.50 — a price that’s borde…

Happy Hour: Old Soul High Rye Bourbon
Happy Hour starts the way a lot of good pairings do—by accident. Tony Katz and Fingers Malloy reach for Old Soul High Rye Bourbon from Cathead Distillery without knowing what cigar it’s supposed to match, and end up finding something worth slowing down for. The nose comes in sweet—vanilla cake, ba…