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 Reserve Bourbon — a 106-proof, honey-barrel-finished beast coming in hot at $60 a bottle. Aged five years, blended from two mash bills, and delivering caramel apple, honey, rye spice, and a boy-howdy level of chest warmth that may or may not clear sinuses on contact.

Neat? Big heat.
On a cube? Still aggressive, but smoother.
With water? Opens up… and still punches you in the belly.

Fingers puts it through the full Kentucky Chew, Saginaw Swish, Memphis Munch, and Chattanooga Chomp (all medically recognized techniques), while Tony confirms this thing drinks bigger than 106 proof and finishes all the way down to the coccyx.

Paired up with the bourbon is the Southern Draw Cigars Lady Killer, created with Privada Cigar Club back in 2021. A 6½ x 46 Lonsdale featuring an Ecuadorian Habano Maduro wrapper and a Corojo/Criollo blend from Nicaragua. Construction? Excellent. Flavor? Rich, spicy, cedar-forward. Band glue? Aggressively committed. Five demerits (new system, just invented).

Also on the menu:

• Whether boneless wings are wings (and why lawsuits are not the answer)

• Why blue cheese is the only correct wing dressing

• Kitchen gadgets you should absolutely throw away

• Why dull knives ruin lives

• Social media bots, crypto weirdos, and bikini economics

• The surprising marriage secret of… going to bed at the same time

• And how Eat Drink Smoke is personally responsible for Valentine’s Day population growth

Final verdict:
✔️ The Lady Killer is humidor-worthy at $12
✔️ The Starlight Honey Reserve is a yes at $60
✔️ The heat is real
✔️ The opinions are louder

Cigars. Bourbon. Food. Culture. Arguments that go places they were never meant to go.

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