1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:07,080 Speaker 1: Wow, a new year is upon us. 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:12,120 Speaker 2: Twenty twenty six. Oh, I have never felt so happy 3 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 2: to have a. 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,960 Speaker 1: Year behind me. Have you noticed? It has that new 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: year's smell. It's a drink smoke. Dang it, Oh, Tony Katz, 6 00:00:19,960 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 1: that's America's. 7 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 2: Favorite amateur drinker, Fingers Maloy. It is the true end 8 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 2: of the year review. Now, we know a lot of 9 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 2: people do the review, review the review. There it is, 10 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,160 Speaker 2: see twenty twenty six. I promise myself I'd speak better 11 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,000 Speaker 2: the review types of programs. But they don't wait for 12 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:37,879 Speaker 2: the end of the year. Not us here at hey, 13 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 2: drink smoke. We wait for the ball to be dropped 14 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 2: before we have the discussion with you. And we don't 15 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,200 Speaker 2: do a top ten list. We don't do a top 16 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:49,360 Speaker 2: five list. Honestly, as Fingers mLOY would say, who has 17 00:00:49,400 --> 00:00:49,880 Speaker 2: the time? 18 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: That's so true. 19 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 2: We do a top three list, our top three bourbons 20 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 2: and our top three cigars. Now, a little bit of 21 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:00,520 Speaker 2: housekeeping in this, we did grab a cigar to smoke. 22 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: This right here is from Oliva. 23 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:09,080 Speaker 2: This is the Master Blends three right here at the Churchill. 24 00:01:09,240 --> 00:01:12,199 Speaker 2: It's a seven by fifty, which means it's seven inches long. 25 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 2: Always makes fingers while I laugh, and the ring gauge 26 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 2: is the fifty the diameter of the cigar, or how 27 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:21,080 Speaker 2: thick it is around again with the laughter, or sixty 28 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: four ring gauge will be a full one inch around. 29 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,640 Speaker 2: This is what we decided to grab today. This is 30 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,840 Speaker 2: a Connecticut broad leaf wrapper. No, it's Connecticut broadleaf. It's 31 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:31,480 Speaker 2: not Pennsylvania. 32 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:32,840 Speaker 1: It's it's a Connecticut broad leaf. 33 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 2: It's Connecticut broad leaf. Yeah, I knew, I wasn't. I 34 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 2: wasn't out of my mind. Nicaraguan and the binder in 35 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 2: the filler. I smoke these when I do my Monday 36 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 2: through Friday show. I smoke on the air and I 37 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 2: smoke these a lot, much bigger cigar when I first 38 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 2: smoked it than I ever thought it was gonna be, 39 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:47,680 Speaker 2: but a. 40 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 1: Very very enjoyable smoke. Smokes well me. 41 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 2: I've been having a lot of problems with cigars lately, 42 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,360 Speaker 2: and I'll get into that in the future. But wanted 43 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:57,680 Speaker 2: to grab something that we can have here with the 44 00:01:57,680 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 2: bourbons that were highlighting the The bourbons that we chose 45 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: or what we choose from has nothing to do with 46 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 2: what got released this year. It has nothing to do 47 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 2: with what people say are the top end bourbons. 48 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:14,240 Speaker 1: No, no, no. First of all, it doesn't necessarily have 49 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: to be a bourbon. 50 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 2: Whatever we reviewed fingers from y in the past year 51 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 2: is up for grabs. Anything we drank in the last 52 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 2: year can be your bourbon of the year, your drink 53 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:29,320 Speaker 2: of the year. Crystal pepsi done. We didn't have that though, 54 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: couldn't find it, couldn't find any zema either. It was 55 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 2: very disappointing. Secondly, it doesn't have to be a bourbon. 56 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 2: We've done bourbon, We've done rye, we've done tequila, we've 57 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 2: done rum. It could be any we've done beer. It 58 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,920 Speaker 2: we have done I believe we did a can cocktail 59 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:49,040 Speaker 2: this year. It could be ah, not good, it could 60 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:52,680 Speaker 2: be any of those things. So when you when you 61 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:54,839 Speaker 2: see our picks, it has to do with what we've 62 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: done over the past year. And you can go back 63 00:02:56,600 --> 00:02:59,360 Speaker 2: and catch those episodes. Just get the podcast Whereverdence you 64 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: get your podcast, look for Eat, Drink, Smoke. We're going 65 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 2: to start with you fingers Maloya. Oh we are well, 66 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,399 Speaker 2: We're gonna start with you just in the basics when 67 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:09,919 Speaker 2: you're looking at a bourbon of the year, and we'll 68 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:13,400 Speaker 2: talk more about this cigar right here, which I've been 69 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 2: smoking a little bit more than fingers before. 70 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 1: You got here. 71 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 2: When you are taking a look fingers at what you 72 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 2: you chose for a Bourbon of the year, What were 73 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:28,920 Speaker 2: you looking at? What were you thinking about to be 74 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 2: able to come to your decision. 75 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 3: First of all, I don't know if you felt this 76 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:36,000 Speaker 3: way when you were trying to compile your list. We've 77 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 3: been doing a show now for what This was the 78 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,960 Speaker 3: most difficult year to put together a list for me? Really, Yes, 79 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 3: I was looking back over what we had reviewed. And 80 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:50,800 Speaker 3: I'm not saying we reviewed a bunch of trash. We 81 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 3: reviewed a lot of of good stuff. But you know, 82 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:59,120 Speaker 3: I was going over the list and nothing was really 83 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 3: pop up out at me. It was like, oh, oh 84 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:05,640 Speaker 3: my gosh, I remember that that was fantastic. There's a 85 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 3: lot of decent stuff we were reviewing over the past year, 86 00:04:09,040 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 3: But I don't know if anything really like moved me 87 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 3: to the point where it was like I need to 88 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:17,560 Speaker 3: run to the liquor store and have three of these 89 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:18,880 Speaker 3: in my liquor cabinet. 90 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:20,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if you felt the same way. 91 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 2: Not only we didn't discuss this, we go into this 92 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 2: episode blind only. I think only yesterday did I learn 93 00:04:30,440 --> 00:04:32,560 Speaker 2: what your three were. We don't discuss it. We don't 94 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 2: go over it nothing. He sent me his list. I 95 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 2: sent him mine just so we would know in preparation 96 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: for the show. But we don't go over it. I 97 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 2: so felt that way about bourbon, and I did not 98 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 2: feel that way about cigars. 99 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: So we do a top three list here. 100 00:04:48,480 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 2: I had four bourbons or four drinks on my list 101 00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: because my number one teaser not a bourbon. I had 102 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 2: eleven cigars. 103 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,160 Speaker 1: On my list. Hah. And it was hard. 104 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,039 Speaker 2: It was difficult for me to come up with the 105 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,360 Speaker 2: cigar list and to really give it it's it's. 106 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 1: Due, because I'm still not. 107 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:10,920 Speaker 2: One hundred percent sure that I've got it right. You'll 108 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 2: have to tune in next week to get our cigars 109 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 2: of the year. This is the episode for Bourbons of 110 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:16,160 Speaker 2: the Year. 111 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:20,479 Speaker 1: But I'm with you. It's not that anything was particularly bad. 112 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 2: But if you go back over the last year, a 113 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 2: common refrain from me was, it's. 114 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:26,359 Speaker 1: Not my palette. 115 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 2: But yeah, right, I don't really bag on on too 116 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:31,360 Speaker 2: many all right, one or two things this year. I 117 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:35,720 Speaker 2: don't really bag on too many beverages there can cocktails, 118 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 2: but it was it was. It was hard, Yeah, it was. 119 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 1: There was. 120 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 2: It could be that we've had so many things that 121 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 2: some things just aren't as special to us as they 122 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 2: used to be. Could just been the picks we made 123 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 2: weren't necessarily home runs. I feel very very good about 124 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:58,040 Speaker 2: my top three. I would suggest them anywhere, but you're right, 125 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 2: compared to the cigars, there were very few bourbons that 126 00:06:02,279 --> 00:06:05,279 Speaker 2: I was like, my gosh, we have to bring this everywhere. 127 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 3: And I think part of that too, is we made 128 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:12,559 Speaker 3: a real effort this year to try things that aren't 129 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 3: necessarily everywhere. They aren't all over the place, you know, 130 00:06:17,200 --> 00:06:19,840 Speaker 3: throughout the country at liquor stores. We were trying to 131 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: go a little bit outside of our comfort zone and 132 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 3: pick some things. Some things were great, some things were 133 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 3: just there. But yeah, this was Maybe part of it too, 134 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 3: is just the mood of the year. You know, it's 135 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:36,159 Speaker 3: been an odd year, and maybe that had an influence 136 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 3: on me as well, because you know, you and I 137 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 3: have discussed this on the air and off the air. 138 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:43,119 Speaker 1: I'm ready for twenty twenty six. 139 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:48,600 Speaker 2: I have never in my life felt like, my gosh, 140 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 2: I can't wait for this to be over, I have 141 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 2: never ever and I do this year, and I gotta 142 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 2: admit I feel bad about it. 143 00:06:55,760 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: Because I think it's a stupid way to feel. Years 144 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:05,400 Speaker 1: is Thursday or so Wednesday to Thursday. My life didn't change. 145 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,360 Speaker 2: It's not like, Okay, anything I did I dealt with 146 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 2: I don't have to deal with now, same crap. 147 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: Right, it's still the same stuff. I've got to deal with, 148 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 1: the same nonsense. So I don't I don't know why. 149 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,239 Speaker 2: I was just I think what I was looking forward 150 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 2: to was the vacation which I went to Vegas. Oh, 151 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 2: we need to talk about Las Vegas. Okay, there are 152 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 2: two things just off the bat. First, had the Fun, 153 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:31,080 Speaker 2: one of the top five best meals of my life, 154 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 2: of my life in Las Vegas. 155 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,360 Speaker 3: Last with the Casino Royale four dollars ninety nine cent 156 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: hot dog. 157 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 2: No. 158 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: Vegas is so out of their holy damn minds. You're you're, you're. 159 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 2: You deserve to be yelled at. You deserve to be 160 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:51,640 Speaker 2: called every name in the book. If your sister was 161 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 2: called a skanky ass hoe, she deserved it. Wow, that's 162 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 2: that's you, Vegas. Oh my gosh, you are out of 163 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 2: your heads. 164 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:03,800 Speaker 1: You suck. 165 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:10,240 Speaker 2: Can't wait to go back. You Middle America cannot go. 166 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:12,760 Speaker 2: I saved for this trip. I planned for the trip. 167 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 2: I knew it was gonna be an eating trip. I 168 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:20,120 Speaker 2: gambled ninety dollars wow the whole week and lost ninety dollars. 169 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 1: I went for the food. I knew what I was doing. 170 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 2: You're you're, you're psychotic Vegas, and you better listen to 171 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:29,880 Speaker 2: Steve Whin and you better change some things because nope. 172 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,480 Speaker 2: And when people get angry with you, you deserve it. 173 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 2: So we'll get into that. 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But 194 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 2: what was the criteria that made you that brought you 195 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,440 Speaker 2: the top three? Was there a guiding principle? Was there 196 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:57,439 Speaker 2: a very often with you, there's a cost conversation. We 197 00:09:57,520 --> 00:09:59,160 Speaker 2: talked a lot about money in the cost of bourbon 198 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 2: this year. What really moved you this year? 199 00:10:02,040 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, for me, you know, people who 200 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 3: have listened to this show for a long time no 201 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 3: that when it comes to money or cigars, I'm the 202 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 3: value guy and Tony is the money's money guy. 203 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:15,520 Speaker 2: That's right, That is right. 204 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,920 Speaker 3: So I picked three bourbons that aren't all bourbon. 205 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: That they're not all bourbon, you know, really, yeah. 206 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 3: That are under fifty dollars a bottle, and some that 207 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 3: are even lower than that. Number one for me, value, 208 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,520 Speaker 3: especially in this economy, everybody's talking about it affordability crisis, 209 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:39,280 Speaker 3: and you know, even though a lot of those same 210 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 3: people are door dashing ten times a month. Having said that, 211 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 3: that was one of the major criteria. The other is 212 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 3: I'm all over the map here, because you and I 213 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:53,839 Speaker 3: talked about it earlier. I was looking over the list 214 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 3: and I was just struggling to come up with something. 215 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:01,680 Speaker 3: And these are really in a lot of ways, they're 216 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:08,959 Speaker 3: somewhat similar, but they also have some real differences with 217 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 3: one or two notes. So it's not like, oh, everything 218 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,320 Speaker 3: that I picked has it's sweet and it tastes you know, 219 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 3: has notes of caramel and vanilla. I'm a little all 220 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:21,559 Speaker 3: over them. I just look at the list and I 221 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,679 Speaker 3: thought to myself that one's okay, that one's okay. Going 222 00:11:25,679 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 3: down the list, Oh, I really like that. And that 223 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 3: led me to these three bourbons, and I did with 224 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 3: air quotes for you people on the radio. 225 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 2: So let's start with it. Number three. What is the 226 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,040 Speaker 2: number three bourbon for fingers? Horatio Malone. 227 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 3: We actually discussed this recently, and we actually featured this 228 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 3: twice this year on Eat, Drink Smoke. It is the 229 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 3: Kirklan b bond. Look at that now underproof. 230 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 2: Understand that we featured this couple of weeks ago because 231 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:58,080 Speaker 2: we were both sick. 232 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,840 Speaker 1: I'm totally healed finger is it somewhat healed? And we 233 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:02,559 Speaker 1: didn't want to. 234 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,960 Speaker 2: Review anything we hadn't done already, because when you're sick, 235 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:06,800 Speaker 2: you know your your pouth doesn't really work. So we 236 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 2: grabbed that, which was one of the great values that 237 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:12,520 Speaker 2: we saw out of there. This is purchased at Costco. 238 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:18,840 Speaker 2: This is the bottle in bond one hundred proof it 239 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 2: and I excellent pick. Excellent pick? 240 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,320 Speaker 1: Was it? Was it the size of bottle for the 241 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: dollar or was it the flavor? 242 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:31,280 Speaker 3: Well, first of all, let me give you the mash 243 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,920 Speaker 3: bill yees seventy four percent corn, eighteen percent rye eight 244 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:35,880 Speaker 3: percent barley. 245 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:37,839 Speaker 2: That would tell you sweet with a little bit of 246 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:43,559 Speaker 2: a hot shatcha aged four years. The notes had some 247 00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,719 Speaker 2: spice right away, caramel, vanilla, maybe some citrus, some apricot, 248 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 2: and some oak. What I liked about this as far 249 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 2: as a value pick is first of all, twenty seven 250 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,800 Speaker 2: dollars a bottle. This is a bourbon that you can 251 00:13:02,000 --> 00:13:05,880 Speaker 2: definitely enjoy neat. But also if your friends come over 252 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,400 Speaker 2: and they say, I want to have this bottle in 253 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,680 Speaker 2: Bond from Kirkland, but I would like to have a 254 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,520 Speaker 2: mixer with it, you won't cringe. 255 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:18,520 Speaker 1: It's to me, it is very solid. 256 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 3: It's a great value and that's why it's number three 257 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 3: on my list. 258 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 2: I think it's a solid, solid pick. And people I 259 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,959 Speaker 2: think still will be like, wait, you're getting bourbon from Costco. 260 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 2: If you've ever trusted us before, they did a fantastic 261 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: job on it. Right, It's a bottled in bond, so 262 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:39,000 Speaker 2: same distiller, same distill it, same distilling season. These are 263 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:41,160 Speaker 2: the rules I set up by the federal government. Has 264 00:13:41,200 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 2: to be one hundred proof. It really is a lovely expression. 265 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:47,480 Speaker 2: You're like, you will drink that and you'll be like, wow, 266 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 2: all right, how much was the bottle again? 267 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: Twenty seven dollars? 268 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 2: Look at us, and then you will be able to 269 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 2: enjoy an entire evening with friends. You can pour all 270 00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:03,839 Speaker 2: all the drinks you want, and it's You'll never once 271 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 2: be like, eh, it was only twenty seven bucks. Okay, 272 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 2: You'll be like this is good, this is. 273 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 1: Good, and it was only twenty seven dollars. It's one 274 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 1: of those. 275 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:14,840 Speaker 2: So I think it's a great and absolutely fantastic pick fingers. 276 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: I think that is smart. I could not agree more. 277 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,320 Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like someone you bring a group 278 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,640 Speaker 3: of people over, they see your bottle of Blanton's and 279 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,360 Speaker 3: they say, oh good, I've got some diet coke with me. 280 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 3: Let me have right whiskey and coke. So you have 281 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 3: no problem with people doing that with this. 282 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 2: Speaking of oh, speaking of flew to Vegas, as I said, 283 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 2: this trip's gonna come up a little bit, and took 284 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 2: the Southwest Southwest Airlines. Now soon you'll be able to 285 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:48,760 Speaker 2: select your own seat. Southwest is changing, but I purchased 286 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 2: the tickets that put you at the very front of 287 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 2: the boarding. 288 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: You know me rather well. 289 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:58,360 Speaker 2: There were no nonstops going to Vegas from Indianapolis for 290 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 2: that that had a first class none of them. Oh okay, 291 00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 2: none of them. So I went with Southwest and then 292 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 2: I got the top thing. So we get on first 293 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 2: and what do we get? Drink coupons? Get the drink coupon. 294 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 2: And the choice was jack or a wild turkey one 295 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,440 Speaker 2: on one. Got the wild turkey one on one. Me 296 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,920 Speaker 2: on an airplane, had a drink mixed it with the 297 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 2: diet coke. Okay, first of all, yell at somebody else, 298 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:27,640 Speaker 2: I'm not in the mood. 299 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 1: Secondly, it was so fantastic. 300 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 2: My wife is like, give me one of those, and 301 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 2: she says, I don't need to die coke. 302 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: Just give me a water. 303 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:43,880 Speaker 2: My wife is now drinking wild turkey one on one 304 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:48,800 Speaker 2: in water like she was a construction worker in nineteen 305 00:15:48,920 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 2: seventy six. Wow, and that wild turkey and in her 306 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 2: bottle right, the little bottle then finished my bottle. 307 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 1: Wow. All of a sudden, she's a wild turkey one 308 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: on one girl. 309 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,840 Speaker 2: And I'm like, I don't know whether I should be 310 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 2: concerned or thank thank the Lord above that you came 311 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 2: into my life with water. 312 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 1: Sure that's her mixer, Okay, nothing wrong with that. 313 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 3: That wild turkey and water cost him seven hundred and 314 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 3: eighty four hours and it was worth it. 315 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: And we just did Where is it? It's over there 316 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: somewhere the Maker's Mark special one on one. Yeah. I 317 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 1: want to I actually. 318 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:31,800 Speaker 2: Want to bring the wild turkey in Okay and get 319 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:34,080 Speaker 2: into some of those more old school things as we've done. 320 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 2: We talked, you know, we are effusive about old Granddad 321 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:45,080 Speaker 2: one fourteen. Holy cow, it was good. The suite on 322 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 2: that the hit on that. Maybe it's because I was 323 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 2: having it as a mix and I never I'm not 324 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,400 Speaker 2: a mixed drink guy. It was so absolutely enjoyable, and 325 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,160 Speaker 2: I believe that you have to incorporate the fifteen percent 326 00:16:57,240 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 2: bump and enjoyment because you were on an airplane lying 327 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 2: out to Vegas science So you mean if I have 328 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 2: it here in the eat drink smoke studios, won't be 329 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 2: as good, really, And it also wouldn't have been as 330 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 2: good if you were having the drink flying from Vegas 331 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 2: back home. 332 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: Oh no, it was. 333 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 2: Oh we did that too, nice. Yeah, drink coupons both ways. 334 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 1: People. 335 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 2: That's right, TK. But in the big life, eat drink smoking, 336 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:29,920 Speaker 2: it's your cigar bourbon foody extravaganza. 337 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:30,760 Speaker 1: I'm Tony Katz. 338 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 2: That is fingers below a very very happy a new year, 339 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:37,919 Speaker 2: as we bring you our top three bourbons of the 340 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,600 Speaker 2: year next year, not next year, next week will be 341 00:17:40,840 --> 00:17:43,040 Speaker 2: our top three cigars of the year. We actually wait 342 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 2: for the end of the year, be in the new 343 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 2: year before we bring you our top three. And some 344 00:17:47,359 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 2: people do a top ten, but they're willing to do 345 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 2: way more work than we are. 346 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: Top three is enough. 347 00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 2: Our top three bourbons, which is based on anything we 348 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 2: had to drink we tried this year. So it could 349 00:17:56,840 --> 00:17:59,320 Speaker 2: be a bourbon, a rye, a tequila, a rum, It 350 00:17:59,359 --> 00:18:03,280 Speaker 2: could be a can's cocktail. Spoiler alert, it is not 351 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 2: a canned cocktail. 352 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 1: Why are you so anti canned cocktails? Because I've tried them. 353 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 2: That's pretty good. 354 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:15,920 Speaker 1: That's pretty solid, right there. Fingers Wi has been going 355 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:16,720 Speaker 1: through his top three. 356 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:20,320 Speaker 2: Number three on his list was the Kirkland Signature bottled 357 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 2: in Bond from Costco twenty seven dollars a bottle. An excellent, 358 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 2: excellent pick. But fingers Ony, where are you for number 359 00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,199 Speaker 2: two of the year? I mean, eat, drink, smoke studio, 360 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 2: I know, but where what is your number two? 361 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: Oh? 362 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,600 Speaker 3: Okay, so this is my splurge bottle, Tony right, this 363 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 3: bottle is forty nine dollars. 364 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:45,240 Speaker 1: And everything he picked was under fifty bucks. Was that 365 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,840 Speaker 1: was that planned? Yes? That was a plan. You gave 366 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 1: yourself a capp Yeah, and actually made that sound. 367 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:54,760 Speaker 3: Why I made the cap the international cap sound whep, 368 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:57,959 Speaker 3: So yeah, I want to keep things under fifty dollars 369 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:01,160 Speaker 3: Because times are tough, some people like to keep things 370 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 3: on the d l under fifty dollars basically it. 371 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:09,800 Speaker 1: So that is so dumb that. 372 00:19:11,359 --> 00:19:14,680 Speaker 3: I follow that I want to keep things under fifty dollars. 373 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:18,200 Speaker 3: I'm the value guy on the show. I'm not claiming 374 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:20,920 Speaker 3: that what I'm picking is the best bourbon you'll ever 375 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 3: have in your life. It's things that we have reviewed 376 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 3: this year, and I always look for value. 377 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 2: Right, So then this is what you made your criteria. Yes, 378 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:29,880 Speaker 2: I get it now. 379 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 3: This also was the sweetest of the top three. This 380 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 3: is I'm not going to say it's quite too the 381 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:42,360 Speaker 3: dessert bourbon category, but this is very sweet. 382 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: It is the two XO American oak. 383 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 2: Okay, I did not I did not see that coming. 384 00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 2: I did not see that coming. Although you talk about 385 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:57,159 Speaker 2: having a sweet tooth and and liking those kinds of things, No, 386 00:19:57,280 --> 00:20:00,119 Speaker 2: I did not see that for you. Right there, talk 387 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:01,920 Speaker 2: to me about the two XO. Break it down. 388 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 3: So it is ninety two proof. The mash bill is undisclosed. 389 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,800 Speaker 3: They keep it a secret. But I asked the boys 390 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 3: over at the fingers Bloy Institute and Institutes for Institutes. 391 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,439 Speaker 3: They said the mash bill includes a mash bill No. 392 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, hard working voice over lot. 393 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 3: We got a government grant to find that out too, 394 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,199 Speaker 3: and we think ask Lascow for that. Having said that, 395 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,600 Speaker 3: this is, like I said, very it's sweet, but it 396 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:29,920 Speaker 3: also has a nice bit of spice to it. There's 397 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:34,119 Speaker 3: a richness to it, caramel vanilla. You and I both 398 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,879 Speaker 3: got like a stone fruit note to it as well. Again, 399 00:20:39,320 --> 00:20:43,000 Speaker 3: this is not everything on the list. Is not show 400 00:20:43,119 --> 00:20:47,800 Speaker 3: to the best bourbon in the history of bourbon. But 401 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:50,240 Speaker 3: over the course of the year we reviewed a lot 402 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:55,280 Speaker 3: of things. I really enjoyed this. This is number two 403 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:57,320 Speaker 3: on my list, forty nine dollars a. 404 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 2: BOT two XO. Not a bad pick at all. I 405 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,959 Speaker 2: will tell you that this year fingers Withlin and I 406 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 2: have no crossover whatsoever on our lists. You you had 407 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,160 Speaker 2: mentioned earlier that it was it was hard to think 408 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 2: of things that really came to mind as a wow, 409 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 2: that that really stood out, and things like that and 410 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 2: things you were rushing to, which only has to do 411 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:23,600 Speaker 2: with you know, some years we have those and some 412 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,000 Speaker 2: years we don't, And that's all there is to It's 413 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,159 Speaker 2: just you know what, as we picked for me, that 414 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:31,520 Speaker 2: isn't the case. There are some things that absolutely stood out. 415 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:35,600 Speaker 2: As I said, to create my bourbon list was very easy. 416 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,000 Speaker 2: There were four things on my list and I just 417 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 2: had to make it a top three cigars eleven. There 418 00:21:41,520 --> 00:21:44,160 Speaker 2: were eleven cigars that are now part of my life 419 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 2: because of this show and what we what we've tried, 420 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: so it happens. Things change, you know, they're good. There 421 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 2: are strong years and not strong years. I struggled to 422 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:59,880 Speaker 2: find three bourbons. Yes, that's and again it's it's not. 423 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:03,520 Speaker 3: That we reviewed a bunch of of bad juice this year, 424 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,280 Speaker 3: it was just previous years. I'm looking over the list, 425 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:07,880 Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I remember that. I love that. Oh 426 00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 3: I remember that. 427 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: I love that. 428 00:22:10,040 --> 00:22:12,800 Speaker 3: It just may be me, you know, I am getting older. 429 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,640 Speaker 3: I'm thirty six now and the memory isn't what. 430 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: It used to be. And you look great. Thank you. 431 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 1: You look great. You look like a young Jim Fix. 432 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:26,600 Speaker 1: Jim Fix was not the runner. I have no idea 433 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:29,239 Speaker 1: what you're saying right now. Really, yeah, I I this 434 00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:32,239 Speaker 1: may surprise look like a young Troy McClure. Thank you. 435 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 1: That's better. I'm not a running historian. What I know. 436 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,560 Speaker 2: It's hard to believe because Twitter, you're a fitness influencer. 437 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 2: What's going? Yeah, if your fall fingers will on X 438 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,800 Speaker 2: on Twitter. His bio says fat. 439 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:51,240 Speaker 3: And you know what's hilarious about that? Because you know 440 00:22:51,280 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 3: I do this show, I also do my other show, 441 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 3: The Stark Factor. And because that says fitness influencer on 442 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 3: at you know how you get random pitches from people 443 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:06,919 Speaker 3: to be a guest? I swear once a month I 444 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:10,800 Speaker 3: will get a pitch from someone who is like, you're 445 00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:14,280 Speaker 3: a fitness influencer. So you need to have Jack Lalane's 446 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:15,800 Speaker 3: ghost on your show. 447 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 2: Doesn't know Jim Fix, but brings up a good Jack 448 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 2: Lalaane reference. Oh gosh, figures well, we do need to 449 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 2: move it into News of the week. We are smoking 450 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:30,880 Speaker 2: from all of our This is the Master Blend's three. 451 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,159 Speaker 2: We're doing the Churchill seven by fifty. And you do 452 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 2: want to get your notebooks out? What did you eat today? 453 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:39,680 Speaker 2: What'd you drink today? The weather? It's been freezing in Indianapolis, 454 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 2: Indiana where we are. But you want to break that 455 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,760 Speaker 2: cigar into thirds first, third, second, third, final, third, Right, 456 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 2: get your notebooks out, start fresh for twenty twenty six. 457 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 2: Get a notebook, write it down. What'd you eat today, 458 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 2: what do you drink today? And then break the cigar 459 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 2: into thirds first, third, second, third, final third. 460 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: And what are the flavors that you get out of 461 00:23:58,359 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: the cigar. 462 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 2: This is a this stick is a much bigger, stronger 463 00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:06,159 Speaker 2: stick than I was expecting when I first got it. 464 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,000 Speaker 2: I was I found a deal on them, and I 465 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 2: got I got a bundle, and I'm like, you know, 466 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,879 Speaker 2: compared to the Olive A V or what I really like, 467 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaker 2: the V Millennio, which I love in my humidors filled 468 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 2: with those are a much smoother presentation. This is much 469 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 2: much bigger, much more bold in its presentation compared to those. 470 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's overwhelming, but there's a lot of 471 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:34,680 Speaker 2: tobacco here. You got the Connecticut Broadleaf, which I love 472 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 2: happening with with a lot of strength and vigor. It 473 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 2: does smoke very very well. It's got really solid construction here. 474 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 2: But this is a big This is a bigger stick. 475 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,119 Speaker 2: I think then people would think of if they're getting 476 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 2: in all of a V. Certainly the Gees and O's 477 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 2: this is this is a bigger stick than you. 478 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:53,680 Speaker 3: I think people realize, yeah, I'm interested, you know, I 479 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 3: don't know, I know, we don't work. 480 00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: We're crunched for time. 481 00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,199 Speaker 3: But to me, there's a little bit of cocoa, like 482 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:00,280 Speaker 3: a little bit of earthiness and some oak. 483 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:01,639 Speaker 1: Are you getting any of that? 484 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,919 Speaker 2: I I think that with with anything that's got that 485 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,760 Speaker 2: Uh yeah. 486 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: I got that wood, but it's not you know, specifically oak. 487 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 2: That that Connecticut broad leave right. That bigness can come 488 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:16,560 Speaker 2: in a in a series of ways, and I don't think, uh, 489 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,760 Speaker 2: feeling a cocoa or some level of a dark chocolate 490 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,240 Speaker 2: is necessarily out of the realm. 491 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: I'm a little more. 492 00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:26,040 Speaker 2: Coffee on this, and I'm just I'm I'm very very 493 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:29,959 Speaker 2: tobacco on on on what's happening here. There's just a 494 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 2: lot of a lot of strength going in going in 495 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 2: to this stick, and so I'm taken more by the 496 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,840 Speaker 2: by the strength than anything else. I would also argue 497 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 2: that in in that in that chocolate coffee conversation, there's 498 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:50,240 Speaker 2: also a bit of a of a berry conversation that 499 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:53,439 Speaker 2: that's taking place, right because you're talking about these the 500 00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,400 Speaker 2: coffee coming from you know, the bean and everything else, 501 00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,080 Speaker 2: and that is where I think a fair amount of 502 00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 2: that that flavor is. It just has a it has 503 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:04,879 Speaker 2: a strength that goes cheek to cheek and has a 504 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:05,480 Speaker 2: bit of depth. 505 00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: So are you pairing this right now with coffee or 506 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: die coke? Die coke on this one? Okay, yeah, yeah, 507 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,760 Speaker 1: I thought would be a little too much for it. 508 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,560 Speaker 3: I've got coffee and it's it's nice, and you know, 509 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:21,760 Speaker 3: I also have a little bit of Mocha creamer in 510 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 3: my coffee today. So maybe that, oh, you're all screwed up? 511 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: Good lord? Is this in your humid or first seventeen 512 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:29,720 Speaker 1: dollars a stick? 513 00:26:32,720 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, before you say that, I want you to 514 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,399 Speaker 2: know that maybe your local lounge is different. I have 515 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:42,640 Speaker 2: found deals on this all over the place that would 516 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 2: put you less than ten. 517 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,160 Speaker 3: Bucks, and then I would have several in my humid 518 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,679 Speaker 3: or for less than ten dollars a stick. 519 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,280 Speaker 2: There have been real deals I've found on this. The 520 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:53,879 Speaker 2: Master Blends three, we're doing the Churchill seven by fifty. 521 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,600 Speaker 2: I think it's if you can find the deals. I 522 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,800 Speaker 2: mean it's seventeen dollars. It's a little bit of a 523 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:07,879 Speaker 2: push the deals, absolutely, no question. It is twenty twenty six, 524 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,200 Speaker 2: Happy New Year, everybody, and we are doing our top 525 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 2: three bourbons of the year. 526 00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: It's eat, Drink, smoke. 527 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:16,359 Speaker 2: I'm Tony Kats and that is America's favorite amateur drinker. 528 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:17,679 Speaker 1: Fingers Welloy, what say you? 529 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,880 Speaker 3: How did we get through almost the entire first hour 530 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,640 Speaker 3: without wishing everyone a happy New Year? 531 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 2: I did? Did you? 532 00:27:24,359 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: Many times? I don't think you did. 533 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,200 Speaker 2: I mentioned that it was the new year. 534 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: Let's go back to the audio replay. 535 00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,880 Speaker 2: I wish to everybody a happy new Year. I did, 536 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:41,679 Speaker 2: mek Tony Katz. I apologize for those of you just 537 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 2: tuning in. Tony wishes you a happy new year. I 538 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,479 Speaker 2: hope it's wonderful. I hope it's fantastic. I hope you 539 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,919 Speaker 2: drink good things this year. We're going over what we 540 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 2: drank last year? What are our top three bourbons? We 541 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 2: are reviewing, of course, or picking from what it is. 542 00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 2: We reviewed what it is we had on the show, 543 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,920 Speaker 2: whether it was a bourbon, raw, a rum, it's tequila. 544 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:02,920 Speaker 1: A canned cocktail. 545 00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 2: Whatever it was that we tried on the show was 546 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:09,080 Speaker 2: eligible to be our bourbon or drink of the year. 547 00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 2: And fingers maloy, wh brings us to your number one? 548 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,520 Speaker 2: Your number three was the Kirkland bottled and Bond from 549 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 2: a Costco at twenty seven dollars a bottle. Your number 550 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:23,440 Speaker 2: two was two XO A lovely presentation a bourbon at 551 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,479 Speaker 2: forty nine dollars at ninety nine cents. I believe so 552 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,919 Speaker 2: you kept everything under fifty dollars. You did this purposefully. 553 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:32,199 Speaker 2: You want to keep things under fifty dollars. 554 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: Which brings us to your number one bourbon, the number 555 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: one bourbon. 556 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,560 Speaker 2: For Fingers Maloi that he reviewed in twenty twenty five, 557 00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 2: right here on Eat Drink Smoke, Get the podcast wherever 558 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:43,760 Speaker 2: you get your podcasts, just look for. 559 00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:44,440 Speaker 1: Eat Drink Smoke. 560 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 2: And it turns out it's not even a bourbon. No, 561 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 2: it's not shocking. It's a rye. I know that would 562 00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 2: knew that would make you happy. But Tony, this isn't 563 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,440 Speaker 2: a small rye. Oh no, it's not a medium rye. 564 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 2: It's not even a large rye, Tony. It's a giant rye, 565 00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:08,880 Speaker 2: a giant roe. 566 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 3: The Redwood Empire Emerald giant rye coming in at ninety proof. 567 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: Tony, you went with the Redwood Empire. Yes, okay, knock 568 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,840 Speaker 1: me over. I did not see that coming up. And 569 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,680 Speaker 1: here's first of all, the artwork on the label. Yeah, 570 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 1: I dig it, but that's not the a giant picking 571 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:35,440 Speaker 1: up a tree? How about that? Yeah? 572 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 2: Not ai. That giant on the label looks like a 573 00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:40,440 Speaker 2: young abe vagoda. 574 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,960 Speaker 1: How's he doing? H You don't want to ask? 575 00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:48,400 Speaker 3: Oh boy or fish? 576 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:48,120 Speaker 2: Uh? 577 00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:49,680 Speaker 1: Okay, So let's get into this. 578 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,400 Speaker 3: The mash Bill Tony ninety five percent Rye five percent 579 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 3: malt barley is aged four years. Like I said, it's 580 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:03,080 Speaker 3: ninety proof for me. What really is interesting about this is, Okay, 581 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 3: you get the Rye spice, but there's a nice bit. 582 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: Of pepper to it as well. 583 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 3: So this is a little bit anti what I normally 584 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 3: pick because I've usually got a nice sweet tooth, but 585 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 3: this was very unique with that. You had the ry spice, 586 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:20,480 Speaker 3: but then you have that nice bit of pepper as well. 587 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:23,760 Speaker 3: It also has some citrusy notes and it's got a 588 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:24,680 Speaker 3: good bit of oak. 589 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:30,280 Speaker 2: Thirty five dollars a bottle. I gotta tell you, I 590 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,160 Speaker 2: am impressed. I am a Rye guy. I like Rye 591 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 2: more than than Bourbon. I have no rise on my 592 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,560 Speaker 2: top three, and I. 593 00:30:40,640 --> 00:30:44,400 Speaker 1: Swear to you it didn't even come to mind. How's That. 594 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:50,880 Speaker 3: Was a weird year for us for show, well in general, 595 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 3: but for the show definitely. 596 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: A weird year. Man, I totally agree. 597 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 2: We were discussing this earlier and the first time ever 598 00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:00,760 Speaker 2: where I'm like, Man, I'm glad that year and I 599 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,200 Speaker 2: don't think that way. It's not the way I act. 600 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 2: And I can't figure out why for you? Why are 601 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:09,240 Speaker 2: you glad this is all over? 602 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 1: Even though nothing has changed twenty six nothing has changed 603 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: at all. 604 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,040 Speaker 3: As you know, Tony, I have two passions in life. 605 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:21,880 Speaker 3: One live, laugh, love, right, and then the other is 606 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 3: monitoring social media outrage. 607 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 1: That's it. Those are his passions and. 608 00:31:26,560 --> 00:31:30,280 Speaker 3: The social media outrage this year was off the charts 609 00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:32,200 Speaker 3: for a number of reasons. Whether it was the election 610 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,200 Speaker 3: of course, the terrible tragedy with Charlie Kirk getting assassinated, 611 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:42,560 Speaker 3: you know, the economic difficulties regarding inflation, all that stuff. 612 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 3: It's it's not been a good year on social media 613 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,080 Speaker 3: as opposed to previous years. 614 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:49,720 Speaker 1: We have got. 615 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 2: World class fraud going on in Minnesota and by the way, 616 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 2: all across the country with how people took advantage of 617 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,280 Speaker 2: COVID funds and other funding for children. 618 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,080 Speaker 1: What's going on is massive to the tune of billions. 619 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 2: When to talk about the nationwide, and there are people saying, well, 620 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,400 Speaker 2: You shouldn't talk about that because that you're just going 621 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:11,440 Speaker 2: after a group of people, and that's just bigoted. There's 622 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:13,760 Speaker 2: no caring about the fraud because people have made it 623 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:14,440 Speaker 2: political as. 624 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,280 Speaker 1: Opposed to This affects everybody. 625 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 2: You're white, you're black, you're Asian, you're Hispanic, you're Jewish, 626 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:22,200 Speaker 2: you're Christian, you're gay, you're straight, doesn't matter. The fraud 627 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 2: affects every single American. You should be opposed to fraud. 628 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,320 Speaker 2: We can't even agree to be opposed to fraud. 629 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 1: Fingers molloy. 630 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,440 Speaker 3: Well, no, of course not, because everything is political. In 631 00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:35,840 Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, everything is political. 632 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:37,920 Speaker 1: So you don't see. 633 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:38,920 Speaker 2: It getting better, of course not. 634 00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 3: It's not gonna get worse until one day the asteroid 635 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:44,000 Speaker 3: hits and releaves us of all of this. 636 00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 1: Oh, are you a believer in the sweet media of death? 637 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 3: I look up to the sky every day, wondering when 638 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 3: it's going to happen. 639 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 1: Every night he's looking at the stars. He says, you 640 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 1: you can follow us. Come on, come on. 641 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 3: But this Redwood Empire Emerald giant Rye giving him salvation 642 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 3: in the madness. I'm gonna have a little sample ring 643 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 3: because all you're ready for this. 644 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: I've been ready for this all year. There it is. 645 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,720 Speaker 2: He's doing what's known as the Kentucky chew, moving the 646 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,120 Speaker 2: juice around the palate. Get a feel for it. I 647 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:17,720 Speaker 2: believe in the two SIPs methodology. The first SIPs really 648 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 2: set the taste buds. The second step to really get 649 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:22,960 Speaker 2: an idea of the flavor's fingers miloin. 650 00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,520 Speaker 3: It's exactly what I said. It's got a little bit 651 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,959 Speaker 3: of citrus, it's got a nice bit of oak. That 652 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,920 Speaker 3: rye spice is there, and then there's a nice bit 653 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:34,400 Speaker 3: of pepper. Now it isn't a pepper bomb. It's not 654 00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,160 Speaker 3: gonna punch you in the face, but that pepper is there, 655 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 3: and as the rye spice dissipates on your palate, that 656 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 3: pepper lingers and actually maybe intensifies a little bit. It 657 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,800 Speaker 3: doesn't play like ninety proof, so you think it plays bigger, 658 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 3: but no, I think it. If you said this is 659 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,160 Speaker 3: eighty proof, I'd like, yeah, of course, it's eighty props 660 00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,960 Speaker 3: mild he's milder. It's not that there's a huge difference, 661 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 3: this huge jump between ninety and eighty, but you know, 662 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 3: you start creeping up towards one hundred people start thinking 663 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,920 Speaker 3: to themselves, Wow, that's really gonna hit hard. 664 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:07,760 Speaker 1: It doesn't. 665 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 3: There's a nice little bit of sting on the tongue, gentle, 666 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 3: warmth in the chest, just really enjoyable. 667 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,920 Speaker 1: I can understand though, why for. 668 00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 3: You this would not be a go to Rye because 669 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:27,439 Speaker 3: that Ryse spices is there, but it isn't the It's 670 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,480 Speaker 3: not the thing that really influences your palette. 671 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 1: And I know you're a huge Rye guy. 672 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 2: What's interesting is that when we're doing the show, like like, 673 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 2: there are times I'll be like wow, or I'll engage like, ah, 674 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:41,680 Speaker 2: this is really something, But that's at the moment, and 675 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 2: men I cast myself, does it really stick with me? 676 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,160 Speaker 1: Is it something that I remembered? 677 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 2: And so for me when I picked my top three, 678 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,200 Speaker 2: there were things that I remembered. For what reason did 679 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,680 Speaker 2: it stay in my brain other than there was some 680 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:56,320 Speaker 2: other connection there that mattered? 681 00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:58,719 Speaker 1: This one did not, but it did for you. 682 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 2: Yes, the redwood m the giant emerald Rye is what 683 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 2: he chose. Fingers Filly, this is your bourbon. 684 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:08,080 Speaker 1: Of the year. 685 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:11,520 Speaker 3: Yes, so thirty five dollars a bottle. It may be 686 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:14,759 Speaker 3: difficult to get your hands on, but if you see 687 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,879 Speaker 3: it and grab it, and definitely if it's at your 688 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,960 Speaker 3: local lounge, you have to give it a try. 689 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 2: How's it pairing with the Master Blends three cigar? 690 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 3: It it's okay, you know the I For me, the 691 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:34,600 Speaker 3: rye and pepper may be overwhelming the cigar a little bit, 692 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,840 Speaker 3: but it's a decent pairing. It's not a great flavor 693 00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:42,840 Speaker 3: medley with the coffee. No, the three together, you really 694 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,160 Speaker 3: flavor that with a mocha. 695 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:45,800 Speaker 1: That's all we had. 696 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:47,919 Speaker 3: You know what I've been doing lately, I've been putting 697 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:49,640 Speaker 3: heavy whipping cream in my coffee. 698 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,360 Speaker 2: So that is a great way to do coffee, but 699 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:57,400 Speaker 2: it can really torture your stomach if you do too 700 00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:57,920 Speaker 2: much of it. 701 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,040 Speaker 1: Speak for yourself, it's not pretty. 702 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 3: I get seventy five percent of my meals at a 703 00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:07,200 Speaker 3: gas station. 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