re: Anyone else drinking around a smoker?

I replaced my relatively high dollar horizontal flow smoker with a "Big Ugly Drum" smoker a few years ago (basically a food grade 55 gal drum burned out good then turned into a direct heat smoker). Best decision ever, you get some of the fat dripping on fire taste from a direct heat smoker but incredible temperature control and enough distance that there are no flame ups and space for 6 butts.