The St. Louis Bourbon Society is proud to present a virtual tasting with Smoke Wagon Bourbon and Founder Aaron Chepenik

Please read all details. Kit pickup will start the week of April 11th 2022. We will email once ready, do not try to pickup the kits before we confirm they are ready!

Wednesday May 4th 7pm via Zoom. This will be a virtual event with tasting kit provided by Smoke Wagon Bourbon.

Members $25, Non-Members $35. Only 80 tickets will be available. Sample kit will include Smoke Wagon Small Batch, Smoke Wagon Straight, Smoke Wagon Uncut Unfiltered Batch #132

Founder Aaron Chepenik

“This dude, whoever he is, is most certainly living the life.”

Visit Smoke Wagon Bourbon’s Instagram page on any given day and it looks more like the personal account for some sort of cowboy lifestyle influencer named Aaron Chepenik. In countless ’grams, Chepenik lounges in his backyard pool smoking a fat cigar and sipping a rocks glass full of whiskey on ice. Sometimes he’s under the moonlight; other times he’s getting scorched by the 110 degree high desert sun. Occasionally he’s tilting his shorn pate back to eject stogie smoke through his salt-and-pepper, Yosemite Sam-esque goatee and toward the sky; often he’s decked out in a cowboy hat and aviators, his only articles of clothing readily apparent.

Smoke Wagon? Does that mean it's smokey? Smoke Wagon is actually old west slang for the 1873 Colt single action army revolver or "the gun that won the west". The logo stamped in wax consists of two crossed Smoke Wagons over the state of Nevada. Below it is the Smoke Wagon motto and a quote from Seneca, bibamus moriendum est. The literal translation is "drink, for we must die" but the meaning is more along the lines of, drink and enjoy today because we won't be around forever.

Kit pickup locations available at checkout. This is a virtual event with a tasting kit.

Ticketed 21+ virtual event.