Bourbon and cigars go together like peas and carrots, and at no time is that more apparent than Derby week in Louisville. Whether you smoke cigars or drink bourbon the rest of the year is irrelevant- if you’re in Louisville during Derby, you will be partaking in both.

Louisville smoke shop owner Jason Shepherd recently devised a way to combine the two in his Distiller’s Blend Cigars from J. Shepherd. Through trial and error, he came up with a new system to create bourbon infused cigars within a bourbon barrel. It’s a different process than most whiskey-flavored cigars that are…