New News: Jack Daniel’s lied to us about their Single Malt! • Two recent American craft distillery purchases (we were outbid) • Putin smuggles whiskey • A new literal gold standard for testing a whiskey’s age • Beam Suntory’s peat restoration project • Our whiskey-tasting field trip to Manhattan! • A trio of tragicomic tales of intoxication • Whiskey-loving Navy vet turns 100

New Whiskeys: Old Forester Barrel Strength Single Barrel Distiller Select • Basil Hayden 10-Year • Basil Hayden Red Wine Cask Finish • Buffalo Trace Antique Collection • Blackened x Wes Henderson • Booker’s 2022-03 “Kentucky Tea Batch” • Chicken Cock Chanticleer Cognac Finish • Hirsch Cask Strength Cognac Finish • Peerless Absinthe Barrel Finished Rye 2022 • Redwood Empire Cask Strength Collection • Teeling’s 32 Year Purple Muscat Wine Finished • WhistlePig Boss Hog IX: Siren’s Song • Crown Royal 29 Year • Wyoming Whiskey Outryder • Wyoming Whiskey Single Barrel • Wyoming Whiskey Barrel Strength

New Music Credits: Retro News at Nine (Stinger 1) by Steve Oxen from  https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/retro-news-at-nine/1382 • NewsSting by Kevin MacLeod | Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4124-newssting | License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license • Just Breaking (Softer) by David Fesliyan from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com/royalty-free-music/download/just-breaking/373