Eight Special Single Malts...and a Cowboy Bourbon

We'll have a double feature on this week's WhiskyCast In-Depth, as Diageo's Dr. Stuart Morrison joins us to detail this year's Special Releases series - including a Lagavulin finished in tequila casks - and Donnis Todd of Texas's Garrison Brothers Distillery gives us a preview of this year's Cowboy Bourbon. It's an uncut, unfiltered whopper of a Bourbon at 70.45% ABV! In the news, the TTB avoids being caught up in a U.S. government shutdown after Congress passed a short-term budget extension. Kentucky regulators want to shut down two of the state's biggest buyers and sellers of vintage spirits over liquor law violations, and Scotch Whisky tourism has recovered from the pandemic.