Four Roses is a reliable Kentucky straight bourbon that ticks all the right boxes: cheap, tasty, and versatile. Like many other whiskey fans, I’m always on the hunt for value. However, there are so ...
Four Roses is well known for two things: having one of the best budget bourbons in its lineup of any Kentucky distillery, and the fact that it uses 10 recipes to make its whiskey which is the result ...
The problems began when Seagram’s pulled Four Roses Bourbon from the U.S. market and replaced it with a blended whiskey —a small amount of straight whiskey stretched with a large amount of neutral ...
I haven’t been shy, in the last few years, about diving into the way that the “limited edition” bourbon scene has increasingly become a farce. There’s just way too much whiskey out there masquerading ...
According to master distiller Brent Elliott, he always tries to come up with something different for each LE Small Batch release. On a Zoom call this week, he said that this year’s expression is sort ...
Each September, the Four Roses Distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, releases a limited edition, small batch bourbon. Each expression, crafted by Master Distiller Brent Elliott, is a special release.
When it comes to buying a bottle of Four Roses, you have a ton of options. The distillery is famed for 10 distinct bourbon recipes (they don’t produce any rye). Those recipes create the backbones of ...
In the heart of Kentucky's bourbon country, a once-proud distillery teetered on the edge of oblivion back in the mid-1990s.
I wrote the following last year when introducing Four Roses’ annual Limited Edition Small Batch release, and it’s just as true now as it was then: I can’t really imagine what it must be like, to be in ...
Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch is one of those bottles that everyone in the whiskey world wants but only a few actually get to try. Each year, the famed Kentucky distillery releases about ...