Four Roses Small Batch Select joins Four Roses Bourbon (formerly known as Yellow), Small Batch, and Single Barrel as the company’s fourth permanent line extension, the company’s first in 12 years. Reveal: Sample 1 was Four Roses Single Barrel. It is a batch of one barrel. Four Roses Small Batch is about $25-$30 and the Single Barrel is $30-$40 depending on the store. Four Roses delivers a bottle full of flavor that rewards you for spending your hard-earned money on the bottle. With that being said, the recipe used in the Single Barrel will be of higher rye content than the Small Batch (as it's a single barrel of one of their high-rye recipes, vs the Small Batch being a blend of recipes). We did it semi blind but it was pretty clear which was which, as they are both so different and I am familiar with them. While Single Barrel is without question a better bourbon, it comes with a 33% increase in price. Reply Delete. Replies . Four Roses Small Batch. Sample 2 was Buffalo Trace. smooth, flavorful, and very easy drinking. Yeah, Bulleit Bourbon must be one of the OB mash bills since it's high rye. While Single Barrel is without question a better bourbon, it comes with a 33% increase in price. If you’ve ever wanted proof that mingling Bourbons is an art unto itself, you’ll find it in this perfectly balanced, small batch Bourbon. Region: Kentucky, USA. Because of this, Small Batch is perfectly priced within its own lineup, but also offers great value relative to many other bourbons in the $30 price range. Diving for Pearls October 30, 2012 at 7:41 PM. They are both very good, i.e. I have generally preferred this over the Small Batch in the past but you can get quite a bit of variation with it being a Single Barrel. I love Four Roses bourbon as it tends to be a higher quality bourbon because the Master Distiller Jim Rutledge is a true master of his craft and creates damn good bourbon. What’s interesting is the Four Roses Single Barrel isn’t one of these four recipes, so it truly is unique from the Small Batch bottle. The latest addition to the Four Roses core line, the Four Roses Small Batch Select Bourbon is a blend that’s all about the number six. It is a bold spicy experience, but it’s also refined and there’s a delicateness to it. I have a confession. I like the small batch better than the single barrel. It also marks the first permanent extension under Brent Elliott’s time as master distiller. By extension, of course, that means there is no standard number of batches at all, except for single batch, which, of course, is just a single barrel. There is not a standard number of batches used in a “small batch” bourbon. Distiller: Four Roses Not all of them, but enough to mention it. Bottled at 104 proof it’s non-chill filtered to give the biggest dose of flavor possible. maybe its a glitch of inconsistency in production, but i have tried these two side by side, and while the single barrel has the expected mellow, the small batch has more glorious adventurous flavors once you get past the kentucky hug. It’s tough to pick a winner between these two Four Roses whiskies. To the original poster: I rarely dislike a Four Roses bourbon, but I do prefer Yellow Label and Single Barrel to the Small Batch. Its style fits in nicely between the less exciting Four Roses Yellow and more flavorful Four Roses Single Barrel. The 5 Best Single Barrel Bourbons Available Now words: Vicki Denig Single barrel bourbon, often referred to as single cask, is a higher grade of whiskey that comes from an individual aging barrel. This is good enough to blow away some of the Four Roses Single Barrels I’ve had. I want to call the Four Roses Small Batch Select Bourbon a rollercoaster of a whiskey, but that’s not quite right. It’s a split of both its high and low rye mash recipes and the O and K yeast strain. Four Roses Bourbon, a legendary bourbon that went on a long hiatus but is now back is a great bourbon indeed. See: Four Roses: The Return of a Whiskey Legend. Single Barrel “Single barrel is small batch to the extreme. Not only that, I can typically pick up a Four Roses Single Barrel at 100 proof for about $35-$40. I love single barrel bourbon because it tends to be a higher quality bourbon as distillers hunt and peck for only the best barrels to bottle. They have three basic bottles of bourbon: Four Roses Yellow, Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon, and Four Roses Single Barrel Bourbon. Four Roses Small Batch Info. Whiskey 1 (#4): New Riff Single Barrel (110.8 proof) Whiskey 2 (#5): EH Taylor Small Batch (100 proof) Whiskey 3 (#8): Michter’s Straight Bourbon (91.4 proof) Whiskey 4 (#12): Four Roses Single Barrel Barrel Strength (OESK, 117.2 proof) Post-Reveal Thoughts: So these were a shock…except for the EH Taylor.