Four Roses Small Batch Select
Four Roses · Four Roses Distillery
Four Roses Small Batch Select is the distillery's answer to those who want the complexity of their single barrel program with more consistency batch to batch. The six-recipe blend creates internal tension—fruity versus spicy, sweet versus dry—that resolves beautifully. A daily drinker with special-occasion depth.
Kit Aromas
Nose
Ripe cherry and caramel open immediately, followed by a wave of baking spices—clove, allspice, and cinnamon bark. Beneath that sits a quiet vanilla note anchored by toasted oak.
Palate
Medium-full body with a layered delivery. Brown sugar and dark fruit meet a peppery rye kick mid-palate, while a creamy butterscotch texture softens the proof. The oak influence is present but never domineering.
Finish
Long and warming with lingering cherry, cocoa, and a dry oak tannin that pulls everything into focus.
- Mash Bill
- Blend of six recipes (varying corn, rye, and malted barley proportions with two yeast strains)
- Barrel Type
- New charred American oak
- Bottled in Bond
- No
- Single Barrel
- No
- Wheated
- No
Cocktail Suggestion
The Counterweight — 2 oz Four Roses Small Batch Select · 0.75 oz Amaro Nonino · 0.25 oz demerara syrup · 2 dashes Angostura bitters · Stir over ice and strain into a rocks glass with a large cube. Express an orange peel over the surface.
Food Pairing
Smoked pork belly sliders with apple slaw
Blended from six of Four Roses' ten proprietary bourbon recipes at their Lawrenceburg distillery, this non-chill-filtered expression was the first permanent addition to the core range in over a decade when it launched in 2019.
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