the third tells you it’s straight whiskey and the fourth tells you the specific yeast strain. (If you’re confused, Four Roses has a handy explainer on its website.) Small Batch Select’s predecessor, ...

Lost in the explosive rise of bourbon in America is a decades-long whiskey comeback story, a comeback that, until recently, would’ve been easy to miss. Four Roses was introduced in 1888 and, by the ...

Four Roses is a unique Kentucky distillery in that it produces 10 different whiskey mash bills, or recipes, which it blends together into its flagship bourbon. Very few people have actually had ...

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 ...

Promotional items aside, Four Roses Bourbon boasts a storied history dating back to 1888, when it was established by Paul ...

But it wasn’t always that way. Barely two decades ago, it was a dismissed brand of whiskey that nearly shuttered for good. The public’s view of Four Roses was that it was swill, rotgut — the ...

Rather, from the late 1950s to the early 2000s, what was found in American bottles of “Four Roses” was simply cheaper Canadian blended whiskey. These lighter spirits, containing substantial ...

Not that older means better, but many whiskey fiends get excited about the more grizzled liquids. Four Roses is a particularly interesting whiskey. The distillery makes 10 different recipes using ...

Last year's Four Roses 2012 Limited Edition Small Batch release also was named American Whiskey of the Year. Hansell said in a news release, "This is the second year in a row for Four Roses to ...

“That’s high enough that the whiskey won’t get cloudy when it ... That’s not all that Four Roses has been up to, though. The distillery is celebrating its 135th anniversary this year ...