Four Roses Private Selection Single Barrel Barrel Strength Bourbon (OESV)

Good bite

More floral than EHT SiB. More grainy after taste

Happy birthday Bubba

A private selection to the bar. Nice and smooth up front with a bite on the back end. Seems to have a bit of a sweet taste to it.

Store pick: Bottles 7 Nose: brown sugar, leather, tobacco, butterscotch, toffee, flat cola, very little ethanol Palate: thin, sweet, more vanilla than nose, brown sugar, on the backend the sweetness gives way to oak and spice Finish: medium, more heat than expected from nose, oaky, barrel spice and pepper

A sample as part of the "Whiskey Transfer Program" from dthom. Full disclosure: my first taste of a Four Roses item other than the standard yellow label stuff which I wouldn't use to degrease an engine. A barrel pick from Binny's in Illinois bottled at 60.2%. I don't hate it but wanted to love it as dthom thinks it is excellent. Nose: Heavy ethanol punch, light lemon peel, white sugars, musty wood, and a hint of olive brine. Taste: Sweet and surprisingly oily and thick. Wood heavy on the front which I found surprising. More citrus peel and a little more olive brine on the flavor. Finish: Medium-long with quite a bit of rye spice and a little more olive. I'm getting a lot of olive brine all the way through this whiskey. Weird. Not a bad whiskey but a little one dimensional and too much rye spice for me on the finish. Maybe I just don't like Four Roses? The olive flavors were a little off putting for me.