Four Roses Private Selection Single Barrel Barrel Strength Bourbon

01.12.2018 OESK 55.5% 9 years 2 month Aug 2017 Total Wine WA pick. Nice! Looks like bourbon. Nose caramel, sweet grain, faint citrus peel, spice. Tastes of honey, graham cracker, SPICY, caramel, finish goes towards spicy mint, doughy vanilla, and a hint of really ripe banana. Medium body. A little bitter out of bottle, few drops h20 got rid of that. Kentucky Hug factor: 4.0 01.12.2018 OESF 55.7% 10 years 3 month June 2016 Small Batch Liquors (Denver, CO) barrel pick. Also looks like bourbon. Nose is very sweet, vanilla, big pile o pancakes, hint of bright mint, sweet sting. Taste is that familiar high rye spice (I know it is E mashbill but even that is more rye than most bourbons), turbinado, cinnamon, to slightly astringent finish with lots of vanilla, spearmint, sweet creamy tobacco whatever that is, tiny cinnamon, breathing hint of dry af wood. Fuller bodied than you. Kentucky Hug 5.0.

I got the 2017 OBSQ Barrel Strength at 59% ABV..has great floral notes. Paid $63