Four Roses distils at Lawrenceburg, Kentucky using two mash bills — a high-rye B at 60% corn, 35% rye and 5% malted barley, and an E at 75% corn, 20% rye and 5% malted barley — fermented with five proprietary yeast strains. Crossing the two gives ten distinct bourbons, each named by a four-letter code: O for the distillery's Old Prentice origin, B or E for the mash bill, S for straight whiskey, and a final letter for the yeast. The barrels mature in single-storey rack warehouses, which hold a narrower temperature range than the tall multi-storey warehouses common elsewhere in Kentucky. For the annual release, Brent Elliott selects parcels from the ten recipes at varying ages and assembles them at natural barrel strength without chill filtration. The 2024 drew on three recipes across four parcels, with the ages and proportions published by the distillery rather than inferred.

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What proof is the 2024 Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch?

Four Roses Limited Edition Small Batch Barrel Strength Bourbon (2024 Release) is bottled at 108.2 proof, or 54.1% ABV, which the distillery gives as the natural barrel strength of the batch. Because it is a batched release rather than a single barrel, that figure is fixed for every bottle of the 2024 edition — unlike Four Roses Single Barrel Barrel Strength, where the strength changes from barrel to barrel. It is also non-chill filtered.

Which Four Roses recipes are in the 2024 release?

Master Distiller Brent Elliott built the 2024 Four Roses annual release from three of the distillery's ten recipes, in four parcels: 39% is a 16-year-old OESF, 31% a 12-year-old OBSV, 23% a 15-year-old OESK, and 7% a 20-year-old OBSV. Four Roses generates its ten recipes by crossing two mash bills with five yeast strains, and the four-letter code names both — OESF is the lower-rye E mash bill carried on the herbal F yeast, while OBSV is the high-rye B mash bill on the fruity V yeast. Four Roses states the blend's age span as 12 to 20 years.

Why is this Four Roses bottled at 700 ml instead of 750 ml?

This is the European-export bottle, and the "70 cl e" on the label is the EU estimated-volume mark rather than anything about the whiskey. Four Roses sells the same 2024 batch in the United States in a 750 ml bottle, and European listings for the 70 cl carry the same 54.1% strength, so the difference is fill volume and market — not a different bourbon. Midnight Whiskey stocks the 700 ml bottle, and every specification on this page describes that SKU.