Four Roses Single Barrel Collection - OBSF

Comparable Whiskeys

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  Four Roses Single Barrel Collection - OESK

  50% ABV

  Bourbon · Kentucky

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  Part of Four Roses' Single Barrel Collection launched for the 20th anniversary of the flagship OBSV Single Barrel; OESK pairs Four Roses' lower-rye "E" mash bill with its "K" yeast strain, aged 7-9 years and bottled at 100 proof. Four Roses' ten recipes (combinations of two mash bills and five yeast strains) are central to what the distillery calls its signature "mellow spice."
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  Buffalo Trace Single Oak Rye Bourbon

  45% ABV

  Bourbon · Kentucky

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  The permanent recreation of Barrel #80, winner of Buffalo Trace's landmark Single Oak Project: a 1999 experiment that hand-selected 96 Missouri Ozark oak trees, split each into top and bottom sections to create 192 individual barrels, and varied seven factors (mash bill, barrel entry proof, stave seasoning, wood grain, char level, tree cut, and warehouse type) to isolate their effects on flavor. In 2011, consumers and expert tasters chose Barrel #80 (rye mash bill, 125-proof entry, 12-month seasoned average-grain staves, #4 char, bottom-half tree cut, aged 8 years on a concrete-floor warehouse) as the standout of all 192, and Buffalo Trace now recreates those exact conditions as an ongoing release.