OBSO or OBSV? [Archive] - Straightbourbon.com

cowdery

12-11-2009, 14:09

I was in Binny's on Clark yesterday and although I was there for wine, I couldn't not visit the bourbon section.

There, on the top shelf, were more Four Roses Single Barrel bottles than I've ever seen in one place except maybe at the distillery, all with with "OBSO" and "OBSV" etc. markings on the shelf talkers. I just got the biggest kick out of seeing that. Full blown bourbon geekdom in Lincoln Park!

OscarV

12-11-2009, 14:13

Dude, you should have scored the OBSO and/or the OESO.
Bourbon Geeks Rule!!

cowdery

12-11-2009, 20:43

Dude, you should have scored the OBSO and/or the OESO.
Bourbon Geeks Rule!!

Who says I didn't?

T Comp

12-12-2009, 15:18

I was in Binny's on Clark yesterday and although I was there for wine, I couldn't not visit the bourbon section.

A compulsive habit I have become quite familiar with as well. At my local Binny's store today, wine bottles in hand but then spending way too much time standing in the bourbon aisle and even counting how many OBSO's there are.

sailor22

12-12-2009, 17:28

Lost Pollito

12-12-2009, 20:54

I would love to taste all the different recipes but I just cant see buying a 750 of each. I wish 4R or a retailer would release all the iterations in 350's or 200's so we could sample everything without ponying up for all those 750's.
Maybe a package of 4 200's each a different recipe. Packaged as a tasting flight.
Just take a trip up here to the Big Windy. All 7 bottles are open, and ready to be sampled at the South Loop location. Chuck may even join you for a Corn Beef at Manny's. :lol:

p_elliott

12-14-2009, 08:25

I would love to taste all the different recipes but I just cant see buying a 750 of each. I wish 4R or a retailer would release all the iterations in 350's or 200's so we could sample everything without ponying up for all those 750's.
Maybe a package of 4 200's each a different recipe. Packaged as a tasting flight.

That's not a bad idea a set of 200 ml all 10 recipes of FRSB in one package be about $150. Be even better if they were all barrel proof but that's just wishful thinking. This would make a great holiday gift package. Jim are your bean counters listening?

ratcheer

12-14-2009, 10:13

OBSO / OBSV

I must be the only person here who does not know what these terms stand for. Please enlighten me.

Tim

Ruby K

12-14-2009, 10:13

That's not a bad idea a set of 200 ml all 10 recipes of FRSB in one package be about $150. Be even better if they were all barrel proof but that's just wishful thinking. This would make a great holiday gift package. Jim are your bean counters listening?

That idea is a giant pile of WIN. Being barely employed and having a wife that's not excited about a full on bunker, I'd love to get that kind of a sample.

Hey Chuck, were the bottles you were seeing the Barrel Strength or the regular Single Barrel?

sailor22

12-14-2009, 11:05

Just take a trip up here to the Big Windy. All 7 bottles are open, and ready to be sampled at the South Loop location. Chuck may even join you for a Corn Beef at Manny's.

GREAT IDEA ---- butcept for the cost of air fare I could get all the 750's and a few more. :skep:

I checked with Manny's and they can overnight me a Corned Beef artery buster so I'm good to go except for the samples.

cowdery

12-14-2009, 11:50

OBSO / OBSV

I must be the only person here who does not know what these terms stand for. Please enlighten me.

Tim

Go to the Four Roses web site (here) (http://www.fourroses.us/) and click on the "10 Recipes" tab. Four Roses makes 10 different bourbon recipes, by combining 5 different yeasts with 2 different mash bills. The four-letter codes designate the different combinations.

I can't say for sure but I think they're the same proof as standard Single Barrel, which is 100.

T Comp

12-14-2009, 12:47

I can't say for sure but I think they're the same proof as standard Single Barrel, which is 100.

These are all barrel strength, which I guess justifies, a little bit, the $16 price increase from the standard single barrel. The OESK and OBSK have the highest abv at 60.6%. For those on a budget there are a precious few of the three handpicked Binny's single barrel bottlings, from last year, still floating around at the $38.99 price. The #3 yeast and mash bill bottling was/is really really good, in my humble opinion.

ACDetroit

12-15-2009, 19:17

Sipping on some of the OBSK right now...very nice! You would not know this is 120 proof. The spicy yeast is pronounced and the high rye is kickin! Me like!!!

Tony

Lost Pollito

12-15-2009, 19:21

Sipping on some of the OBSK right now...very nice! You would not know this is 120 proof. The spicy yeast is pronounced and the high rye is kickin! Me like!!!

Tony
Yep. OBSK is my favorite. All the spice you could possibly want in a 4 roses. Glad You like it as well Tony.:grin:

ACDetroit

12-15-2009, 20:21

Yep. OBSK is my favorite. All the spice you could possibly want in a 4 roses. Glad You like it as well Tony.:grin:

Thanks for the suggestion and the IWH!!!! I did not sample it tonight but will tomorrow.

Tony

OscarV

12-16-2009, 02:28

While we are on the subject of 4R's recipes, does anyone know what the recipes that were used in the,

40th Anniversary Jim Rutledge of 2007
120th Anniversary Four Roses Distillery of 2008
Limited Edition 2009

No recipe info is listed on the bottles unlike the 2 releases of the Mariage.

BTW, I just got word that 4R's is due to be in MI in January:woohoo:

Old Lamplighter

12-16-2009, 04:21

Oscar, thanks for the PM info. If you look at the 4R site that Cowdery has linked in an above-post, it will provide some answers for you as you look at each recipe listed. The anniversary bourbons are listed under the some of them.

Josh

12-16-2009, 05:05

docbible

12-16-2009, 05:21

40 th is OESO
120 th is OBSK
2009 limited is OESQ

tim

OscarV

12-16-2009, 16:57

40 th is OESO
120 th is OBSK
2009 limited is OESQ

tim

Thanx Tim, where did you find that info?

docbible

12-17-2009, 06:39

I picked it up in a few different spots but they are listed in the current issue of Bourbon Review I think. I got my issue last night and flipped through. I do not have it with me at work today but will check my notes against the article this evening and post if they are different. tim

dgonano

12-17-2009, 07:16

Four Roses site(Chuck's link) lists the recipes and the bottlings that contain them. Just click on the barrel head. The 2009 LE recipe IS listed on the bottle.

Question for Joe. Your 7 recipe bottlings omit the OESQ. This just happens to be the the recipe selected for the 2009 LE. What was your reasoning?

Lost Pollito

12-17-2009, 09:08

We had planned on getting all 10 in september. 2 of the recipes were not ready, or aged to specs, and the samples of another were not up to our specs. But have no fear, the missing three will eventually be taken. Hopefully very soon.:grin:

dgonano

12-17-2009, 17:38

Well, I reason the better barrels of OESQ were already used for 2009 LE. Slim pickens afterwards.

Old Lamplighter

12-23-2009, 04:31

Anybody know if the 2009LE was available in Tennessee?

docbible

12-23-2009, 09:54

Yes it was released in TN and can still be found in Knoxville as of the first week of December. I have not made it back to the stores since then but I would bet it is still on the shelves. tim

Old Lamplighter

12-24-2009, 08:37

I'm in between Nash Vegas and Pimphis.....so Knoxville is a bit of reach for me unless visiting family up there which mostly occurs in summer months. Anyhow, i'll keep looking around when i go back to work next week. Spent part of the summer working in Louisville but not much time to shop. When I did, guess I hit the wrong places....did not see hardly anything that cannot be found in TN.....and, surprised at the prices there too. Always thought it was cheaper in KY but not the case where I went. Hit about 4-5 stores in Bowling Green on the way home in August but nothing special there either except finding a couple of bottles of AAA 10yr.