4 Roses Single Barrel 2011 Limited Edition

[Bmac]

Goodness. Was looking for reviews on FR1BLE 2011 and ran into this mighty thread.

The representative for 4R just delivered this product today. Now...I am scared . Will I get gold or a lump of coal. I love their product so I have high hopes.

However there is one thing I am curious about. People mentioned their respective warehouse info...but didnt mention the bottle numbers.

Since this is obviously a late release my bottle number is almost at the end: 3581 out of 3600 warehouse: QN 17 - 2K 54.0%.

Can anybody else post their bottle numbers (just want to draw correlations to warehouses)

[Lost Pollito]

Warehouse: QN Barrel No. 17-3E 56.9%abv. 1845/3900

[Josh]

Had a coversation with The Jim at the sampler about the 2012 and 2011 Ltd Ed. Single Barrel offerings. I told him that I liked the 2011 and was looking forward to tasting the 2012. He said a number of interesting things:

1) Bourbons made using the Q yeast are prone to overaging, so one has to be careful when pulling barrels

2) He only personally approved one barrel of the 2011 to go out before he had to travel overseas. The other barrels were approved without his input and not tasted at barrel strength. He said the decision to pull barrels hastily and bottle their contents while Jim was away was a "corporate" decision in response to some sort of request from a European distributor (?) that fell through.

3) He assured me that would not happen again.

4) He seemed embarassed by the whole thing. OK, I know that's not something he said, but that was my impression.

5) He loves the 2012. He said it's on a level with the 2009, which is his personal favorite.

Thought the folks here might find those comments interesting.

[Bmac]

Had a coversation with The Jim at the sampler about the 2012 and 2011 Ltd Ed. Single Barrel offerings. I told him that I liked the 2011 and was looking forward to tasting the 2012. He said a number of interesting things:

1) Bourbons made using the Q yeast are prone to overaging, so one has to be careful when pulling barrels

2) He only personally approved one barrel of the 2011 to go out before he had to travel overseas. The other barrels were approved without his input and not tasted at barrel strength. He said the decision to pull barrels hastily and bottle their contents while Jim was away was a "corporate" decision in response to some sort of request from a European distributor (?) that fell through.

3) He assured me that would not happen again.

4) He seemed embarassed by the whole thing. OK, I know that's not something he said, but that was my impression.

5) He loves the 2012. He said it's on a level with the 2009, which is his personal favorite.

Thought the folks here might find those comments interesting.

Explains a lot really. I finally got into my 2011 and didn't hate it, but it didn't blow me away. If he only approved 1 barrel, then the first numbers 1 - 150 are probably pretty good. Both mine are the same barrel and are in the tail-end of the 3-thousands.

[StraightNoChaser]

Explains a lot really. I finally got into my 2011 and didn't hate it, but it didn't blow me away. If he only approved 1 barrel, then the first numbers 1 - 150 are probably pretty good. Both mine are the same barrel and are in the tail-end of the 3-thousands.

That's assuming they dumped that barrel first :grin:

[smokinjoe]

That's assuming they dumped that barrel first :grin: