Four Roses, Bourbon distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky.
Four Roses is a bourbon distillery in Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, sitting on a property covering just over 24 acres (about 10 hectares). The facility shows Spanish Mission architecture with limestone buildings and red tile roofs spread across the grounds.
Paul Jones Jr. founded the brand in 1888 and ran the operation until Prohibition. During the alcohol ban, the distillery received a special permit for medicinal production, allowing it to continue as one of the few that kept working.
The facility uses two mash recipes with five yeast strains that combine into ten different bourbon blends. This method shapes the flavor of the bottlings and gives each product its own character within the brand.
Tours run throughout the year at both the Lawrenceburg distillery and the Cox's Creek warehouses, where visitors follow the process of making bourbon. The site typically closes on major holidays, and checking availability beforehand is a good idea.
The brand name comes from a marriage proposal in which a young woman from the South wore four roses to show her acceptance. This story became the foundation for the distillery's name and identity since its founding.
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