Four Roses Distillery Tour Ten Recipes, One Mission-Style Distillery
A Lawrenceburg day built around the Four Roses tour, with Wild Turkey ten minutes away.
Four Roses makes its bourbon in a Spanish Mission style distillery outside Lawrenceburg, a building that looks nothing like its neighbors. It combines two mash bills with five yeast strains to make ten distinct bourbon recipes, so a tasting here is a lesson in how much yeast changes what ends up in the glass.
Lawrenceburg is a short drive from Frankfort, so Four Roses fits neatly with Wild Turkey or Buffalo Trace on the same day.
Four Roses · FAQ Good to Know
About an hour. The distillery is just outside Lawrenceburg in Anderson County, between Louisville and Lexington.
Four Roses combines two mash bills with five yeast strains to make ten bourbon recipes, then blends them for its bottlings. A tasting is a good way to try those differences side by side.
Yes. They are about ten minutes apart in Lawrenceburg. We usually plan one in the morning, lunch in between and the other in the afternoon.
Four Roses distills in Lawrenceburg, then ages and bottles at its site in Cox's Creek, near Bardstown, where the barrels rest in single-story warehouses.
Madeline & Mose is an independent Louisville concierge. Tours at Four Roses are run and priced by the distillery under its own policies; we reserve them for you and plan the day around them. Four Roses is a trademark of its owner.