Head to head · unusually close flavour match
Four Roses Small Batch vs High West Double Rye!
No flavour axis separates them. Four Roses Small Batch publishes its cask types, High West Double Rye! publishes none.
Compiled by WhiskeyCask Editorial · Last verified 2026-07-30
Specifications side by side
| Four Roses Small Batch | High West Double Rye! | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Bourbon | Rye |
| Origin | Kentucky, United States | Utah, United States |
| Age | No age statement | No age statement |
| Strength | 45% ABV | 46% ABV |
| Cask | New charred oak barrel | Not disclosed |
| Bottle | 700 ml | 750 ml |
| RRP observed | £34 | £38 |
| Per 10cl | £4.86 | £5.07 |
| Per litre of alcohol | £108 | £110 |
| Chill-filtered | Not stated | No |
What separates them
Both from United States: Four Roses Small Batch from Kentucky, High West Double Rye! from Utah.
Four Roses Small Batch is a bourbon, High West Double Rye! a rye.
Neither carries an age statement, so neither discloses its youngest spirit.
Four Roses Small Batch lists new charred oak barrel. High West Double Rye! publishes no cask detail at all.
Chill filtration: Four Roses Small Batch does not say, High West Double Rye! is not.
Colour: Four Roses Small Batch natural colour, High West Double Rye! silent.
What the price buys
High West Double Rye! is £4.00 dearer a bottle than Four Roses Small Batch.
Different bottle sizes, 700 ml against 750 ml, so per 10cl it is £4.86 against £5.07.
Strength keeps that ordering: £108 a litre of pure alcohol for Four Roses Small Batch against £110.
Across the 32 bottles we can cost this way, Four Roses Small Batch is 7th cheapest and High West Double Rye! 8th cheapest.
Flavour, compared
View as table
| Axis | Four Roses Small Batch | High West Double Rye! |
|---|---|---|
| Peaty | 0 | 1 |
| Sweet | 6 | 5 |
| Fruity | 5 | 4 |
| Spicy | 7 | 9 |
| Woody | 6 | 5 |
| Sherried | 1 | 2 |
| Cereal | 4 | 4 |
| Oily | 6 | 6 |
No axis reaches the 3-point gap we call meaningful. Widest is spicy, 7 against 9.
Identical on cereal and oily.
Each bottle in its own right
Four Roses Small Batch
Red fruit and rye spice, cleanly made. One of the few bourbons that tells you its recipe.
Four Roses is one of the very few American distillers to publish actual mash bills: this blends recipes B (60% corn / 35% rye / 5% barley) and E (75% / 20% / 5%). Its single-storey rack warehouses vary only about 8°F from top rack to bottom.
Full record →High West Double Rye!
Mint, dill and pepper. Two ryes of different ages married, and it tastes like it.
High West discloses two distinct mash bills — a sourced 95% rye / 5% malted barley and its own 80% rye / 20% malted rye — but gives no component ages, so the 'two ryes of different ages' claim is never quantified.
Full record →Both listed for cocktails; only Four Roses Small Batch for value and transparency; only High West Double Rye! for rye curious.
Where these specifications come from
Producer and retailer pages for Four Roses Small Batch and High West Double Rye!: fourrosesbourbon.com, ship.highwest.com. Figures are what those pages published when we last checked them, on 2026-07-30.