The winner: Four Roses Small Batch
Four Roses Small Batch beats Bulleit Bourbon on every shared rating source, most clearly on Breaking Bourbon. It's the better neat pour; Bulleit only makes sense if you're mixing and chasing the lowest price.
Ratings and craft
Neither bottle wowed the critics. The Bourbon Culture scores Four Roses 6.0/10 and Bulleit 5.9/10, both under its bourbon average of 7.0. The real gap shows on Breaking Bourbon: Four Roses lands at 3.0/5, right at the category average of 3.1, while Bulleit sits at 2.5/5, clearly below it. Four Roses also has crowd backing on Whiskybase at 82/100, close to that platform's 83.1 average across bourbons. Bulleit has no crowd score in our data to lean on.
