Watershed Distillery and the Old Fashioned

Greg Lehman, one of two founders of Watershed Distillery was in Cincinnati to launch Watershed's newest product, the Old Fashioned. Along with Watershed's Lehman, Alex Elkins and Brandon Faris of Filmmakers Drinking Bourbon hosted a live podcast and discussed the Old Fashioned specificly and Watershed Distillery in general. One of the reasons for this product as related by Mr. Lehman was portability. Normally he said, you'd have to haul a spirit and all the required ingredients to a party, then spend time making cocktails. With Watershed's Old Fashioned in a bottle all that is required is ice and an orange peel.
The value of these events for vendors and also people like me is, education, for whatever reason I had no idea Watershed made bourbon. The reason I found is because the bourbon ages for years so it's just now slowly coming onto the market. Greg Lehman told me they always joked the vodka and gin supported their bourbon habit.
If you've never heard of them before, Watershed Distillery is a Columbus, Ohio based distiller founded by partners Dave Rigo and Greg Lehman. Watershed currently offers other products beside the Old Fashioned; vodka, gin, bourbon and bourbon barrel gin. Watershed's spirits can be found at many of Cincinnati's liquor stores including Staggerlee's in Corryville and also The Party Source.





One of Watershed's other niche products is Nocino, a black walnut liqueur. I didn't have an opportunity to try it but Nocino is uniquely Ohio spirit. The black walnuts used are all harvested within a one week period in June before their hard shell forms. The walnuts are soaked in vodka for a couple months before being bottled. When asked about how he would use it Mr. Lehman mentioned that it was very good on ice cream or paired with the bourbon barrel gin. Nicole Gunderman from The 51% suggested using it in a Black Russian which got a pretty good reaction from everyone.


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