Thanks to my special lady friend, she and i were able to take a tour of my new favorite spirit provider Watershed Distillery. This new local distillery started distributing to the Columbus area in December 2010 and currently offers Gin and Vodka. The tour was the dude, my special lady friend, and Greg the owner. Greg was a laid back dude and walked us through the process of distilling from start to finish. We got to smell and guess all the different things that go into the Gin and he even let us stick our noses into a couple batches in different stages of distilling (they were making Gin at the time). This is a very small operation and Greg even mentioned that he bottles labels and numbers all bottles himself. I was lucky to get my hands on some first run Gin and Vodka earlier this year both bottles were hand numbered batch "001". You know the dude suggests a caucasion with Watershed Vodka but Greg likes Watershed Gin with grape fruit soda and a big hunk of ruby red grape fruit. If you are ever in the Columbus area i highly recommend stopping by a liquor store and picking up a fine Watershed product. If you are not much of a Gin or Vodka person Watershed is planning to roll out their first run of Whiskey in 2013. If you would like more info or a recipe for the grape fruit cocktail mentioned above check out
watersheddistillery.com
