Watershed Distillery

Address: 1145 Chesapeake Ave, Columbus, OH 43221
Phone:(614) 357-1936

Welcome back to the work week for those lucky ones just now returning from the holidays. Whether you are doing everyone else's work or just not ready to get back into the swing of things; I’m sure we all could use that cure for the Monday’s. Yes, I’m talking about the cure that generations have fought for, and the one that can humble the most persnickety of us all. A good ol’ fashion libation.

Like most all other aspects of the food world, the foundation of any good cocktail are the ingredients. If you use subpar liquor and mixers, you are bound to have a feeble drink. All alcohol types have different flavor profiles, and each one varies from brand to brand. Personally I’m a gin drinker: Gin (for those of you not in the know) is the polarizing pine-tree spirit missing from most all frat boys liquor cabinet.



Enter Watershed Distillery a progressively growing business, founded on my favorite poison, but they didn't just stop there. Watershed brings affordable, great tasting, local hooch to the shelves of many bars and liquor stores in the city. Their line up includes: vodka, four peel gin, bourbon barrel aged gin, and bourbon, all packaged uniformly in proudly labeled glass bottles. All of their offerings are solid, and many gin-haters, end up liking the citrus notes offered in this variety, but personally I’m not much for the bourbon barrel aged gin (I guess it’s just not the gentle caress of juniper that I've come to covet)

Apricot Infused Simple Syrup:

½ cup water
¼ cup sugar
5 dried apricots, chopped

1. In a small saucepan combine together the water, sugar, and apricots
2. Bring the mixture to a boil, over high heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar
3. One at a boil, remove from heat, and allow to come to room temperature
4. Strain the mixture into a container and chill in the refrigerator

A Fussy Top and Bottom:

1 oz Watershed gin
1 oz apricot infused simple syrup
1 dash of bitters
4 oz Black port wine

Yield: 1 drink

1. Pour the gin, simple syrup, and bitters into a cocktail shaker with ice
2. Stir the contents of the shaker until fully chilled (you can tell from the beads of sweat forming around the outside of the shaker)
3. Pour the chilled gin mixture into a red wine glass
4. Slowly pour the port down the side of the glass so that it settles at the bottom

Always drink to good fortune, and always drink responsibly. It never hurts to unwind with a little firewater, but all good things in moderation. So, the next time you go out, hit up the bartender for something better than the rot-gut they’d have given you before. Show you’re a classy person and call for some Watershed, you will get your night started out right.


Keep Eating,

JTFussy