Watershed Bourbon (Discontinued)

Taste-Classic bourbon notes. Vanilla, corn, brown sugar and middle or the road oak/spice finish. A slight vegetal dry paper note accompanying the final aftertaste. The pot still and possible mash bill gives the uniqueness factor on this Ohio bourbon. Cocktail (Old fashion)- The vegetal farm note from the original taste comes through over the bitters and citrus. It’s not bad and it makes it memorable. The sweet vanilla and round pot still texture gets washed out with over dilution so try a big rock. I’m giving it an extra star because of the independent nature of the producer and I also live in Ohio. Go bucks!

Filling this out from tour and bracket days years back... When I was a novice, I thought this was a 4.5* whiskey. It is smooth, forgiving, leathery, strong in vanilla and oak tannins. Now that I've rounded out my first hundred, I can see this is well done local still job but not my top shelf. Appreciate it as such. Drink local and make this one into one hell of an old fashioned. [10.22.20] As a side note, I'm drinking this whiskey set in a cabernet barrel for secondary aging after Watershed's 1st "garage sale". Fantastic and I'll have trouble ever buying the original again.

Nose: Clean baby diaper (this scent was so distracting I couldnt pick up anything else, now that I think about it this could have been left over from the detergent the bar used) Taste: Nothing exciting, leather and a little sweet. Not many nice strong flavors present Finish: short and a bit sweet. Because the off smell could be from residual detergent I'm unsure if this whiskey is really deserving of this score but I doubt it's worth another try. Every other bourbon we had (7 in total) didnt have any similar smells so I am thinking it was just the whiskey itself.

Nose is lemony, spicy, some mint. Very cool. Taste has a bit of erasers and young, but opens up to caramel candy, some baking spice, butterscotch and lemon peels. Finish is quick, no heat. Some vanilla pudding and mustiness lingers but the finish is the least impressive of the steps. All and all good whiskey. Would like to try higher proof or more age.

Thin, not too sweet, grainy, simple. Quick finish. Very faint and very weak. Tastes like a much lower proof bourbon. It feels like this whiskey is immature, and it does not deliver on any of the flavors of what you'd expect a bourbon would obtain from a charred oak barrel. This is the only glass of bourbon I have ever poured down the drain.

It smells (yellow cake batter, burnt sugar) better than it tastes ( underdeveloped and musty dry oak) I agree with Jon...more time. For as young as watershed is I think they did a decent job. but i put more faith in some of their other spirits (the gins). If you want to support local craft it is not a bad offering. Batch #62