In 1794, Christian Waldschmidt, a veteran of the American Revolution and businessman, started a new community at a site on the Little Miami River in Sycamore Township, Ohio.

He built a general store, a blacksmith shop, a church, Ohio’s first paper mill, and one of Cincinnati’s first distilleries. The distillery grew and in 1836 was relocated a mile downriver to Milford, Ohio.

Today we produce only the finest spirits in our modern distillery built at the very same site in Milford carrying on the tradition of the Waldschmidt’s distilling heritage and rugged pioneering spirit.