Georgia Man Opens First “Legal” Distillery in Mississippi
By Tom Maicon at November 9, 2011 | 9:54 am | Print
It’s hard to believe Mississippi didn’t have a “legal” distillery of its own until recently. A determined Richard Patrick, who grew up in Alpharetta, GA, spent years leaping over many state hurdles to make it happen.
“The hardest thing was interpreting dated laws,” says Richard Patrick, co-founder of Cathead Distillery. “It took us four years to get to distillation.”
While wrangling with the legalities of this project, Patrick and his crew stumbled upon their first real break when they found a still sitting idle in a building on the Mississippi State campus. They purchased the still for far cheaper than the cost of a brand new one.
“It [the still] had been sitting in cobwebs for over a decade,” claims Patrick. “It actually belonged to the gentlemen that originally tried to start the first distillery in Mississippi.”
The result of all this hard work and a little luck, Cathead Distillery now resides in Jackson, Mississippi as the first-ever legal distillery in Mississippi, and their popular Cathead Vodka, distilled six times and charcoal filtered, is available in most southeastern states including right here in Georgia.
A portion of all sales is donated to Music Maker Relief Foundation, a nonprofit group dedicated to assisting retired blues musicians with food, shelter and medical care. Visit the website for more http://www.musicmaker.org.
This premium Mississippi-stilled vodka retails at about $19.99 (750 ml) a bottle and is currently offered at many bars and liquor stores around town. It’s distributed through Savannah Distributing Co. who can be reached at 678.380.1212.
Visit http://www.catheadvodka.com.
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