How to talk about Old Soul Bourbon

Specifically, Tintype #3: Kenny Brown

Cathead’s TinType series labels feature tin types by Mississippi photographer, Bill Steber.

Number Three is all about North Mississippi blues legend, Kenny Brown. Brown is from the same Hill Country blues vertical as Junior Kimbraugh, R.L. Burnside, and all the recording artists from Fat Possum Records early 2000s compilations.

Brown is an accomplished slide player who apprenticed with Mississippi Joe Callicott in Nesbitt, MS.

This bourbon is bottled uncut and unfiltered at cask strength out of thirty barrels of eleven-year-old whiskey made with a batshit mash bill that builds a strong spicy profile.

Housing these barrels in a Mississippi rickhouse means they’ve suffered the blazing heat and stifling humidity of the south, which is considerable and mean. It makes for an active aging. The whiskey never really settles down. It’s always expanding, always contracting, always suffering. 

Cathead Distillery was the first legal distiller (2010) in Mississippi since Prohibition ended in that state in 1966—thirty-three years after everyone else.