Cathead
Mango Bottling, Inc, MANGO BOTTLING, INC. — COCOA, FL
Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi
Cathead buys a grower's whole honeysuckle crop a season and makes just a few thousand cases of honeysuckle vodka a year, Austin Evans told Food Republic. Read the brand history
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| Label Name | Spirit Type | Status | Approval Date | Producer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Cathead Honeysuckle Flavored Vodka VODKA - OTHER FLAVORED | Vodka - Other Flavored | Approved | 2026-10-14 | Mango Bottling, Inc, MANGO BOTTLING, INC. |
 | Cathead Satsuma Mandarin VODKA - ORANGE FLAVORED | Vodka - Orange Flavored | Approved | 2023-05-01 | Mango Bottling, Inc, MANGO BOTTLING, INC. |
 | Cathead Raspberry VODKA - OTHER FLAVORED | Vodka - Other Flavored | Approved | 2022-11-03 | Mango Bottling, Inc, MANGO BOTTLING, INC. |
 | Cathead VODKA - OTHER FLAVORED | Vodka - Other Flavored | Approved | 2022-05-17 | Mango Bottling, Inc, MANGO BOTTLING, INC. |
 | Cathead VODKA 80-89 PROOF | Vodka 80-89 Proof | Approved | 2021-02-09 | Mango Bottling, Inc, MANGO BOTTLING, INC. |
 | Cathead Bitter Orange VODKA - ORANGE FLAVORED | Vodka - Orange Flavored | Approved | 2021-02-09 | Mango Bottling, Inc, MANGO BOTTLING, INC. |
 | Cathead Honeysuckle VODKA - OTHER FLAVORED | Vodka - Other Flavored | Approved | 2021-02-09 | Mango Bottling, Inc, MANGO BOTTLING, INC. |
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Cathead at a Glance
Cathead has 7 distinct products with 13 total TTB label approvals, including Vodka - Orange Flavored, Vodka - Other Flavored, Vodka 80-89 Proof. Labels approved between 2021-01-06 and 2026-10-14. Label origins on file: Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi.
At a Glance data sourced from public TTB records.
Cathead Vodka: A Mississippi Distillery With a Name From the Blues
Friends and blues fans Austin Evans and Richard Patrick started Cathead in 2010, the company's website says. It went to market that May as the first distillery in Mississippi, the Jackson Free Press reported in 2015.
Who started Cathead and why the name
Patrick is from Alpharetta, Georgia, Evans is a Jackson native, and the two met while studying small business at the University of Alabama, the Jackson Free Press reported. Evans moved to Charleston, South Carolina after graduating in 2004 and convinced Patrick to follow after his own graduation in 2005, the paper added. Master distiller Phillip Ladner, originally from Mississippi, met the two in San Francisco when they traveled there to take classes with him, then consulted for Cathead before joining full-time, Food Republic reported in 2014.
The name comes from the phrase "That cat can play," meaning a blues musician respected by his peers, the Jackson Free Press said. Blues musician and artist James "Son Ford" Thomas was known for sculpting cat-heads of other blues artists, the paper added.
How Cathead vodka is made
Cathead is corn-based, charcoal-filtered six times, and bottled at 80 proof, the Charleston City Paper wrote in 2012. It is made in small batches on a still that Evans and Patrick transported and assembled by hand, the paper added. Vodka came first because it can be made quickly and has no aging process, while whiskey was the end dream, Patrick told Food Republic.
What Cathead gives back to live music
The company donates $1 of every 750 mL of vodka sold to foundations that support live music, including the Music Makers Relief Foundation, the Charleston City Paper said. "Support live music" is printed on every Cathead label, the paper added.
How the range and the reach grew
Cathead rolled out Cathead Honeysuckle in April 2012 as a seasonal offering, the Charleston City Paper reported that July. By then the vodka was sold in seven states and distributed regionally across the South, the paper said. Food Republic described the honeysuckle and pecan vodkas in 2014 as the only ones of their kind on the market.
The website now lists Cathead Original, Honeysuckle, Satsuma Mandarin, and Raspberry vodkas alongside Bristow Gin, Hoodoo Chicory Liquor, Old Soul Bourbon, and canned Cathead Sparkling. Cathead was named a 2020 James Beard semi-finalist for Outstanding Spirits Producer, the site adds.
The move from Gluckstadt to downtown Jackson
The first home was in Gluckstadt near the Mississippi Alcohol Beverage Control warehouse, the Jackson Free Press reported. After five and a half years there, Cathead was in the process of moving to 422 South Farish Street in downtown Jackson, the paper said on December 2, 2015. A ribbon cutting was set for December 8 and a grand opening for December 12, the paper added.
The Jackson Free Press put the new space at more than 20,000 square feet against 2,000 in the old building, while WLBT reported the move as going from 7 thousand to 20 thousand square feet. Explore the TTB label data for Cathead on this page.
Sources
- Charleston City Paper. “Cathead expands out from the Mississippi Delta.” 18 July 2012. https://charlestoncitypaper.com/2012/07/18/cathead-expands-out-from-the-mississippi-delta
- Food Republic. “Cathead Vodka Contains True Mississippi Spirit.” 27 March 2014 (updated 8 June 2015). https://www.foodrepublic.com/2014/03/27/cathead-vodka-contains-true-mississippi-spirit
- Cathead Distillery (catheaddistillery.com). “Our Story | Cathead Distillery.” Undated. https://www.catheaddistillery.com/our-story/
- Jackson Free Press. “Distilling Innovation.” 2 December 2015. https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2015/dec/02/distilling-innovation/
- WLBT (Mississippi News Now). “Cathead Distillery moving to downtown Jackson.” 12 November 2015. https://www.wlbt.com/story/30504942/cathead-distillery-moving-to-downtown-jackson/
- TTB Public COLA Registry via BUY.VODKA data snapshot (src/data/labels.json, local build 16 October 2026). “Cathead” label approvals. Local read-only query, 16 October 2026.
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