Henry McKenna 10 Year!

On today's episode we have a glass of Henry McKenna 10 year! We continue our series talking about whether age is the end all be all on the flavor of whiskey. We talk about Henry McKenna, the Mckenna Bill of 1892, and Value bottles. All that and more on today's episode of Whiskey Chasers!

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History of distillery
- Henry McKenna immigrated from Ireland in 1838 and owned a flour mill in Fairfield KY
- Needing something to do with the Waste from the mill, in 1855 Started a distillery making less than a barrel a day
- 1865, hired Patrick Sweeny, another Irish immigrant to be his distiller, raised production to more than a barrel a day
- 1881 Opened “the Old blue house” on market street in Louisville as a sales office
- By 1883, they built a new distillery in Fairfield KY, to support their 3 Barrell day capacity
McKenna Facts
- Refused to sell anything under 5 years old
- 1892 the “McKenna Bill” was put before congress to establish a 5 year bonding act
  - 1897 was when the bottled in Bond act passed
- Was a stickler for Sanitation, adding a washing and scrubbing step to the normal Lime Whitewash
- 1893, Henry McKenna Passed away
  - Sons Daniel and James took over the business, as manager of distilling and as marketing and distribution respectively
- To this day, they only produce 9 barrels a day at the direction of the family, and only produce for 9 months out of the year.
  - Henry believed that summer was bad for fermentation so production stops in the summer
Tasting
The bottle
- The look of the bottle
- What is written on it
- Notes on why it looks the way it does
The juice
- When was this expression created
- Why did it come about
- Mash bill
- Who made it
The type
- Does it follow the rules of a certain type of whiskey?