South Carolina’s economic and cultural ties to the Caribbean date to the state’s settlement. There is no doubt that South Carolina’s “Peculiar Institution” will forever be a stain on it’s history but it was the slave trade that connected the state to the sugarcane fields of Barbados, Jamaica and other parts of the Caribbean. The rebirth of South Carolina distilling over the last several years has revived the state’s rum past and over the course of 2017 it is my intent to visit each South Carolina rum producer, sample their products and discover their connection to this spirited past. Below is a list of all South Carolina rum’s currently being produced.
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