Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the first things you learn when you start drinking American whiskey is that bourbon is, of course, made from corn. The ...

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At High Wire Distilling in Charleston, Ann Marshall and Scott Blackwell revived heirloom Jimmy Red corn to make terroir-driven, Southern-inspired whiskey. Without grain — corn, rye, barley — there ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — In Charleston, there’s a distillery quietly doing something extraordinary. No gimmicks. No shortcuts. Just a belief that some things are worth the fight. At High Wire Distilling, ...

Sometime around the turn of the last century, a blood-red, flint-hard "dent" corn with a rich and oily germ made its way from Appalachia to the islands of Charleston, S.C. The corn was grown out by ...

The story doesn't begin with whiskey. It begins with two ears of corn and a dying tradition that nearly slipped into history without anyone noticing. When Ann Marshall and Scott Blackwell opened High ...

One of the first things you learn when you start drinking American whiskey is that bourbon is, of course, made from corn. The grain gives the liquor its signature sweetness that drinkers around the ...