It’s a cloudy, gray Saturday morning in November and the Schexnayders are gathered in a shed on their farm in White Castle, watching sugar cane juice bubble away in a large, cast iron cauldron. The ...

All rum is distilled from sugarcane, and most rum is distilled from molasses, a byproduct of sugar production. Most distilleries, however, have little direct control over how the cane is cultivated ...