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Northshore October 2025
At Turkey Shore Distillieries, a pair of boyhood friends reintroduces New England-style rum to Ipswich. By Jeanne O'Brien CoffeyWhen boyhood friends Mat Perry and Evan Parker discovered that a rum distillery once stood on the street where they grew up-and the molasses for that rum arrived at a wharf that was now Perry's backyard-it seemed like destiny. After all, the pair had been discussing the possibility of crafting their own artisanal rum for years."Back then, barrels of molasses were rolled across the street from the wharf to the distillery," says Parker, master distiller at Ipswich's Turkey Shore Distilleries. While the wharf is now jus
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