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Northshore October 2025
  The booze distillery used to be as common in Salem as the corner store. Salemites could walk to more than a dozen of them, sampling the rum transported by ships in the nearby harbor to far-flung ports. Perhaps there wasn’t an organized behind-the-scenes tour. But Salem was once home to many rum distilleries and cider houses that turned barely drinkable water into something considered precious, and sometimes even used as currency. After more than 170 years, Salem again has a distillery, a cider house, and a brewery all within walking or trolleying distance, if you’re lucky enough to hop aboard the Salem Spirits Trolley
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