What he saved he delivered to his only Jimmy Red customer two hours down the road in Charleston.
“Not only was I counting on it, but High Wire Distilling was absolutely counting on it,” explained Coxe.
A local moonshiner – and the last known grower of Jimmy Red corn – had just died, and the family no longer wanted to grow corn for whiskey distilling.
Campbell Coxe harvests 50 acres of Jimmy Red corn on his Darlington, South Carolina, farm in September.
This year, the distiller used 1.1 million pounds of Jimmy Red corn in its bourbon whiskey production.
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