Florida's Rum Runner Tells a Story of Smuggling and Identity – Here's Where to Try It

Florida's Rum Runner Tells a Story of Smuggling and Identity – Here's Where to Try It

Before it was a drink, it was a job dealing in illegal trades.Courtesy of Andrew Thomas Lee for Three Waters Resort & MarinaFlorida’s colorful cocktail history starts with a coastline made for smuggling, a generation of seafaring outlaws, and the heady promise of Caribbean rum just beyond the reach of U.S. law. During Prohibition, boats would anchor just outside the government’s jurisdiction — what became known as Rum Row — and runners would fer…