Historians believe that Spanish missionaries built the first sugar mill in Texas in the 1780s at Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo, in present-day San Antonio. Four decades later, Stephen F.

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 ...

Hundreds of pounds of sugar fell from a conveyor belt into a warehouse, piling in a massive heap. “It’s raining sugar,” said Charles Schudmak, chief operating officer at the Cora Texas Manufacturing ...