Rum Flashcards
What are four styles of Rum
Light
Dark
Demerera
Rhum Agricole
What is Rum?
Rum is a distilled spirit produced from fermented sugarcane or molasses, a byproduct of processing sugarcane into sugar
What is molasses
A byproduct of pressing sugarcane into sugar
How is light rum distilled/processed?
Usually by continuous still and filtered with charcoal after cask aging to remove color
Where is Mount Gay from? What color is it?
Name a one of the Mount Gay rums.
Barbados
Golden colored light rum from time in cask
Mount Gay Black Barrel
Molasses
Column and pot stills
Matured in ex Whisky casks and finished in heavily charred ex bourbon casks for 6 months.
What is Demerara rum?
Light rum unique to Guyana
Distilled from molasses
can be aged over 10 years before release
Name a demerara rum.
El Dorado 12 year
From molasses
Column and pot distilled
What is Cachaça?
Brazilian spirit
produced from fermented sugarcane
essentially light rum
base of caipirinha
Where are quality dark rums from?
Jamaica
How are dark rums distilled/aged? What gives it color
Can be distilled twice in pot still and aged number of years before release
usually has caramel color added
What is Rhum Agricole?
French style
produced mainly on Martinique (AOC)
produced from sugarcane juice
column distillation mandated in Martinique
What can claim to be the southernmost AOC in France?
Martinique
What is black strap rum?
Young rums, which may or may not be distilled from blackstrap molasses, made dark or “black” via caramel coloring added after distillation, to mimic the look of a long-aged rum.
Name a black strap rum.
Cruzan from St. Croix
What is blackstrap molasses?
Blackstrap molasses is what comes from a third boiling, and it’s very bitter
Where is Barbancourt Rum from? What kind of rum is this?
Haiti
Rhum Agricole - produced from fermented sugar cane.
distilled in a single-column then redistilled twice in copper pot stills to approx
Where is Rhum J.M. from? What style of rum is it? Name a few from this brand.
Martinique
Rhum Agricole
Sugar cane and column distilled
VO = aged 3 years in toasted american oak barrels
XO = 6 years of aging
Grand Reserve = 10 years aging
Where is Don Q from? What style of rum is this?
Puerto Rico
Made from molasses, column distilled
Name a Jamaican rum.
Hamilton gold
Distilled from molasses
Pot still
Golden, banana, pineapple, vanilla
Name a Dark rum from Jamaica.
Meyers dark rum
Dark chocolate, honey, caramel
Name a white overproof rum from Jamaica.
Appleton Estate, Wray & Nephew
Sugar is not allowed to be added to rum from where?
Jamaica, Barbados, Martinique, or Guadeloupe
Name a Cachaça.
Avuá Amburana
Name 4 white/light rums.
Barbancourt White Rum, Haiti
Appleton Estate, Wray & Nephew, Jamaica
RHUM J.M., BLANC, Martinique
FLOR DE CANA, WHITE, 4YR, Venezuela
Name 4 dark rums.
Cruzan Black Strap Rum, St Croix
Mount Gay, Black Barrel, Barbados
Diplomatico, Reserva, Venezuela
Plantation, “OFTD”, Barbados - Old Fashioned Traditional Dark Rum
Name 3 Demerara Rums.
El Dorado 12yr, Guyana
PLANTATION, GUYANA, 2005
ENMORE DISTILLERY, 27YR, DUNCAN TAYLOR, SINGLE CASK, 1985 100
Name 3 Rhum Agricole.
RHUM J.M., BLANC
RHUM J.M., GOLD
RHUM HSE, SAUTERNES CASK FINISH, 2005
