Rum Flashcards
What’s suger cane juice? And what’s it’s character?
It’s a sweet liquid made from crushing suger cane stems. It needs to be fermented right away since otherwise it can develope off-aromas.
It got a pronounced vegetal, grassy and herbaceous aromas.
What’s Cane syrup?
Cane syrup is the suger cane juice that is reduced to a syrup.
What’s Molasses? And which one’s used in Caribbean?
Molasses is what’s left after reducing the cane syrup even further. There’re various different grades of molasses, the one used in Caribbean is called Blackstrap molasses
Which character does molasses and cane syrup give a rum?
Toffee, caramel and brown suger aromas
Name one technique that will giva a highly characterful fermented liquids when making rum?
Ambient yeast
Which distillation method is mostly used?
Both pot stills and Column stills.
In rum, you talk about light and heavy marks, what does it mean?
Light marks: distilled to a high strength, often in excess of 90% abv. - light flavour intensity
Heavy marks: disitlled to a low strength, usually in pot stills - a lot of flavours are kept.
What does continentally aged means?
It’s when a rum is distilled in the Caribbean and then shiped to Europe to be matured. It a lot colder climate in Europe which will give a completely different character.
What does Tropically aged means?
It means that it’s matured in Caribbean where it’s warm and it will mature a lot faster.
Is it okay to blend a rum that’s been on oak with a rum that’s been on inert vessle?
yes, all types of rum is okay to blend
After blending a rum the distiller have three different techniques to affect their rum, which three?
- Filter the rum through activated charcoal to remove the colour.
- Add caramel colour, to maintain colour consistency
- Sweetened prior to release.
Where is it not allowed to sweeten a rum?
Jamaica
Which to Islands in the Caribbean are a part of France?
Martinique and Guadeloupe
What Rum are Martinique and Guadeloupe mostly famous for?
They are best known for producing characterful column-distilled rums made from suger can juice, called Rhum Agricole.
What’s a colourless agricole that’s unaged and simply stored in an inert vessel called?
Rhum Blanc
What’s a Rhum vieux? Where is it from and what’s the minimum aging?
An oak-aged rhum from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and it must be aged for minimum 3 years
What character does a Rhum vieux have?
Cane juice character, pronounced grassy herbaceous flavours, balansed with vanilla and spice aromas from the oak.
What is the raw material when making rum in Cuba?
Molasses
Do distillers mature rum in oak barrels in Cuba? And for how long?
Yes, all of Cuba’s rum are matured in oak
The length depends on the style, most that has been in a barrel for a very short time are filtered through activated charcoal, to get a colourless spirit
What character does an cuban rum has?
It’s dry, light to medium aromas of toffee(molasses) ans fruity aromas(esters), and with oak aromas that varies from nothing to complexed and rich.
Puerto Rico’s rum is very similar both in production and in character to another country, which one and how’s it produced and what’s the character?
It’s very similar to Cuban rum.
It’s made from molasses, column still, and they must be aged in oak.
It’s got a light to medium intensity, toffee, fruity aromas and varying levels of oak
What’s Cuban rum distilled in?
Column still to a high strength.
How’s an Jamaican rum distilled and what’s the raw material?
The raw material is molasses, and they typically use both pot and column still for the same product. Some only use pot still though.
What’s the character of the Jamaican rum?
it’s always dry, characterful, unaged or oak-matured, and got a strong fruity ester character
What’s an overproof rum? and where is it well known from?
An overproof rum is a high-ester rum bottled unaged with an unusually high abv. (over 57,15% abv)
It’s most well known from Jamaica, but can be produced anywhere
What’s the difference between the labels “Jamaica Rum”, “Jamacian Rum” and “Rum from Jamaica”?
“Jamaica Rum” is aged and bottled in Jamaica, meanwhile “Jamaican Rum” or “Rum from Jamaica” are shipped in bulk and matured, finished and bottled elsewhere. They’re allowed to add sweetness, while you’re not allowed to add sweetness in Jamaica.
Where did rum distilling in Caribbean begin?
In Barbados
What’s the rum like from Barbados? And what is the rum know for.
It’s dry, oak-aged, richly texture, fine balans between the rich generous, toffee, caramel character from the molasses, and the vanilla and spice aromas from the oak. Barbados i know for its Color, and being oak aged.
What’s the raw material used for Barbados rum?
And what do they use for distillation?
Molasses, and usually a blend between pot and column stills.
There’s one island among the islands of the Caribbean that only has one distillery, which island?
Guyana
Which raw material do they use for rum production in Guyana?
Molasses
What do they use in Guyana for distillation?
Since they got a big selection of different antique pot and column stills, they get many different characterful heavy marks.
Which character do the rum from guyana have?
It varies a lot but they can have an intensely rich and earthy character,
Which 5 other countries do they mention in the book from central and south America and what’ the characteristic of the rum made there?
Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua and Guatemala
These rum are typically made from molasses, but sometimes from suger cane syrup, the majority are oak-aged. notably smooth.
Which spirit can you find in Brazil?
Cachaca
What’s cachaca made out of and what character does it have?
It’s made from suger cane juice.
It’s unaged and have a pronounced flavour from vegetal, grassy and fruit aromas.
Might also be slightly sweetened
