Rum

Question 1

What’s suger cane juice? And what’s it’s character?

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

What’s Cane syrup?

Answer 2

Cane syrup is the suger cane juice that is reduced to a syrup.

Question 3

What’s Molasses? And which one’s used in Caribbean?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Which character does molasses and cane syrup give a rum?

Answer 4

Toffee, caramel and brown suger aromas

Question 5

Name one technique that will giva a highly characterful fermented liquids when making rum?

Answer 5

Ambient yeast

Question 6

Which distillation method is mostly used?

Answer 6

Both pot stills and Column stills.

Question 7

In rum, you talk about light and heavy marks, what does it mean?

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

What does continentally aged means?

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

What does Tropically aged means?

Answer 9

It means that it’s matured in Caribbean where it’s warm and it will mature a lot faster.

Question 10

Is it okay to blend a rum that’s been on oak with a rum that’s been on inert vessle?

Answer 10

yes, all types of rum is okay to blend

Question 11

After blending a rum the distiller have three different techniques to affect their rum, which three?

Answer 11

1. Filter the rum through activated charcoal to remove the colour.
2. Add caramel colour, to maintain colour consistency
3. Sweetened prior to release.

Question 12

Where is it not allowed to sweeten a rum?

Answer 12

Jamaica

Question 13

Which to Islands in the Caribbean are a part of France?

Answer 13

Martinique and Guadeloupe

Question 14

What Rum are Martinique and Guadeloupe mostly famous for?

Answer 14

They are best known for producing characterful column-distilled rums made from suger can juice, called Rhum Agricole.

Question 15

What’s a colourless agricole that’s unaged and simply stored in an inert vessel called?

Answer 15

Rhum Blanc

Question 16

What’s a Rhum vieux? Where is it from and what’s the minimum aging?

Answer 16

An oak-aged rhum from Martinique and Guadeloupe, and it must be aged for minimum 3 years

Question 17

What character does a Rhum vieux have?

Answer 17

Cane juice character, pronounced grassy herbaceous flavours, balansed with vanilla and spice aromas from the oak.

Question 18

What is the raw material when making rum in Cuba?

Answer 18

Molasses

Question 19

Do distillers mature rum in oak barrels in Cuba? And for how long?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What character does an cuban rum has?

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

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?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

What’s Cuban rum distilled in?

Answer 22

Column still to a high strength.

Question 23

How’s an Jamaican rum distilled and what’s the raw material?

Answer 23

The raw material is molasses, and they typically use both pot and column still for the same product. Some only use pot still though.

Question 24

What’s the character of the Jamaican rum?

Answer 24

it’s always dry, characterful, unaged or oak-matured, and got a strong fruity ester character

Question 25

What’s an overproof rum? and where is it well known from?

Answer 25

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

Question 26

What’s the difference between the labels “Jamaica Rum”, “Jamacian Rum” and “Rum from Jamaica”?

Answer 26

“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.

Question 27

Where did rum distilling in Caribbean begin?

Answer 27

In Barbados

Question 28

What’s the rum like from Barbados? And what is the rum know for.

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

What’s the raw material used for Barbados rum?
And what do they use for distillation?

Answer 29

Molasses, and usually a blend between pot and column stills.

Question 30

There’s one island among the islands of the Caribbean that only has one distillery, which island?

Answer 30

Guyana

Question 31

Which raw material do they use for rum production in Guyana?

Answer 31

Molasses

Question 32

What do they use in Guyana for distillation?

Answer 32

Since they got a big selection of different antique pot and column stills, they get many different characterful heavy marks.

Question 33

Which character do the rum from guyana have?

Answer 33

It varies a lot but they can have an intensely rich and earthy character,

Question 34

Which 5 other countries do they mention in the book from central and south America and what’ the characteristic of the rum made there?

Answer 34

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.

Question 35

Which spirit can you find in Brazil?

Answer 35

Cachaca

Question 36

What’s cachaca made out of and what character does it have?

Answer 36

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