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Rum Flashcards

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What is distilled to make rum?

A

Fermented sugarcane or molasses

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Rum

Origin

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Caribbean, 17th century

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4 main styles of rum

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  • Light rum
  • Dark rum
  • Demerara rum
    • ​Light rum style
    • Unique to Guyana (E Venezuela)
    • Distilled from molasses
    • Sometimes aged for over a decade prior to release
  • Rhum agricole
    • French style
    • Produced mainly on Martinique
    • Martinique AOC can claim to be the southernmost Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée in France, despite its location in the sunny Caribbean!
    • May only be produced from sugarcane juice
    • Column distillation is mandated in Martinique
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Demerara rum

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Demerara

  • Light rum style
  • Unique to Guyana (E of Venezuela, N of Brazil)
  • Distilled from molasses
  • Sometimes aged for over a decade prior to release
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Cachaça

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Cachaça

  • Distilled from fermented sugarcane
  • Brazil
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Rhum agricole

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Rhum agricole

  • French style
  • Produced mainly on the island of Martinique
  • May only be produced from suagrcane juice
  • Column distillation is mandated
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Light Rum

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Light Rum

  • Distilled by continuous method
  • Filtered with charcoal after a short period of cask aging to remove any color
  • Best suited for mixing, as it has little character
  • Counter example of common style:
    • Mount Gay, from Barbados
    • Golden in color, gained complexity from time in cask
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Dark Rum

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Dark Rum

  • Fuller in body, darker in color, dominated by more complex caramel notes, vs. simple suggestion of sweetness in most light rums
  • Quality dark rums, such as those produced in Jamaica, may be distilled twice in pot stills and aged for a number of years prior to release; this darkens the spirit but the final color is almost always achieved by adding caramel
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Light Rum from Puerto Rico

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Bacardi

The bat had always been a symbol of good fortune, so when Doña Amalia Bacardí spotted fruit bats in the family’s distillery, she insisted it be used as their symbol. Today it remains on the bottle, helping the family survive whatever fate throws at it.

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Jamaican Rum

4 Producers

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  • Plantation
  • Smith & Cross
  • Myers’s
  • Blackwell
  • Captain Morgan
  • Appleton
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Rhum Agricole

Producer

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Rhum J.M.

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Cachaça

Producer

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Novo Fogo

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Demerara Rum

Producer

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El Dorado

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