SPIRITS: Rum, Rhum, Ron Flashcards
Most traditional distillation technique for rum?
Pot-still/batch distillation
Term for the residue left after distillation in a potstill?
Dunder
*Jamaican rum commonly adds dunder to active ferment to add more character to final distillate
What type of rum would most likely be aged in French limousin oak?
Rhum agricole
What is ouillage? Why is this important for the process of making rum?
Topping up of the barrels. In warm tropical places, the angels’ share accounts for about 10% loss per year - whereas a cooler place like Scotland only sees about 2%
What is spiced rum typically spiced with?
Vanilla
Cinnamon
Rosemary
Pepper
Aniseed
*oft sweetened with sugar and honey
Cachaça
Brazil’s “rum”
*simliar to rhum agricole
.. made from freshly pressed sugar cane juice, with a finished ABV of 38% to 54% with up to 6g/l added sugar.
*Caipirinha
Name a brand of Cachaça.
Pitu
Leblon
Ypioca
Abelha
Cachaça 51
Canario
Avua
Clairin
Traditional Haitian rum
*resembles agricole
*Made with fresh sugar cane juice thickened over a fire of bagasse (spent cane stalks) and then naturally fermented.
Always distilled 2x and typically bottled undiluted with an ABV between 50% and 60%
Angostura
Trinidad
Top bottling: Legacy - made using 7 blends with the youngest aged 17 years. It auctioned at a starting price point of $25k/bottle
Gargano Classification
A movement to adopt labelling terms to rum, comparable to the terms used for whiskey, to help the customer recognize quality levels.
Pure single rum (pot still), single blended (pot + column), Traditional rum (column still), and Modern Rum (multi-column still) are the proposed designations
Appleton Estate
Jamaica
Appleton 50 Year ($6k retail)
Fun fact! Joy Spence is the master blender on duty - the first woman in the world to become a master blender
Trivia: what is Black Tot Day?
July 31 1970 - the day the 300yr old naval tradition of providing sailors with a 2x/day rum ration ended
Captain Morgan
Identifies with Jamaica, established by Seagrams, 1944
Production moved to Puerto Rico in 2001 for tax reasons. The bulk of output is produced in St. Croix.
Now owned by Diageo
El Dorado
Guyana
English style rum
Demerara River is where?
Guyana
Gosling’s
Bermuda
*the original blend would become the Black Seal. Goslings is one of the few spirits that has managed to obtain a copyright for a cocktail of their own - the Dark n Stormy
*they give no info on sourcing and aging. All we know is that they use both a pot still and a column still
Hampden Estate
Jamaica
* known for heavy pot-stilled rums with prominent esters
Mount Gay
Barbados
Rum
Pusser’s Rum
Virgin Islands
Wray & Nephew
Jamaica
Known for White Overproof Rum
Barbancourt
Haiti
*French, but uses molasses. The founder was inspired by Cognac, so they use a double distillation method. This French rum breaks away from the classic vegetal rhum agricole profile
Clément
Martinique
This is one of the biggest names in Rhum Agricole. They do a number of special editions and single casks.
Rhum JM
Martinique