Sugar cane spirits Flashcards
What can be used by distillers to make rum
Cane syrup, molasses, and Sugar cane Juice
What congeners are rum producers looking for during fermentation? (specifically Jamaica)
Esters
What is a continentally aged rum?
Caribbean rum aged in Europe
This rum is distilled to a relatively high strength often 90%+, in column stills with high flavour intensity
Light Marks
This rum is distilled to a lower strength with a large variety of flavours and stills
Heavy Marks
What techniques can be used to adjust the colour and taste of a spirit?
Adding water, filtration, adding sugar, and adding colour
True or false, rums are almost always blended
True
How can distillers remove colour from unaged rum?
Charcoal filtration
How is rhum agricole made?
Column distilled sugar cane juice rums, using similar rules as Cognac and Armagnac.
This colourless agricole is stored in inert vessels and showcase pronounced grassy and herbaceous flavours of cane juice
Rhum blanc
Rhum Vieux are oak aged sugar can juice rums aged in oak, for a minimum of how many years?
3
Martinique, and Guadeloupe are French Caribbean islands that produce what 3 types of Rum?
Rhum Agricole, Rhum blanc, and Rhum Vieux, all made with sugar cane juice
This country tightly regulates rum production and requires molasses as raw material. With column stills
Cuba
Do Cuban rums require aging in new or old oak barrels?
Old oak
What country does Puerto Rico make similar style rums to? (molasses, column still, with oak aging)
Cuba
This country is known for producing dry, characterful, unaged and oakmatured, molasses rums.
Jamaica
What is overproof?
unusually high strength Jamaican rum stronger than 57.15%
This country was the first to begin rum production
Barbados
This island country only has one active distillery noted for it’s antique pot and column stills with characterful heavy marks
Guyana
These countries make smooth, medium sweet, rums with generous molasses and oak character
Venezuela, Columbia, Panama, Nicaragua and Guatemala
Which island has a tradition of making high-ester rums?
Jamaica
A dry rum, with a light or medium aroma intensity that has a delicate toffee and fruity aromas best describes a …….. rum
Cuban
What are the aromas and flavours of sugar cane juice rums?
Herbaceous, grassy, and vegetal
What country is the largest producer of rum?
Brazil
Ambient yeast helps with what?
High ester fermentation
what are Blended rums
Multi-distillery blends, typically by 3rd party
What are non-distillery bottlings?
Single distillery rum, stock typically matured and bottled by 3rd parties
