Sugar cane spirits, RUM

Question 1

What is the extracted suger cane juice called?

Answer 1

molasses

Question 2

what notes can you indicate when drinking a rum made from sugar canes?

Answer 2

vegetal, grassy, herbaceous

Question 3

what is molasses

Answer 3

thick, sticky residue (rest)

Question 4

What do you have to do with the molasses before the fermentation can start?

Answer 4

Dilute it with water

Question 5

what aromas does the rum from molasses give?

Answer 5

toffie, caramel, brown sugar

Question 6

What is a high ester rum?

Answer 6

Tradition in Jamaica, a rum with high fruity aromas

Question 7

what kind of still is used for making rum?

Answer 7

Column stills and pot stills of alla shapes and sizes are used in the production of Caribbean rum

Question 8

What does “continentally aged” mean?

Answer 8

shipped to and matured in Europe

Question 9

Light marks?

Answer 9

distilled to relatively high strength 90 %, in column stills, they have a light flavor intensity

Question 10

Heavy marks?

Answer 10

distilled to relatively low-strength in pot stills (short column stills)

Question 11

How is the common blending/finishing of a rum?

Answer 11

-Always blends.
- different distilleries
-different marks
-blend oak and un-oaked (inert vessels)

Question 12

How can the distiller affect the style of the rum after it has been blended?

Answer 12

1) filter with activated charcoal to remove colour
2) caramel colour
3) sweeted (especially rums matured in oak)

Question 13

what is a rum?

Answer 13

a spirit from sugar cane that is not a neutral spirit

Question 14

what kind of rum is Martinique and Guadeloupe best known for?

Answer 14

characterful column-distilled rums from sugar cane juice, called rhum Agricole

Question 15

what indicates a rum blanc?

Answer 15

colourless agricoles, unnamed and stored in inert vessels. Grassy and herbaceous flavors.

Question 16

what indicates a Rhum vieux?

Answer 16

oak aged at least 3 years, cane juice character, vanilla and spice

Question 17

what kind of rums do Cuba have?

Answer 17

molasses, blended from spirits that are distilled in columns to high strength, matured in oak.

Question 18

what is the character of a Cuba rum?

Answer 18

dry, water white (removal of colour), toffie, fruity

Question 19

What indicates a Puerto Rico rum?

Answer 19

made from molasses, column distilled, oak aged = light or medium intensity, colourless -amber

Question 20

What kind of rums do Jamaica produce?

Answer 20

High ester rums, dry, un aged, oak matured

Question 21

What style are Jamaican distillers known for when it comes to the ABV

Answer 21

overproof = unususally high ABV

Question 22

Blended rums?

Answer 22

blended rum made from more than one distillery

Question 23

what does “Non-distiller bottlings” mean?

Answer 23

continentally aged in Europe rather than tropically aged in the Caribbean

Question 24

what is the most important sugar cane spirit from Brazil called?

Answer 24

cachaca

Question 25

what is the character of cachaca?

Answer 25

vegetal, grassy and fruity, distilled to a low stregth and slightly sweetened. Also wood age examples.

Question 26

where can you find the labelling term Rhum Agricole and what does it tell us?

Answer 26

EU, sugar cane juice from French overseas department.
Caribbiean, only for cane juice rums from Martinique and guadeloupe