Unit 6 - Lesson 3 - Rum Flashcards
Newly distilled rum product?
New-Make Spirt
White Rum styles
Light and delicate aroma, flavor
Continuous distillation
Not generally aged
If aged, it is charcoal treated before the bottling process, to remove the colour
Amber Rum
Continuous distillation, but it may contain some pot still rum for flavour.
6m - 3y aged
Gold, M-Body
Dark rum
Produced by pot and continuous distillation.
Full-bodied and heavy/fruity in nature.
Aged in barrels for longer periods of at least three years.
Why does spirit strength affect maturation
Range of congeners extracted from wood varies with ABV
How maturation time impacted
Water-soluble congeners such as glycerol and sugars are extracted at lower concentrations.
ABV-soluble eg lactones are at higher concentrations.
Rum aged at 70-80% abv,
Rum can also be aged at higher strengths, as this minimises the number of barrels used. These barrels, although already used, can still be costly to the rum producer
What is very important in Rum maturation
Esterification is very important in developing the flavour profile of rum.
Barrels used in Rum maturation?
American oak often used Bourbon
Also French from brandy or sherry
Time in tropics vs other
Tropics where is is hot age faster
Keys to evap loss
humidity and atmospheric pressure
Why isnt Rum aged as long as whisky or bourbon?
High flavor levels of oakiness are not needed
What do charred barrels do?
More active eg more congeners in darker rums
Age statement US
Not required
Age statement West Indies
of years in the barrel
Age statement Canada?
to be classified as rum, it must be aged for a minimum of one year.
