After aging and blending, most rum is diluted with water to reach the 80 proof standards. Rhum Agricole is a specific category of rhum made mostly in the French territories of the Caribbean, especially Martinique, but similar styles are also produced in Guadeloupe, Marie-Galante and St.

Rhums made in Haiti from cane juice may also be considered agricole by some rum experts. Aquardiente is a spirit fermented and distilled from fruit, most often sugar cane.

Their simple distillation process retains robust flavors of the vegetal matter used. In Columbia, aguardiente is commonly flavored with anise.

Each region of the country produces their own spirit which cannot be exported to other regions. In the Andean region, the spirit is often enjoyed straight.

In the Caribbean regions, where rum is more popular than aguardiente, the local spirit is more likely to be mixed in cocktails.

The myriad types of flavors and spices infused into rums offer a wide range of interesting and multifarious variations of spirits, both full proof and limited potency liqueurs and creams.

Spiced and flavored types of rum offer distinctive flavors to cocktails, rum cakes, holiday libations and many other uses, bringing definitely tropical flavors to the palate.

Dark brown in color with a slight vanilla flavor, the brand that comes encased in an arty square latticed bottle has triumphed with zero advertising.

Old Monk has 7 years aged and a 12 years aged varieties available in the market. Although it enjoys only a niche market in the country, Bacardi rums are one of the preferred brands in the urban centers.

Bacardi rum had three main flavors based on hue and grade: Bacardi Select which is dark, Bacardi Gold which is amber, and Bacardi Superior which is White Rum.

Bacardi rum also comes in interesting flavors such as Lemon, Orange, Raspberry, Apple and Dragon Berry based on white rum.

With an alcohol content of Marketed in India by Diageo, Captain Morgan is popular spiced rum, known world over for its unique flavors.

It falls in the mid-range category. Produced by the UB Group, this is a popular dark rum with a characteristic caramel and vanilla flavor.

It is placed as an inexpensive brand for the ecclesiastical taste. Contessa, produced by the house of Radico Khaitan, is the only rum in India that produced from cane juice spirit.

It has a good following in the northern Indian states and has a large market share in the defense segment. With a slight raisin tone, the spirit has been awarded the silver medal at Monde Selection for its taste.

It is an inexpensive and tasty drink that has somehow not caught the attention of Indian drinkers as much as it should have.

Rum, like most alcoholic drinks, is a misunderstood and unsung hero. Sure, alcoholism is a rising problem and it had led to many deaths, broken families and illnesses.

But anything is excess is bad. Taken in moderation, alcohol can be helpful and rum is its very tasty kind.

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Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. Rum is a liquor made by fermenting then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice.

The distillate, a clear liquid, is usually aged in oak barrels. Most rums are produced in Caribbean and American countries, but also in other sugar-producing countries, such as the Philippines and India.

Rums are produced in various grades. Light rums are commonly used in cocktails , whereas "golden" and "dark" rums were typically consumed straight or neat , iced " on the rocks " , or used for cooking, but are now commonly consumed with mixers.

Premium rums are made to be consumed either straight or iced. Rum plays a part in the culture of most islands of the West Indies as well as the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland , in Canada.

The beverage has famous associations with the Royal Navy where it was mixed with water or beer to make grog and piracy where it was consumed as bumbo.

Rum has also served as a popular medium of economic exchange, used to help fund enterprises such as slavery see Triangular trade , organized crime, and military insurgencies e.

The origin of the word "rum" is unclear. The most widely accepted hypothesis is that it is related to "rumbullion" a beverage made from boiling sugar cane stalks, [2] or possibly "rumbustion," which was a slang word for "uproar" or "tumult"; [3] a noisy uncontrollable exuberance, [2] though the origin of those words and the nature of the relationship are unclear.

Regardless of the original source, the name was already in common use by , when the General Court of Connecticut ordered the confiscations of "whatsoever Barbados liquors, commonly called rum, kill devil and the like".

For rums from places mostly in Latin America where Spanish is spoken, the word ron is used. Rhum is the term that typically distinguishes rum made from fresh sugar cane juice from rum made from molasses in French-speaking locales like Martinique.

Some of the many other names for rum are Nelson 's blood, kill-devil, demon water, pirate's drink, navy neaters, and Barbados water.

Vagbhata , an Indian Ayurvedic physician 7th century AD "[advised] a man to drink unvitiated liquor like rum and wine, and mead mixed with mango juice 'together with friends.

Dembinska also suggests Cyprus rum was often drunk mixed with an almond milk drink, also produced in Cyprus, called soumada. Another early rum-like drink is brum.

Produced by the Malay people , that beverage dates back thousands of years. The first distillation of rum in the Caribbean took place on the sugarcane plantations there in the 17th century.

Plantation slaves discovered that molasses , a by-product of the sugar refining process, could be fermented into alcohol. Then, distillation of these alcoholic byproducts concentrated the alcohol, and removed some impurities, producing the first modern rums.

Tradition suggests this type of rum first originated on the island of Nevis. A document [18] from Barbados stated:. However, in the decade of the s, rum production was also recorded in Brazil [19] and many historians believe that rum found its way to Barbados along with sugarcane and its cultivation methods from Brazil.

By the late 17th century rum had replaced French brandy as the exchange-alcohol of choice in the triangle trade.

Canoemen and guards on the African side of the trade, who had previously been paid in brandy, were now paid in rum. After development of rum in the Caribbean, the drink's popularity spread to Colonial North America.

To support the demand for the drink, the first rum distillery in the British colonies of North America was set up in on Staten Island.

Boston, Massachusetts had a distillery three years later. Much of the rum was exported, distillers in Newport, R. In the 18th century ever increasing demands for sugar, molasses, rum, and slaves led to a feedback loop which intensified the triangle trade.

Outcry from the British rum industry led to the Molasses Act of which levied a prohibitive tax on molasses imported into Britain's North American colonies from foreign countries or colonies.

For example, the slave Venture Smith whose history was later published had been purchased in Africa, for four gallons of rum plus a piece of calico.

The popularity of rum continued after the American Revolution; George Washington insisting on a barrel of Barbados rum at his inauguration. Rum started to play an important role in the political system; candidates attempted to influence the outcome of an election through their generosity with rum.

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