Rum

Question 1

What are four styles of Rum

Answer 1

Light
Dark
Demerera
Rhum Agricole

Question 2

What is Rum?

Answer 2

Rum is a distilled spirit produced from fermented sugarcane or molasses, a byproduct of processing sugarcane into sugar

Question 3

What is molasses

Answer 3

A byproduct of pressing sugarcane into sugar

Question 4

How is light rum distilled/processed?

Answer 4

Usually by continuous still and filtered with charcoal after cask aging to remove color

Question 5

Where is Mount Gay from? What color is it?
Name a one of the Mount Gay rums.

Answer 5

Barbados

Golden colored light rum from time in cask
Mount Gay Black Barrel
Molasses
Column and pot stills
Matured in ex Whisky casks and finished in heavily charred ex bourbon casks for 6 months.

Question 6

What is Demerara rum?

Answer 6

Light rum unique to Guyana
Distilled from molasses
can be aged over 10 years before release

Question 7

Name a demerara rum.

Answer 7

El Dorado 12 year
From molasses
Column and pot distilled

Question 8

What is Cachaça?

Answer 8

Brazilian spirit
produced from fermented sugarcane
essentially light rum
base of caipirinha

Question 9

Where are quality dark rums from?

Answer 9

Jamaica

Question 10

How are dark rums distilled/aged? What gives it color

Answer 10

Can be distilled twice in pot still and aged number of years before release
usually has caramel color added

Question 11

What is Rhum Agricole?

Answer 11

French style
produced mainly on Martinique (AOC)
produced from sugarcane juice
column distillation mandated in Martinique

Question 12

What can claim to be the southernmost AOC in France?

Answer 12

Martinique

Question 13

What is black strap rum?

Answer 13

Young rums, which may or may not be distilled from blackstrap molasses, made dark or “black” via caramel coloring added after distillation, to mimic the look of a long-aged rum.

Question 14

Name a black strap rum.

Answer 14

Cruzan from St. Croix

Question 15

What is blackstrap molasses?

Answer 15

Blackstrap molasses is what comes from a third boiling, and it’s very bitter

Question 16

Where is Barbancourt Rum from? What kind of rum is this?

Answer 16

Haiti
Rhum Agricole - produced from fermented sugar cane.
distilled in a single-column then redistilled twice in copper pot stills to approx

Question 17

Where is Rhum J.M. from? What style of rum is it? Name a few from this brand.

Answer 17

Martinique
Rhum Agricole
Sugar cane and column distilled
VO = aged 3 years in toasted american oak barrels
XO = 6 years of aging
Grand Reserve = 10 years aging

Question 18

Where is Don Q from? What style of rum is this?

Answer 18

Puerto Rico
Made from molasses, column distilled

Question 19

Name a Jamaican rum.

Answer 19

Hamilton gold
Distilled from molasses
Pot still
Golden, banana, pineapple, vanilla

Question 20

Name a Dark rum from Jamaica.

Answer 20

Meyers dark rum
Dark chocolate, honey, caramel

Question 21

Name a white overproof rum from Jamaica.

Answer 21

Appleton Estate, Wray & Nephew

Question 22

Sugar is not allowed to be added to rum from where?

Answer 22

Jamaica, Barbados, Martinique, or Guadeloupe

Question 23

Name a Cachaça.

Answer 23

Avuá Amburana

Question 24

Name 4 white/light rums.

Answer 24

Barbancourt White Rum, Haiti
Appleton Estate, Wray & Nephew, Jamaica
RHUM J.M., BLANC, Martinique
FLOR DE CANA, WHITE, 4YR, Venezuela

Question 25

Name 4 dark rums.

Answer 25

Cruzan Black Strap Rum, St Croix
Mount Gay, Black Barrel, Barbados
Diplomatico, Reserva, Venezuela
Plantation, “OFTD”, Barbados - Old Fashioned Traditional Dark Rum

Question 26

Name 3 Demerara Rums.

Answer 26

El Dorado 12yr, Guyana
PLANTATION, GUYANA, 2005
ENMORE DISTILLERY, 27YR, DUNCAN TAYLOR, SINGLE CASK, 1985 100

Question 27

Name 3 Rhum Agricole.

Answer 27

RHUM J.M., BLANC
RHUM J.M., GOLD
RHUM HSE, SAUTERNES CASK FINISH, 2005