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Various Kinds Of Rums
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 Rafia or Guildive:
- Brandy drawn from the sugar cane molasses.
White Rum or White Bunch:
- The white rum contains 50% to voluminal 55%, and this is the rum traditionally consumed in the West-Indies. It is generally drunk in “punch” with sugar and a green piece of lemon peel.
Old Rum:
- Old rum, to be entitled to this name, must be stored at least three years in oak barrels, with 650 liters of capacity maximum . It is generally put to be age in oak casks of 180 liters, identical to those used for the Cognac or Wisky.
Straw or Amber Rum:
- It is a rum aged less than three years in oak casks.
The Syrup Rum:
- The origin of the syrup rum goes back to the XIX century, where owners of dwelling sugar refinery found its trade more advantageous than that of sugar. These is a rum which is manufactured starting from a purified cane juice (limed and defected) concentrated out of sugar syrup, before being diluted and being used like substrate for alcoholic fermentation. This rum is more 1ight than a traditional agricultural rum and, put to be age oak barrels, gives goods old rums.
Light Rum:
- It is a standard rum (like Bacardie rum) and neutral, containing very few aromatic substances (60g of nonalcohol/HAP*).
* HAP: Hectoliter of Pure Alcohol.
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