Food and Beverage Training Manual 2021

Rum:

Distilled from the fermented juice of sugar cane, cane syrup, or molasses. Aged in not charred barrels. Dark rums often have caramel added to them for flavor.

Light-bodied rums:

Dry with a slight molasses flavor. Two types

are:

1) white – most popular and most easily mixed 2) gold – a mixture of light and dark rums, sweeter with a more pronounced molasses taste. Favourite light rums come from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Heavy-bodied rums: Darker and sweeter, with a more pungent bouquet, body and flavor. Distilled by a slower fermentation process which allows more time for a fuller, richer molasses-like body to develop. The well-known dark rums come from Jamaica, Martinique, Trinidad, Barbados.

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