by Ernest | Sep 25, 2018 | Finding the best rum
If you can find sugar cane somewhere, you will probably find rum there too! While the Caribbean is considered the epicenter of rum production and cultivation, rum is also found in almost all countries of Latin America and Central America, on a small or large scale....
by Ernest | Sep 25, 2018 | Finding the best rum
Agricultural rum appeared after industrial rum. Its production truly began only in the second half of the 19th century. At that time, the sugar industry was going through tough economic times. The end of slavery, the excessive competition and the discovery of beet...
by Ernest | Sep 25, 2018 | Finding the best rum
Industrial rum is also called “traditional rum”, a name that many find more rewarding. Indeed, the term “industrial” suggests that it is a rum that was taken over by the industry after its creation, so as to produce it in larger quantities....
by Ernest | Sep 21, 2018 | Culture
Just like wines and other spirits, rums differ from each other. And faced with the unending varieties of rums, it is easy to feel lost, not only because rum is a relative new beverage for many, but also because classifying rums can be difficult. Rums cannot be easily...
by Ernest | Sep 21, 2018 | Culture
Rum is obtained from a skilled creation process divided into several stages. The first step is to extract the raw material from the sugar cane. Here, two methods are used, and they yield two major categories of rums. On one hand, we have “industrial” rum...
by Ernest | Sep 21, 2018 | Culture
Created in the 17th century on an island in the West Indies, rum became increasingly popular from the 19th century, and its refinement via distillation processes became even more elaborated. Today produced in many countries around the world, it is still mostly enjoyed...