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Or… consider Rum when drinking late Spring cocktails… But first what is Rum?

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I think a better example is what Rum is and is not.

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• Rum is not made of grain. It is derived from sugarcane. Most Rum on the market is distilled from Molasses. Molasses is the stuff that is left after making sugar. It’s not pretty- you probably have a bottle of Blackstrap Molasses in your pantry. Same thing.

• Rum can be made with freshly crushed sugar cane juice- That style tends to be what we call Agricole or Agricultural. If the juice is not tanked within a day or so, it goes bad.

• Most Rum is aged in used American Bourbon oak barrels. Just like your Tequila and your Scotch and sometimes your beer. If you like Rum, you will probably be a whiskey drinker too.

• Most Rum contains Caramel Coloring. This is the market forces at work. The consumer assumes that a dark rum means an old rum. Untrue. Like Whiskey, and their Scottish cousin Whisky, these liquids grow lighter in color with age. Not darker in color like the bottles on the shelf would suggest with vastly inflated prices- because the rum just LOOKS old. Bad form in my opinion.

• Most Rum contains the chemical known as glycerin for the creamy and richly textured “mouth-feel”… When distilleries and rectifiers (those who buy their distillate and say they make their own stuff-when they don’t, but there are no rules- so…) often add adjuncts and flavorings to the rum. (Bad news in my opinion)

Please, read further at https://totalfood.com/rum-seriously-hot-springtime/