Rum is also known as fire wine, and its nickname is also called pirate wine, because pirates who used to run rampant in the Caribbean liked to drink rum. In Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack often drank rum.
Rum Origin Taste:
It is a traditional wine of the Cuban people, originating in the Republic of Cuba. It is a distilled spirit with a sweet and fragrant taste.
Raw materials for rum:
Mainly the sugar juice pressed out of sugar cane, and water, plus caramel color.
Alcohol content of rum:
The rum on the market is usually three years and seven years old, their alcohol content is 38 ° and 40 ° respectively, and the heavy alcohol is removed during the production process, and the pleasant aroma is preserved.
1) Silver Rum
Silver rum, also known as white rum, refers to the distilled wine that needs to be filtered by activated carbon and aged in barrels for more than one year. The wine has a dryer taste and is not strong in aroma.
2) Gold Rum
Golden rum, also known as amber rum, means that distilled wine needs to be aged for at least three years in old oak barrels burned on the inside. The wine is darker, slightly sweeter and more fragrant.
3) Dark Rum
Black rum, also known as red rum, refers to rum that needs to be added to a certain flavor juice or caramel toner during the production process. The wine is more intense (dark brown or brownish red) and has a mellow taste.
4) Reconcile rum
Blending rum is the addition of spices herbs and other herbs in the production process to blend rum.
1. Add ice drinking method
Ice to rum, similar to ice when drinking absinthe, is to use real pure water ice cubes, or ice cubes from ice companies, the size of a fist.
The strong rum of 70 degrees or more is slowly poured along the wall of the glass into the iced glass and slowly tasted. This way, not only is it cool, but you can also drink the different flavors of rum from pure spirits to "water cutting".
2. Soda drinking method
This is a drinking method for light rum, and about 40% of rum is suitable for this drinking method. Mixing the rum with the soda in a one-to-two ratio and squeezing in a little fresh lemon juice, the rum becomes soft, a bit like an aged beer, soft and complex. It can even replace beer when watching a ball game.
3. Cola drinking method
This is a popular drinking method in Mexico, along the wall of the cup, gently pour Coca-Cola into the rum with ice cubes, and then slowly shake the cup, pour a little orange juice, and create a new sour and cold drink. The reason why cola is not injected directly into the ice cube is to avoid the carbonated vapor from disappearing all at once, making the taste hard.
4. Coconut water drinking method
The Caribbean people's favorite use of coconut with rum, the white rum and ice fresh coconut juice mixed in a ratio of one to three, it becomes the coconut wine from the tree, the taste is cold, light and soft. Coconut meat is cut into small pieces and marinated in white wine, grape vinegar, lime juice, and salt to make a snack, which is best served with coconut rum.
5. Drinking frozen orange juice
This is the South American version of vodka drinking. Put the light, 40% alcohol rum into the freezer of the refrigerator until 48 hours later, this is the rum into the ice liquid viscous, pour the freshly squeezed orange juice one-to-one, drink the stomach, from the throat to the stomach will cross a rich ice line.
6. Ice cream drinking method
A few drops of light white rum when eating ice cream can bring some wood aroma and wild honey aroma to ice cream, and it tastes more rich.