Are you planning to send Gifts for rum lovers? In Walwater, we offer different brands of wines, spirit alcohol, champagne, and also rum. Rum is a type of distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane or molasses. Sugarcane needs to take at least ten months to 2 years to reach enough maturity before harvesting. During the old times, rum became popular with sailors, pirates, and Americans.

How is rum made? The quality of rum depends on the quality of the sugarcane. The extracted juice in the sugarcane is called molasses. The extracted juice will undergo fermentation. In fermentation, the maker will add yeast to the extracted juice of sugarcane. This process is utilized to transform sugar into alcohol.

After fermentation, the liquid will undergo distillation. There is no definite method for distillation. Some rum makers prefer using pot stills. But most of the rum producers utilized columns still. The product of pot still distillations has more congeners than the output of the column still. Therefore, pot still distillation produces the fuller taste of rum.

After the process of distillation, the output will be placed in bourbon casks for the aging process. Most likely, a rum needs to be stored for at least one year. After the aging process, the rum will undergo the blending process. For a light type of rum, the maker will filter the rum to remove the color caused by the aging process. While for darker rum, they mix it with caramel to adjust the color.