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Rum & Cane
Every rum & cane page in the Academy — written from primary sources, linked to bottles you can actually buy.
Level 1 · Start hereCane Spirits
Rum, rhum agricole, clairin and cachaça: spirits distilled from sugar cane juice or molasses, shaped by still, barrel...
Level 2Rhum Agricole and Clairin
Rum from fresh cane juice: Martinique's AOC rhum agricole, the only AOC rum, and Haiti's village-distilled clairin.
Level 2Spiced and Flavored Rum
Rum plus vanilla, spice or fruit. In the U.S. it becomes a flavored spirit; in the EU it can't legally be called rum ...
Level 2White Rum
Clear, light and built for mixing. White rum can still have seen oak: filtration, not youth, is often what takes the ...
Level 2Dark and Blackstrap Rum
Deep brown to near-black rums colored by caramel, molasses or charred casks. 'Dark' is a color, not a legal category.
Level 2Gold and Aged Rum
Rum that has spent time in oak, from one-year golds to decades-old blends. Read the age statement, not the color.
Level 2Overproof and Navy Rum
High-strength rum, the proof systems behind it, and the Royal Navy rum ration that ended on Black Tot Day, 1970.
Level 2Cachaça
Brazil's cane-juice spirit, 38 to 48 percent alcohol by law, aged in oak or native woods like amburana, and the base ...
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