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Name of the alcoholic products of fermenting sugar and distilling mead, analogous to fermenting grapes to get wine and distilling wine to get brandy?
The interim step in rum making is called 'Wash', which unlike beer or wine isn't sold separately. I don't know exactly why, but I suspect it's because it doesn't taste good. The same is true of just ...
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Name of the alcoholic products of fermenting sugar and distilling mead, analogous to fermenting grapes to get wine and distilling wine to get brandy?
You have to ferment sugarcane molasses (which is just concentrated boiled
sugarcane juice) to distill into rum, so I'm not sure fermented molasses has any other name.
The second question was already ...
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What's the difference between Santa Cruz Rum and Jamaican Rum?
Cocktail historian David Wondrich discusses this very topic in his book "Imbibe!", pages 74-75. (It's structured around Jerry Thomas' first cocktail books—perhaps it's in one of those you're ...
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Name of the alcoholic products of fermenting sugar and distilling mead, analogous to fermenting grapes to get wine and distilling wine to get brandy?
Ferment sugar you get ???. Distill that and you get rum.
Distilled Sugar Cane is also called Cachaça. Rum is made with fermented molasses, while Cachaça is made from fermented (fresh) cane sugar.
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Name of the alcoholic products of fermenting sugar and distilling mead, analogous to fermenting grapes to get wine and distilling wine to get brandy?
In the Canary Islands (Spanish), you can buy Ron Miel. In Madeira (Portuguese), you can buy Ron Mel. Both names translate as Honey Rum, but they are made by fermenting sugar cane (mel de cana in ...
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Can Rum-balls be made without alcohol?
I made rum balls and substituted orange juice. These were for the kids so it worked out great. Since you can substitute Baileys, I made peppermint balls using peppermint coffee creamer, instead of rum,...
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What's the difference between Santa Cruz Rum and Jamaican Rum?
The reference to Jamaica rum refers to a heavy dark rum like Meyers. Santa Cruz was a lighter bodied rum. The Jamaicans do also make light rums like Appleton.
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Baba au Rhum: Why am I not getting a good rum flavor?
Mmmmmm- I loves me a good Rum Baba!
I'd personally go with Myer's dark rum. In my experiences I've found Myer's Dark to have the best/ most intense rum flavor out there (yes, it's a little expensive).
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What's the difference between Santa Cruz Rum and Jamaican Rum?
I found this site that describes it as
Rum produced in Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Typically
light rums with a sharp flavor.
This makes a lot of sense as Saint Croix in French translates ...
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