Rum was never just a drink. It is a symbol pirate outlaws, courage
bourgeois gloss. This drink equalizer
deck and the captain, slave and master and the common people know. Who has not dreamed of one day a sip straight
from the bottle, rocking on the ship?
But rum has a story, a long, complicated, even bloody.
Rum: history of discovery
The main component of Roma -
molasses is produced from sugar cane.
This syrup is distilled to enrich additives and get what we call rum.
Sugarcane is cultivated in Asia
for thousands of years before Christ.
From China India Europe , the Mediterranean Sea . Hence the Spanish, British and French grew
weak sugar cane on its colonies and already there began receiving rums, using
different methods of preparation.
Rom time to time turned out to be
a very "powerful" product: for it was carried on the plantation
slaves, as they paid the money because of the Roma, even in America
This pirate drink played a huge role
in the development of the countries of South America ,
they do not shun any lords of England
Methods for making rum
Rum produced in two ways:
industrial and agricultural.
In the first phase of the reed
similar: it is collected, crushed, squeezed juice, clears it. But even this extract and is suitable for the
Roma.
The industrial versions of cane
sugar when heated pour the drink and crystallized. Molasses is sent to large barrels (metal or
oak), add yeast and water, put a starter and control the temperature of the
product. Later it was distilled and add
various aromatic spices. Kept for 3-5
years. So do the rum in the world.
Option agricultural uses much
less and only in Haiti
In the late twentieth century,
rum was judged by a special commission to assess the world-class wines
(AOC). Agricultural rum is recognized as
one of the best drinks like brandy or Calvados.
Rums and Functions
Despite the fact that the process
of writing a novel is always the same, in the end get drinks of different
qualities, colors and popularity among the people. They are divided into several types:
1. White rum. It is easy, clear beverage, it almost is not
maintained after distillation (maximum - more than a year). The bottles with rum have special marks white
/ light / silver / blanca / blanc. He
has the strength to 40%.
2. Golden rum. Drink stand distillation for two years and
added caramel for color. Malts needed
tagging golden / oro / amber / paille.
3. Rum. His brutality is seen also in the fortress,
and in color, and taste. This rum must
be maintained for five years, and for the color of his burnt poured into oak
barrels. In bottles it with rum (here,
perhaps, that the pirates were drinking!) High alcohol content between 50% and
above.
5. Flavoured rum. This drink has a lot of advantages to other,
more diverse number of flavors, special marks on the bottles, that
is, "flavored" and spiced - with spices."
6. Rum from the category of luxury, vintage, the
quality is comparable with the world's elite wines AOC classification, called
single mark rum.
In Europe ,
these rums are not accented on the bottle label, the ocean, on the Caribbean ,
Cuba
Rum - Alcohol-based drink, but
that's the amount of alcohol in it varies.
Fermented base does not reach up to 5%, the other extreme of alcohol -
70%. This rum punch. Drank rum diluted with water in various
proportions
