There was a time when rum languished in the netherworld of the spirits realm, a base ingredient in your parent’s liquor cabinet that would be hauled out once a…
Like all spirits, there are effectively two ways to distill sugar cane into rum. One is via a column still, widely used around the world as a cost-effective method for distillation. The other is a pot still – large copper vessels typically associated with Scotch whisky. They tend to render a more complex expression of the distillate and are expensive, being made of copper and all. A column still runs continuously while a pot still must be done in batches, which adds to the cost factor.
Rum is consumed there with plates of fish and macaroni pie, , typically with water and ice or in various cocktails. There are effectively no laws as to where you can or can’t drink and how much, nor are there blood alcohol tests. Interestingly, the island has a low per-capita percentage of alcohol-related traffic deaths, I expect in part because the pothole-laden roads demand slower speeds and caution.
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