The main ingredients of rum are water and sugar cane juice.
Rum, a distilled spirit produced from sugarcane molasses, is also known as sugar wine, rum, and rum. Originally from Cuba, it is sweet and fragrant. Rum is made from the sugar juice pressed out of sugar cane, fermented and distilled. According to different raw materials and brewing different methods, rum can be divided into: rum white wine, rum old wine, light rum, rum regular wine, strong aroma rum, etc., containing 38% to 50% alcohol, liquor amber, brown, there are colorless.
Rum is a traditional drink of the Cubans, Cuba **** and national rum is made by the master distiller as raw material sugar cane honey made of sugar cane shochu into white oak barrels, after years of careful brewing, so that it produces a unique, unparalleled flavor, thus becoming a drink Cubans like to drink a kind of alcohol. Rum is a natural product, made from sugar cane. The entire production process is extremely rigorous, from the careful selection of the raw materials, to the alcoholic distillation of the subsequent production and the aging of the sugar cane.
Methods of production1. Raw materials for rum production are sugarcane juice, sugar juice or molasses. Sugar cane juice is suitable for the production of light-flavored rum. Sugarcane juice is evaporated by vacuum concentration, and a thicker syrup with viscous liquid can be obtained, which is suitable for the preparation of strong-flavored rum.
2, raw material pretreatment: molasses pretreatment can be divided into several different stages, first of all, through the clarification of the removal of colloidal substances, especially calcium sulfate, in the distillation will be formed into lumps of material. The final stage of molasses pretreatment is diluted with water, after dilution by flushing the low concentration of the solution, the total sugar content of 10 to 12 grams / 100 milliliters, is the appropriate concentration of fermentation, and add ammonium sulfate or urea.