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Rum buyers guide for beginners
Author: Emma Symons
Time: Reading time 10 minutes
Why should I buy rum?
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Historically, of course, rum was made where sugarcane was cultivated and traded. In his second voyage at the tail end of the 15th century, Christopher Colombus brought sugarcane to the Caribbean and the New World, starting with Hispaniola (present day Haiti and the Dominican Republic). European colonists then spread and cultivated sugar crops around the Caribbean, and thus its past is linked with the trade routes and navies of the three most powerful empires of the day: Spain, Britain, and France.
This burgeoning sugar trade meant a great deal of leftover molasses (a byproduct from sugar production). The molasses were put to use, being fermented and then distilled, and rum as we know it was born. Hundreds of years later, the Caribbean remains home to the majority of the world’s rum distilleries. Barbados, said to be the first producer of the spirit, even has operational distilleries which date all the way back to the 18th century.
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