One among my actions because the WIRSPA group envoy is making ready and internet hosting our Rum Speak sequence, whereby we go behind the scenes at lots of the Caribbean’s iconic rum distilleries. I just lately loved internet hosting a session with Jamaica’s Hampden Property, a perennial favourite of many rum fanatics.
We lined a variety of subjects within the 90-minute session; it’s properly value watching the entire factor. Nonetheless, it’s worthwhile to spotlight just a few parts of explicit curiosity and embrace hyperlinks to further data.
Dunder is commonly cited because the “thriller” ingredient utilized in making high-hogo Jamaican rum. It’s not so mysterious, nonetheless. This text has extra details about dunder: Days of Dunder
If there’s something that would legitimately be known as a thriller ingredient, it’s muck. It’s a bacterial “atom bomb” that drives a secondary bacterial fermentation that creates further esters and different risky compounds. The aforementioned Days of Dunder article additionally covers muck.
Notice that Kenroy additionally explains the distinction between a “muck pit” and a “muck grave” on this part. The latter is basically long-term storage for the muck’s micro organism.
One other stunning ingredient present in Jamaican rum fermentation is cane acid, which is produced from fermented cane juice. This isn’t the identical as rhum agricole, nonetheless! Right here’s extra data on Cane Acid: Jamaican Rum on Acid
All Jamaican distilleries make a number of distillate distillates with completely different ranges of esters. Right here, Kenroy describes Hampden’s marques.
Right here’s a fairly full itemizing of Jamaican rum distillery marques which I preserve: Jamaican Rum Marques Roundup
Past the Hampden Property session, there are lots of extra hours of technical geeks out in our Rum Speak sequence, together with:
The total checklist of classes may be discovered right here.
