Ī version of rum from Newfoundland is referred to by the name screech, while some low-grade West Indies rums are called tafia. Some of the many other names for rum are Nelson's blood, kill-devil, demon water, pirate's drink, navy neaters, and Barbados water. A rhum vieux ("old rum") is an aged French rum that meets several other requirements. Rhum is the term that typically distinguishes rum made from fresh sugar cane juice from rum made from molasses in French-speaking locales like Martinique. A ron añejo ("aged rum") is a premium spirit. In current usage, the name used for a rum is often based on its place of origin.įor rums from places mostly in Latin America where Spanish is spoken, the word ron is used. A short time later in May 1657, the General Court of Massachusetts also decided to make illegal the sale of strong liquor "whether knowne by the name of rumme, strong water, wine, brandy, etc". Regardless of the original source, the name was already in common use by 1654, when the General Court of Connecticut ordered the confiscations of "whatsoever Barbados liquors, commonly called rum, kill devil and the like".
Rum has also served as a popular medium of economic exchange, used to help fund enterprises such as slavery (see Triangular trade), organized crime, and military insurgencies (e.g., the American Revolution and Australia's Rum Rebellion). The beverage has famous associations with the Royal Navy (where it was mixed with water or beer to make grog) and piracy (where it was consumed as bumbo). Rum plays a part in the culture of most islands of the West Indies as well as the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland, in Canada. Premium rums are made to be consumed either straight or iced. Light rums are commonly used in cocktails, whereas "golden" and "dark" rums were typically consumed straight or neat, iced (" on the rocks"), or used for cooking, but are now commonly consumed with mixers. Most rums are produced in Caribbean (most famously Jamaica and Cuba) and North and South American countries, but also in other sugar-producing regions, such as the Philippines and Taiwan. The distillate, a clear liquid, is usually aged in oak barrels. Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Government House rum, manufactured by the Virgin Islands Company distillery in St. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers Other steps you can take to protect your children are: More information about the RTA Label and compatible services can be found here. Parental tools that are compatible with the RTA label will block access to this site. We use the "Restricted To Adults" (RTA) website label to better enable parental filtering. Protect your children from adult content and block access to this site by using parental controls. PARENTS, PLEASE BE ADVISED: If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to keep any age-restricted content from being displayed to your children or wards. Furthermore, you represent and warrant that you will not allow any minor access to this site or services. This website should only be accessed if you are at least 18 years old or of legal age to view such material in your local jurisdiction, whichever is greater. You are about to enter a website that contains explicit material (pornography).