{"id":504,"date":"2020-01-14T19:19:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T19:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2020\/01\/rum-trivia-part-1.html"},"modified":"2020-01-14T19:19:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T19:19:31","slug":"rum-trivia-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Rum Trivia! Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently wrote a short trivia quiz on rum for my favorite online trivia league<\/a>. (It's great<\/a>! Generally it's six questions every weekday, and you play a different person each day, and there's a defensive element, and you get promoted or relegated, football-league-style, depending on how you do. If you're interested<\/a> in playing, HMU for an invite.) The regular matches are general-interest trivia, but between seasons users are invited to write topical quizzes on diverse subjects. Last year, a friend and I co-wrote a quiz on gin, and this year I wrote a quiz all about rum. For each quiz, I also put together a longer recap with a lot more information, and \u2013 in the spirit of recycling perfectly good content across multiple platforms, which is the Internet Way\u2122 \u2013 I thought I'd throw a few questions up here on the blog on successive days, as they might be of some interest to readers interested in matters bibulous. <\/p>\n

So here are the first few rum questions, along with my writeup discussion. I've obscured the answers by putting them in white text on a white background; just highlight the area between the brackets to see what's there. <\/p>\n

1.    What is the name generally given to a particular style of rich, funky, smoky rum distilled in Guyana?<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Demerara<\/span>]<\/p>\n

[Demerara<\/span> rum] isn\u2019t named for the [demerara<\/span>] sugar*, but is produced at Guyana\u2019s only distillery<\/a>, on the banks of the [Demerara<\/span>] River near Georgetown. [Demerara<\/span>] Distillers<\/a> produces the excellent El Dorado<\/a> line of rums (your smith is especially partial to the 12- and 15-year expressions), as well as Lemon Hart<\/a>, Skipper, Wood\u2019s<\/a>, and rums that show up in blends<\/a>. One unusual approach from [Demerara<\/span>] Distillers is that they have six continuous stills, one of which is made of wood, and two wooden pot stills<\/a>, so they can make a very versatile range of rums. I\u2019m not aware of any other wooden stills in use anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

(* or maybe it is \u2013 as it ever seems, more research has revealed conflicting statements.)<\/span><\/p>\n

2.    What ingredient \u2013 used instead of molasses \u2013 differentiates rhum agricole<\/em>, made on Francophone islands, from other rums?<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Sugarcane juice\/raw cane juice\/pressed cane juice<\/span>]<\/p>\n

Rhum agricole<\/a><\/em> that\u2019s made in Martinique<\/a> is protected by an official<\/a> French appellation<\/a>, but it\u2019s also made in Guadeloupe and Haiti. The characteristic<\/a> flavor notes are vegetal, grassy, earthy, and sometimes fruity. It\u2019s astonishing how much variation there is in rum, and rhum<\/a> agricole<\/a> can really bring forth the notion of terroir as it relates to spirits.<\/p>\n

3.    What animal appears in Bacard\u00ed\u2019s logo? They were found in the original distillery by Do\u00f1a Amalia Bacard\u00ed and taken as a good omen.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[(fruit) bat<\/span>]<\/p>\n

Originally, this question read as \u201cBacard\u00ed\u2019s logo depicts not a fighting bull, nor a Lamborghini, but what animal?\u201d I worded it this way as a clue, as the Spanish word for \u201c[bat<\/span>]\u201d is \u201cmurci\u00e9lago\u201d. Lamborghini has named many of its cars after famous bulls<\/a>, and Murci\u00e9lago was supposedly a famous fighting bull from 1879<\/a>. This wording proved confusing, and I dropped it in favor of a streamlined version.<\/p>\n

The [bat<\/span>] logo has changed over the years<\/a> but is still in use<\/a>, adorning not only the bottles of rum<\/a> but also Bacard\u00ed\u2019s current and former buildings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I recently wrote a short trivia quiz on rum for my favorite online trivia league. (It's great! Generally it's six questions every weekday, and you play a different person each day, and there's a defensive element, and you get promoted or relegated, football-league-style, depending on how you do. If you're interested in playing, HMU for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ingredients","category-seen-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}