Wow hey! Bayou rum is new... 2013 new!
The History of Rum Making in Louisiana
- 1751 Early Jesuits growing cane and using for making tafia (French word for rum prior to British naming in Caribbean)
- 1764 French Chevalier sends spoils of the harvest to France including 18 hogsheads of tafia (rum)
- 1770 Manual Solis relocates to Louisiana from Santo Dominque in Hispaniola bringing distillery equipment
- 1770 Etienne de Bore’s father hires “sugar and rum making” expert to help him
- 1795 Etienne de Bore crystallizes sugar and has distillery room added to main house for rum making
- Early 1800s Sugar Houses install distillery equipment to make rum
- 1861 to 1865 Union Soldiers confiscate Louisiana rum and destroy stills during war
- 1898 advertising of distilling equipment and articles written to attract sugar mill owners – no takers
- 1919 Prohibition shuts off any official rum making and forces any “activity” underground – no written history
- 1930 Great depression and LA sugar industry in world competitive market keeps pricing low requires focus and specialization to survive – no funds or expertise for speculating in rum market
- 2011 Louisiana Spirits vows to make a world class rum from Louisiana sugarcane and begins construction of a new purpose-built distillery
- 2013 Bayou Rum is announced and the anticipation begins…
By the way... "tafia" is considered to be "cheap rum." So why did a common 750mL bottle cost me double what I usually pay?
The taste is definitely different. I can tell the difference between the aged and the new with the sugar cane.
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