What goes with rum
Rum comes from sugar cane and ranges from clear and dry to dark and full. Where a bottle falls within that range decides whether it belongs in a glass with ice or alongside a dessert.
White rum has spent little or no time in cask and stays light; that one goes into the mix. Rum that has lain for years on oak picks up vanilla, caramel and dried fruit, and that is the rum you pour neat.
Rum from the French islands is distilled from fresh cane juice instead of molasses and tastes grassier and drier. It calls for a different mix than the sweeter molasses-based rum.
How to serve it
- Glass
- Neat in a tulip glass; mixed in a tall glass or a tumbler.
- Temperature
- Neat at room temperature, without ice. Mixed, properly cold.
- Neat or mixed
- The older the rum, the more reason to drink it neat. White and young rum is for mixing.
What it goes with
- grilled pineapple
- chocolate with sea salt
- banana cake
- smoked meat from the barbecue
- nuts
- coffee
- matured cheese
This applies to the type as a whole. What an individual bottle does is on the page of that bottle.
With every bottle of rum a recommendation of its own
The page of every bottle of rum from the shop has its own recommendation: something for the meal or the drinks hour, a cheese and something for afterwards, with the shopping and the preparation.