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Raspberry Liqueur - A raspberry-flavored cordial, sometimes called creme de framboise. Residual Sugar - The unfermented sugar left in a wine following fermentation that provides the sweetness. Rhum Barbancourt - Hatian rum. Rickey - A drink that is a cross between a Collins and a sour. It consists of lime or lemon juice, club soda, and alcohol. Unlike the Collins and sour, it contains no added sugar. Rock and rye - A fruit juice that combines rock candy, rye whiskey and fruit slices. Rum - Rum can be made from 2 different raw materials: it can be distilled directly from the fermented juice of crushed sugar cane, or, once the sugar is extracted, it can be made from the remaining molasses. Some rums contain dunder, which is a residue from the previous distillation and makes for a more pungent product. Three main types of rum are made in the West Indies today. Very light (white or silver) rums hail from the Virgin Islands or Puerto Rico. These require little aging and are relatively tasteless and odorless. Golden rum, also known as anejo, though still of the light-bodied type, has more taste and pronounced character. Darker, aromatic, full bodied rums such as Myer's are produced in Jamaica. These are distilled by a slower and different fermentation process, which allows for a fuller richer, molasses like body to develop. All rum is colorless when first distilled, and those that are aged for only a year are often colored with caramel. Even heavy bodied rums that are aged in charred oak casks for as long as twenty years are subject to artificial coloring. Medium and heavy bodied rums are usually aged between two and twenty years. Rye - The oldest native American whiskey, originally manufactured in the 1600s by Scotch and Irish settlers in New York. Rye is a very full bodied drink with a pronounced character, and perhaps for that reason, it has faded in popularity in the land of its origin to the point where it lags behind all other varieties of whiskey in consumption. Many people confuse rye with blended whiskey, but the two are far from being the same. Rye must be made with at least 51% rye grain, the rest being corn and barley. Rye is aged in in new charred oak barrels for at least 2 years. |
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