Ingredients

brown rum

Also known as “medium rum”,“gold rum”,“amber rum”,“aged rum”. “Brown rum”, “amber rum” or “gold rum” is generic—and vaguely so—for a brown- to golden-hued sugarcane spirit of various styles without regard to origin. An appealing brown molasses rum (without too much caramel coloring) is implied, but the choice is up to you. Regarding the term “aged rum”: technically, “aged rum” is generic for ANY style of rum other than unaged or “white rum”, and is therefore ambiguous because rums of vastly different style are available in aged form. Note that the color of rum is not necessarily indicative of aging insofar as much colorless rum is actually aged and then stripped of its color through filtering. Moreover, caramel color is often introduced to rums to darken their coloration. Generally, if a recipe simply specifies “aged rum”, an appealing brown molasses-based rum is implied.