Rum producing has long been an important part of Puerto Rico's economy. While Puerto Rican church groups have sometimes opposed the massive production and consequent consumption of this alcohol in Puerto Rico, sugar cane farms around the country still produce large amounts of rum every year. In Spanish, rum is known as ron. Caribbean rum, circa 1941 For other uses, see Rum (disambiguation). ...
In addition to those brands, there is also an illegal kind of rum produced in Puerto Rico, nicknamed on the streets the Cañita or Pitorro(sugar cane) rum. Authorities confiscate many Cañita/Pitorro rum productions every year. The current version of the article or section reads like an advertisement. ... Ron Don Q, alternatively known as Don Q, is a Puerto Rican rum brand. ... Licor 43, or Cuarenta Y Tres (Spanish for 43), is a bright yellow Spanish liqueur. ...
Rum is a distilled beverage made from sugarcane by-products such as molasses and sugarcane juice by a process of fermentation and distillation.
To support this demand for the molasses to produce rum, along with the increasing demand for sugar in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries, a labor source to work the sugar plantations in the Caribbean was needed.A triangular trade was established between Africa, the Caribbean, and the colonies to help support this need.
Rums from Barbados, Bermuda, the Demerara region of Guyana, and Jamaica are typical of this style.
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