The head.
When distilling rum, it must be cut into three portions. The first thing that comes through the boiler is the head, which consists of methanol or wood alcohol. It smells great. But you really shouldn't drink it, as it's toxic. Methanol is used in antifreeze, solvents, household spirits and formaldehyde. So even though you might want to taste it, it is strongly discouraged.
The heart.
Once the head has passed through the kettle, the heart is next. This is where you "cut" your rum. The heart is beautiful and clean and delicious and, of course, drinkable. The heart is made up of ethyl alcohol, or ethanol as it is more commonly known, and is commonly referred to as alcohol or spirits (booze). According to doctors, it is also toxic. But not as toxic as methanol and can be consumed in moderate amounts without causing too much trouble. It's what we drink as rum.
The
tail.
The last cut is called Fusel alcohol and is a low alcohol that can be drunk. It has some nice but volatile congeners and is not as stable and heavy as the more powerful esters in rum. It is most often cut away as it is quite low in alcohol. But it can be re-distilled. I've tasted rum made entirely from re-distilling the tail and it tastes great.
The nerdy stuff. The heart is what we want to get out of the distillate. It's not toxic. It's drinkable. It tastes good. And it has a high ABV. But the heart can be cut up into smaller portions. Like a heart surgeon, the master distiller can work with the heart and cut it into smaller chunks. This is exactly what has happened with the two
Wild Series Rum Origin No. 1 Belize Draw 1 - 60%First rum in the first release. This rum is draw 1, which is the first thing that comes through the kettle after you have closed off the head. Then comes draw 2, draw 3 ... etc. And finally draw 5.
I smell some freshly chopped raw onions, a little acidity, a bit of glue and spices, white pepper. There is also something fresh and green on the scent. The aroma is very raw, green and herbal. The taste is spicy, sharp, a little wild and dry at the end. It is clear that we are at a point in the distillate that is more raw and does not have quite the same floral, fruity and oily notes that come later in the distillate.
Wild Series Rum Origin No. 2 Belize Draw 5 - 60%Second rum in the first release. This rum is draw 5 and is the last part of the heart, just before you cut to the tail. There is still some onion on the aroma. This time it's soft sweet lightly roasted onions, browned butter, nuts and again some spice. There's a lot more flavor in this draw 5. It's fuller, stronger and more flavorful. It's probably closer to what you would normally associate with a good unaged potent rum. There's some fruit and spice starting to emerge on the palate as well as acidity and a nice dryness and bitterness. The mouth is dry and the acidity is slightly tingly. Nice. The finish lingers for a long time.
Wild Series Rum Origin No. 3 Guyana DLR - 60%The third rum in the first release. Then we head 3,496 km. to the southeast and land in Guyana. The name of the distillate is DLR Diamond Light Rum. A relatively mild and soft distillate. The aroma is fresh, light and mild. There are notes of citrus and melon. The taste is incredibly delicious. Clean, clear and very well composed. Round, soft and mild and very drinkable. Oily boldness with light notes of citrus and acidity and mildly spicy. The rum is by no means challenging to drink. It goes down very easily. It really is a delicious distillate. It is very balanced. This is also the rum that has disappeared the fastest from the various shops and webshops. So if you find it, don't hesitate to buy it because there are not many left and it tastes great.
Guyana rum .
There is one distillery left in Guyana. Demerara Distillers Ltd. Over the years they have collected the legendary Guyana stills from the other now closed distilleries and they look after and maintain them. Demerara Distillers Ltd. has no less than 13 stills to distill on and many of them can deliver many different estermarks.
The MPRS still.
The MPRS (multi-pressure rectification still) is a metal column still. It is located together with Coffey Still #3 in a boiler tower under the open sky outside the large boiler house, as the boilers are too large to have standing under a roof. The MPRS boiler is a 5 column boiler that was installed in 2011. The MPRS boiler can distill so high that it can produce neutral grain spirit as well as a range of ester light rum distillates and is so efficient that it can use the distillery's entire daily fermentation capacity all by itself. In addition to producing light rum distillates, the boiler can also produce vodka.
The last drops.As you can imagine, it's not exactly a boiler you start up every day or every other day with its enormous capacity. Therefore, these were the last drops of this distillate in Denmark (perhaps in Europe). It is not expected that there will be more of this distillate until 2024 at the earliest.
Conclusion.I think it's fucking awesome - excuse me for swearing - that Romdeluxe is geeking the hell out on the unaged rum and releasing two rums from exactly the same cut, but sending out Draw 1 and Draw 5. My inner rum nerd falls in love. More of this kind of thing! And if you, like me, are also crazy about unaged rum, take a look at Romdeluxe "Den Hvid Romskole", which was published last year. There are no less than 8 super delicious and geeky unaged rums all bottled at an ambitious 65%.
The Easter Egg.
Wild Series Rum Origin No. 4 Jamaica TECC - 60% will land after Easter, as previously mentioned. So we'll have to wait a little longer to taste it. But if you really can't wait to taste unaged Long Pond on the high ester mark shelf, then there are the following options. However, all at a slightly lower ester mark, namely TECA. But it is also nicely located at 1200-1300 gr./hlpa.
Romdeluxe . Den Hvide Romskole
Jamaica Trelawny Parish TECA 65% 50 cl.
Warehouse 1.
The Rolling Calf TECA. 63% 70 cl.
SBS Origin Jamaica TECA 57% 70 cl.
