When you sip on your favourite rum, have you ever wondered who concocted the divine drops? Turns out that behind every good rum, there is an artist, or rather, an alchemist, fashioning liquid gold from sugarcane and molasses. We call them Rum Masters. Called the Maestro de Ron in Spanish, the Rum Master is often an expert distiller or blender who has patiently studied the nuanced profiles of rum and knows how to tease the finest aromas and flavours from the molasses. Right from the fermentation stage to the distillation and aging process to the blending and bottling, the Rum …
