Grenada - Day Tripping / River Rum Distillery

SV Meshugga
Nicholas & Deidre Mace
Mon 8 Jul 2019 21:00
We stopped to tour the River Rum Distillery, the oldest Rum distillery still operating in the Caribbean. All manual Labour, no electrification at all. Their fire cm o fame being one of the highest percentage proof rums made worldwide.

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Water from a nearby spring which drives a water mill to power the machine below

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Machine to drive the conveyor belt

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Sugar cane fed up a conveyor belt to be crushed

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Waste sugar cane material used for the furnace below

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Furnace to ‘boil’ the sugar cane juice

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Great vats of sugar cane juice

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Then led into vats to ferment

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Copper distillers

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80% proof Rum

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Tasting that 80% proof Rum

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Jenny and me with our purchase to take back to Meshugga

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Take care


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