![]() The aroma opens up to a full-bodied rum with notes of lush cherries, peach, cinnamon, cocoa, clove, and leads to a toffeed finish. "It combines the heritage and knowledge of making rum with knowledge of the wood."īrugal 1888 Rum has a dark, amber hue, along with an aroma of milk chocolate, roasted coffee and dried apricots. "We call it the son of the marriage," Campos says of the rum. The Spanish oak casks contribute notes of dark cherries, blackberries and dried fruits, and complement the notes of cinnamon, sugar cane and candied oranges inherent in the rum. ![]() "The big challenge was using a different kind of wood," said Juan Campos, Brugal's brand ambassador in the United States, when discussing how Brugal is differentiated from other rums. The molasses is then fermented for approximately 48 hours before it is twice distilled through Brugals' copper stills.įollowing distillation, the rum is first matured in American oak casks before being double-barreled, or finished, in Spanish oak casks (each cask used in the maturation process is hand-selected by George Espie, Edrington's Master of Wood, and is the same type used to mature the world's best single malt Scotch whisky). Once the cane has been harvested, it is pressed and the remaining juice is turned into molasses. Brugal 1888 Rum pays homage to the year that Andrés Brugal moved to the Dominican Republic and brought the craft of making exquisite rum to the country.īrugal 1888 Rum is made from fresh, raw sugar cane, which is hand-cut from plantations across the Dominican Republic's countryside. Today, the fourth and fifth generations of Brugal's direct descendants continue to honor the memory of their ancestors by acting as personal guardians of the entire rum-making process at Brugal & Co. About Brugal 1888 Ron Gran Reserva Familiar Rum
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