What is rum made of?
Rum takes sugarcane, molasses, baker's yeast, water, lumber and caramel color directly. Trace them back and you pass 10 made things on the way to 9 raw materials.
How rum is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 9 raw materials
- Sugarcane goes straight in
- Water goes straight in
- Sugar beet through molasses
- Timber through lumber
- Corn through caramel color, corn syrup
- Barley through caramel color, malted barley
- Natural gas through caramel color, ammonia
- Air through caramel color, ammonia
- Limestone through caramel color, sugar, quicklime
Made along the way: 6 things
Chemicals and fuels 2
Food 4
What it is packed in
On the line, but left out of everything above, because it holds the finished thing rather than goes into it.