Education News Canada shared the College’s latest release about the unveiling of NC Teaching Distillery’s first-ever rum. School Spirits Small Batch Rum was created by the College’s inaugural Artisan Distilling Class of 2019, comprised of the first students to graduate from the program that launched in September 2018 as the first of its kind in Canada.
The product was made from a base material of dark brown sugar and fermented in a two-week process, which is slower than typical rum production, resulting in a more complete attenuation of sugar by the yeast. Using small copper pot stills, the rum was double distilled then aged for a full year in a 57L Bourbon cask before its recent release.
The rum is available in limited quantities at NC’s Wine, Visitor + Education Centre and follows the Teaching Distillery’s previous School Spirits releases including Eau-de-vie de Fruits (January 2019), Vodka (March 2019) and Small Batch Gin (May 1019).
