How Titan Spiced Rum Is Blended

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How is spiced rum made?

Every spiced rum follows the same basic journey, whoever makes it:

1. A base rum. Rum is distilled from sugar cane products, usually molasses. It may be aged in oak casks, which adds colour, vanilla and depth.
2. Flavour. Spices, fruit and other botanicals are added, either by steeping them in the rum (infusion or maceration) or by blending in natural extracts.
3. Sweetening and balance. Many spiced rum recipes add a sweetener to round the spice. This is where recipes differ most.
4. Resting. The blend is left so the flavours can settle and marry together.
5. Reducing and filtering. Water is added to bring the rum to bottling strength, and it is filtered so it pours clear.
6. Bottling. Filled, sealed, labelled and checked.

What makes one spiced rum different from another is the choices made at each of those steps. Here are ours.

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Step one: aged Caribbean rum

Titan starts with aged Caribbean rum, chosen as the base spirit because it has the depth and smoothness to carry spice without being drowned by it.

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Step two: Scottish raspberries, Golden Syrup and spice

This is the part that makes Titan taste of where it comes from. In Titan Spiced Rum, the base rum is infused with Scottish raspberries, Golden Syrup and warming spices, including ginger, vanilla, cubeb pepper and nutmeg. Golden Syrup is a nod to Abram Lyle and Greenock's sugar history, which we wrote about in The Golden Syrup Connection.

Titan Orange Rum uses the same thinking with a warmer profile: sweet orange, Golden Syrup, cinnamon, clove, allspice, pepper and ginger.

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Step three: blending on the banks of the Clyde

Every batch of Titan is crafted and blended on the banks of the Clyde and brought to 40% ABV with Scottish water.

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Step four: tasting, and saying no

Handcrafted only means something if someone is prepared to reject a batch. Before any Titan is bottled it is tasted against the reference blend.

This is the same idea we wrote about in Issue 01: patience in the process. A riveting squad could not rush a rivet, and we will not rush a blend.

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What you should taste

If we have done our job, this is what is in your glass.

Titan Spiced Rum

• Nose: subtly sweet Golden Syrup, spiced ginger heat and sharp raspberry.
• Palate: smooth and silky, with vanilla and cubeb giving a background of spice and heat.
• Finish: lingering nutmeg, raspberry and ginger.

Titan Orange Rum

• Nose: sweet orange with a hint of Golden Syrup and undertones of cinnamon and clove.
• Palate: warm and smooth, with allspice, pepper and ginger.
• Finish: lingering nutmeg, orange and Golden Syrup.

Both are 70cl, 40% ABV. Titan Spiced Rum won Silver and Titan Orange Rum won Gold at the World Rum Awards 2023.

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Questions people ask

What is the difference between spiced rum and regular rum?

Regular rum gets its flavour from the sugar cane, fermentation, distillation and any cask ageing. Spiced rum takes a base rum and adds spices, fruit or other botanicals, and often a sweetener, to create a rounder, more aromatic spirit.

What is in Titan Spiced Rum?

Aged Caribbean rum infused with Scottish raspberries, Golden Syrup and warming spices including ginger, vanilla, cubeb and nutmeg, crafted and blended on the banks of the Clyde.

Is spiced rum good neat?

A well made spiced rum is smooth enough to sip neat or over ice. Titan is designed to be enjoyed neat, on the rocks, or long with ginger beer or tonic.

How strong is Titan rum?

Both Titan Spiced Rum and Titan Orange Rum are bottled at 40% ABV in 70cl bottles.

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Try it for yourself

The best way to understand a blend is to taste the two side by side. Pour a small measure of each, neat, and see how the raspberry and the orange change what the Golden Syrup does.

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