During the Dutch colonial period, he was the original owner of what was then a plantation. The Estate is named after a Dutch Planter, Ignatius Charles Bourda Uitvlugt. Or maybe it’s Isaac Christiany Boody/Uitvlugt. Uitvlugt is also known by an acronym: ICBU. (Booker Bros., McConnell was the other.) in January 1981, Uitvlugt estate merged with the Holdings, one of two large holding companies with significant assets in British In time, it came under the umbrella of Jessels In 1921 the DemeraraĬompany acquired the estate. Sugar factory, which started operations in 1871. Village of Uitvlugt, current population of around 2,000 people. Within the original estate boundaries is the In the DutchĬolonial sugar estate era of the 18 th and 19 th centuries, Uitvlugt was a large sugar estate along Guyana’s northern coast,Ĭomprising about 4.6 square miles. With the now defunct distillery, Uitvlugt is much more than that. Uitvlugt sugar factory, as seen from Uitvlugt distilleryĪlthough rum enthusiasts associate Uitvlugt Luckily, Shaun Caleb,ĭDL’s Master Distiller made a phone call, and once we finished sampling rumsĭirectly from the cask, we visited the sugar factory. The Uitvlugt sugar factory next door to the distillery. During my visit to the Uitvlugt aging warehouse, I spied Uitvlugt (pronounced “eye flot”) facility, which was the site of DDL’s secondĭistillery till 1999. Main operations and distillery are at the Diamond Estate near Georgetown, the company still ages rum at its Guyana to see the facilities of Demerara Distillers Ltd, aka DDL. Such was the case for me during a visit to Visit operational sugar cane factories are far harder to come by. Tourists to find themselves among the stills at a distillery, opportunities to In either case, the end result in eitherĬase is fermentable sugars in a liquid solution.
The key distinction: What whiskey distilleries do in-house What transpires in a sugar cane factory is justĪs relevant to rum making as a whisky distillery’s milling and mashing grain is They overlook the fundamental agricultural processes that turn stalks of sugar While most stories about how rum begin with molasses, Sugar cane processing, Uitvlugt sugar factory, Guyana Output 3: Bagasse – Finely shredded cane stalk material. Output 2: Molasses – A thick liquid with several types of sugar. Output 1: Sugar crystals – The primary output, traditionally. Majority of rum comes from molasses, one of the outputs of sugar cane processing.Īn extremely simplified description of sugar cane processing is:
Rums are made directly from fresh pressed sugar cane juice, the overwhelming