Rum is made from sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. Is Lithuania a sugarcane producing country? Isn’t most rum from the Americas?
I was wondering that, too. Not like it’s difficult to make rum, but where does Lithuania buy sugar cane?
I think I remember reading that back in the day, cane molasses from Jamaica was shipped to New England (Massachusetts?) where it was made into rum. So maybe Lithuania only makes the rum, but gets the sugar from somewhere else.
Many countries sell sugar cane, and it can be raised in northern climates aa boutique crop, but I’d guess this was made from molasses derived from sugar beets. (That makes it technically NOT rum in a lot of places, but is likely indistinguishable from the real thing).
This is, indeed, curious. Rum cannot legally be called rum unless it is made from sugar cane. However, given its climate and geographical location, I would think sugar cane production in Lithuania is about as robust as navel orange production in Finland. Lithuania produces sugar beets, from which a distilled spirit is made, but it is not called rum and apparently is a lot different.