Don Q is distilled from sugar cane. The combination of the type of yeasts employed for fermentation, distillation method, aging conditions, and blending determines the characteristic flavor of rum. Made with molasses, water, mash, and yeast, Don Q is distilled in a continuous still.

Don Q Cristal Unlike most clear rums, Don Q uses a multiple distillation system to produce a cleaner, more refined, and more delicate flavor profile. So a Cristal drink will sip smoother than a drink made with another rum. It's then aged for 1½ to 5 years in American white oak barrels to impart a touch more smoothness.

Don Q is officially Puerto Rican. In order to be labeled as “Puerto Rican Rum,” the sugar-cane-based spirit must spend a minimum of one year in barrel. This is also true for Don Q's light rum, which is aged for a year, then charcoal-filtered for clarity.

Tasting Notes Nose: It would be easy to mistake the nose for a vodka's: There's a slight mustiness and a hint of lemon, but the predominant note is alcohol. Finish: A dry, slightly harsh charcoal flavor lingers on the back of the tongue and in the throat post-swallow.

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This living process that combines generations of know-how with nature's transformative power, yielding delicious results is outlined below.

• Sugar Cane. Sugar Cane.
• Molasses. Molasses.
• Water. Water.
• Starter Culture. Starter Culture.
• Fermentation. Fermentation.
• Molasses “beer” Molasses “beer”
• Distillation. Distillation.
• Barrel Aging.

Don Q Cristal Unlike most clear rums, Don Q uses a multiple distillation system to produce a cleaner, more refined, and more delicate flavor profile. So a Cristal drink will sip smoother than a drink made with another rum. It's then aged for 1½ to 5 years in American white oak barrels to impart a touch more smoothness.

A premium flavored rum made with the Island's flavorful coconuts. A blend of rums aged from 1 to 1½ years. 42 proof, 21% ALC/VOL.

There are a few different types of rum that include: light rum, gold rum, dark rum, spiced rum, and flavored rum. Each type of rum varies in taste and alcohol content. The most common type of rum is light rum which is also called silver or white rum.

Nearly neutral, light, not a strong alcohol in nosing or tasting. This is not bad straight but it goes down like water, a very light rum in both viscosity and rum flavor, but still distinctly a rum.

Light rums have a sweeter but more subtle flavor and have the same alcohol volume as darker rums. To produce dark, golden, or black rum, producers age the rum before filtering and bottling. The rum's darker color and bolder flavor come from the wooden or charred oak barrels used in the aging process.

neutral, light, not a strong alcohol hit 7 Nearly neutral, light, not a strong alcohol in nosing or tasting. This is not bad straight but it goes down like water, a very light rum in both viscosity and rum flavor, but still distinctly a rum.