ISBN 9788588193628In the beginning of the seventeenth century , the producers of sugar in various European colonies in America started to use the by-products of sugar , molasses and scummings , as the raw material for the alcoholic beverage which in British colonies was named rum , in the French 's tafia , in the Spanish 's aguardiente de caña and in the Portuguese ( Brazil ) aguardente da terra , aguardente de cana and later cachaça .
You can make rum with sugar .