Difference between rum and whiskey
What is the difference between rum and whiskey? Rum is made from sugarcane. For white rum, there is no cask storage, whereas the brown rum, here the barrel storage is indispensable. Taste is much sweeter due to the raw material than a whiskey. Incidentally, rum may be flavored.
Whiskey is made from grain. The drying of the malt is partly done by smoke.
Cask aging at least three years for Scottish / Irish / Japanese whiskey and two years for American whiskey. The whiskey must not be flavored, but especially the barrel influences the taste in addition to the storage time.
The fermentation of rum and whiskey takes place with the conversion of sugar into alcohol by yeast fermentation.