River Antoine Rum Distillery

Day 286 – La Sagesse, Grenada

This morning, we went to the River Antoine Rum Distillery. Here they still do everything traditionally: they use a water wheel (shipped from England in the 19th century), they ladle the sugar cane juice from boiling vat to boiling vat by hand, they feed the fire under the stills (featured above) by hand, etc.

River Antoine Rum Distillery – Water Wheel – The blue drums contain molasses imported imported from Trinidad to add sugar to the cane juice before fermentation.

And they sell their production immediately, the demand exceeding their production. So they have only white, young rum. Though they produce a rum punch by adding seasonal fruits or any fruits they can put their hands on.

It used to be a monastery, but it doesn’t look as if anything is left from the monks.

After that we made a quick visit of Lake Antoine, a crater lake nearby.

Crater Lake Antoine

There was an abandoned tractor being overgrown, I snapped a picture:

The afternoon, we went to La Sagesse beach, the nearest beach which I hadn’t seen yet. Though pleasant, it isn’t as nice as the other ones we had visited. But at low tide, the depth is shallow enough that we can still touch the bottom when swimming a bit away from the beach.