Australian White Rum is fermented from sugar or molasses or other sugar industry by-products.
The Rum starts off clear; white rum remains so, while golden and dark rums gain colour from cask aging or added colouring. Rum tends to be a tropical product, made in sugar cane growing areas, A dry light-bodied rum, usually with no or almost no colour.

A blend of the lightest rums is filtered through charcoal before and after aging in oak casks to make light rum. Light rum is, with its light flavour, probably the most mixable of all rums.