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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014
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A New Era
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Wildcats turn around in part because of turn-over based defense BY Jack Chascin • jchascin@lsureveille.com Much has changed since the last time the LSU football team and Kentucky faced off in what was ultimately a 35-7 blowout victory by the Tigers in 2011. That will be evident when the two teams face off at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in Tiger Stadium.
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Through the past decade, the Wildcats (5-1, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) have been a basketball school struggling to keep pace in the ever-growing SEC football powerhouse.
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technology
Discounts offered with Shield app
BY Kaci Cazenave kcazenave@lsureveille.com LSUPD is pulling out all the stops encouraging students to download its Shield emergency app. Penny-pinching students can save money on items at the University Barnes and Noble Bookstore, Union CC’s and Jamba Juice this week if they download LSUPD’s new Shield app. Auxiliary Services partnered with LSUPD to offer 25 percent discounts on bookstore merchandise, free coffee and smoothie upgrades at the latter locations until today. Heather Bilodeau, marketing communications coordinator for Auxiliary Services, said Auxiliary Services was happy to announce its promotion in the early stages of LSU Shield. Bilodeau said it was not hard to get other vendors like the bookstore and LSU Dining on board because the app is a month old.
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Cane Land rum distillery to open in Baton Rouge next year BY Deanna Narveson dnarveson@lsureveille.com Students will have a new favorite ‘Cane’s’ in town when Cane Land Distilling Company comes to Baton Rouge next year. The rum distillery will break ground on its new distilling plant off River Road later this year, producing rum from fresh Louisiana sugar cane and molasses grown on the Alma Sugar Cane Plantation located just 17 miles northwest of the city. Cane Land co-founder and Baton Rouge native Walter Tharp said the distillery will stand out in the midst of many craft spirit distillers emerging on the market because it will use only local raw products. “I think one of the things that is unique about what we’re doing
is that we’ll be one of the only true farm-to-label entities in the spirits world,” Tharp said. “You have people out there that are taking spirits from a major plant, putting a cool label on it and calling it hand crafted. We will be the real deal.” Tharp said the distillery’s proximity to the sugar mill is key to producing rhum agricole, a rum spirit made from sugar cane juice, instead of molasses. “Fresh pressed cane juice starts to ferment immediately so that’s the reason we chose Baton Rouge to be close to the mill,” Tharp said. “Once [the sugar cane] pressed or it’s crushed you have about a two hour window to distill it.” The only other producer of rhum agricole in the country is the California-based St. George
Spirits, Tharp said. “They’re only able to produce about 500 bottles annually, but we’ll be able to produce more in 30 minutes than they can in an entire year,” Tharp said. Tharp said the Alma Sugar Cane Plantation has been owned by his family for years, and produced more than 400 million pounds of sugar last year and 10 million gallons of molasses. In rum distilling, the cane juice or molasses is fermented using yeast that changes the sugar into alcohol, then distilled, or purified. Then the rum is aged from a few months to several years. However, aging rum does not take as long as other spirits like whiskey. “One of the barriers to entry
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Cane Land Distillery Company will open in Baton Rouge next year, and will produce rum from sugar cane grown on Alma Sugar Cane Plantation in Alma, La.