It is often connected to the British slang adjective "rum", meaning "high quality", and indeed the collocation "rum booze" is attested.Both words surfaced in English about the same time as rum did (1651 for "rumbullion", and before 1654 "rum"). The most widely accepted hypothesis is that it is related to "rumbullion", a beverage made from boiling sugar cane stalks, or possibly "rumbustion," which was a slang word for "uproar" or "tumult" a noisy uncontrollable exuberance, though the origin of those words and the nature of the relationship are unclear. The Mount Gay Rum visitors centre in Barbados claims to be the world's oldest active rum company, with earliest confirmed deed from 1703. Rum has also served as a popular medium of economic exchange, used to help fund enterprises such as slavery (see Triangular trade), organized crime, and military insurgencies (e.g., the American Revolution and Australia's Rum Rebellion). The beverage has famous associations with the Royal Navy (where it was mixed with water or beer to make grog) and piracy (where it was consumed as bumbo). Rum plays a part in the culture of most islands of the West Indies as well as the Maritime provinces and Newfoundland, in Canada. Premium rums are made to be consumed either straight or iced. Light rums are commonly used in cocktails, whereas "golden" and "dark" rums were typically consumed straight or neat, iced (" on the rocks"), or used for cooking, but are now commonly consumed with mixers. Rum is produced in nearly every sugar-producing region of the world, such as the Philippines, where Tanduay is the largest producer of rum globally. The distillate, a clear liquid, is usually aged in oak barrels. Rum is a liquor made by fermenting and then distilling sugarcane molasses or sugarcane juice. Government House rum, manufactured by the Virgin Islands Company distillery in St.