The earlier four parts can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

Now we have aged the rum, the distilleries almost always decide to blend the rum with other batches some of which maybe aged for different periods of time. Spiced rums can also be infused with herbs, fruits and spices to produce flavoured rum. Also it maybe diluted with water to help bring the alcohol level down to 40-50%. Once the colour, taste, consistency and anything else the master blender wants to manipulate has been done, the final product is ready to be bottled and distributed. The entire process can be completed in weeks if you do not require your rum to be aged.

As you can see there are only between 3-5 steps for producing rum depending on how you want your final product. However, the endless possibilities in the variety of stages make rum an extremely unique product with endless flavour profiles!