Tafia (also called guildive) is a drink similar to rum made from sugarcane juice.
[2] Whereas guildive, a word of the West Indies, is a corruption from the English kill-devil (presumably through a spoken pronunciation, kill-div'l) and is one of various names of tafia in 1799 by Nemnich Universal European Dictionary of Merchandise; also, Dutch: keel duivel, Danish: geldyvel, French: gueldive.
Guildive or "inferior rum" is a word that was introduced into the dictionnaire de l'Académie française in 1762.
Rum took more time, effort, and resources to produce, but it was a more profitable product that could be shipped to distant markets, because it refined the taste.
The distilled product is colorless until it is aged in wooden barrels and other natural ingredients like caramel are added.