Stripping Rum

[Dominator]

I will hopefully be stripping my first batch of McRum this weekend, if it finishes fermenting. I have read the guide to stripping runs and cuts in the noob section but am still not sure about a couple of things.

I am planing of chucking my fores when I strip, should I also chuck some fores when I do my spirit run?

Also do people remove heads when doing a stripping run or just keep it all together and leave it until you get to your spirit run.

Thanks guys.

[Brendan]

You will smell the fores mate, and know when to get rid of them...even after removing them on a stripping run, I still find on the slow spirit run that there will be a small amount of fores out first.

Keep all heads and tails on the stripping run...just run it down to 20%ABV and keep it all. Most of the flavours you want are hidden in the heads and tails, so you want them in there until your spirit run...

[Linno]

gday mate

I always throw fores when runing my still - strip or spirit run minimum 500ml - thats just me

dont worry bout heads for the strip -- you will remove them when you do the spirit run but keep the heads you will use them again in your next spirit run

[Dominator]

Cool. Thanks for that. Getting excited. :)