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Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Wed Mar 30, 2016 1:14 pm
by warramungas
Thought I'd put this here for any discussion as it worked so well for me. Also posted in the molasses thread.
Try this.
100ml hot dunder from a molasses wash (make whatever quantity you like by scaling up).
100ml good neutral or hearts cut from the wash.
Put dunder into a glass bottle, preferably tall and slim, and wait until cool. Add the neutral and place into the fridge to settle. Let sit for a week or two. Longer the better.
Carefully syphon the essence off the solids that have settled out.
Add to 1 liter of hearts or neutral however you want to get light to dark rum. 5 - 10 ml for light (will be very light brown), 20 - 30 for medium (golden) or 50 - 60 for dark rum. My mum loves it.
Allow bottle to settle, as it will go cloudy, and either syphon or carefully filter the solids out of the bottle. Not my recipe but can't remember where I got it.
If you don't want to make a huge batch of rum for a little dunder just ferment out a miniscule wash and then boil in a pot to get the dunder.
The smell of the rum this essence makes is amaaaaaazing! I just had to keep going back for a sniff.

Re: Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:34 am
by Adam007
Made some of this last night after reading the post as I am just starting out with making my own rum so will not have any ready for awhile yet.

Re: Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:17 am
by warramungas
Adam007 wrote:Made some of this last night after reading the post as I am just starting out with making my own rum so will not have any ready for awhile yet.

It's definitely got a fantastic smell to it. Not at all what you'd expect using dunder. Sort of sweet and chocolaty. I should have said you'll still need to oak the hearts/neutral, if that's what you like, as the essence can't impart that flavour to the rum.
Cheers,
Warra

Re: Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:46 pm
by TasSpirits
Im making this at the moment from a all molasses wash, got the idea from Buccaneer Bobs silver, gold and black rum. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Re: Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:08 pm
by bluc
All molasses wash sound interesting, would you be able to share your molasses to water ratio? :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Re: Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:48 pm
by warramungas
That's the one. Blowed if I could remember it though. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Re: Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 01, 2016 5:02 pm
by TasSpirits
bluc wrote:All molasses wash sound interesting, would you be able to share your molasses to water ratio? :handgestures-thumbupleft:

25kg Molasses
10L boiling water
topped upto 50L

Re: Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:05 pm
by Woods314
Developing a rum essence using toasted oak chips in 60% and fermented molasses. It’s fucken great at the moment and hoping to get better. All my mates think it is the best rum they have tasted but they have only drank stuff from Dan Murphys!

Re: Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Mon Aug 06, 2018 11:46 pm
by Woods314
This is titled homemade rum essence so I don’t think rum wash’s belong here. No offence meant.

Re: Homemade Rum essence flavouring.

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2018 12:59 am
by Dig Brinker
Woods314 wrote:This is titled homemade rum essence so I don’t think rum wash’s belong here. No offence meant.



The rum essence in the original post uses some of the molasses wash leftover after distilling, so I’d say it does :teasing-neener: