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grow cane and crush it lol

CyBaThUg wrote:grow cane and crush it lol

Don't be funny I have actually crossed that idea 8-} the space needed and cool weather is a problem though :laughing-rolling:

Urrazeb wrote:

CyBaThUg wrote:grow cane and crush it lol

Don't be funny I have actually crossed that idea 8-} the space needed and cool weather is a problem though :laughing-rolling:

If only we had clay based soil here in Perth instead of sand you would have no trouble growing cane, I've seen cane grown in areas that get winter frosts, and yeh it loves water ;-)

Urrazeb how did you get on with this? did you find a supplier for the sugar cane juice or bulk panela/rapadura/jaggery? Wanting to experiment also but at 7.50kg + freight rapadura sugar is killing me... :angry-banghead:

Not trying to put a stop to the experimentation, but I saw mega factories - Bacardi a couple of weeks ago, and they use molasses and water for their wash. They didn't give too much away in regards to oaking & aging. Has anyone tried untoasted oak? Would impart flavour without the dark colouring, not sure if it would give off a yellowish white wine type colour or not. And not sure about the raw oak flavouring either, but may be worth a shot ;-)

Barcardi video, Its a good watch, panela/rapadura/jaggery sugar i think is as close to cane juice as we will get unless someone has access to a cane mill.. i made some rum with honey/molasses/raw sugar and panela, the panela gives it a flavour of the smell of brown sugar if that makes sence gotta do more experimenting before i decide if its worth the money to me.. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I have come close, but the rum I have ageing at the moment will be carbon filtered to try the bacardi way.. Only another 12 months to go...

did you use cane juice or jaggery/panela?

Just a straight mc rum mate

I'm growing cane for this very reason, other thing to try is rapadura sugar, it's just dried and concentrated cane juice and most hippy...oops I mean health food stores sell it. It ain't cheap though, which is BS as it's just dried out cane juice!

Darwin award wrote:I'm growing cane for this very reason, other thing to try is rapadura sugar, it's just dried and concentrated cane juice and most hippy...oops I mean health food stores sell it. It ain't cheap though, which is BS as it's just dried out cane juice!

Cool I wonder how much cane you have to grow to get a 200l of molasses...

bluc wrote:

Darwin award wrote:I'm growing cane for this very reason, other thing to try is rapadura sugar, it's just dried and concentrated cane juice and most hippy...oops I mean health food stores sell it. It ain't cheap though, which is BS as it's just dried out cane juice!

Cool I wonder how much cane you have to grow to get a 200l of molasses...

heaps and heaps I think...as you need to boil and reduce the cane juice

Let us know how the cane juice rum goes. I made some rum 1.5l molasses 1kg honey 1kg panela 1kg caramlised sugar and 1.5kg raw sugar. It has a strong "brown sugar smell" taste. It tastes like brown sugar smells. I am hoping that particular flavour mellows over time...

Darwin award wrote:

bluc wrote:

Darwin award wrote:I'm growing cane for this very reason, other thing to try is rapadura sugar, it's just dried and concentrated cane juice and most hippy...oops I mean health food stores sell it. It ain't cheap though, which is BS as it's just dried out cane juice!

Cool I wonder how much cane you have to grow to get a 200l of molasses...

heaps and heaps I think...as you need to boil and reduce the cane juice

Bit of trivia 36kg of molasses per tonne of cane results in 9.7-10 litre absolute ethanol normal get 45-50 tons of cane per acre :handgestures-thumbupleft:
So on an acre you could fill an ibc each year with molasses :teasing-tease:

Just bought a 20kg bag of rapadura sugar to play around with, to add to the rest of my rum experiments :-B

Cheapest I could find in Perth was from some shop called 2 brothers foods, worked out to be something like $5.90/kg

Let me know how you go I used some with molasses and honey but resulting spirit tastes "soapy" I have a feeling it came from the honey next time I will add it after rather than fermenting it...

Woolworths have all different sugars from around the world 100 grams for $2 who would buy $20 kg sugar.

Yea have seen that expensive as..

The cane is growing well, up near 5 foot tall now....If this all goes well, I've got near 20 acres to plant...been reading + researching as to why cane isn't grown in Darwin (anymore) and I've heard all the theories....But I think it's labour cost, that and the fact that there simply isn't the infrastructure up here to process it..BUT if you're doing a Rhum agricole, yeah, I recon it's doable... anyways, playing round still...bluddy neo-hippies....Its wrong that you now have to pay far more for a far less processed product......and the less processing, the more the carryover flavours from soil type, rainfall ect ect..