Rapadura / Panela

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Rapadura / Panela

Postby Dyno » Fri Nov 25, 2016 5:26 pm

Anyone done a straight up wash with this ? Pretty pricey stuff but taste dam good. When the Mrs was tryin to thin me down a bit she got me on it and turfed out the white stuff. Taste bloody beaut. Boiled and hardened cane syrup apparently. I like the word CANE...nom nom. Anyone done it .
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby coffe addict » Fri Nov 25, 2016 6:21 pm

Never tried it but would assume it would come out similar to cachaca which is a fantastic drink similar to a white rum or the aged version is similar to a light sweet rum...
Try it and send me a sample I'll let you how close it is to cachaca
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby TasSpirits » Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:12 pm

I tried a wash with all dark muscovado, pretty similar. It made quite a nice light rum after 6 months on American oak :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby bluc » Fri Nov 25, 2016 7:29 pm

I made a lot from rapadura wasnt fussed on it tasted like brown sugar to me. And its expensive as wont bother with another lot..
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby Darwin award » Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:14 pm

isnt that rhum agricole?
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby Dyno » Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:21 pm

"coffe addict"]Never tried it but would assume it would come out similar to cachaca which is a fantastic drink similar to a white rum or the aged version is similar to a light sweet rum...
Try it and send me a sample I'll let you how close it is to cachaca


That was my thoughts too. Used to drink a South African brew back in the 80's called Cane ... was cheap but hellishly good
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby Dyno » Fri Nov 25, 2016 8:24 pm

bluc wrote:I made a lot from rapadura wasnt fussed on it tasted like brown sugar to me. And its expensive as wont bother with another lot..


How did did you brew it ? Was it that bad ?
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby bluc » Fri Nov 25, 2016 9:53 pm

Dyno wrote:
bluc wrote:I made a lot from rapadura wasnt fussed on it tasted like brown sugar to me. And its expensive as wont bother with another lot..


How did did you brew it ? Was it that bad ?

I did 3kg rapadura with 3kg of raw sugar. Litterally just tasted like brown sugar. I aged it about 4months. Gave up and blended it into other mcrum i had.. perhaps needed more time but didnt like were it was heading
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby wynnum1 » Sat Nov 26, 2016 9:54 am

Has anyone looked at getting some fresh sugarcane they are having problems with the sugar mill at Rocky point near the Gold Coast.
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby coffe addict » Sat Nov 26, 2016 10:33 am

I think a genuine cachaca from cane juice with tight cuts would produce a fine drop. If you could get an ibc worth at a reasonable price I'd take 200L...
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby Dyno » Sat Nov 26, 2016 11:22 am

wynnum1 wrote:Has anyone looked at getting some fresh sugarcane they are having problems with the sugar mill at Rocky point near the Gold Coast.

I should approach them. My office is not far from there. Would an IBC bust my Hilux in half ? Probably hey?
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby coffe addict » Sat Nov 26, 2016 11:33 am

Cane juice shouldn't weight much more than water, unlike molasses which is 1.4 times heavier. So guessing 1.1t plus ibc. So yeah you'd need a tandem axle trailer.
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby Dyno » Sat Nov 26, 2016 11:36 am

coffe addict wrote:Cane juice shouldn't weight much more than water, unlike molasses which is 1.4 times heavier. So guessing 1.1t plus ibc. So yeah you'd need a tandem axle trailer.

Yeah ok. Got plenty of those at work. I'll call in an annoy them next week. I'll let you know the out come.
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby Swisswa » Sun Nov 27, 2016 7:18 pm

bluc wrote:
Dyno wrote:
bluc wrote:I made a lot from rapadura wasnt fussed on it tasted like brown sugar to me. And its expensive as wont bother with another lot..


How did did you brew it ? Was it that bad ?

I did 3kg rapadura with 3kg of raw sugar. Litterally just tasted like brown sugar. I aged it about 4months. Gave up and blended it into other mcrum i had.. perhaps needed more time but didnt like were it was heading


I think using rapadura and raw sugar in the same wash is probably where you went wrong, the raw sugar was likely diluting the flavour of the rapadura...

I used 5kg of rapadura and treated it like a rum and the end result is quite nice (both dark and white)
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby bluc » Sun Nov 27, 2016 8:08 pm

Interesting do you reakon it tastes like brown sugar at all? Cane juice sounds interesting wonder what that would taste like... :-B
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Re: Rapadura / Panela

Postby Swisswa » Thu Dec 01, 2016 10:52 pm

No, I don't find there is a brown sugar taste at all, more of a light bodied rum and very easy to drink as well!

Technically Rapadura is dried and granulated sugar cane juice (or at least that's what it should be) and living in Perth, it will be the closest I ever get to a sugar cane juice ferment!
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