Rum Recipe Discussion

[TheRealMrMessy]

Haha your mileage may vary mate - might just be my barrel batch. New dominoes have done no such thing, and I never noticed that piney-ness in any other new barrel.

Suggest you age the stuff you wanna spice, too.

[RuddyCrazy]

Well at 9.20am this morning fired up the boiler for the Rum spirit run :handgestures-thumbupleft: took an hour to heatup and took 14.6 litres down to 30% :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Wellsy]

Wow Bryan
You run your spirit run so much faster than I do mate.
Is rum better off running it fast ?
I struggle to do my stripping runs at 7 litres an hour. Looks like gas really is much better at boiling fast.

[RuddyCrazy]

Wellsy for the spirit run I did turn the gas down to about 5psi and I do suppose with a 4" pot still the collection rate is pretty good :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Now although the forum did a time stamp of just after midday it was just after 1pm when I shutdown the still :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[RuddyCrazy]

Wellsy just looked at the notes I made while doing the run and it was around 5 litres an hour flow, now the first 9 litres was to 75% and I made plenty of cuts as the ABV went down so it will be interesting going thru the tails tomorrow and I reckon the first litre will endup being the head cut :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Cheers Bryan

[Wellsy]

Thanks Bryan
Looks like you do your spirit run at twice my speed lol.
Lucky I love my shed time :laughing-rolling:

[RuddyCrazy]

Well it does make sense to go grab another 25Kg bucket of molasses and do the treatment for each ferment so the rum can happen afterall we do this hard work to make it then we leave for 2 years as a standard.

With the big cut I do in the morning I will be lucky to get 10 litres, so as I do want to improve and make spiced rum and by using the feints on each strip run the yield will be much much better with the next 25Kg of molasses as doing the fix is so easy.

So about $50 for another 25kg tub then quite a few brown sugars later be ready to do another spirit run next month as when this stuff is processed 4 days should be the norm for the ferment.

For me never made Rum before but with feints it can only get better as each batch goes thru

Well once I get this inverter fixed so my TIG welder can work the oyster is just starting to open.

Cheers Bryan