Rum Recipe Discussion

[Urrazeb]

Hey law how much drinkable did u keep from ur spirit run?

[law-of-ohms]

about %80

[poompy]

question for the pros.

im waiting on getting some molasses and was looking at running the following

5-6kg of brown sugar
80gm lowans yeast
epsom salts
citric acid.

will i need to add anything else?

also will be using my pot still (thanks mcstill) on the t500 boiler to strip and then repeat the process again but with 200ml jars.

any issues with this?

[law-of-ohms]

I've never used brown sugar.

I can't find it cheap enough

[Urrazeb]

Wow! I kept 7L and have 5L feints for next time! More tails in there than heads for sure!

[googe]

I just put 2 of Mcstills down, one normal and one with 250g glocuse and 250g white sugar, no other season but a trial. God its smelling the shed out!! :)) sticky smelly fun!. I need another container with a tap for my molasses, made a hell of a mess getting it from the molasses bucket to the fermenter ha.

[stilly_bugger]

God its smelling the shed out!!

How good is that licorice smell.

[googe]

Its very yummy and tempting to drink some stilly ha, Its brought back so many memories from when we had a farm as a kid, totally forgot how much it smells! lol.
Um, a hydrometer is a hydrometer isnt it?, theres not a dif one for rum?, yeah i know stupid ? but just did a reading and the normal one is 1.103 and the other is off the scale! lol.

[Urrazeb]

Haha that molasses can be a bit tricky to handle! I reckon a tap would not suit unless it was 1in or larger, it's just too viscous.

I use a jug and hot water, spill fuck all, if ya got a glass jug then heat it up and the molasses will come off easier!

[law-of-ohms]

googe ...

Due to molasses having so much non-fermentable goodness its almost impossible to use a hydrometer.

This is also one of the reasons that RUM yeast such as EDV-496 is good becuase it's designed to handle this high specific gravity.

When I make up my ferments I just assume that the molasses is %50 sugar so a 20L bucket = 25KG = 12.5KG of sugar.

For plain sugar

Sugar Wash Calculator

12.5kg Sugar made up to 80L total volume (my small olive containers my local stock feed place sells)
should have an 1.06 SG and should produce a wash of 9% alcohol


For molasses ...

I used this SG value as a finishing point! (FG) - In reality it would start ~ 1.12 SG


I've learnt to:-

1) Keep the expected wash AVB% low,
2) Don't get greedy,
3) Bakers yeast will work fine, (Buy in bulk of eBay, see my post in distillers warehouse)
4) Specialty yeast is a bit faster and much more expensive
5) Dont run the still TOO fast as this stuff pukes really bad. (5L output per hour on a 2" pot still)
6) Double distill.
7) Great right off the still!, even better 3 months later on oak...

[googe]

HA, sure is hard to handle, got sticly shit every where thismorning lol. A glass jug would work great, i ll try a good sized ball valve first, see how that goes, cheers mate.
Thanks for that law, i thought it might be something to do with the non fermentables. Yeah my molasses is 42-50%. Thanks for the bulk yeast i'll look into that. Thanks for the info on running it to, helps alot. Cheers mate.

[poompy]

Well i put the all brown sugar rum down yesterday.

Aldi has brown sugar for $2.69/kg. So not exactly cheap.

Used the following
5kg brown sugar
80gm bakers yeast
50gm yeast nutrient

bubbling away like crazy at the moment.

Will do a strip run down to %20 and then rerun using the pot still.
Hopefully she turns out alright.

[law-of-ohms]

HA, sure is hard to handle, got sticly shit every where thismorning lol

I had ~120L mash spill on the shed floor once!

Now that was a bitch to clean up! I had to drill holes in the side of the shed for the mess to drain out of! :oops:

[law-of-ohms]

YAY!!! I pickup my 44GAL drum of molasses on Saturday!!!

wheeee........

All I need now is 100lbs of yeast and some copper line......

everyone knew Ohms was makin moonshine.....!! :-)

[emptyglass]

But did your grandaddy run whiskey in a big block Dodge?

[Goldie]

Just put 80lts of this down last night, looking forward to my first ever batch of rum.

[MacStill]

Just put 80lts of this down last night, looking forward to my first ever batch of rum.

Your gunna love it mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

If your in town sing out, we need to catch up ;-)

[TassieStiller]

But did your grandaddy run whiskey in a big block Dodge?

and did he buy it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge

[Goldie]

Your gunna love it mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

If your in town sing out, we need to catch up ;-)

Yeah I am, but looks like I will be heading out again Wednesday, trying to make some time to swing by. Catch up would be good.

[TassieStiller]

But did your grandaddy run whiskey in a big block Dodge?

and did he buy it at an auction at the Mason's Lodge