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How to Make Rum - Rum Recipe
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Ingredients:
- 12.5 pounds raw cane sugar
- 9 gallons water
- 160 oz. unsulphured molasses
- Yeast
Mash / Fermentation
Heat water to 120 degrees Fahrenheit stirring sugar in a pound at a time. Add molasses, a jar at a time, once most of sugar has been dissolved. Stir thoroughly while adding so molasses does not burn. For a more mellow, smoother finished product, allow to cool to 70 degrees Fahrenheit and add bread yeast. Aerate, then transfer to carboys. For a higher yield (but a more unpredictable finish) use "Super Start" yeast and ferment at 90F. Install air lock and allow to ferment for at least 2 weeks.
Distillation
Distill using a copper pot still.
Aging
Age in a Bourbon cask for a more mellow drinking experience.
Again, distilling spirits for personal consumption is illegal in the US without proper federal and state permits. Click the "legal stuff" link at the bottom of this article for more information.
For the guy (jputt1973) that said iit’s legal in Aust and NZ, no it’s illegal in aust but legal in nz.
Don’t comment if you don’t know
This is a nice site. I’ve been making, beer, wine, and no trying rum.
I had pressurized chardonnay for years. And draft beer . My grandfather had the biggest still in Pinellas county Florida after WW2,
For years. Was found out and had 30 days to get rid of it . The still is buried at sand key bombing range in the 50,s. I was in the truck.kk
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let’s try and see what comes out
Isit necessary to syphon it before distill or can i pour it directly into still
Bud it is legal in Canada to make it, just not able to sell it without proper license. Anyone over legal age can make it though
to guy that said legal in canada, no its illegal in canada, its legal in new zealand and austraila
it says it is scaled to 5 gallons but then calls for 9 in the recipe. So what is the correct ammount of water in this recipe.
I got it!
WHAT?? ILLEGAL IN USA?? NOT IN CANADA.. DAMN THAT SUCKS DOWN SOUTH..
You don’t say how much yeast.
Please give me some guidance; what is a good %abv to ditule to before starting the rapid ageing process of rum with oak blocks?
I’m getting ready to run a small batch of banana/pineapple rum, using grandma’s molasses, corn syrup,brown sugar, and oats to spice it up a bit. Do you think it will work out,and or, have any tips or suggestions tha can help?
hi just love stilling
What I’m doing the distilling of the rum, am I doing a strip run and then a spirit run? Or do I just do one distilling?
I made a molasses and sugar wash and after 48 hours it stopped bubbling. What does it mean .
News letter or books
I just ran a rum wqsh made of broiwn sugar and mollasses.half way through the distillition the achol ran brown..any idea why?? the pot temp was about 185.thank you
Hi we have just grinded our home grown sugarcane. Made our usual sugarcane syrup. And we have 5 gallons left a want to make some rum. We dabble a little with wine making and just bought our first distillery. So hoping you can tell me the steps with raw sugarcane juice.
I have a package of Fast 48. I was wondering if that would work to cut back the fermentation time. Also any tips on converting this to 6 gallon instead of 9?
alcohol will kill the yeast when done fermenting all you beginners need to read about brewing its more than dumping things together