Cachaca or white rum

[vooharmy]

Looking for a tried and proven recipe for either!

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[crow]

rum wash ran though a reflux column or TPW made with raw and or brown sugar and either ran through a reflux or ran 3 or more times through a pot still ;-)

[vooharmy]

Cheers! Lots of limes, the wife likes mojitos.

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[blond.chap]

Bringing an old thread here because I've been petitioned by a bunch of people to do a white rum for mojitos.
First off I would have thought that running a rum wash through a reflux column (I assume this means packed column), would strip it and basically make neutral. Few questions to those in the know:
- Wouldn't running rum wash through a reflux column (assume this means packed column) strip all flavour out?
- Do you use a packed column or just 3-4 plates?
- What %abv should be targeted?

[Brendan]

This is second hand information, not from my own experience...

But from what i've read from the white rum lovers, they generally:

- Do a straight molasses wash, without any sugar and don't use any dunder.
- Run it through a VM reflux column and collect as a 92 - 95% neutral (apparently enough of the flavour carries across for white rum).
- Add a small amount of the very late heads into the final cut. (Most report that this smells like you've stuffed it at first as you have the heads smell in there, but it swill smooth out very quickly once aging).
- Age in a stainless steel vessel (keg for us), while leaving it slightly open to the atmosphere...or opening it every few days for several months, to change the air.

From that, I would assume a bubbler would be even better, but would probably have to run it a little slower than other drinks and collect at fairly high purity. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[Lowndsey]

- Wouldn't running rum wash through a reflux column (assume this means packed column) strip all flavour out?

You will be very suprised how much flavour still comes through

[Cane Toad]

That's right Lowndsey :handgestures-thumbupleft: you're starting off with a wash that is probably the "tastiest" wash that we make,so flavour would have to transfer across :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: