Rum Chat

[crow]

I found having raw sugar as part of the wash will add some caramel flavour.
If it is to the spirit you wish to add flavour and colour without sweetening the hell out of it consider making some browning sauce which is caramel heated to just before the point of burning. Pro tip, use a tin you can throw away afterwards and watch for smoke as you want to catch it right on the turn as it looses its sweetness but before it burns and turns bitter :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[RuddyCrazy]

Well finally got sick of those molasses ferments sitting around so now done 3 strip runs for 15.8 litres @50@ :handgestures-thumbupleft: Now as I did have one more ferment to finish off the molasses setup my mashtun and gave it the treatment of heating to 80C and adding 25mm of 6% Hydrogen Peroxide then used my cold finger to get the wash down to 30C :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I found by inverting 2kg's of brown sugar each time added 10 points to the SG, no before adding sugar the wash was 1050 and with 6kg's added got to just over 1080 :handgestures-thumbupleft: added some DAP and the last of my bread yeast and as soon as the lid was closed it's bubbling so that when the ferment is done I'll do 2 off 30 litre strips which should get the low wines over 20 litres as my goal after cuts is fill one of those new 10 litre barrels with a medium char at the Adelaide Mob. When I went for a look $200 for a 10 litre barrel and seeing these are new barrels may as well get one.

Cheers Bryan

[RuddyCrazy]

Well what I did must of worked :laughing-rolling: for 2-1/2 days the airlock was going rampant and by Wednesday night took a SG reading as the airlock had slowed down. 1020 was the reading so sealed it up and next morning the airlock was silent so took a another SG reading 1017, same reading today so the ferment is done and about to load 1/2 the fermenter into the boiler and do it in 2 runs. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Cheers Bryan

[RuddyCrazy]

Well fired up the boiler at 1.53pm where took just over a hour before the first drip and shut it down just after 4pm where I collected 4.8 litres to 46% so now got 20.2 litres of low wines with one more run to do so should go close to 25 litres of low wines :handgestures-thumbupleft: to temper down so aiming for a 30 litre 40% spirit run.

Now remember the fun I had with this molasses to where on Monday I did the fix and on Friday stripping :handgestures-thumbupleft: where basically leave the molasses drum in the sun for the morning to warm and as the drum is 25kg add a fifth of the drum each time to about 40 litres of water in my 50 litre keg mash tun then heatup to 80C adding 25ml of hydrogen peroxide around 40C then when it gets to 80C hookup my cold finger and get it down to fermenter temps in under a hour :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I am hell under $50 for 25kg's of this infected molasses where I found the fix a 25 litre barrel is looking better :laughing-rolling: Now as I did leave one part on my inverter build off a drive down the hill was needed only to find the barrel place was closed so that idea of 10 litre keg is out the window. :laughing-rolling:

Cheers Bryan

[TheRealMrMessy]

I just like that you migrated to an entirely different thread with this Bryan :D

Should fill a reasonable barrel out of it if you wanted to!