White Rum (Bacardi)

[vb]

if you do your spirit runs on a column is it ok to oak at these higher ABV % ? or should the ABV be reduced ?

Any time I've attempted to age spirit stronger than 65% with oak, it takes on a very harsh note from the wood. aging white shouldn't be an issue, but its always nice to let the distillate and water mingle a while before drinking.

[Rise-N-Shine]

are 151's oaked at 75%

[kiwi]

Joe was saying on hd a few months ago that some rum distilleries age as high as 80%. I was dubious, and said I'd run an experiment to have a look at that, but then I drank all the white rum

[Rednose]

I have a 50 gal french oak cask full of 85% ABV, too much to sip.

Good space saver and till now it's more than good.

[RumBull]

We toured the bacardi distillery in Puerto Rico about 4 yrs ago. If I remember right they carbon filter, age for two years in oak and then carbon filter a second time to make it clear again. They claim bacardi was the pioneer of carbon filtering spirits to make them smoother? Brought the techinque with him from Cuba. You want to make some super white rum, try this...http://www.artisan-distiller.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1436

[Bs3mdp]

I'm gonna run 25 liters of rum feints through my vm this weekend for a light white rum.
First time doing something like this so should I expect a big ass heads cut?
For neutral it's normally more or less 10% of total alcohol in the boiler, would this weekends rum be alot more?
Cheers lads.

[minime]

I'm gonna run 25 liters of rum feints through my vm this weekend for a light white rum.
First time doing something like this so should I expect a big ass heads cut?
For neutral it's normally more or less 10% of total alcohol in the boiler, would this weekends rum be alot more?
Cheers lads.

I don't find any difference in volume of heads but I ferment 5kg fancy molasses and 10kg white sugar.

[Bs3mdp]

That's a ferment specifically for your white rum though right minime? I'm gonna be running feints from half a dozen different rum ferments so there will be quite alot of methanol, ethyl acetate etc... Was wondering if I'm gonna be spending 5 hours bleeding off 3 liters of heads from my column tomorrow

I'm hoping since there are more heads in the pot they will come across more concentrated than normal and my heads cut will be a reasonable volume.

At any rate I'm looking forward to this one, hopefully my Bacardi drinking mates won't have any idea what hit em!!!

[Bs3mdp]

On second thought my Bacardi drinking mates can sod off!! I'm not giving away a drop of this stuff!
I ran it off about 93-94% and it held on to quite alot of flavour. Beautiful sweetness...It definitely blows any commercial white rum iv ever tasted out of the water. Heads cut was pretty much normal too, despite the charge being mostly rum heads. It was 1.3 liters off of 11 liters of ethanol in the still.

I was planning on mixing it with coke but now iv tasted it I'm gonna oak most of it with chunks of a bourbon barrel because I see major sipping potential with this one....

[lwtcs]

Bs3MDP,

Keep some white in glass with some head space. You'll thank your self in no more than three months...............Thats as far as I seem to git anyway.

On second thought my Bacardi drinking mates can sod off!!

That was hilarious. Spit up all over the key board.

[Bs3mdp]

Thanks for the advice lwtcs! It's actually a problem iv had in the past, no matter what i make I always end up wishing I'd just left some white...

I got 7 liters of 93-94% hearts before i had to start compressing tails, took another 500mls of good heart before I got bored and shut it down. Il dilute 3 liters to 65%, lightly oak it, dilute 500mls for immediate consumption and then keep the other 4L white in a demijohn.

I hope it lasts long enough to properly age.....

[Bs3mdp]

It didn't last very long after all
I drank it all already Gonna have to make some more pretty soon because I prefer this stuff to neutral.
On a side note, I recently drank some of my white rum along side some Bacardi.... A few years ago I would go to the corner shop, part with a chunk of money, drink my Bacardi and feel like this this was all a pretty good idea.
What on earth was I thinking?

[Pudding]

When I sat out with this hobby I was not much fond of the Rum.
I must say that after 10 yr + - Rum has become the likker i luv the most and allso the one that is most reproductable by distilling and by som good essences. Try the Prestige Jamaica Rum and the Strands Dark Rum + som syrap
Makes very nice rum within a months' storage

The Pudd

[pintoshine]

My 2 cents. make fasts fermenting molasses wash. toast some oak sticks if you can get them. Age 2 weeks with 1 oak stick in a 5th(750ml) drink. nearly same flavor but reddish yellow color.
Great stuff. I have gotten big wigs to ignore an open tasting with the stuff.