B.F.’s Rebel Rum Recipe


If you want to know how to make rum, you’re in the right place.  Here is a recipe from our friend BF.  It’s his favorite rum recipe and here’s a word straight from him:

“I will say as a bit of a warning to pass on to others, rum made from a pot still has some wildly different characteristics than Bacardi or something like that. Pot distilled rum is much closer to Myers rum or a local rum found anywhere in the Caribbean.”

Ingredients:

10 pounds raw cane sugar
9  gallons water
160 oz. unsulphured molasses

Mash / Fermenting / Distillation Procedure

Heat water to 120 degrees Fahrenheit  stirring sugar in a pound at a time.  Add molasses, a jar at a time, once 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. Let it settle and then distill! Age in a Bourbon cask for a more mellow drinking experience.

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