Recipe to make Simple Rum Shine

This is a simple rum recipe that will win the blind taste test up against the top-rated bottles of rum that you find on the liquor store shelf. Nothing on the shelf can beat a handcrafted small batch rum recipe

Ingredients

• 3kg of cane sugar
• 2,2kg of unsulfured molasses (Black strap or Trickle 3)
• 250ml of honey
• 130g Rum Yeast or 100g Turbo Yeast

Directions

Fermentation Bucket with Lid and Air Lock

Large Spoon

Large stock pot or brewing pot

Process

Heat up 7,5liter of water to boiling then slowly mix in sugar until dissolved then add 250ml honey. After sugar is dissolved then add molasses then top off to 24liters. Move contents into a fermenter. When temperature is under 26⁰C and over 21⁰C add the yeast. Stir in the yeast and save a little to sprinkle over the top.

Put the lid and air lock on and let sit for 24 hours then mix for several minutes then put the lid and airlock back on and let it sit for 8 days. Keep at between 20⁰C-24⁰C for optimal fermentation. After fermentation is complete place the fermenter on a countertop and siphon the wash out from the top of the fermenter through a strainer with cheesecloth into another clean bucket. Leave the heavy sediment on the bottom so don’t siphon this out. Then siphon filtering through cheesecloth one more time, then the wash will be ready to distill.

We suggest using a pot still to distill your rum. Pot stills will carry over flavor. Run the still real slow at about 70-80%ABV to get a clean rum spirit. Depending on the still design some distilleries will run the rum recipe through a stripping run then through a final spirit run at 80%ABV.

Ideas

• Leave it as is for white rum.
• Add oak chips or oak staves to glass jars and let age for a couple months.
• Put rum in a used whisky barrel and age for several months. This has become popular with distilleries and makes a unique rum.



Now that you’ve created a great spirit, check out the Coconut Rum Recipe…