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Want to do a wash for rum using cane syrup. Any suggestions or recipes for a 5 gallon wash?
Searched through the rum recipes with little success other than one mention that cane syrup has been used for rum.

Tested my woodwork skills and made a couple of small white oak barrels,around a gallon volume. Used some 1/4 sawn oak i had laying around the shop for a few years,so it should be seasoned ok. Charred the inside pretty good but i didnt toast it first. Had some issues with small leaks on the end caps ...

Hello from the Gulf coast wasteland of Hurricane Harvey. Built my still last summer,saved it from the flood and I’m gearing up to to start my first run. Glad to have this resource on hand,and look forward to chatting with y’all. For my boiler, I fabricated a column/reflux head and another head to ru...