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by Lucky Jack
Thu Apr 11, 2013 11:59 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Hook Rum
Replies: 351
Views: 213852

Re: Hook Rum

Hello HookLine, I has been a while ago since I have done anything wiht the production, I had a discouraging expirence with the molasses ferment, which I thougt was done - apparently there were some sugar left which gave me foam and burnt caramel(or whatever) smell to the spiritrun with some some dis...
by Lucky Jack
Wed Mar 27, 2013 12:06 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Hook Rum
Replies: 351
Views: 213852

Re: Hook Rum

Thanks HookLine, I've been doing 4 ferments and stripruns with different sugar combinations such as golden brown-, muscovado & refined cane sugar all combined into one striprun the day before yesterday and I think it came allright since I'm all new to this. I mixed the following: 22L of low wine...
by Lucky Jack
Tue Mar 12, 2013 6:24 am
Forum: Recipe Development
Topic: Brandy?
Replies: 12
Views: 1543

Re: Brandy?

I've also have had success with white wine - the cheapest of all and it turned out quite well.
I've made a small test jar from the stripping run with amr. Oak, rasins, peppercorn and some glyserine.
Be careful with the rasins though.

Lucky Jack
by Lucky Jack
Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:08 am
Forum: Tried and True Recipes
Topic: Hook Rum
Replies: 351
Views: 213852

Re: Hook Rum

Hello HookLine, I think I've read the recipe and the replies more than ten times in order to get all of right - but after I've been trying to replicate the ferment as good as possible, there are some questions left. Since I live in Scandinavia, Europe, Blackstrap molasses is very hard to come by and...