white rum?

[partonken]

If white rum is stored in oak barrels for a few years, how do the distilleries get the colour out without taking out to much flavour? Cheers

[Dnderhead]

most use,well used barrels(that's what happens to some of the old barrels used.
life of a barrel mite be, bourbon 10+ years then irish/scotch for another 10+years then then dark rum ,and next lighter rum .
after aging it is filtered to remove any color left.

[Ayay]

Reading some rum recipes the color is added afterwards with caremalized sugar as the colouring agent.

The colour is cosmetic but caramelized sugar will add a flavour.

[partonken]

thanks dndrhead! It must take alot of trial and error to get the right amount of carbon to take out enough colour to make a white rum and to leave enough flavour in to give it a nice flavour. Cheers!

[Dnderhead]

Iv never seen a article that said what they filtered with. but maybe start off with more flavor than you want? or use charcoal?
but of course there whould not be much color from a barrel that has been used 20 years or so. one site was bragging about
their barrels being used over a 100 times.if you are real interested in aging white rum, maybe obtain a used barrel then wash
out with barrel "clean" or a product like that to remove as much tannin as possible.
(there is no requirement for rum aging, only that it is made made from sugar products)

[zymos]

I've read that some distilleries distill it again AFTER barrel aging...