Another RUM thread

[frunobulax]

Yesterday we started our winter project. Fill a 30 gallon barrel with rum!
We bought 12, 5 gallon pails of golden barrel blackstrap molasses. The first wash is 10 gallons of molasses and enough water to bring it to 42 ish gallons at 1.084.
Instead of doing single runs through a couple plates, like whiskey, we're gonna strip, strip, strip.... then do pot still spirit runs. We'll experiment a little with backset ect.
Once the barrel is full, it's going in my buddys garage for at least a year. We also have an electric 1 bbl brewery which making rum washes super ez.
There is 3 of us in on this, and what I'm gonna do with 10 gallons of rum is beyond me, but it'll be fun.

Here's a couple pics.