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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.

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Gosh, that’s a lot of molly!

Bet you’ll be ready for a beer when you’re done.
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Is this going to be 100% molasses Rum ? No added sugar ? If so :thumbup:
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Nice. Looking forward to hearing how this goes. What yeast are you planning to use?
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Saltbush Bill wrote:Is this going to be 100% molasses Rum ? No added sugar ? If so :thumbup:
Yes 100% molasses. We have 60 gallons, and based on previous runs, it should be more than enough.Buying bulk and picking it up, it's only $5.50 a gallon out the door.
The 1st wash is just bakers yeast. My buddy wants to experiment with saison yeast for extra funk and possibly champagne yeasts (and probably anything else we can get our hands on)
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I recommend lallemand rm yeast if you can get it.
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frunobulax wrote:Buying bulk and picking it up, it's only $5.50 a gallon out the door.
Here I pay $3.70 au a gallon, if I buy 200 liters or 52 gal at a time I can get it for 50c a liter....less than $2 a gallon.
frunobulax wrote:The first wash is 10 gallons of molasses and enough water to bring it to 42 ish gallons
Seems your fermenting a similar ratio of molasses to water as I do, My recipe is 12.6 gal to 47 gal water, It should ferment out well if kept warm enough. :thumbup:
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Lallemand RM yeast is great, I use it myself. I think your estimates are off by about a factor of 2, but I could be proven wrong. What are the specs on your molasses, i.e. what is the percentage that is still fermentable sugar?
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Saltbush Bill wrote:
frunobulax wrote:Buying bulk and picking it up, it's only $5.50 a gallon out the door.
Here I pay $3.70 au a gallon, if I buy 200 liters or 52 gal at a time I can get it for 50c a liter....less than $2 a gallon.
I'm jealous. Cheapest molasses I've been able to find in my 3 yrs of looking is $14 a gallon

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DeepSouth wrote:I think your estimates are off by about a factor of 2, but I could be proven wrong.
Are you referring to the estimate of molly to rum? What would you expect to yield per gallon molly?

Btw just saw golden barrel has a 15% black friday sale going on...
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frunobulax wrote:Yes 100% molasses. We have 60 gallons, and based on previous runs, it should be more than enough.
You must get more bang for your buck with that molasses, no way Id get 30 gal of end product from 60gal of molasses.
After some very rough calculations and a lot of swapping back n forth between gals and Litres I come up with about the same result as DeepSouth, you will need double that amount of molasses or more unless your molasses has a super high sugar content.
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Last run I had 30 liters molly made up to 100 liters . Adding feints from last as I usually do I ended up with 9 liters @92% abv after cuts
Thats about 12.7 litres at 65% abv .

BTW frunobulax , hope it all goes well , you won't regret going all molasses :thumbup:
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DeepSouth wrote:Lallemand RM yeast is great, I use it myself. I think your estimates are off by about a factor of 2, but I could be proven wrong. What are the specs on your molasses, i.e. what is the percentage that is still fermentable sugar?
Ugh, I hope you're wrong. If I remember correctly, The last time we ran 2 pails of molasses we ended up with about 3 gallons at 55% but it was single runs through 2 plates.
We figured the sugar content to be around 50 lbs. per 2 buckets, so we have a total of 300 lbs.
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frunobulax wrote:
DeepSouth wrote:Lallemand RM yeast is great, I use it myself. I think your estimates are off by about a factor of 2, but I could be proven wrong. What are the specs on your molasses, i.e. what is the percentage that is still fermentable sugar?
Ugh, I hope you're wrong. If I remember correctly, The last time we ran 2 pails of molasses we ended up with about 3 gallons at 55% but it was single runs through 2 plates.
We figured the sugar content to be around 50 lbs. per 2 buckets, so we have a total of 300 lbs.
Yes, exactly. You said you ran 2 buckets of molasses and ended up with 3 gallons of barrel strength rum. If you only have 12 buckets of molasses, by your own estimates you'll only end up with about 18 gallons of barrel strength rum.

300 lbs of total fermentable sugar will only create about 20 gallons of 200 Proof alcohol. With fermentation and distillation losses and inefficiencies, and factoring in cuts, my estimate was you'd only yield about 20 gallons of rum for a barrel with 12 buckets of molasses.
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Ahh I see my mistake. I'll hope for the best, and worst case...We'll buy more. lol
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Going by the nutritional info on the golden barrel site (10g sugar per tablespoon) that would be 56.438 pounds sugar per 2 buckets. I have no clue that what counts as a sugar calorie for human gobernments regulating labels is the same thing as what a yeast cell can eat, but it's probably pretty close.
For whatever it is worth, their baking mollasses has exactly 50% more sugar for only 27% more $. I doubt the taste between blackstrap and baking is identical, but clearly baking should give a cheaper rum yield than blackstrap if you start pinching pennies toward the end of this project.
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zapata wrote:Going by the nutritional info on the golden barrel site (10g sugar per tablespoon) that would be 56.438 pounds sugar per 2 buckets. I have no clue that what counts as a sugar calorie for human gobernments regulating labels is the same thing as what a yeast cell can eat, but it's probably pretty close.
For whatever it is worth, their baking mollasses has exactly 50% more sugar for only 27% more $. I doubt the taste between blackstrap and baking is identical, but clearly baking should give a cheaper rum yield than blackstrap if you start pinching pennies toward the end of this project.
That's just how I figured sugar content, by looking at the sugar per serving and multiplying. I never thought to look at and compare the sugar content between blackstrap and the baking. :oops:
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I live close to the outlet store for Golden Barrel and have used both the bakers and blackstrap,
I can't really say i have noticed such a difference but do tend to grab the blackstrap as I like fuller, funkier taste in my rums.
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DeepSouth wrote:Lallemand RM yeast is great, I use it myself. I think your estimates are off by about a factor of 2, but I could be proven wrong. What are the specs on your molasses, i.e. what is the percentage that is still fermentable sugar?
I looked that yeast up, and it sounds interesting, but I couldn't find anywhere to buy it. Any ideas?
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You pretty much have to buy RM from lallemand. I think I read somewhere that it crosses to another yeast which might be easier to get. Might be able to find someone who will sell you a 500g if you want that much.
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How much does a 500g pack cost?
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$30 if I remember my dose correctly that should do over 200 gallons of wash.
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bluefish_dist wrote:I recommend lallemand rm yeast if you can get it.
I bought a brick from them and used a bunch with my last runs.

I’ve got a jar of it in the fridge if you need some.
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This wash actually started closer to 1.090 after cooling a sample down to 60. First time we ever ran run we pulled around 4 to 4-1/2 gallons off cut to 50%. Our cuts could have been stricter the first time but using 2 plates really cleaned it up and we wanted to blend in some of the "rummier " things back in. We will see how this goes really looking forward to it.
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Just did the first strip run out of 6. discarded the first quart collected the next 9 gallons. we will be doing this for the next 2 runs before doing a spirit run. started at 2pm with transferring and applying heat and finished up at 730. was able to keep it steady at 6500 watts of power which was nice. We will see after 2 more strips and a spirit if we will be able to fill a 25 gallon barrel with 55% or not.
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Stillcrazymike wrote:Just did the first strip run out of 6. discarded the first quart collected the next 9 gallons. we will be doing this for the next 2 runs before doing a spirit run. started at 2pm with transferring and applying heat and finished up at 730. was able to keep it steady at 6500 watts of power which was nice. We will see after 2 more strips and a spirit if we will be able to fill a 25 gallon barrel with 55% or not.
What's your expectation for the aging time?
I found that a year with a 15 gallon barrel was tolerable, more time generally = better product.
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We have a 500 gram brick of the Lallemand RM yeast yeast coming. I don't think it's quite enough, so we're gonna alternate between fresh pitch's and slurry.
Can't wait to try that yeast.
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Does this yeast create a special type of ester or is there something else special?
I do a lot of rum and have used bread yeast but also have played with temps after fermentation to create esters and only butter is the prominent one unless dunder is introduced to the low wines then I have a buttery rum with hints of pineapple.

I'm open to try new things, just curious of what you'll find and go from there.

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