Yellow RUM

[jdetechguy]

I made a few 60 gallon batches of rum. We ran them hard in the pot still. We ended up with about 24 gallons of 75 proof low wines. Although no puking, the pot still is known to bring over a little yellow color.

Next day, we put the low wines, watered down to 50 proof in the column still, very, very short packed. We do this because the still keeps most of the flavor profile, but does a better job of compressing the heads and leaving the cloudy tails in the tank.

The issue we have is that the liquid is coming out a little yellow. We have never had this issue. The head was thoroughly scrubbed and we have never seen this before.

Any clue why we are getting a slight yellow tinge? The still is run very, very slow.