My First Rum

[Old Town]

I'm doing my first attempt at a rum ferment. I have a 30 gallon fermenter so I'm doing a 25 gallon wash. I got this recipe from ShineOn's thread in the sugar section. I put 4 gallons of feed grad molasses and 30lbs of Dark brown sugar in the bottom of my fermenter. I brought about five gallons of water to a slow boil. I dumped the water in the fermenter and mixed the molasses and sugar together until all the sugar was desolved. I then used the empty molasses jugs and filled the fermenter up with cold water. I used the jugs so I could get the rest of the molasses out of them. I gave it another good stir and started up my yeast. The recipe calls for bakers yeast but I have a fair amount of Red Star Dady distillers yeast so I used it instead. I took a pint of wash and a pint of water mixed them together for my yeast starter. I heated the yeast starter up to around 90 and dumped in a cup of yeast. I let that sit for a half an hour to activate,then I pitched in the fermenter. I gave it a gentle stir and put the cap on the fermenter. I did this last night at about 8pm. It's now 10am and no action in the bubbler yet. I don't know if it's warm enough in the house so I'm going to wrap a blanket around it and see if I get any action..