Jaggery/panela rum
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 4:56 am
I have the good fortune of living in the tropics and have a friend that grows sugarcane and they make their own organic jaggery. So I have made numerous very small batches and absolutely love the stuff!
It ferments dry in under 48 hours using bakers yeast with a bit of dap and a B complex tab, temps here always hover around 30c! I use 4 kilos jaggery to make a 20 litre wash. According to what I read here that should be 3.2 kilos fermentable sugars(80%) and have an SG of about 1060 for an about 9% wash. Though my hydrometer read about 1077. And on the packing it says carbohydrates of which total sugars 98gms per 100. So am a bit confused...is the label wrong or my hydrometer malfunctioning?
On a side note I also managed to get around 7 litres of fresh sugarcane juice for free, threw in some bakers and 36 hours later it was ready to be stilled...got a litre of 50% rum that I would best describe as a fruity sugarcane juice schnapps! I am a single run pot still guy...have tried the 1.5 method but like the single.
My latest batch(20litre total) is without any added nutes...jaggery(4kg) dunder(20%) water and yeast(1/4cup)
I am learning so much from this site and am constantly reading something on here much to the chagrin of my better half!
It ferments dry in under 48 hours using bakers yeast with a bit of dap and a B complex tab, temps here always hover around 30c! I use 4 kilos jaggery to make a 20 litre wash. According to what I read here that should be 3.2 kilos fermentable sugars(80%) and have an SG of about 1060 for an about 9% wash. Though my hydrometer read about 1077. And on the packing it says carbohydrates of which total sugars 98gms per 100. So am a bit confused...is the label wrong or my hydrometer malfunctioning?
On a side note I also managed to get around 7 litres of fresh sugarcane juice for free, threw in some bakers and 36 hours later it was ready to be stilled...got a litre of 50% rum that I would best describe as a fruity sugarcane juice schnapps! I am a single run pot still guy...have tried the 1.5 method but like the single.
My latest batch(20litre total) is without any added nutes...jaggery(4kg) dunder(20%) water and yeast(1/4cup)
I am learning so much from this site and am constantly reading something on here much to the chagrin of my better half!