So I refluxed an all molasses rum wash...

[Clamsmasha]

I’ve been making all mol washes for a while and got to gen 5 with about 30lts of low wines saved up. The washes have been yielding about 10% abv.

I thought I’d play around a bit and make a couple of different products from the same stuff just for fun.

I ran half the wines through the pot still in the usual fashion and put the spirit in 3 jars at 65% one on American Oak-heavy toast dominos, one on French-medium and one on heavy toasted/fully charred cherry. They are going nicely particularly the French....but will take a while to calm down, being a bit rough as young rum is.

Well, the pot stilled rum is as you’d expect had a very strong molasses taste which I dig and a bit of complexity which should get better with time.

The second half of the wines I put through a 44x2” column packed with volcanic rock and pulled 92-94% abv. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I though a lot of the flavour would strip out leaving a kind of vanilla vodka or something.

I watered it down to 65% and gave it a rest for a couple of days in an open jar. Further watered to 40% it was interesting, ..no estery nose at all but still had a serious molasses back end and was quite sweet. I could drink it easily and although it wasn’t very complex it was pleasant.

I put it on French oak and cherry and it has become very nice after about 2 weeks. It just seems to get better by the day. I really enjoy it on ice and a couple of friends like it too.

The next wash is going through the column as a single run at the same mid 90’s %.

Worth a try if you want a daily drink straight of the spout from rum.