OK so I'm pretty sure this has been answered before, but I can't find it. I like rum, both neat and with coke. I have friends who all want to have "rum and coke" with rum I'm making, and I've made a few good rums before. However, they all lack that distinctive foamy "head" on top of the drink when you pour coke on it.
So, ignoring the fact that "decent spirits should be consumed as is" and blah blah blah, what gets that foamy head on the rum? I've made a rum before, using 50/50 brown sugar and animal feed molasses (great stuff), mixed with water and nutrients and fermented down to an 8% ABV wash. This I distilled slowly and pulled good hearts, so the base spirit was good.
I then sweetened it with molasses (food molasses) and some sugar to a nice dark, sweet rum that I ended up spicing. I thought the sugary molasses would create the foamy top I wanted in the rum, but it didn't. At all.
So how does one get that foamy head on the rum?
Foamy head on rum and coke
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