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How To Make Rum At Home

Recipe for making your own rum

By far the best quality Rum will be made using Molasses as a base.

Using 2kg Molasses: - Will produce a rich rum flavour.

Malaysia's best selling Dark Rum is made precisely as the following instructions.

Rum Makiing Instructions

1. Add 2kg molasses and 4.5kg dextrose (brewing sugar) into your clean fermenter with 3L boiling water, stir to mix (don't worry if it does not dissolve at this stage). Top up to 25 Litres with cold water, stir to dissolve the ingredients thoroughly.
2. Add the Turbo Carbon – this is important to absorb impurities produced by the yeast during fermentation.
3. Add the Rum Yeast and leave to ferment for seven days at 22 – 28°C. Lower temperatures are fine down to 15°C but will double fermentation time. Higher temperatures will increase the chance of off flavours and aroma production of the yeast. Using molasses will create excessive foaming so place somewhere appropriate and don't use an airlock (rest the fermenter lid loosely on the bucket).
4. After fermentation, add Turbo Clear to remove 99% of the solids (spent carbon/yeast cells and other fermentation solids). Don't worry if the wash remains hazy after treatment with Turbo Clear. It's more important that the liquid doesn't sit on the spent yeast and solids for more than 24hrs. Rather than trying to remove the last 1% solids, go ahead and distil the wash one day after adding Turbo clear even if still hazy.
5. Distil the wash after siphoning off the sediment is completed. For Rum the still should produce alcohol at between 84 – 88%, if using a Turbo 500 still run it for only 2½ to 3 hours to achieve this lower alcoholic strength. (Operating temperature will be about 680C) For a fuller flavoured rum try using a pot still.
6. Once you've collected your distillate, dilute to 50%ABV with good quality water then hold for three days in a 10L bucket adding one further sachet of Turbo Carbon. Stir twice daily then allow the activated carbon to settle on day three before fine filtering. Don't pass through activated carbon column filter as this will remove too much of the character from your Rum.
7. Dilute to 40%ABV with good quality water, bottle and leave to smooth for at least one month. 
8. For a fantastic quick result, add one of the Classic Rum Essences.