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I'm definately impressed with making Rum so far, I'll be going back to Holland and Barret tomorrow for some more mollasses, the buy one get one half price deal ends this weekend I think.

i so want to do this wash but with only the T500 i cant but hopefully i will have the Alembic pot lid for my T500 sometime soon.

Hi Jaggie

You know you could probably make a pot still out of copper to fit the T500 for about £30 maybe less, if you can solder copper that is, maybe this could be a little side line for me!!!'

nope if you knew me you'd know thats not possible great with I T. Not so good with the building things i'll wait and buy the part i need MUCH safer but many thanks
Jag

Just a quick one, Holland and Barrett outlet stores are on a permanent buy one get one half price, it's only the high street stores that have ended the offer

Anavrin wrote:Hi Jaggie

You know you could probably make a pot still out of copper to fit the T500 for about £30 maybe less, if you can solder copper that is, maybe this could be a little side line for me!!!'

sorry i didn't read this bit" maybe this could be a little side line for me!!!" if this is an offer to make me one i'm game if you are PM me if your up for it leave it to you.

Been reading this and the other rum threads with interest, finally decided to hop on board as I've an end game in sight. 35 litres over 2 buckets, 5kg blackstrap, 4 kg raw sugar, pinch of epsom and a healthy dose of bakers. Split as best I could but didn't make it as 4 points difference in OSG. Both up and running hard immediately. Nice to have an end game as most of my washes sit in cleared for up to a year before I motivate

I am interested to hear how this comes out of the PDA-1. I really disliked blackstrap rum out of the AirStill, but then I hate the blackstrap molasses. A reflux still might be able to tone this down to a drinkable rum.

Ahhh chill....I'll be doing it pot mode, which the PDA seems to handle okay. Have run smoked cornflake whisky washes which translated well so hoping same applies here. The blackstrap was stockfeed grade. I asked of the manufacturers as to suitability and was assured okay (not that they wanted to encourage alcohol consumption) but informed me product is used in the fermentation industry in country. Sucking on a spoonful I found it surprisingly palatable. If the pot don't work, reflux will be fall back but I have a spiced option in sight. Keep you posted and fingers crossed.

Are blackstrap and molasses the same thing?

Mashy wrote:Are blackstrap and molasses the same thing?

When I started with this hobby if I read anything that I thought would help later I bookmarked the site...as I love Rum this was one site I found...http://www.rumshop.net/classifications.html.

Just scroll down an inch or two and you'll see that it's all down to the sugar level mate....

Cracking read. There is a lot more to rum than I thought.

Loads more to read out there... my last rum did come out a wee bit "Bacardi- ish"

Still working on a good dark rum...

I put a smidge too much glycerin in my last lot - very fine line and I overstepped it.

I've got the Rum bug now, theres only so much neutral spirit/Vodka you can drink before you get bored with it, but I've got my 50lt of Cachaca Rum to strip, Im just waiting for my parrot kit from StillDragon, just cant work out how best to run it, either straight with 4 plates and no stripping run, or strip then 4 plates for the spirit run, another idea I got off Punkin on the SD forum is to strip one batch, then add it to the next wash and then run it through 4 plates.

Equipment wise Im going to have to chop up my 2" column to make a bend with a tri-clamp fitting on each end and use my dephlagmator as a product condenser, will be an interesting project to see if the StillDragon 2" Big Baby Dephlagmator will work as a product condenser but my new parrot will only attach to a 2" tri-clamp fitting so I've got no choice.

If I wasn't getting married in two weeks, the money I've spent could have bought a really nice bit of kit!!!!