Making Vanilla Flavored Rum! - Part 2

In Part 1, we show you the basics of fermenting your first rum. In this video, we show you the distillation and flavoring process.
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The proper scientific term is a bioassay ;)

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The traditional Brazilian spirit is also made out of sugar cane, but instead of molasses it starts by fermenting sugar cane juice with cornmeal then going to distillation. The finished beverage is called "cachaça" or "pinga" depending if the final mixing gets more heart or more tail alcohol ("pinga" means literally "droplets"). It can be consumed right away or be matured in different casks, usually made of "umburana", an indigenous Brazilian tree which gives a distinct flavour. I hope you find these information to be interesting, and maybe in the future we might see some cachaça making going on the channel! Thanks for the great content!

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Cornmeal on cachaça? where the hell are you from?

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Molasses is made from sugar cane.

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@@stoppernz229 Molasses is made from sugar beets too, at least here in central europe it's more common to get molasses from beets, if you buy locally made stuff.

[@brunodrumond4263]

@@lucasdallagnol Um método tradicional muito difundido em São Paulo e Minas Gerais adiciona fubá ao mosto da cana para atuar como starter do processo de fermentação. A traditional method used mainly in São Paulo and Minas Gerais states, in Brasil, adds cornmeal (fubá) in the sugar cane freshly pressed and filtered juice to start the fermentation process.

[@brunodrumond4263]

@@SoraKatsuya No Brasil a cachaça é muito consumida em doses (shots). Para os coquetéis, como a caipirinha, usamos cachaças simples e de baixo custo. Yes, in shots!!!

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The Thought Emporium channel did an interesting video on aging alcohol using an ultrasonic bath and it had surprisingly promising resultse. It could be interesting to see something like that on this project

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Agreed! A great aspect of using US is that one can devote small percentages and get fast results. That would help privide a more "sciency" atmosphere :-) Depending on how he blends it might take well to aging. I think I mentioned US in the last video so its nice to hear others have the same thought.

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He did some rapid aging in the whisky video, though not with any ultrasound. Just requires toasting oak sticks and placing into jars. That and the increased surface area from being in stick form allows aging whisky within a few weeks. Not as quick as the ultrasound method I'm sure but accessible to anyone and not years like traditional aging.

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[@QueenOfArabianSea]

I have used fractional stills many times to distill rum. And as you have it there I was able to start with about 189 proof. I usually do exactly half your quantity of wort at about 23L. Here is my feedback. The beautiful column still you have is a dream. But I use it only to make vodka. Most of the flavors are gone when using a fractional still. A normal copper alembic still is the best to extract flavors and also the extensive copper traps a lot of the sulfur giving you a much nicer product. Also I don't grab any alcohol until the thermometer shows 78C. Everything before that temperature is discarded. Love your channel. The way you talk and explain things makes it a joy to listen and learn.

[@paulsnibson4195]

This is the question I wanted to ask. I also have a column still with bubble plates but run pot still mode when doing rum, Sometimes one bubble plate running with small dephleg works great. What i seen was vodka production, it would have been nice to explain the difference and the reason you choose this option, I know Rum has a strong flavor and some probable carried through. That said as per the 100s of the comments I scrolled past another great production...

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3 ideas: - Keep the leftovers after the distillation, let it dry up (to remove water) and mix it later with the dunder. - Add some flavours like cocoa beans at the beginning of the fermentation step. - Store the alcohol with copper/silver pieces soaked in it to remove even more sulphides (although some sulphides are great for the aroma, like grapefruit flavour for example)

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@@greenveg42 I don't think that's entirely on point. The semi-advanced science is comprised of simple knowledge such as chemistry, physics, and math. You are saying people are not interested in math, but of course when you present someone with problems and solutions completely devoid of real world applications that's going to happen. And even with few examples of "real world" problems in textbooks, they are very dry and do not cultivate interest, you know, just like those "life stuff" you speak of. But they don't have to be. The same fact of learning fractions can be one of your boring "life stuff", or it can be a part of advanced problem break down from constructing a tesla battery powered boat, or in this case, measuring the alcohol content in your distillate. There's also effort to gauge viewer interest and garner participation. These are all essential in education that modern educators lack. At the end of the day, students have all of their interest stripped away, hard memorize some formulas, and missing the foundational ability to break down a large problem into chunks of smaller problems.

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Thanks!

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I've skipped ahead to Part 3 - Drinking flavoured Rum!

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Waiting for Part 4 - "But why the rum is gone?"

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Part 5 - "I'm never drinking again, and this time I really mean it."

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Go over the cousins process of rum and ester production. Lots of fun chemistry there! And flavor ;)

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Thanks for the great video. I love your clear communication and demonstrations. There is a burning question, though. As I understand it, dunder is put into the ferment to add flavour/character. The reflux still will produce high alcohol concentrations, largely by stripping out those flavouring compounds. Wouldn't a pot still be more appropriate for rum? Sorry to be a pedant, still love your work.

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Great video again ! nice to see distillation and nice rum. Isn't your distillation tower a bit too good at separating liquids, since you leave behind quite a bit of different aromas with higher vapor pressures that would get through a less performant distillation tower.

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Running a small batch dream still. Wish I had one.

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As cool as the bubble plates are, why did you distill rum in reflux mode versus pot still mode? BTW, love your content.

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I was just going to ask the Same question I thought the point of a rum run was to preserve as much of that molasses flavor as possible.

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I was wondering the exact same thing 🤔. I could see running one maybe two plates but 6 would defeat the purpose, would it not ? 🤷‍♂️

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Same question here. I'm new to the craft, but is seems counterintuitive to use that much reflux with bubble plates and dephlag that strips out the profile of all that wonderful molasses.

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I think it’s about the fine control over flavor, not so much about the distance to the liquor store. I can’t stand store bought, cheap booze. Anything made like this at volume will cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars a liter.

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@@jeschinstad seems Icelanders have no trouble with drinking these days...

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Great work ..enjoyed the methanol discussion and the dunder bucket ..thanks for referencing jesse cant wait for the next video

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I enjoyed part one and part 2 of the making of rum your educated me a lot thank you

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The 6 People disliking this went blind from drinking the precursor Methanol thus missing the Like Button!

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I have been looking for information like this that covers more the science behind the steps/activities. Great info, thanks.

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What kind of investment would one need to make, to acquire the setup used in this process? $500? $5000?

[@quatre1559]

That depends on where you shop, you can get a stainless steel beer keg, and if you or someone you know can weld you can make a set up of equal size and build for around $800 depending on your column size selection.

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@@quatre1559 I think it would be a lot more than that. Just looking around the column he is using runs almost $1500. shop.distillery-equipment.com/collections/stills/Moonshine-Still-Columns. I'm sure there are better deals to be had out there, but if it's anything like beer brewing equipment, it'll be all about the same new. That's probably not what you were saying, it seems like you meant building one like it. But I think that's what Tracy was asking.

[@deckmonkey1459]

I know hillbillies that make cheap ones from copper pipe and miscellaneous parts. I'm sure you can find how to do it online. They usually use potato mash and it tastes like vodka but you could make a similar mash to what they used here.

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I just bought a big pressure cooker 40 bucks a copper tube 30 bucks and I use a bucket for my cooler downer. 3 bucks. And that's about it

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Is there a way to test the first portion of the distillate to see what % is methanol?

[@jeschinstad]

Technically, I think you can set it on fire and watch the color of the flame, but you really shouldn't try to dance on the edge of methanol poisoning, because methanol tastes just like ethanol, just a little sweeter and by the time you realize your mistake, you'll probably be blind. If you want to be safe, either be generous and throw some away, or mix your whole batch together.

[@JustinKoenigSilica]

Perhaps thin layer chromatography?

[@piggerald2105]

GLC

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Excellent work, great video and awesome to see the science behind the distillation process you have earned yourselves a drink.

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I look forward to seeing the blending process. Thanks for posting.

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Dude, make some kind of chromatographic or spectroscopic methanol detector. It is a science channel after all - not a primitive moonshine/gin joint. e.g.: shine a laser at the distillate and measure the Stoke's scattering ...or just do IR absorption spectrogram if you are lazy.

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Neat concept. I wonder if he’d do a side episode on it.

[@orbodman]

Isn't a pot still recommended for rum and whiskey rather than the reflux still?

[@RiggyRly]

I was wondering this too. I thouht that reflux was mainly used for stripping, and a pot is used for keeping flavour.

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I've learned more from this channel on a wider range of subjects than I would have believed possible. Thank you!

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I really enjoy the level of detail that you go into when describing the distillation process.

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How to not die from methanol: Step 1- get utterly shitfaced Step 2- profit Step 3- regret

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