WTF Is Botanical Rum? Lets Make It!
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- Have you ever heard of botanical rum? Its really just a spiced rum using a distinctly different technique to impart the spice and/or herb flavours. I would suggest you likely want to target a different flavour profile . . . but that's up to you!
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Final Recipe
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I have changed this ever so slightly from the second recipe I made based on what it tasted like after blending. This would be my suggestion. It should also scale up. Just be aware you may need to do some tweaking. I actually do think the allspice was adding something interesting. so I added that back in at 1/2.
500ml / 17 oz ester forward rum
250ml / 8.5 oz molasses forward rum
4g / 0.141 oz cacao nibs
1/3rd cracked whole nutmeg
1 allspice berry cracked
5g 0.176 oz liquorice root
1/3rd star anise pod
1 slice ginger
4g / 0.141 oz dried orange peel
5g / 0.176 oz juniper berries (do not crack them)
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I was at a rum festival last night and had a botanical rum there. Askival rum, the botanicals the blender mentioned were smoked kelp seaweed, spruce tips and meadowsweet. I must admit, it was a surprise how good it was. The smoked kelp really came through, giving it a salty sea water flavour with the smoke in the background. It was really nice. And I would highly recommend it
Thanks for sharing. I’ll be checking this out.
I think salty notes are underrated in many spirits, they really help to allow flavors to open up in my opinion
Really cool idea with tons of potential for fiddling:-)
Toasted cardemum might be crazy good in a sweet style of a barbados rum.
I literally just found your channel and watched the video from when you made Buccaneer Bob's and had never had a funky Jamaican rum. Now look, you have Smith and Cross to show the platonic ideal of rum.
So funny, my next project was to attempt some kind of spiced rum with the rum I recently made, but wasn't sure were to start. Talk about great timing on the video.
The thing about allspice berries, you need to have them steep for a while if you put them in whole. You’re best off cracking them like black pepper or giving them more time to steep.
They are used to make jerk bbq, like chicken. Nice flavor. I think it would work.
To answer your first two guesses and question: no, no, and no.
And to answer your follow-up question of "why are you even here then?" Because I like the creation aspect and you are a good presenter.
Spirited Union Distillery in Amsterdam does a quick workshop distilling botanical rum in just two hours. The way they do it is you distill ~200ml of rum with all your chosen botanicals, then add the distillate to 500 ml of regular rum to make a full bottle. Seems like a way to keep the character of a well-aged rum intact while adding botanical elements, if you so wish.
I did try a spiced rum with coconut, cacao and cardamom which was really good.
I use my rum feints as the base for my gin. I run them through the still to clean them up, and then do my maceration and distillation. I think it makes for a great spirit and helps me recapture product that might otherwise be going to waste.
Absolutely we reuse all of our feints until we get 20 gallons at 140ish then dilute and run through 5 plates. I can typically pull 6 gallons at 95 in a few hours and then we triple carbon filter. Great stuff.
Then I make all sorts of flavored stuff with that
love the Balcones bottle with the blue tape you added.
Very cool and informative video man. :) Love from Norway.
You have now convinced me mate, to add an Air Still to my equipment, I got a Jin basket to add in my collum a few weeks ago, but I could play with the air still to work out the tastes in smaller amounts till I get what I like & my friends, before doing a larger run. Good video.
We make this in the Caribbean all the time. My grandmother had a recipe which she hasn't yet passed to me. the recipe differs fro island to island and family to family.
Like the name of a card game: gin-rummy
I LOVE RUM and LOVE MAKE it! I'm going to try the botanicals this next weekend!
Botanical means "obtained from a plant". To my best knowledge, rum was originally (and still is) made from sugar cane. Sugar cane is a plant. Hence rum is botanical already.
Jesse, you may find this interesting. Conveniently there was a history of post-ban Absinthe made in Haiti, Cuba, and Various parts of South America using rum as a base spirit. I don't know of anyone doing it now but I think it could be an interesting experiment to play with. I'll be uploading a short "Amethyst" absinthe video to my One Piece At a Time Distilling Institute later today.
I miss rum. I had to give it up. I'm not pleasant when I drink rum. I loved rum. It tastes great!
Cardamom has a good flavor profile for rum!
I thoroughly enjoyed the experimentation of this distilled. It was great fun to watch and definitely want to try it myself. Thanks!
I'm having a hard time imagining the juniper berries playing nicely with everything else, but maybe that's because I'm used to them being so flavor-forward in gin. Certainly willing to give it a shot, tho.
Let us know Here,how it went
Agreed. Out of all of the gin spices, that was what I was sure he would dump. Cardamom sounds good, and coriander sounds especially good! But hey, maybe Jeesie could try them in round two?
So cool. Good work!
My brother makes a similar mix that he calls Gin Rummy, after the card game.
This is where you get investors on board and start a new thing, The Still It Botanical Rum
That’s a pretty cool concept. I might crack into that one.
Was just getting ready to do something similar. You have given me a few more ideas to twist it up a bit more.
Hey Jesse, interesting you call this a botanical rum. I do a spiced rum often. I make a molasses rum which I oak for only 4 to 6 weeks on Medium+ American oak, as well as charred French oak and some ex-bourbon chips.
This produces an already great rum, but then I spice it lightly using vanilla, allspice, cinnamon, orange peel, cloves, black pepper and aniseed. I also add blackstrap molasses here, about a tablespoon full for every 3 litres of 65% spirit (which is where I oak and spice it at).
I then filter it through a coffee filter and proof it down to 43% in the bottle. It is fantastic, not a common spiced rum and I would love to see how juniper plays a role in it. Thanks for the idea!
Thanks for the video
Interesting idea
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Makes me so stoked to try this stuff myself, and I also wanna grow a big badass beard too.
I've been getting ads for a commercial Boukman botanical rum recently! It's billed as Haitian so it's made with a French Caribbean style rhum agricole. I was excited thinking you were going to try to emulate that when I saw the video.
I would have added lime , opposed to Orange and also some mint works very well with Rum
Yes but lime is bitter
Spices and hooves…yum.
I know the video is so old but I’m just getting into the distilling craft and have been heavily Rum influenced to begin. However I think I would be more of a Gin kinda guy based on general preferences. I think this is what I must do going forward. Gin influenced botanical Rum is what I want going forward. Thank you.
I am gonna try: Caramelized banana, Kakao nips, Cinnamon, vanilla, dried plums, bitter almond or cherry wine. And them add a bit of sugar to mellow it a bit
I have a video reqest/idea if I could! I noticed you use the air still a lot, I just got one too! They're awesome! But I've noticed you doing things a bit differently to the default recipe that they recommend, and there's a few weird things they say (i.e. no cuts required). I was wondering if you'd do a video for just a standard wash and distillation using the air still. Which yeast to use, temperature/timeframe, then cuts coming off the still and filtration etc.
Either way keep up the good work!
i would love to see a comparison of compound gin and distilled one!
To me cardamom is the gin botanical that makes the most sense in spiced rum!
Спасибо за видео, пробовал яблочный пирог, вышло отлично.
I actualy made a 'root beer' mead with the original ingredients and then added rum. it was amazing. I actually want to distill a botanical rum with the root beer ingredients.
I was thinking about doing this but decided I love my rum too much to toss juniper in there so I've decided instead to do a botanical apple brandy which I've gotten excited about. Once I eventually get around to running my apple brandy.
An entire orange, a small handful of medium roasted coffee beans and a vanilla pod has been tried before and works wonders on a cheap, dark rum along with a good amount of cane sugar.
But adding the liquorice root and the nibs one might avoid the added sugar and still get a beautifully sweet, dark rum with a complex taste. 🤔
Seeing what a Mai Tai throws in it'd be curious what some almonds (does that count as a spice?) and some lime peels would do. I'd do it additional to the orange though, I think that orange curacao is important in that drink and lime alone wouldn't work. Other than that... maybe some bitter orange peels instead of the normal ones... hmmm... honestly I'd be curious what sea-buckthorn would do... maybe some mint?
I need to make more rum.
Day 22. Hey jessi. Could you make a distilled video on Planter's Honey Roasted peanuts or fused whiskey?
Snap! Am making a blackstrap rum right now, with cacao nibs, vanilla pod, coffee beans and a cuban cigar cut into 1" sections and added to the botanical basket. All other ingredients macerated. Tastes fantastic in a Daiquiri.
The cigar really works 💪
Can you describe the flavors and aroma’s you are getting from the cigar? There is a plant called a flowering tobacco too. I haven’t been around one un many years, and they are used for the blooms, not the foliage, as a decoration, but i would be curious on the uses of the flower in this sort of application like with hibiscus or roses.
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This is what I do with my rum fients.
A bit of vanilla is nice too and I don't use the gin berry's like you have
Did this with cardamom, nutmeg bourbon vanilla beans, ginger, clove , lemon and orange zest,and some star anise, and aged in a glass carboy , we used a hundreds of years old recipe. This should probably not be consumed in volume. The "botanicals" do "something"
Made that about 5 yrs. back. Liked it. Avcuz, did not redistill it, tho.
How about crushing a single espresso bean into the botanical mix? That might add a new dimension to the flavor profile.
A wine and liquor i want to make one day is made of many different types of desert fruits. But currently i have no experience with making alcohol.
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Meme spirits idea: make Pringles vodka
Thanks for the idea. I've got 3l of rum I made and didn't like the result. I've even redistilled it and although better I can't see me drinking it. So it's out with the gin botanicals and back in the still with it.
There is a electric distiller on the local website for selling stuff and it looks just like yours but it has a digital temperature control on the side. They call it a water distiller but I'm thinking with temp control it should be able to distill spirit correct?
They are asking 45 bucks......
I might grab it tomorrow even if unsure.
:)
Carrots are a good veg to get a decent drink (with or without ginger), although parsnips also make a good dry white wine substitute. I'd love to see what they do distilled, we can't do it in the UK due to the laws.
I picked up a few really big ARRREEEs, and I'm not sure if I'm crazy because Jesse always talks like that
or if this video was supposed to be extra super subliminally pirate themed.
My wife's favourite drink is Green Ginger Wine, I've been wondering if a botanicals maceration very heavy on ginger in a neutral made into a liqure would be doable or would too much of the ginger be lost in distillation
Ohhh sounds fun!
My still will be up and running next month
weird thought, seeing as you're doing "meme spirits"; have you tried adding tonic water the the still when making a gin?
From my experience you should heat up allspice a little bit on a frying pan. Some spices need temperature to start working.
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Would it be possible to do a video distilling candy? Like straight up sour patch kids or something like that.
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Strange, I would have went a different direction. I just don't think I'd like juniper with rum. But cardamom seems like it would have played nicely with it. Also, have you ever tried using fresh orange peel instead of dried? Most of the citrusy notes in the peel are very volatile oils that are long gone by the time the peel is bone dry.
I’m wondering if you would consider trying to distil blaand.
Not sure if you haven't to be a patreon to put in requests or get questions answered but is it possible to do a Sour apple or peach mash? Not with sour apples but do like a sour mash with apples? Just curious
What are you using to determine abv?
I just stumbled onto a new product in my area that i may have to use as an adjunct for a rum or brandy. It's a dairy free "banana milk" made with bananas and oats. there are also some flavored versions like strawberry, mango, and chocolate. I may have to double down on my strawberry banana rum recipe. (which was evaporated sugar cane as a base, closer to a rhum agricole than a molasses rum, spiked with strawberry banana body armor. I think adding the banana milk, especially the strawberry one, would give it a nice kick in the pants. )
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7:11 Allspice berries will be almost impossible to detect in the presence of star anise and licorice root.
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Try dried banana in it as well
Sounds an awful lot like a mulled wine recipe, but made with rum.
I would’ve dropped the juniper berries and kept the cardamom and added cinnamon
Maple syrup rum? (Greetings from Canada!)
So surely spiced rum is botanical
Can you make alcohol from only juniper berries. Not vodka where it's infused in alcohol but where you literally make a juniper berry mesh and distill it out? I'm asking that because this year I'm going to have a lot of juniper berries on my property. around 60 of my junipers are producing berries this year.
Interesting idea! Did you try it? I would assume there has to be some sugar or starch inside the berry to feed the seedling, but how much I have no idea. It might take exogenous enzymes or from malt to convert the sugars, but…
Hi guys, love the community here! I want to start a small alcohol business in Malta but distilling alcohol here is almost impossible due to our laws. I was hoping that someone gives me a few options where I can find a distillery in Europe that will let me distill my recipe or buy a neutral spirit (vodka)? the thought process is to distill abroad from Malta then import it to Malta. It would really help if you could give me some options! Thanks and have a nice weekend.
This is going to end with my stomach getting pumped isn't it?
No distillery makes a gin out of a Rum base. but why would you not?
Gin rummy
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a lime and mint botanical rum maybe to easy
as a gen x i think it is time to do gen x rum, this is designed to get you drunk and taste like a awesome op rum
Jin but rum
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Jon Townsend from You Tube channel "Townsend and sons" would tell you 1/3 of a nutmeg is not enough 🙄
You should age it a bit
Can you make a juniper mead from Skyrim?
and then distill it lol
City Steading Brews did a juniper mead not too long ago (or maybe a year ago. What is fine anymore?).
Never liked gin, just too much pine flavor from the juniper.
Typo - Lunatic and lover make rum. Not gin buddy.
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