Miss Brewbird

Spiced Rum Recipe Development (Journey Into Rum Part 5) | Shakespeare Distillery (3x5)

Air date: Feb 01, 2021

We're developing our spiced rum recipe in the gin school today! It's Part 5 of our journey into rum series at the Shakespeare Distillery. In this video, Sam and I are making a Tudor inspired spiced rum recipe to go along with the white rum we are distilling in our iStill 500. I'll take you along our recipe development process as we distil, assess, and update our spiced rum recipe. It's a long process, but a tasty one too. Will our spiced rum be any good? I sure hope so since I helped come up with the recipe for it. Since the Shakespeare Distillery opened in 2015 we have been making gin here. However, we have recently started attempting to produce rum using blackstrap molasses. This new series documents our trials and errors as we try to produce our first batch of white rum and spiced rum using our iStill 500 and our new 2000L iStill fermenter. As of this video's publishing, the rum is still not on the market yet. So follow along as we bumble our way through making white and spiced