Drom John Innis & Gunn Rum Aged

Partial Mash

Batch size: 5.25 gallons

5.1875 lb Golden Promise (Simpsons)
0.375 lb Crystal 40L (Briess)
0.3125 lb Roast Barley (Briess organic)
0.125 lb Chocolate (Briess organic)

45 minute steep 155F

60 minute boil
6 lbs Light Malt Syrup (Maillard organic)
0.5 oz Styrian Aurora (60 min)
0.5 oz Styrian Aurora (15 min)
0.5 oz Styrian Aurora ( 5 min)

White Labs Edinburgh Scottish Ale WLP028

4.00 oz Oak cubes medium toast
180 ml Demerara rum (Lemon Hart 151)

2 weeks primary

3 weeks bottle conditioned

First taste: 22 August 2015

I adapted my Innis & Gunn Original recipe using the Rum Aged ingredients listed on the Innis & Gunn website.

I "think" the recipe is right. Tasted side by side with a real Rum Aged, I could pull out each note. But it was not easy. Color was close but hazy. The bottling was not right. There's too much yeast, at least in bottle #1. Literally overwhelming foam and the yeast was the dominant taste. It happened to be in one of my few ceramic St. Sebastiaan bottles. Next taste, in a couple of weeks, I will pour through a Melita filter, particularly if it foams.
Uff da!.

Three months later, too foamy, but this has finally become drinkable. It is a near clone, maybe a tad less rum.