Spiced rum ale

[TommyB]

Im i big beer fan and also a RUM fan.

So In efforts to use up some ingredients I have extra of, I was thinking of brewing up a partial boil extract recipe with the following ingredients:

6 LBS Wheat LME
6 LBS LIGHT LME
2 LBS corn sugar

1 oz Citra 60 min
1 oz Cascade 15 min

Areate with Oxygen before pitching on top of a pale ale cake to start with.

After a few days, pitch a big starter of WLP099 (made with wort from the original boil).

After fermentation ends, transfer to secondary and dry hop with 2 oz cascade and a 750ml bottle of captain morgans....

I would be kegging and force carbing

Anyone ever use and entire bottle of alcohol in a 5 gallon batch?

any thoughts, comments or experiences would be appreciated.....

Thanks

 

[SouthBay]

Itll kill all the beer flavor, me thinks. I suggest starting small, bc you can always add more.

I did a bourbon ale not long ago, and used less than 3oz. It's very bourbony.

aside from flavor, youll run into issues with head retention and potentially carbonation, if using bottles.

 

[BSBrewer]

Most I've ever added straight was about 3 cups worth...

2 cups I cooked down on the stove to kill the alcohol but preserve the rum flavor the 3rd cup I added straight.

A full liter seems like a lot...its also really going to jack up your ABV in a 5g batch. I want to say the 1 cup added 1% point so you're looking at 3% more.

I've found if I want some rum flavor (and typically I pair it with Oak) but I do 1-2 oak spirals soaked in 6-8oz of rum and call it a day.

Let me know what you do and how it comes out if you go for the full 750ml

 

[TommyB]

Yeah I had thought about the boiling off the alcohol to keep the rum flavor.....but I kinda want the ABV jacked up along with the rum flavor....

This whole idea was kind of an experiment to see if I could have a fairly decent beer with a VERY high abv that had some of the spiced rum flavors.

I wonder if I use molasses instead of the corn sugar?

I wonder if anyone has used those liquor essence flavorings in a brew??

LIKE THIS----->http://www.homebrewing.org/Spiced-Rum-Flavoring-Essence-Swish-Barrel_p_1983.html

 

[TommyB]

Has anyone ever used those liquor essence flavorings in a brew??

LIKE THIS----->http://www.homebrewing.org/Spiced-Rum-Flavoring-Essence-Swish-Barrel_p_1983.html

 

[Arska]

Have you tasted Innis&Gunn Rum Cask? I guess U could brew something like 93% pale-ale, 5% Cara80L, 2% Roasted Barley. With some Golgings for 20ebu and soak some oak chips/cubes on rum for few weeks. Rack the beer over the oak after primary fermentation.

 

[TommyB]

Never had that one. Sounds good. Maybe I'll scale it down to a gallon batch with a scaled down version of the rum and see what happens.