What is a recipe that makes 20-year rum in only 6 days?

Like "Whiskey Lamb Brandy"Brown Spirits"Liquor, which is classified as" Liquor ", changes its flavor and aroma as the maturation period becomes longer, and finishes to fine quality. In recent years, attempts to scientifically shorten the aging period of Brown Spirits are actively being tried, but many of them have failures in many cases. Meanwhile, a brewery manufacturer "Lost SpiritsMr. Brian Davis, who launched the program, is equivalent to a 20-year product in only 6 daysrumI am talking about a manufacturing method to make up.

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Brown spirits such as rum sauce are kept in barrels, ingredients melted out from wood react with alcohol and aged. The age-adjusted whiskey and rum sauce has a better aroma and taste, the longer maturation period is better and the price becomes more expensive as the maturation period becomes longer. A method to shorten the maturation period by inserting extra barrels in the barrel, etc. is tried, because the barrel becomes smaller as the bar sauce speed of the inside becomes faster, but the level which can be said "a great success" I have not found a recipe for.

Mr. Brian Davis of Lost Spirits establishes a manufacturing method that uses a proprietary developed chemical reactor different from the conventional method of "accelerate aging action". It is possible to produce rum with a taste of 20 years in only 6 days.


Mr. Davis said, the most complicated of the barrel agingPhenolOr weak acid and the reaction with alcohol "EsterificationIn the process of medium to long chainesterIs generated, it adds fragrance and sweetness to sake, which makes it an important element of aging effect.

According to Mr. Davis, many are included in White RumButyric acid(Raku - san) has a distinctive smell like a vomit, but when butyric acid reacts with ethanol and esterifies it has a fruit incense like pineappleEthyl butyrateIt seems to change to. Although this esterification is indispensable for aging, depending on the season and so forth, years and years of decades are required. Meanwhile, using Davis' scientific reactor "Model 1 reactor", it is only possible to finish the reaction in 3 steps, and it takes only 6 days to complete.

In the first step, we inject white spirits and oak wood into the reactor. In this step, esterification of short chain fatty acids contained in white spirits will produce short chain esters of fruity aroma. In the second step, to separate the compounds required for the esterification process, separate the spirits and macromolecules contained in the oak material separately. At the third step, the final esterification is completed by binding the acidic substances and phenols and esters made so far. At this stage the spirits have the same chemical characteristics as rum wine aged for many years.

Although this process is patent pending, it seems that it can not explain in more detail as above, but seems to cause the same chemical reaction as in the barrel by causing esterification scientifically. In addition, this manufacturing method has excellent points besides shortening the phenomenal aging period. In the ripening process of whiskey or rum, "Angel's takeoverThere is evaporation of moisture called evaporation, and if you aged rum for 33 years, spirits in the barrel will be reduced by 50%, but if you introduce 100 liters of spirit into "Model 1 reactor", 98 liters of Because it can produce rum, it is possible to produce 555 liters of 20-year rum every week. Both time and cost can be drastically reduced compared to conventional methods.


The rum made in this process is "Colonial American Inspired Rum"It is sold as 750 ml bottle and alcohol degree is 68%. The review evaluation of the person who actually drank is also a lot.