Thread: Homebrew Bayrum Recipes

Jockeys,
My recipe that I use is exactly like yours except that I also added black peppercorns and lime peel.
I let mine stew about 2 weeks before adding the glycerin and it's ready to go.
The last batch I made I added a little witch hazel to it but it made it cloudy and took too much of the burn away when used.

Originally Posted by Churchill

Jockeys,
My recipe that I use is exactly like yours except that I also added black peppercorns and lime peel.
I let mine stew about 2 weeks before adding the glycerin and it's ready to go.
The last batch I made I added a little witch hazel to it but it made it cloudy and took too much of the burn away when used.

pepper and lime, eh? sounds pretty good, I might have to try that!

I am going to have to try out a batch. I wonder what it would be like with a little orange essence. Reduce the cinnamon add an extra clove and have an orange bay rum spice. Solids will infuse faster under heat, but alcohol has a lower boiling temperature than water. If you get it to hot, you will evaporate the alcohol, and go flambé if you have a point of ignition.


If you are wondering about the glycerin/terrorist comment. Cut pure glycerin with nitric acid and you have nitro glycerin. I would not suggest trying it unless you want to blow yourself up.

On second thought, leave the clove the same, add a star anise and a tablespoon of Jamaica allspice and the orange essence/zest. I think that one would smell good, probably taste pretty good if you left out the bay leaf. Almost like mulling spiced rum.

I use 5 oz of vodka
1 oz of spiced rum
6 bay leaves
1/4 t of allspice
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 t of orange extract
20 drops of oil of bay
16 drops of oil of clove

I mix everything together except the oils, and let stand 2 weeks .
strain out the spices add the oils and your ready to go.
You just have to shake the bottle right before you use it, the oil seperates like italian dressing. I get alot of good comments on the
stuff.

Now I'm a big fan of doing stuff yourself....and this is probably a really really really dumb question...

But the thought of putting Rum on your face...won't you smell a bit like an Alcoholic? If I came into work smelling of Rum I'd probably get sent home thinking I started the morning with a breakfast of Rum and Coke?

I guess it depends on your circumstances. I AM an alcoholic, so no one notices.

But seriously, most of the alcohol evaporates very quickly.

Originally Posted by Zyxthior

But the thought of putting Rum on your face...won't you smell a bit like an Alcoholic? If I came into work smelling of Rum I'd probably get sent home thinking I started the morning with a breakfast of Rum and Coke?

Hmmm... I just tried the Pinaud Bay Rum this morning and I hope I don't smell like an Alcoholic! I'm at work right now ! I can see it now:
Boss: "Well, well, well, great breakfast you had! Or, did come directly to work from an all night long party?"

Originally Posted by jockeys

pepper and lime, eh? sounds pretty good, I might have to try that!

That does sound good.

Can you use the regular Captain Morgan's? I made some up last night, but couldn't find a "dark" like you put in the recipie, so I bought the Private. I also upped the clove count a lot (probably 8-10 of the little spikes). I don't drink, so I don't know how it's supposed to smell, but so far it smells nice. I opened the jar this morning, and liked it. I may up the bay leaf, though. I'd like more of that.

Oh, I also doubled the recipie, but took out 25% of the cinnamon after smelling it this morning. It was overpowering everything else but the rum.