Jim A
Senior Insider
I have been enjoying my La Gloriette and Mbolo vanilla rhums that I had shipped home this Winter. Personally I like the Gloriette rhum better - YMMV of course.
For the first time ever I am making (trying to?) my own. I looked at a bunch of the usual recipes on here and online and tinkered a drop with the one that looked the most appealing to me. I just put it in the fridge so let's see how it goes. I guess I'll have to have Siri remind me to take out the beans and add the simple syrup in 30 days.
A question and a comment:
Q: Why take out the beans instead of leaving them in for the second phase? Is it a chemical reaction thing with the sugar, a spoiling thing or just that the vanilla taste would be too strong if you left the beans in the whole time?
C: Just did the math and damn making your own is a little more expensive than I thought :wink2:
to be continued...
For the first time ever I am making (trying to?) my own. I looked at a bunch of the usual recipes on here and online and tinkered a drop with the one that looked the most appealing to me. I just put it in the fridge so let's see how it goes. I guess I'll have to have Siri remind me to take out the beans and add the simple syrup in 30 days.
A question and a comment:
Q: Why take out the beans instead of leaving them in for the second phase? Is it a chemical reaction thing with the sugar, a spoiling thing or just that the vanilla taste would be too strong if you left the beans in the whole time?
C: Just did the math and damn making your own is a little more expensive than I thought :wink2:
to be continued...