I want to make okolehao - need ti roots! - Tiki Drinks and Food

S Swanky Tiki Socialite Hapa Haole Hideaway, Knoxville, TN Joined: Apr 03, 2002 Posts: 5398	S Swanky Posted posted on Mon, May 10, 2010 9:42 AM Well, it's sort of the dirty little secret I think. Not of oke, but most all liquor. it all starts exactly the same. You take some sugary stuff and heat it to get the alcohol to distill off. What comes out is 180 proof pure alcohol that is pretty much PGA. Then to make it into something else, be it rum, scotch, oke or whatever, you do a few things like add flavorings, but mostly you blend it with other stuff and put it in a barrel. After a few years in the right barrel, you have either rum or bourbon or whatever. My guess is that oke was started with breadfruit or some other mash, then they maybe used the ti root to flavor it when they put it in old bourbon barrels to age. Dunno. It may well have just been old rot gut hooch!

Well, it's sort of the dirty little secret I think. Not of oke, but most all liquor. it all starts exactly the same. You take some sugary stuff and heat it to get the alcohol to distill off. What comes out is 180 proof pure alcohol that is pretty much PGA.

Then to make it into something else, be it rum, scotch, oke or whatever, you do a few things like add flavorings, but mostly you blend it with other stuff and put it in a barrel. After a few years in the right barrel, you have either rum or bourbon or whatever.

My guess is that oke was started with breadfruit or some other mash, then they maybe used the ti root to flavor it when they put it in old bourbon barrels to age. Dunno. It may well have just been old rot gut hooch!

Post #529150 by Swanky on Mon, May 10, 2010 9:42 AM