Post #759250 by JenTiki on Wed, Feb 17, 2016 8:51 AM

Unless you have access to a commercial still, you'll likely have a very hard time duplicating the flavor of Stiggins. They macerate the rinds separately in white rum, then re-distill it before adding it to the dark rum that has been infused with the inner fruit of the pineapple. They're also quite selective with the kind of pineapple they use. If you watch the video, you'll see that they are small (which usually means sweeter) and appear to be quite ripe with almost no green on the outside. They spent a week tasting various pineapples before settling on the kind they wanted to use. How many of us have access to that many different species of pineapple?

You might very well make a perfectly drinkable pineapple-infused rum, but I think comparing your homemade concoction to Stiggins is doing yourself a disservice. Make what tastes good to you, but know you won't really get Stiggins' flavor unless you're drinking Stiggins.

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