hi there fans its Platt and today I'm gonna show you how to make spiced rum so let's go besides being a habit homebrew a muscle professional bartender my paperwork that says I know what I'm doing and in my job I pour more than just beer I pour a ride range of cocktails wines and other alcoholic beverages so I figured it's time to kind of switch things up and so today we're going to make spiced rum if you've never had spiced rum or never herb it think captain Morgan's or Sailor Jerry's they go great in Tiki cocktails or just with Cola by themselves well let's see what we need for this project here are the items we're going to need to make our spiced rum first and foremost you need aged rum now don't use silver rum because it hasn't been any in any wood or oak and you don't pick up those woody notes that you do for me it's rum also make sure it's aged rum and not gold rum gold rum doesn't mean it's been aged just means most likely that caramel coloring has been added next we have vanilla I'm using vanilla extract but if you like to use vanilla bean we also have cinnamon I'm using cinnamon powder instead of cinnamon sticks but feel free to use cinnamon sticks then we have whole cloves drown that meg hold black pepper and last but not least star and nice well now that we've got everything together let's make some spiced rum well I've got everything together and pour our aged rum into our mason jar that we really used to let the ingredients set overnight first thing you want to add is a little bit of orange rind I just use a potato peeler you want a piece a couple inches long about one inch wide well drop that in then we're going to you take a teaspoon of vanilla now one teaspoon of vanilla extract is equal about two one I'll be there all right then we're going to need half a teaspoon of our cinnamon that equals one cinnamon stick put that in there next we're gonna take four whole cloves and these are nice and fresh because it's just one of the store and bottom and I want to encourage it any time they can any of these ingredients to always purchase the freshest and the best you really noticed it in your drinks all right so we've got four whole cloves then we're going to take six black peppercorns two three four five six now little trick if you're feeling a load of interest take some of these and put them in a pan and heat them and it really opens up the peppercorn but for this little experiment the whole peppercorns will be just fine then add for the peppercorns we'll take one star nice and drop in there and then the last but not least a pinch of nutmeg now I'm gonna put the recipe down below the video so don't worry you didn't write all this down all right pitch goes in like I said we're gonna let this sit overnight you can leave it up to 48 hours but I wouldn't advise leaving it too long the star nice and the other spices really have a kick to it especially if you use a cinnamon stick so you don't want to leave it too long so we're gonna leave in 24 hours come back and then we're ready to bottle well it's been about 24 hours and whew just by smelling this you could definitely pick up the cinnamon the vanilla and I bet this going to taste good well before we get ready to drink we're going to have to we're going to pour it back into our bottle and we're going to strain there's the pieces of clove star nice the orange peel so you're gonna want to strain it out get you on these little handy strainers or you can use cheesecloth if you like all right now she's ready to drink well before we try this I want to let you know that if you'd like this risk people want to tinker around with it feel free maybe try a little bit of ginger there or some allspice feel free to tweak this however your life experimenting is why it's all about now I do suggest you want to try a new recipe they kind of stick with orange peels the vanilla and the nutmeg it's count think of it kind of like gin where you always start with juniper kind of work your way out well it's my favorite part of the show oh boy I'm I only have four or five more of those well I hope you liked this video if you did please subscribe down below and if there's any other things you want me to make I do you have for a segment however feel free to either put a suggestion down below in the comments or you could contact me through Twitter well until next time bye-bye