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Today we make a super simple allspice dram that is very close to St. Elizabeth allspice dram in flavor and sweetness. The homemade allspice dram is around 22.5% ABV and comes in at 30 Brix. While you can’t use a refractometer to measure the sugar/Brix of a liqueur, when I did test my final version vs St/ Elizabeth the difference was 0.3%. Might be a happy coincidence or might be because they are very close in sugar and ABV.
Final Brix: 30
Final ABV: 21.5-22.5% (estimated)
_recipe at the bottom of the description-
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📖 *Episode Chapters* 📖
00:00 Make Your Own Allspice Dram
01:07 St. Elizabeth
02:05 Why it’s hard to figure out the sugar
02:53 Making the Allspice Dram
04:44 Drinking the Allspice Dram
📝 *Recipe* 📝
9 oz pot still Jamaican rum (266 ml)
6 oz water (177 ml)
15 grams of whole allspice berries (about 3 – 3.5 tbsp)
153 grams sugar (about 3/4 cup)
Crush the allspice berries and add them to a sealed container with rum and water. Let steep for 10 days shaking occasionally. Filter through a paper coffee filter and add sugar.
If you’re looking to be EXACT, then the sugar you need may not be exactly 153 grams. That’s how much I needed after measuring my filtered rum, all-spice, and water mixture but you might need more or less depending on how much you lost due to filtering. I have a longer cut of this video on Patreon where you can see (at the 4:00 min mark) how to raise Brix levels exactly.