Crazy Idea, or worth giving it a shot?

[primate77]

So I'm driving home from Easter Mass this morning, and my brain starts telling me it wants morning coffee. I have one of those Philips Senseo one-cup coffee makers at home that you place the coffee "pods" in.

Then, I had either an epiphany or a moment of sheer madness...

What if... I filled the resevoir with rum, and ran rum through the coffee maker, heating it and running it through the pods of coffee.

Has anyone tried this? It sounds like it would be a relatively instant "infusion" of coffee flavor into the rum. I'm sure I would have to run straight water through the system a few times over after running rum through it, to clean out the pipes and prevent any kind of stickiness or build up.

Would the short cycle of high heat detract from the rum?

So, is this madness, has anyone tried it, or shall I be a guinea pig? What would be a better (type) rum to run through this? A silver, a gold, a dark?

[bluewave6]

I would think the heat would evaporate the alcohol to some extent.... though I could be wrong. You could always just drop a few of the coffee pods in a bottle of rum and add a dash of raw sugar to help blend the flavors. I am going to try and experiment with doing a Blue Mountain coffe infusion with some Appleton White rum later this week.

[Tiare]

I probably wouldn`t run the rum through the coffee machine....:D but why not just add some rum in your cup of coffee?

Then later you could try some coffee infusions?

Bluewave, please let us know how your infusion with Blue Mountain coffee with Appleton white turns out, it sounds really interesting, and a good pairing!

[Hank Koestner]

A shot of rum in the coffee, my friend, is the best way to go. To infuse rum with coffee, I imagine coffee beans are the way to go. I am sure that all the people who do infusions on this site can give you guidance. El Dorado Rum Cream is excellent in coffee.

[The Scribe]

I feel that to do so would be a mistake. Not withstanding that I have heard very bad things about those sorts of coffee makers from my coffee drinking friends, I think that you would stand a good chance of vapourizing the alcohol. Vapourized alcohol has a tendency to go "BOOM!" when either too much heat or a spark is applied to it.
Cheers. - S

[Edward Hamilton]

Adding rum to the water in a coffee maker would evaporate most of the alcohol since ethanol boils at about 78degrees C and coffee makers boil the water. There's really not much chance of the alcohol vapor catching fire since the volume of alcohol vapor is small and diluted with water. Alcohol fires are easily extinguished with water.

If you use an old or flavored rum, there will be some residue left in the coffee maker.

For best results put the rum of your choice in the coffee. And remember, you can't drink rum all day if you don't start in the morning.

[primate77]

And remember, you can't drink rum all day if you don't start in the morning.
:D

Ah, so you do see where I was going with this!

OK folks. Points taken... the best approach shall be a liberal shot of "something" in my morning brew!

[RobertBurr]

Try using the pod as you would a tea bag for an infusion of coffee in rum.

Liquid alcohol is flammable, especially when heated as in Bananas Foster. Vaporized alcohol mixtures are combustible, as in E85 equipped engines. Pure, vaporized alcohol is highly combustible, as in top alcohol funny cars. (Ask Adam about breathing fire).

An old test of the proof of alcohol was to add some gun powder. If it ignites, the mixture is at least 50 percent alcohol (100 proof). If not, it weren't the real McCoy.

[RumBarPhilly]

You were close in your idea to brew coffee rum.

As heating rum under non-controlled conditions is never a good idea, why dont you make it cold?

Fill your coffee filter with enough coffee beans for 4 cups. Pour one full bottle of rum in, allow the entire bottle to run through, add about half a cup of sugar into your coffee rum and shake.

When you're done, youve got fully caffeniated, fully coffee-fied rum. Whatever you do, dont mix it with coffee, or youve completely defeated your concept.

[primate77]

add about half a cup of sugar into your coffee rum and shake.


In with the beans? Or into the rum after it has run through the beans?

[Matusalem]

I infused some rum with beans just by putting maybe 3 teaspoons of beans in a jar, poured LFDC 4 year old Extra Dry over it... got freaked out by Ed who said careful, as the oil or something like that from whole bean extracts rapidly (seems he was right, by the way) - I emptied and filtered the rum after the second day of infusion and have a fairly robust coffee flavored rum.

[Tiare]

And that after using just 3 teaspoons..powerful stuff.

[RumBarPhilly]

Ive tried it both ways, if you add the sugar with the beans, the rum doesn't take enough sweetness with it. We typically add the sugar after. Instead of throwing a half a cup in, add 1 oz at a time and tasting until you achieve a nice balance between the bitter coffee and the sweet sugar. It should come to about 4 oz (1/2 a cup), but then again, I have a sweet tooth sometimes.