Simple Mamajuana Recipe (+ My Secret Ingredient!)
A simple mamajuana recipe that makes a delicious spiced rum straight out of the Caribbean!
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Servings: 24 servings
Ingredients
- Large handful of seasoned mamajuana bark mix the most important ingredient
- 500 ml cheap rum for 'seasoning' the bark mix
- 500 ml dark rum preferably Dominican, like Brugal
- 250 ml red table wine a polite way of saying cheap red wine
- 4-10 Tablespoons honey however sweet you want it
Instructions
- Put mamajuana kit ingredients into a bottle or jar, and then cover them with about 2 cups of cheap rum to “season” the bark to lessen the bitterness of the brew.
- Let the plain rum sit with the botanicals for at least a week, and then drain it off and add your 500ml. of dark rum. Then add the red wine, honey, and any optional flavors (I added 2 sticks of cinnamon & ¼ cup of raisins). Cinnamon, clove, and allspice are the most traditional flavor additions.
- Once your brew has been steeping for a week, it's all ready to be filtered and used.
- Before consuming any of your mamajuana, run it through a damp coffee filter to remove any small bits of herb, spice, or bark. You can use a dry coffee filter, but it will absorb some of the mamajuana.
- (optional) Adding more red wine isn’t traditional, but it brings out some acidity, making it more smooth for sipping or taking shots of.
Notes
Mamajuana Rum. you don't have to use a high-quality rum for this drink since it's got so many other flavors involved, but you should look out for a Dominican or Puerto Rican rum if possible, like the Brugal pictured.
Optional Flavors. Some delicious additions to your homemade mamajuana would be ¼ cup raisins, or any number of extra spices & dimensional flavors (such as 2 sticks cinnamon, 6 whole cloves, 1 vanilla pod, ¼ cup cacao nibs, etc.)
Mamajuana Drink. To prepare a shot of mamajuana, make sure you've properly filtered your brew, then pour 1-2oz. of the liquid into a shot glass and take immediately, or pour into a lowball glass over ice and sip slowly.