Day one of the ashes, rum anyone?

......oh come on it's nearly Christmas! 

Bundaberg is famous for producing Australia's favourite rum, Bundaberg rum (marketing guru must have been off sick that day). 90% is sold in oz, 9% is exported to NZ and only 1% is exported to the rest of the world. It's safe to say these ozzy lot drink a lot of bundy rum.

Bundaberg's Distilling company was incorporated in November 1888. 
The first rum was officially distilled in 1889 - 22,500 gallons of it. 

The discovery that molasses fermented into alcohol was made by plantation slaves in the Caribbean.  

We had a tour of the museum and production plant.  Alcohol levels are so high that any items with a battery had to be locked away prior to the tour in case of an explosion!  You could get high just walking around this place!  They store the rum for 2 years in American wood barrels.

Pleased to say that the tour concluded with a tasting session.  Now rum isn't high on our favoured drinks list, but mixed with ginger beer it wasn't half bad!