Husk Plantation Distillery is now Australia's only boutique sugar plantation and agricole rum distillery, with a mission is to create innovative spirits, challenge traditional distilling convention and bring bring rum culture to the North Coast.
When they set about creating a new style of Australian rum, they naturally wanted to learn from the success of these prestige international spirits. Image Credit: Husk Distillers
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The unique challenges of making Cultivated Australian Rum
Ten years of research and development has resulted in Husk Rum - an Australian expression of this unusual style produced in one of the most dramatic and beautiful locations on earth.
The original concept was to grow select varieties of local sugar cane, chosen for the drinking quality of the extracted juice, to crush the cane, ferment and distil the juice, then barrel age the rum and years later bottle each batch - all on the farm at Tumbulgum.
But if Paul thought this would be easy he would need to think again.
Every step of this farm to bottle process would ultimately be re-thought, re-engineered or re-created from scratch to adapt to the people and place of this Caldera Coast.
