Bundaberg Rum: Is it any good and can I do a Bundaberg Distillery tour?
Bundaberg Rum is Australia’s most popular rum, and Bundaberg Distillery tours in Bundaberg, Queensland, show how it is made. Rum tastings are available at the end of the tour.
Bundaberg Rum is Australia’s favourite home-grown rum, and it is phenomenally successful Down Under. While much of the world defaults to Bacardi, in Australia, rum generally means Bundy. It’s rare to ask for a rum and coke at a bar – people will generally ask for a Bundy and Coke.
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Taste of Bundaberg Rum
Bundaberg Rum is not too bad either. It’s a fairly dark, fairly strong sweet-tasting rum. It’s hardly a firewater, but it’s not at the same level as, say, Appleton’s or Mount Gay. Some Australians give Bundy rum an unfairly bad reputation. It’s not amazing, and you wouldn’t choose it as a neat, sipping rum, but Bundaberg Rum does mix well – especially with Coca-Cola. It’s not a coincidence that bottle shops such as Thirsty Camel, BSW and Liquorland sell Bundy and cola premixes in cans.
Bundaberg Distillery tours
Bundy is made at the Bundaberg Rum Distillery in Bundaberg, Queensland. You can do a distillery tour here, which starts in a museum section before getting closer to the rum-making operation.
The Bundaberg Distillery tour takes in the molasses well, which holds five million litres of molasses. You then move on to the fermentation tanks, and learn about the double distillation process.
The penultimate stop on the Bundaberg Distillery tour is the Barrel House, where the rum is aged and matured.
6 Bundaberg experiences to make the most of your free time
- (Highly recommended ✅) Tour – with tastings – at the Bundaberg rum distillery.
- ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Day trip to Lady Musgrave Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
- Fly out to Lady Elliot Island for a day on the reef.
- See migrating humpbacks – on a four hour whale watching cruise with lunch.
- Brewery tasting tour – including the famous Bundaberg ginger beer.
- Farm life experience at Splitters Farm.
Rum-tasting at Bundaberg Distillery
It all finishes off at the Bundaberg Rum Tasting Bar, where you can sample the Bundy range. This is where you learn that the ubiquitous original rum isn’t the only string to the bow. The tour costs $28.50 – book via the distillery website.
Other things to do in the Bundaberg area include chilling out at Bargara Beach or Woodgate Beach, investigating the Mystery Craters near Gin Gin and fishing at Lake Monduran. If you want to try smaller scale craft rum, try Husk Distillers in Tumbulgum, northern New South Wales.
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