These been a lot of chat in the press lately about imports and exports, taxes being added to items coming through, the States not accepting iron from some places, and think I even heard the other day that we won’t be able to import small individual pieces off the US amazon site any longer. The conversation all started as we chatted about the imported range of rums from Rum Co. of Fiji, probably th...
Inland from Cairns, about ten minutes out of Mareeba sits Mt Uncle Distillery, a site that’s been in the news a bit lately for cracking the huge British market and selling their gin, that has an Australian twist, to the poms. Mt Uncle has been on our radars for a long time now, originally producing exotic fruit liqueurs, vodka and an interesting marshmallow vodka liqueur where the marshmallows are...
Regular readers will know of my love for good quality rum. The majority of rum that we see in Australia is made by distilling fermented molasses, a technique called Industrial Rum or Traditional Rum, it was predominantly made in areas with British or Spanish influences. The process is a standard procedure and guarantees a standardised product. The differences in the spirit come about from the qual...
The kindergarten where my little girl goes has this deal where you need to do three hours of work there a term, and the Minister for War and Finance always signs me up to the mowing of the yard there, which entails whipper snipping, mowing and blowing out afterwards. Now normally this wouldn’t really be an issue, but last week, I had to do my yard, a list of odd jobs and then spent the next 3 and...
I haven’t tried a Bundaberg Rum product in about a decade; I stopped drinking it when I worked out that I had a love/hate relationship with it. I loved drinking the stuff and it loved making me hate everyone. You see everyone I know falls into one of two categories when drinking rum: you’re either a lover, or a fighter…and I can tell you that I don’t look like George Clooney…then agai...