One hundred and twenty-nine years of business in any field is a rare achievement in the Australian corporate landscape, especially so in an industry as tumultuous, and with such inauspicious beginnings, as rum production. It is hard to believe that anyone associated with the establishment of the Bundaberg Distilling Company in 1888 could have ever…
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ANZAC Day: Our Drinks Brands Over 100 Years Later
Over 100 years ago, with nearly a tenth of Australia’s population at war, two drinks enlivened our servicemen more than any other – beer and rum. One other drink rectified them when conditions were often far worse and life-threatening – brandy. This was a time when brewing was run on a widespread and very parochial basis,…