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| Out the front of the distillery. |
It was really awesome!
The distillery is modern looking and is surrounded by an enormously
badass looking electric fence. Right
next door is a large factory with smokestacks that billow steam and
vapour. We weren’t sure if the manky
smokestacks were part of the distillery until the guide told us that the
factory is a sugar refinery and their by product, molasses is a key component
of Bundaberg Rum. The distillery buys
the molasses and it is pumped directly into huge holding tanks from next
door.
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| Smoke stacks at the factory next door. |
We saw the bottling and packaging
area, the molasses tanks, the fermentation tanks, stills and maturation
vats. You’re not allowed to take any
electronic equipment in there so we don’t have photos but if you ever go to Bundaberg,
do the tour. Lou doesn’t even like rum
and she found it fascinating. Also, as
part of your ticket you get two shots at the bar at the end of the tour and can taste just
about any of the rum variations they make.
Lou kindly donated her shots to Jenny and took ownership of the car keys
for the rest of the day.
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| Shot number 4 for Jenny. Sloshed by 3pm... |
After (or before if you’re early enough) the tour you can
walk through the new visitor centre / museum which has stacks of history and
Bundaberg Rum memorabilia. They have the original Bundy Bear costume and a TV
that plays one of their popular ads showing a group of singing men building a
ship which promptly sinks as soon as they put it in the ocean. Ben
loved it and watched it at least 20 times.
The only way we could get him out of there was by videoing the TV and
promising him that he could watch it again in the car!
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| Mesmerised by the Bundy Ad. |
Ben couldn't watch this TV commercial enough
We left Bundaberg and headed to Hervey Bay where we would
base ourselves in preparation for a few days on Fraser Island.
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