Ipswich has some history with sugar cane and rum that dates back to the 1880's.

The first rum distillery was built at Marburg in 1886 and was said to the most modern of its time in South East Queensland. This all came to an end in about 1905 and no rum has been produced since. Until now.

We started this project in May 2020 and set out to produce a rum that would put Ipswich back on the map.

Heritage City Rum is a light style of rum due to minimal molasses content and it was distilled with cinnamon to give a subtle spicy note. It was aged in ex Yalumba Octavious American oak casks for two and half years, which imparts some fruity notes and slight vanilla characteristic. It is super smooth and belies its near 50% ABV.

It was hand bottled, hand labelled, and each bottle is individually hand numbered.

There are only 349 bottles in this batch and the next batch will not be ready until 2025.

We are releasing 249 bottles now and the remainder will be released during the Galvanised festival - Ipswich's heritage festival in September 2023

Orders will be processed on the 24th of January and the distillery door will be open on the 25th of January for collection.